Issue nine of Sam Revival is out now, and this issue features the first cover disk! Subscribers issues were sent out early this morning so should arrive with you tommorrow.
The magazine starts off with the usual Quazar News, as well as the Sam Scene Roundup, listing news and events from around the Sam world. There's also some reviews and a sprinkling of the ever popular Sam Snippets. The feature articles start off with two interviews, the first with Matt Round who was well known for writing games in 1994/5 with the GamesMaster game creation system as well as having one commercial release in 1995. The second interview is with Ken Jarvis, the graphics artist involved with Sphera which was on of the first Sam games from Enigma Variations way back in 1990. The final feature article looks at a quirk in an undocumented Z80 opcode in a newer revision of the Z80 from Zilog which I discovered after replacing a Z80 in a Sam Coup�. Onto the accompanying cover disk - the first ever Sam Revival cover disk features two great games. The first is the full version of 'Manic Miner'. If you are not familiar with the Sam version of this all time classic it features the original 20 caverns plus 40 all new ones! (David Ledbury has written a six part series in the previous issues of Sam Revival looking back at all the levels and development work on the game!). Also on the cover disk is a special edition of 'Money Bags'. Originally this was a game for the Sam Coupe that used the Quazar Surround soundcard to give it a great sampled soundtrack, but i've reduced the quality of the soundtrack to 4 bits so it can play through the normal soundchip in the Sam. This issue of Sam Revival costs �3.00 (or �5.50 euro for international readers). Other news... I can now supply the SAA1099 soundchip for spares and repairs, having tracked some down through an obsolence company I bought a tube full. All the news etc is kept up to date on the Quazar website. All the best, Colin ==== Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Nine of "Sam Revival" Magazine Out Now !
