.
You can find the YouTube Playlist at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKP8TZBP7xZS4RSrd4JOLJbVHkHL7JS-7
There should be something for everyone there, and covers almost everything
I really liked from back then. I hope you like it!
Nick
--
Nick Humphries
n...@egyptus.co.uk
http
From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Oh... didn't see this
>
>On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:57:08AM -, Nick Humphries wrote:
>> (who works in the City and saw the j18 stuff first-hand.
>
>J18? I don't remember you at the committee meetings.
>
>
Not speaking for Simon (and not necessarily about Seattle, either... [so why am
I responding?!]) American cities are rather well designed. The roads are
configured in a grid formation, and one "block" would be one "square" on that
grid.
Britain should adopt that method, but of course that would in
-Original Message-
From: Gavin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 01 December 1999 10:44
Subject: Re: Hello
>
>We haven't had much of an on-topic argument for a while now, it's
>getting rather dull :)
How about "Whatever happened to Colin MacDonald's planned book
-Original Message-
From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 25 November 1999 15:27
Subject: Re: OT: Java WFC Help!!
>From: Nick Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >WFC is not for Applets... it's for Windows programs.
>&g
From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Panic over. Use of WFC was a panic measure - the solution was just to
>program
>> Java properly.
>WFC is not for Applets... it's for Windows programs.
I just wish VJ++'s help files documented the stuff which MS replaced in WFC.
Things like mouseOver a
Panic over. Use of WFC was a panic measure - the solution was just to program
Java properly.
Nick
Actually, what I could use is a Java applet program source code that uses WFC so
I can make sure I'm initializing and using it correctly.
If anyone can help, I'd be their friend for life!
Nick
draw correctly to the WFC graphics class, but I need to
know:
1) How to initialize the WFC Graphics class so it will draw to the java applet
window within the web page, and
2) How to get paint() to read from the WFC graphics class when redrawing.
Nick Humphries.
(Stressed)
Wasn't it just "MIDI Sequencer"?
-Original Message-
From: James Gasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 19 November 1999 09:38
Subject: Question: MIDI sequencing
>Ok everyone, I've just got a MIDI keyboard. Now I know there was a
>program for Sam that does MIDI sequen
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>ISTR a post on here during the flood from Simon Cooke which said he'd faked a
>>post using his Sparticus account to unsub David L. From that moment on, things
>>went tits up, during which Simon unsubbed to avoid. Time to email him to tell
>>him everythin
ISTR a post on here during the flood from Simon Cooke which said he'd faked a
post using his Sparticus account to unsub David L. From that moment on, things
went tits up, during which Simon unsubbed to avoid. Time to email him to tell
him everything's fixed.
Nick
*** FORWARD FAR AND WIDE - COULD BE IMPORTANT ***
Hi y'all,
Just discovered that someone's tried to sabotage my guestbook by using a bit of
rogue Javascript. As far as I can see, the person tried to create a link that,
when clicked, would spawn an infinite number of unresizable browser windows t
-Original Message-
From: David L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 05 October 1999 23:30
Subject: Re: SAM Community
>
>- Original Message -
>From: Johnna Teare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To:
>Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 3:31 PM
>Subject: RE: SAM Community
>
>
>>
From: Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Oh Nick can I you consent to have the following put on me Grave Stone
>> I've always been an advocate of the Chris White Method
>> (do things first, ask questions later).
No probs - I sometimes refer to it at work, thus confusing everyone instantly :)
Nic
I've always been an advocate of the Chris White Method (do things first, ask
questions later), but I'm sure he'll take anything down if requested to by the
copyright owner. It's the way The World Of Spectrum archive works. It's the way
the YS Rock'n'Roll Years works. It _is_ the done thing.
Nick
From: Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On a lighter note , Does anyone want to increase my Image Collection ( only
>if you own the copyright to said image )
It might be an idea for those who do own copyright and don't own images to make
their feelings known as well, since one of us might have a
From: Andrew Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > The one with the alien-like girl? VERY good make-up job that - doesn't look
>> > fake, really strikes home.
>>
>> No it doesn't. It is just disturbing. And meaningless.
>>
>
>And, I'm told, it's not dissimilar to a particular deformity some
>kids are b
From: Justin Skists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>A need fuelled by Sony's advertising strategy. All quick bursts, no
>>substance. And I find that 'Mental Wealth' ad slightly disturbing...
>
>I haven't seen this advert, yet...
The one with the alien-like girl? VERY good make-up job that - doesn't look
fa
From: Justin Skists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I think the PS2 will crush thee opposition anyway. It was always going to.
