Aley Keprt wrote:
Here is a fast copy of my 128K list for the SAM:
128K + Muliloader Emulation
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Record 5000: 128K Soft A
Action Fighter ? Action Force 2 ? Altered Beast ? APB ? Arkanoid 2 ?
Army Moves ? Atom Ant ? Auf Wiedersehen Monty ? Amageddon
Record 5001: 128K Soft A2
Amaurote ? Ancient Fighters
Record 5010: 128K Soft B
Barbarian ? Batman ? Bionic Command ? Blastroids ? Bloodwych ? Boulder
Dash ? Bubble Bobble ? Buggy Boy ? Battle for Midway
Record 5020: 128K Soft C
Cabal ? California Games ? Chase HQ ? CJ Elephant Antics ? Continental
Circus ? Captain Blood
Record 5021: 128K Soft C2
Captain Dynamo ? Combat School ? Commando ? Crack Down! ? Cybernoid ?
Captain Fizz ? Chubby Cristle
Record 5030: 128K Soft D
Daley Thompsons Olympic ? Dizzy - Down the rapids ? Dizzy and the
Yolkfolk ? Dragon Ninja ? Dragon Spirit ? Dan Dare 3 ? Dynasty Wars
Record 5031: 128K Soft D2
Deathstalker ? Dizzy 2 (Dizzy On Treasure Island) ? Dizzy 3 (Fantasy
World Dizzy) ? Dominator ? Dizzy 4 (Magicland Dizzy)
Record 5040: 128K Soft E
Enduro Race ? E-Motion ? Escape from Singe´s Castle ? Exolon
Record 5050: 128K Soft F
Fairlight ? Football Director 2 ? Foxx fights back ? Frightmare ? Fast
Food ? Finders Keeper ? Future Knight ? Fire
Record 5060: 128K Soft G
Gauntlet 2 ? Ghostbusters 2 ? Ghosts´ n´Goblins ? Golden Axe ? Guerilla War
Record 5070: 128K Soft H
Head Over Heels ? Highsteel ? Hostages ? Hudson Hawk ? Hammerboy 1 ?
Hammerboy 2 ? Hero Quest
Record 5080: 128K Soft I
Ice Palace ? Indiana Jones 3 ? Impossamole ? IK+ ? Iron Lord ? Ironman
Record 5090: 128K Soft J
Jaws
Record 5100: 128K Soft K
Kendo ? Killed to Death ? Knight Thyme
Record 5110: 128K Soft L
Laser Squad ? Led Storm ? Licence to Kill ? Light Corridor ? Line Of
Fire ? Logic ? Logo ? Lords of Chaos
Record 5111: 128K Soft L2
Loderunner
Record 5120: 128K Soft M
Magic Moon pt.1 ? Magic Moon pt.2 ? Magic Moon pt.3 ? Marauder ? Mask I
? Mean Streaker ? Midnight Resistence ? Mystical
Record 5121: 128K Soft M2
Motos ? Myth ? Monaco Grand Prix ? Monte Carlo
Record 5130: 128K Soft N
Never Ending Story ? New Zealand Story ? Nightbreed ? North & South ?
Netherworld
Record 5140: 128K Soft O
Operation Thunderbold ? Operation Wolf ? Outrun ? Overlander
Record 5150: 128K Soft P
Pacmania ? Pang ? Platoon ? Plotting ? Psycho Pigs ? Powerdrift ? Puznic
Record 5170: 128K Soft R
Rainbow Islands ? Rambo 3 ? Rastan ? Rex 1 ? Rex 2 ? Rick Dangerous 2 ?
Ruff´n´Reddy
Record 5171: 128K Soft R2
Robocop ? Robocop 2 ? Run the Gauntlet ? R-Type ? Return of the Witch Lord
Record 5180: 128K Soft S
Shinobi ? Short Circuit ? Skull & Crossbone ? Spy 007 ? Saint Dragon
Record 5181: 128K Soft S2
Steg ? Strider ? Stunt Car Race ? Super Cars ? Super Hang On ? San
Monaco Grand Prix ? Switchblade ? Savage
Record 5182: 128K Soft S3
Stromlord 2 ? Spellbound ? Sim City ? Stormbringer ? Saboteur 2 ? Shadow
of the Beast ? Silent Shadow ? Silkworm
Record 5183: 128K Soft S4
Space Harrier 2 ? Super Scramble
Record 5190: 128K Soft T
Target! Renegade ? Technocop ? Tetris 2 ? The Tube ? Thundercat ? Time
Scanner ? Toobin ? Turtles ? Typhoon
Record 5191: 128K Soft T2
Twinz! ? Tiger Road ? Tetris ? Thunderbird 1 ? Thunderbird 2 ?
Thunderbird 3 ? Thunderbird 4 ? Turbo Boat Simulator ? Turtles 2 ?
Terminator 2 ? Towdie
Record 5192: 128K Soft T3
Turrican
Record 5200: 128K Soft U
UN Squadron
Record 5210: 128K Soft V
Viz - The Game
Record 5220: 128K Soft W
Wec Le Mans ? Wonderboy 2
Record 5230: 128K Soft X
X-Out ? Xenon
Record 5240: 128K Soft Z
Zub
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So what do you think: Are games converted from ZX Spectrum worthy?
I mean should they be counted as "Sam Coupe games", or not?
I think this list answers your question positive.
I assume we can skip regular ZX Spectrum 48k games which can be loaded
(if we have got some luck :-) into a regular emulator. As I remember,
I made a TAP file based emulator back in 1994, and I am sure many
other good emulators do exist, which can load files from
ftp.worldofspectrum.org without any conversions.
Use Martijn Groens emulator for 48K ones, it works with TAP, Z80, and
PLUS D format. I set a manual to the community list, but I can send this
as PDF to anyone who is interested.
But what about
- large games with multi-loading levels converted from tape to Sam disk
see above
- AY music converted to Sam Coupe Philips SAA chip
I got a lot of too.....
- 128k-only games converted to Sam
- nonworking games fixed to work on Sam
I think these games can be counted, since you simply can't load a
tape/snapshot file into an emulator and play it without any changes.
I personally made several conversions back in 1992-93, and I am sure
other people did as well. So we could possibly build up a nice
"Spectrum on Sam" game database. :-)
Here´s a start....
I found 12 diskettes full of ZX Spectrum 128k and/or multi-load games
converted to Sam. I personally did mainly the tape->disk conversions,
because it is the easiest part (and I was 13, eh, so it was quite hard
for me either... :-). Later I also made a half-universal 48k+AY
emulator, which supported 48k+AY snapshot files. Then I also converted
some very simple 128k games (they just used 128k memory for AY music).
I also have some 128k-only games for Sam, like North & South (one of
my all-time favourites :-) or Terminator 2.
If you have something which is not in my list, I am interested. To make
things easier, contact me directly: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So what do you think, and - especially - what games do you have got?
I'm waiting your comments.
My comment? A database as you talked about is a fine idea. But I am in
doubt that the most SAM users are having lists about their programs.
Best wishes
Wolfgang
(always on the side of the open minded SAM users)
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Mgr.(MSc.) Aleš Keprt (also known as Aley)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** www.keprt.cz *** ICQ: 82357182
Dept. of Computer Science, VŠB Technical University
Ostrava, CZ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.cs.vsb.cz
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