Happy New Year all :) - I think 2003 will be an even better year for the Sam Coupe. Its good to see people supporting the Sam, I hope more people will dig out all those started projects that need finishing :)
A. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Piggot Sent: 01 January 2003 00:02 To: [email protected] Subject: So long 2002, here comes 2003.... Well, 2002 was a rather busy year for me, especially after the launch of the mag in August, so i'd like to start off this email by saying a quick 'Thank you' to both the contributors for their hard work in writing articles and reviews and also to the readers who have given it a try - I hope you enjoyed it! Looking back, 2002 saw the release of a few new bits of Sam hardware from myself. I put a lot of effort, cash and time into developing them - although the last 2 weeks of each product's development cycle is the most frustrating - waiting for the first batch of finished PCBs to come back and then solder one up for for it's final testing and getting everything ready for release. That has to be the most enjoyable part of it, although firing up the prototypes is really satisfying when I see them working for the first time - that has to come a very close second! (Hmmm... might have to take some photos of the messy prototypes sometime for a behind the scenes look!) I plan to be just as busy in 2003, a quick glance round at my workbench and disk box shows what's in development, and I am happy to report that my next piece of Sam hardware (or two!) are due for release very early next year so stayed tuned for them! I'm in the middle of writing up an article about one of them for the next Sam Revival just now! (What a way to spend New Year's Eve eh!) With SR3 only posted a couple of days ago I was pleasantly surprised to already have a few people commenting about one of the articles I had written - 'Sam In A Can', I would have to censor the responses of what they said to type it in a polite email ("**** ** that's a work of art!!!" was one of them, and a few others were near enough the same, and even had my phone ringing with folk to natter about it!) Two chaps have asked so far if I could recase one of their Sam's the same way ... and yes... I would be willing to! I really don't want to spoil the article here, but there is a brief description about this project in the previous mail about the mag. And just to let you know - there'll be an update of the 'Sam In A Can' in ish 4 as i've been busy working on it further! I also had some favourable remarks (or you could say demands to start coding!) about the kart game article in ish 2 of the mag - where I looked back at an old game I once started work on, and it's got my mind buzzing again with ideas! And then Chrome, yes I know... not much has happened on that front for well over a year and a half - other things just get in the way - but I've spent some time in these holidays to look over it and try to get the ball rolling slowly again. If only I could take a nice long break from my normal day-to-day job to work on this stuff full time! Anyway, here's to the Sam, and the new year - have a good 'un! All the best, Colin Piggot ==== Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Three of "Sam Revival" Magazine Out Now !
