Having further discussed with the organiser of this event, I have
agreed to supply at least one SAM Coupé for their "The Weird and the
Woeful" (obviously as an example of weird) section, with a bunch of
software from its commercial period and maybe a disk or two of modern
homebrew in addition. Having had a quick check of my floppies, I
intend to bring the following:
Sam Strikes Out/Futureball
Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters
Batz'n'Ballz (though I have no mouse) & Tetris, from the most recent
Sam Revival
Sphera
Probably some copies of Fred
Obviously this leaves a whole bunch of massive holes in what I can
show; is anybody able to loan copies of Prince of Persia, Lemmings,
Defender and anything else particularly worth showing?
Incidentally: the latest on my 3d code is that it's relatively close
now to just being neat library code. So if you're an assembly coder,
you'll be able to download it, read a couple of pages of documentation
and get on with writing a game or whatever. Future internal fixes and
improvements should benefit any projects built against it but not
require them to be changed or to have any real knowledge of the
internals, like all the best libraries. Hopefully some sort of BASIC-
or-similar language for utilising the code will be forthcoming after
that.
On 23 Sep 2008, at 22:38, David Brant wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Harte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
To: <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:40 PM
Subject: New projects & Byte-Back 2009
Through an uninteresting, indirect route, it seems likely that I'll
be attending and supplying a Sam for the homebrew area of Byte-Back
2009 (http://byte-back.info/ ), one of those classic gaming
convention thingies, which will occur in Stoke-on-Trent on March
the 7th and 8th next year. Consequential questions:
1) Will anybody else be in attendance?
Not likely unless I move house. Its a bit too far
2) Is anybody willing and able to transfer some of my Sam programs
to actual Sam floppy in preparation for the event? I guess I'll
want to take all of my current 3d stuff and maybe another thing
that I've just started messing around with.
Yes no problem.
3) Does anybody else have anything I can take along? Obviously the
tag 'homebrew' doesn't mean that much in the Sam world, but in the
context of all the information available I'm interpreting it just
to mean new stuff for old hardware.
I'm working on program at the moment, so may have something by then.