>
>Because:
>a) It will let you watch DVD stuff.
>b) It's backward compatible with the original PlayStation.
>c) I like the look of the casing.
The casing is very Sinclair-ish, is
From: Justin Skists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>You're right - I don't think I ever bought a game due to it's demo.
In the days before multimegabyte game demos, I'd read the game review first,
play the demo if one was available, THEN buy it. ISTR various reports for the
ECTS this year saying that the
From: Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Prince Of Persia]
>But it did sell 1500+ Copies for Sam Co
Hmmm... that's got me thinking... When SAMCo went down, Alan Miles put poor
sofware sales down to putting demos on the NewsDisk - he complained that out of
a user base of 1500, only five people or
From: Dan Dooré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :)
>
>Whoa! Snap!
I wouldn't be surprised - that was the first disk to get a glowing review in a
computer mag.
Nick
From: Martin Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>This has got me intrigued Sad that this is going to be what finally
>encourages to dig the Sam out off the shelf.. :).. Which disk was this
>on btw? Otherwise I'll be searching for hours...
Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :)
Nick
From: Stewart Skardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>My worst game ever had to be the 'Mindgames' collection. I can't believe that
>it was even released.
Well it WAS released during the "Horace Goes Skiing" phase of SAM games
development...
Nick
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Gavin Smith wrote:
>
>> What was Coloris?
>
>A very simple Columns clone by, er, Stephan Haller, was that his name?
The best Columns game on the SAM was the one on one of the Arcadia disks - used
to play that for hours, I think my l
-Original Message-
From: Robert Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 16 September 1999 13:34
Subject: Re: *ahem*
>On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nick Humphries wrote:
>
>> From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> >I have no idea w
From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I have no idea what came over me there.. I do apologize :)
No probs - I've been called worse :) For instance, I've just been told that the
Java scrolly on the front page of the YSRnRY sometimes crashes NT4 if you read
it right to the end... that'll teach me
From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I'm putting a whole chunk of source code online...
Wot no Statues Of Ice?
I'll get me coat...
Nick
(purveyor of old jokes)
urse, all scanned YS articles will be gratefully accepted on my site :)
Nick, only speaking from his YS experiences.
--
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:50:43 +0100 Sun, 29 Aug 99 18:29:21 BST, you wrote:
>Just in case you peeps miss this
>
>http://burnallgifs.org/
Well, to use a vile Americanism - they can kiss my ass!
--
---
---- Nick Humphries
From: Johnna Teare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>There's nothing stopping people from putting the files up there now
>- stick them on an ftp in another country, Russia for example, and
>you'd have a nightmare trying to bring a copyright suit against
>them. However, the whole thing is much better done in c
From: Johnna Teare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On 16 Aug 99, at 10:12, Nick Humphries wrote:
>> * How many units of any particular software title are being sold a month?
>> * Is there any possibility of the older titles being rereleased either on
>> a compilation or
From: Robert Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I am willing to allow Outwrite to be downloaded by anyone that wants it just
>as long as I retain copyright.
>Im new to this sort of thing (only had a modem for about 4 weeks) so how do
>I go about
>it.
>I also have a Morse code tutor written for the Sa
The SAM isn't dead. Not in the technical sense anyway - people are still
developing for it, albeit on a VERY small scale. But there are some basic facts
we should all be told:
* How many new SAMs are being sold a month?
If we're talking about single figures here (or even zero) then it's time to
From: James R Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>What about JPEG with the compression level set at zero? Is *THAT*
>alright?
Yeah, that's fine.
Nick
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>What about [EMAIL PROTECTED] then? I can take screenshots of
>programs which SimCoupe can't run, but (as has been discussed to death
>already) the quality isn't exactly perfect.
That's fine - anything is better than nothing a
-Original Message-
From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Hmmm... what about screenshots that weren't taken by an emulator... like my
>SAM Lemmings, Prince of Persia and Exodus ones? You wouldn't happen to have
>a [EMAIL PROTECTED] thingy set up would you? :) :) :)
As it happens, I c
From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:54:09AM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote:
>> Any picture format is welcome, so long as it isn't compressed (so GIF,
>> PCX, BMP and PNG is OK, but JPEG isn't).
>
>But GIF, PCX and PNG are comp
den.clara.net
e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
so I can distinguish between which emu took which shot and process them
accordingly.
Extra screenshots should appear on the site within the two weeks after
you've sent them to me.
Many thanks for
-Original Message-
From: Rob Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Er and what or who is the Spectrum Oracle?
>
SPOT - Spectrum Oracle on Trumpton.
