Hi all, I'm a new member to the mailing list and since there's been some activity over the last few days I thought now was a good time to stop lurking and say, "hey!" to everyone.
My name is Rob, I'm 32 and live in the south of England. I'm currently working as a panel wirer/wire man for a sub-contracting electrical firm. I was a speccy user back in the day and desperately wanted the Sam when it came out. Long story short, it was too expensive and I ended up with a second hand Sega Master system instead. I still have a Sam scrapbook I put together from magazine cuttings in the loft somewhere, and I could (but won't) tell you about a highly embarrassing letter I wrote to Bruce Gorden when I was twelve that, to this day, I still cringe thinking about :) Last year I won a nice boxed Sam Coupe on ebay with one floppy drive and a pile of disks and I can honestly say that life's much better now. I have lots to say about what I missed out on by not having the Sam in '89-'90 but I'll save all that. The important thing is that I've been learning to program z80 since it arrived and am just finishing my first, actually playable, game! I'm sorry that it's tetris but as a consolation prize it's a two player tetris on one Sam, loosely based on the vs mode from the old Gameboy tetris. I hope that's enough for an introduction. I feel a bit like I'm turning up to a party 20 years late with only a bottle of Blue Nun to show for myself, but I'm looking forward to finally getting involved in the community and catching up on all those lost years!
