On 12 April 2012 11:19, Graeme Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, to change the topic from current discussion lately ;-) > > I am a newbie to the Sam world, I bought a machine on ebay as a whim and > to reach one of my childhood dreams of owning one. As a kid I could not > afford one and by the time I had $$$ Sam had dissapeared and it was time > for Uni. > > So I now have this lovely Sam Coupe with 1.5 working drives and 512K of > memory. What games/demos/widgets should I be getting for it. Would be > good to give this machine as much love as my collection of spectrums and > zx81 get! > > Graeme
Hello and welcome! In terms of demos, allow me to plug MNEMOdemo and MNEMOdemo 2: http://www.intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/mnemotech.html There are also good ones by ESI and Entropy among others: ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/disks/demos/esi/ ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/disks/demos/entropy/ There's also things like FRED magazine which was one of the most popular disk-based magazines during the Sam's heyday and has all kinds of nuggets on it: http://www.worldofsam.org/freelinking/Fred In terms of games, you can probably start with: www.worldofsam.org/freelinking/Defender www.worldofsam.org/freelinking/Exodus www.worldofsam.org/freelinking/Sophistry Unfortunately it has been difficult to track down all of the original authors of Sam commercial games, and (because it was a bit controversial at the time I was setting the site up) worldofsam only allows downloads for titles where there is explicit permission from the author. So not all the big names are available there - although some additional titles are available as cover disks of the Sam Revival magazine from http://www.samcoupe.com/ Now of course, anything downloaded from these sites will be a disk image - if you have a slightly-elderly PC with a native floppy disk drive (not USB) then you can use this program to transfer images onto real disks: http://simonowen.com/samdisk/ Failing that, you can get an add-on box for the Sam enabling it to read SD cards (the "Trinity" interface from Colin Piggot, also at samcoupe.com) which you can write more easily with modern hardware. Andrew