It's somewhere off the Your Spectrum Unofficial Archive at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimg/
Nick
From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 07:34:44PM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
>> BTW: I've recently left Microsoft and am starting a new job at Sierra
>> software soon...
>
>So... remind us why you defected to the US again? :-)
>I mean, now you have left Microsoft you didn't
From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: James R Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Myself, James Curry and Terri Huddleston have just married in
>> Morehead, Kentucky. This announcement is slightly delayed, as we
>> have been on the road driving over 1,000 miles to Manhattan, Kansas
>> and I've h
-Original Message-
From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 30 July 1999 15:50
Subject: Re: Hello again...
>On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 04:13:43PM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote:
>
>> Maybe it's a compromise. Consider this: how much busine
From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:56:06PM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote:
>> From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > How much does an 0800 call actually
>> >cost the company?
>
>
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Nick Humphries wrote:
>
>> From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> > How much does an 0800 call actually
>> >cost the company?
>>
>> The trick appears to be to no
From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Depends how it's funded. I am genuinely curious to know how a company can
>stay afloat offering 192 hours of free 0800-number access and any number of
>hours of normal access for 11 pounds. How much does an 0800 call actually
>cost the company?
The trick
From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote:
>> See http://www.clara.net
as
>> I expect they'll have a big announcement about it.
>
>Well they do,
From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:32:16AM +0100, Andrew Collier wrote:
>> Actually we're using BT Clickfree at home - there's a monthly charge of
>> around 10 UKP, but for that you get really-free access at weekends. And
>> considering we generally max out our 56k
From: Dan Dooré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>BTW, Actually got a new submission to the Sam Webring
>(http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/webring) the other day - It's a pity
>the page it points to doesn't actually exist ;-)
I _knew_ there was something else to do in the YSRnRY revamp... I'll add my SAM
From: Justin Skists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Anyway I thought in DOS mode under Win95 and Win98 you could use long
>>filenames transparently - or maybe that was only in NT? I don't use very
>>Windows much, you can probably tell...
>
>DOS prompt, you can.. but DOS programs treat them with the twiddles.
From: Nick Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Correction:
>I thought DOS systems viewed long file names as wibble~1.zip or whatever? If
so,
>then so long as the files required in the emulator program itself are in 8.3
>format, the sight of ~1 would be ugly, but the file would still
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Justin Skists wrote:
>
>> >I don't think the long filename should be a problem - how many people
>> >still use DOS outside of Windows95/98/NT any more?
>>
>> I do!
>>
>> (Then again, I'm a multi-platform software engineer..)
>
>In tha
From: Justin Skists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Are you having a "best of email responses" section on those pages? :)
I would do, but haven't really got enough material to start a dedicated section.
There's also a load of emails along the lines of YS's "World Of The Speccy"
letters section...
An idea
The YS Rock'n'Roll Years carries a load of original YS articles and reviews.
Here's an email that was sent to me in response to seeing a review of Monty On
The Run:
---start---
I cant beleive you still expect people to pay for a game thats ten years
old come on, it was designed for the com
The first rule you'll learn when in any support job (or involved with anything
that's directly available to the public):
People are stupid.
Nick
From: Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>These YS Articule's , are they online anywhere ??
Yay! Plug time!
I'm the webmaster of the Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years, which can be found at:
http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/cover.htm
It's has all sorts of things on it, including around 600 ori
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Generally, the big companies (like Domark) paid very little attention to
>the Sam, and it was only when little companies (or individuals) programmed
>their Sam games for them that anything actually got released.
Indeed, and usually only following the "Chr
From: Aley Keprt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Oh yea, Prince and Klax are from Domark. What is Domark? Or Tengen?
>Is it another Enigma-like company which did a few great games in 1990?
Domark have been in the Speccy business since about 1984/5, probably most famous
for geting the James Bond licence and
ndeed.
>Also, I don't want to make any ports of SimCoupe, I just want to add my code
>to it.
>I won't work on the same places as Si does, so where is the problem.
>You are still talking about porting betas, but this is not the case.
>Stuart Brady wants the sources for ?so
From: Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Simon Cooke wrote:
>
>>"He might be attempting to make the win32 version better than the others"?
>
>>SO WHAT?
>
>Oh no... that's a Microsoft tactic, isn't it, so there /can't/ be
>anything wrong with it...
Innovation is a good thing. Speaking as a progra
From: Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Then again, Windows programmers are all alike -- they've got no respect
>for other platforms. DOS programmers are about as bad, too: "Go and get
>DOS because it's the right STANDARD" -- if we listened to that sort
>of advice, we'd all be living in trees
had to pay for. As it turned out, I wasn't being unreasonable at all about
asking for fewer exteral programs for SimCoupe to be reliant on.
