Was away for a couple of days there, so it was nice to see a bit of activity on the list. There was some talk of a SAM website and I thought you might like to know about the site I'm putting together. I've been working on it, albeit slowly, for the last few weeks. Although the URL is www.samcommunity.co.uk and will of course have a section about the magazine itself, the rest of the site includes - an intro to the SAM, SAM emulation, latest news (taken from the magazine), a documentation section (manuals, technical articles etc), a rewritten SAM FAQ, and the File Library. This last bit is probably going to be of most interest. As anyone who reads the magazine would know, I've been putting together a library of SAM software that has been declared PD or freeware by its authors. I've already contacted some of the main publishers of SAM software in an attempt to get permission to distribute. Readers of the mag who don't have net access send off with a list of the items they want, and I send them back via floppy but obviously with the website, they will be available as a download. I'm continually adding stuff to the File Library in an attempt to make it into a WOS style site and I will always make every effort to contact both the author(s) of the software and its publishers. If permission is denied then obviously I will not put those items in the File Library but if getting a reply has proved impossible after all reasonable effort, I think it would be fair to put these items in the File Library. Obviously if I'm contacted and asked to remove the items, I will do so.
The reason I'm posting this info is just so that I don't step on anyone's toes who is working on a similar site. This is not some ego thing so if anyone is actually working on something similar, please get in touch so that we can work out some way to almagamate our work. Hopefully the site will be up over the next week or so. If anyone has any stuff they'd like to see on the site, let me know. Gavin
