----- Original Message ----- From: "Tarquin Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:17 PM Subject: Why no SAM relaunch?
> QL users have the Q60. > Speccy users have the Eastern European and Russian clones. > Yet no one seems to make the SAM (Coupe, Elite or a new model). > Why is this? > -- > Tarquin Mills > > Reboot Movement (An Anti-Wintel Campaign) > http://www.planet14.sonow4u.co.uk/comp/reboot/ 1) The Spectrum is a comparatively simple design to copy and emulate - so more people have been able to reverse engineer it. The SAMs design is more complex, and so is trickier to duplicate. 2) Who owns SAM? Messer Brenchley & Co insist that it belonged to "West Coast Computers" - whatever happened to them.... Stones Jones however seemed to be of the opinion that Touche Roche still owned many of the rights..... 3) Lack of funds..... I'm sure a few dedicated SAMsters (arrrghh!) would be willing to experiment with a new machine - if funds where available.... anyone got a spare 100,000 lying about? 4) Lack of enthusiasm for designed expansion. Let's be honest - after SAMCo went - the only 2 successful pieces of hardware where the incredible Quazar Surround Soundcard - and the Atom Hard Drive Interface. The QSS is still supported - and so is the Atom. However other hardware - eg the MiDGET interface, to name the most significant - where not able to be developed further - not due to the developers lack of interest - but primarily due to lack of support by "key figures" with the SAM press at the time... F