Nick Humphries.
PS. It might be an idea if you read all the messages in a thread before you
respond, and that you take time to understand where I'm comi
-Original Message-
From: Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: New: SimCoupe 0.783a
>Nick Humphries wrote:
>
>>PCs don't have gzip by default.
>
>PCs? You mean *WINDOWS*, don&#
d disk images on the fly.
Fair enough. Reminds me of when I was using a zip library a few years ago
(Greenleaf?). It's a lot neater to have compression/uncompression withing the
code itself rather than doing a system() or whatever to an external program.
Nick Humphries
From: Lee Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>"Nick Humphries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> > > PCs don't have gzip by default. What's wrong with writing a custom
>> > > compression
>> > > routine which is portable between
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Nick Humphries wrote:
>
>> From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Personally I don't see anything wrong with the currect tactic of saving
>> >.dsk images and gzipping them.
>>
From: Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Stuart Brady wrote:
>> Good compression is something that you really need on the SAM, so that's
>> why I *really* don't think you should use Z80's method. You'd get better
>> compression from something like zlib.
>
>Personally I don'
This SAM Users List has recently become unfilterable for some reason (I used
to filer on "To:" for "sam-users"). Can there be some sort of change so that,
say, the Subject: field starts with "SU:" or something?
--
> Nyah nyah n-nya nyaah
>
> I've just seen all 8 episodes of season 8 of Red Dwarf.
>
> Ah Smug Mode On, Sir.
What a smee...
What a smee...
What a smeeh!
Nick
knew him well.
I only had brief contact with him, but I only wish there were more people in
the industry like him.
My condolences.
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---- Nick Humphries - [EMAIL
1, 88%)
You could boycott it to show we want more than puzzle games, but it's just
too good to miss. (Sorry.)
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cated when money comes into the equation.
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--- http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/cover.htm ---
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based on this
site, include near-100% articles coverage, cover tape snapshots, etc, etc. I'd
LOVE to handle a project like that...
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garding YS copyrights. They
haven't said "no", but then they haven't said "yes" either. Most YS writers
had a contract that gave Future first serial rights (i.e. YS printed their
stuff first) but after that, copyright is owned by the witers themselves,
hen
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:24:10 GMT Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:30:22 GMT, you wrote:
>On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 13:19:40 PST Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:24:29 GMT, you wrote:
>
>>>Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors,
>>>maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that
>>>stric
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 13:19:40 PST Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:24:29 GMT, you wrote:
>>Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors,
>>maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that
>>strict, do we?
>>
>>Ahem.
>
>She had a voice like sunshine, and was cute as hell to
>disk (cursor) if my memory serves me right, did Bill order anything from
>you?
God knows... I sold 20 of 'em, and it was nearly ten years ago...
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-ICQ #22773485-
>Persona, Fred, Sam Supplement, SC software, Lerm, Nick Humpries (Midi
Ummm... where do I come into this?
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-ICQ #22773485-
The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll
d
from what I gather he doesn't mind so long as no one puts pirated images
online.
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-ICQ #22773485-
The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years
http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/cover.htm
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:22:07 EST, you wrote:
>Dave has manage to blow his computer!
Isn't that illegal in some countries?
Moving on...
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-ICQ #22773485-
The Your
tful copyright owner to
sue. It's piracy by any other name.
Just think - if this happened five or six years ago, the end result would have
been Prince Of Persia being sold for the Speccy, and probably a LOT more ports
over to the SAM.
-
.htm
(remember the capitals) You'll find 32 of his reviews on there.
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Nick Humphries, [EMAIL PROTECTED], at your service
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The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years
ex_sam.htm - it covers
the MGT and SAMCo times, plus a bit more.
Enjoy!
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The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:49:17 -0700 Sat, 17 Oct 98 23:12:08 BST, you wrote:
>
>Sound Machine IIR...
>
>Free for Blitz subscribers with issue 4
>
>;)
>
Please tell me you're joking - that's like putting GAC on a magazine cover
tape...
-
racker was it? Sound Machine? Something like that. I _was_
a bit happy with a few of the functions used in the programs themselves, but
you'd have to look at he source to appreciate them really.
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e: wrote a couple of progs for
FRED and made and sold the overwelmingly underwelming CursorDisk (the venture
made precisely 58p profit). Currently running the YS Rock'n'Roll Years (which
is now slowly covering the SAM scene as it happened).
Hello.
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