> I would also be very interested in knowing about any expansion kits. > Such as Hard Drives, CDROMS, Joystick Splitters, External > Drive interfaces etc...
Edwin Blink (who I assume is still on the list) has produced an IDE interface (The Atom) which attaches to the second disc drive port inside and quite happily drives my 1.2Gb 2.5" IDE drive inside the casing, but it does require a modified OS called BDOS (http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/edwin/) to run the drive. The DOS organises the disc into 'records' which are essentially Sam disc images stored on the hard disc. Somebody has also attached a CDROM to this IDE interface and I know that Martijn has coded some stuff for it (reading ZX snapshots from CD I think). There is a pin-out for the joystick splitter in the Technical Manuel [1], or at least a diagram showing the strobe lines. There was an external FDD/Printer interface produced when Sam was born to allow people to attach their PlusD/Disciple drives to the basic Sam, although I don't know how available it is. > And now for a zillion other questions... Which Andrew has already covered. Speaking of hardware, my Sam has developed a fault in it's old age, the screen has started to judder up and down in a trance-y rhythmic pattern which could be the video chip dying (I use RGB on SCART so the composite stuff is only used for sync[1]) so a new Motorola MC 1377P may be required to make the inside of my Sam even more bionic. Dan. [1] IIRC Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shirk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VVeb: http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/ "Deep sea skiver, seabed lurker - Neptune is my social worker." - Punilux
