HEY! Is this stuff not going a bit OTT??
Unlike some on this mailing list, I'm just a guy who wanted to buy a 128k
Spectrum
from MGT and found that they were offering a better computer for not much more
and
decided to take a chance (my only other computer was an MSX so I'm used to
taking
chances! :) on this thing called the SAM Coupe! Seemed fine to me!
I got my Sam home and plugged it in! WOW was it KOOL! Then I tried to load
some
Spectrum games on it! Some worked! Some didn't! But it still impressed me!
I waited and waited for interesting things to happen to the SAM but, alas, to no
avail! Then MGT died! That was a sad day! Then SamCo. started! That was
brilliant!
Then they died and west coast computers started and now I don't know where I am!
I tried to explain my love for my SAM to my friends but they just laughed and
went
off to do some C programming on their new 486DX2s with Quad-speed CD-roms and
all
that sort of shit!
Now you want to turn SAMs into big high-tech computers! Ones which no-one will
be
able to program properly! Why don't you just build an emulator for a PC/MAC or
go
and build a PC/MAC in a box that somewhat resembles the SAM! It would be
easier
and a hell of a lot cheaper!
I wish those of you out there who can program on the SAM would write some KOOL
stuff! I am not saying that what you are doing is bad, but if I had your
knowledge
of the SAM then I would not be trying to mess with it! I just wish I could get
to
grips with the way the Assembly language and the like work! Bloody hell! I'm
doing a degree in pure computers and I can't program in Assembly language at
all!
This is where it is handy to have people like you guys/gals out there to do that
sort of stuff instead! Maybe if someone wrote a C compiler or something then I
could help out! Till then though....this is Ronan FitzGerald signing off for
the
day!
Adios Peoples!
P.S. I hope none of you take this as any sort of attack! I just wish for SAMs
to
not change! That is one of the things that is KOOL about them! Unlike a PC
where
when you can afford one, it is out dated! And, unfortunately, I can't afford
PCs!
I can bearily afford to feed myself! Now that is a bit of a bummer!
P.P.S. On a lighter note though.......................................
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