Sounds like a good Idea to me, I'll help support it. anyone else want to encourage Gavin. How about votes of confidence, words of wisdom, etc.
Bob Wilkinson. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 29 April 2000 21:51 Subject: SAM website >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 >
