Welcome, Graeme!! :-D
It's always good to see a new SAM user. I hope you get lots of fun
from it, as there is a ton of stuff to get into. Others have listed a
lot of the major software and so forth that you can get, but I'd
really advise getting the Trinity interface from Colin at samcoupe.com
- It's a fantastic bit of hardware and makes life much easier with the
SD storage. Not to mention with the online stuff coming, it's going to
be enormous fun! ;-) (I even built my own custom case for mine a while
back -
https://twitter.com/#!/duncansguide/media/slideshow?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitpic.com%2F3e3ye6)
Also, if you feel like other hardware, I'd advise Colin's Quazar
Surround sound module as well. It's great stuff! Get as many
back-issues of SAM Revival off him as well, as he's managed to publish
a lot of excellent items on the accompanying discs (*cough* issue 10
especially *cough*).
You should also get a mouse adaptor from Colin, if you haven't got one
with the SAM.
Games I would advise, Stratosphere (great addictive and action-packed
wireframe 3D game), Lemmings, Prince of Persia, Defenders of the Earth
(Used to get some flack, but it's fast with great graphics and lots of
simple shooter fun), Exodus, and others... There are plenty of great
ones that others have already listed, so I won't mention them all.
Those are some of my favourites.
Software, I would say definitely get SAM Paint and Games Master. SAM
Paint is truly superb if you want to get into pixel graphics, and
Games Master is excellent for getting into making your own fun games.
If you've done any programming in the past, it's nice and easy to dive
in and get a few fun things going on without having to program basic
or machine code.
Also, download as many of the old FRED disc magazines as you can,
since they were packed with a wide selection of great demos and free
games (*cough* especially issue 58 and issue 75 *cough*). ;-)
-> Geoff, you shouldn't give up on the SAM. :-) It's just that for a
number of people in the SAM community Jowett has gone FAR beyond mere
Spam, and he's marred a lot of the fun atmosphere, so it causes
temperatures to run high. Heck, he's even posted several irrelevant
and unintelligible ramblings on my blog, simply because I once
mentioned the SAM in a couple of postings... and I've had the LEAST
trouble with him. ;-) If you can put up with deleting Jowett's emails,
do the same with the usergroup ones complaining about him, and stay on
the list. ;-) if you leave it because of the complaints about him,
you've still effectively let him ruin your fun of the SAM, which would
be a real shame.
Warren
Quoting Adrian Brown <[email protected]>:
Welcome
Head over to www.samcoupe.com as well. Colin Piggot has some bits and
bobs to look at, when work doesn't get in the way ill hopefully
completely finish the tcp/ip stack for the trinity interface. You can
now use flash cards instead of floppy disks which is nice ;)
As to games I know most people didn't but I liked sphera. It was fun :D
Adrian
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
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Sent: 12 April 2012 12:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Essential Sam Goodies
Welcome Graeme! The Sam's as good 21 years later as it was Christmas
1990. We're generally cheerful too btw.
Your best bet to find the best goodies is to visit World of Sam and have
a damn good root around! Simcoupe itself is bundled with what I would
call the best stuff, but you'll need a few things to port the PC images
back to real floppies, namely SAMdisk (by Si Owen) and a PC with an
INTERNAL 3.5 floppy drive (external won't do).
Also have a good look round Andrew Collier's Intensity site because
there's loads of great bits locked away.
As for other stuff to get, I'd advise the Atom HDD, Stratosphere,
Defender, Momentum, Lemmings, Protracker, E-tracker, SAMpaint, GI-mon,
Comet, Pyz80, some kind of SAMdac or EDDAc, SAM mouse, and every
diskzine you can get your hands on! There's just LOADS of great stuff
available.
What did I miss?
Howard (aka Balor Price, Tobermory Womble or whatever else)
------Original Message------
From: Graeme Gregory
Sender: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
ReplyTo: [email protected]
Subject: Essential Sam Goodies
Sent: 12 Apr 2012 11:19
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
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