Classic Gaming Expo - UK show - in 9 days time!
Saturday 13th August - CGE-UK show! For those that are interested the second CGE-UK show is taking place at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon, London on Saturday 13th August from 10am to 7pm. Following on from the show's success last year, this year's show should be a corker. What's it all about? To put it simply it's the biggest All Format Retro gaming event of the year! I'll be there showing off some Sam bits and pieces, and I hope to meet a fair few Sam owners there like last year! Tickets cost a tenner, and all the info can be found at: http://www.cgeuk.com Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe April 1995-2005 - Celebrating 10 Years of developing for the Sam Coupe New Website now up: http://www.samcoupe.com/
Re: Classic Gaming Expo - UK show - in 9 days time!
Excellent going On the subject of shows... anything else coming up soon in the UK? Is there a Norsam show? When? I'd love to be able to go to the German shows - but they always end up at the wrong day for me :(Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saturday 13th August - CGE-UK show!For those that are interested the second CGE-UK show is taking place at theFairfield Halls in Croydon, London on Saturday 13th August from 10am to 7pm.Following on from the show's success last year, this year's show should be acorker. What's it all about? To put it simply it's the biggest All FormatRetro gaming event of the year!I'll be there showing off some Sam bits and pieces, and I hope to meet afair few Sam owners there like last year!Tickets cost a tenner, and all the info can be found at:http://www.cgeuk.comColin=Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam CoupeApril 1995-2005 - Celebrating 10 Years of developing for the Sam CoupeNew Website now up: http://www.samcoupe.com/
Re: Classic Gaming Expo - UK show - in 9 days time!
On 4 Aug 2005, at 22:30, Colin Piggot wrote: Saturday 13th August - CGE-UK show! I'll be there showing off some Sam bits and pieces, and I hope to meet a fair few Sam owners there like last year! Sounds great! Unfortunately I'm not able to go myself, but best of luck with the stand. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --
Re: Who`s missing?
As far as I remember, Colin has posted several times but not very often. I'm not too sure about Steve.Calvin Allett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From memory alone who`s missing from posting here?To not still be typing in five minutes, I`ll onlymention a few but just a couple I`m amazed haven`tfound their way here being Colin MacDonald, though Iget the impression he`s doing well... and Ian Slavin(Axe), would be cool too if Steve Taylor or M.o.Magicetc could be here :)Ohh, and Stefan Drissen, I know most/half members herewere regulars at the UK meetings or had connectionswith SAMCo, but who amongst the scene do you wish wascontributing or talking about SAM Still? ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail
RE: Classic Gaming Expo - UK show - in 9 days time!
david wrote: Is there a Norsam show? When? The ORSAM site was updated recently to say there wouldn't be a show this year. Last year's was a big improvement on the previous one, so I'm surprised! Wasn't the last CGE-UK show the one where Matthew Smith turned up? I missed it, and I can't make this one either. :-/ Si
RE: Who`s missing?
Calvin Allett wrote: From memory alone who`s missing from posting here? Chris Pile and his Defender site also seem long gone. Has Chris White turned up yet? Si
New media up on www.samcoupe.com
There's a few new bits of media that i've posted up on my site at www.samcoupe.com The first three, are short snippets of music from the Sam for some forthcoming games, which has been composed by David Suzuki-Sanders. There is also a short video of the prototype Mayhem Accelerator running. The video shows the Sam running a ZX Spectrum emulator (with Thing Bounces Back) as in graphics MODE 1 the Mayhem gives the fastest speed up (of about 275% with the prototype) as the extra MODE 1 slowdown is ignored. I'll be producing more videos of the Mayhem in action once the next stage of the prototype is complete and the accelerator is running at its full speed. You'll find the download links in the relevant news articles on the main page. All the best, Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe April 1995-2005 - Celebrating 10 Years of developing for the Sam Coupe New Website now up: http://www.samcoupe.com/
Re[2]: Who`s missing?
Yes, he emailed yesterday ;-) Andy -- From Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the 3rd time :P (cheers frode ;)) Erm thewhitehouse.co.uk always works , must get the web server up n running again soon C -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Cooke Sent: 06 July 2005 09:50 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Quick question... Does anyone have a working email address for Chris White any more? Just wondering :) Si (busy busy busy trying to ship http://sufferingtiesthatbind.com/) Friday, August 5, 2005, 8:26:25 AM, you wrote: Simon Calvin Allett wrote: From memory alone who`s missing from posting here? Simon Chris Pile and his Defender site also seem long gone. Has Chris White Simon turned up yet? Simon Si
RE: Re[2]: Who`s missing?
Andy Chandler wrote: Yes, he emailed yesterday ;-) Whoa, so he did! :-D Si
Re: Who`s missing?
Steve Parry-Thomas wrote: Any body want to post their MSN id ? My MSN is [EMAIL PROTECTED] if anyone ever fancies a natter. Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe April 1995-2005 - Celebrating 10 Years of developing for the Sam Coupe New Website now up: http://www.samcoupe.com/
Re: Assembly Programming / Keyboard Relay
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:04:25 +0100 Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:21:24PM +0200, Frode Tenneboe wrote: Hmmm...do you have an old ROM? how about poke svar 321,1 then? Haven't tested with the serial driver though... Still doesn't work. :( Strange. I have no idea what that could be. It used to work I want it to be keyboard-ish, equivalent to sending press/release events. When a scan line changes, it prints the entire scan line to the stream. Ah - so the linux driver performs the decodingI get itnow. :) An interesting project BTW. Is there a stage 2? :-) -Frode -Frode -- ^ Frode Tennebø | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ | Ericsson AS | Isebakkeveien 49 | | N-1788 Halden | Phone: +47 45 24 99 39| | with Standard.Disclaimer; use Standard.Disclaimer;|
Re: Who`s missing?
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:21:07AM +0100, Steve Parry-Thomas wrote: May be folks now use MSN ? Any body want to post their MSN id ? MSN, that's, um, something to do with Microsoft, is it? imc :-)
RE: Who`s missing?
Ian Collier wrote: MSN, that's, um, something to do with Microsoft, is it? Yeah, though it's a necessary evil to keep in touch with some people - certainly beats my cousins phoning me up for computer help! You can always use a libgaim-based client to avoid the slightly excessive official client. I use Miranda under Windows, AdiumX on the Mac and GAIM on Linux. Si
Re: Assembly Programming / Keyboard Relay
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:10:00AM +0200, Frode Tenneboe wrote: Strange. I have no idea what that could be. It used to work I start by disabling the printing code, see what happens. I want it to be keyboard-ish, equivalent to sending press/release events. When a scan line changes, it prints the entire scan line to the stream. Ah - so the linux driver performs the decodingI get itnow. :) Yeah... it keeps the Z80 code simpler. An interesting project BTW. Is there a stage 2? :-) Thanks. :-) (And thanks to everyone else who's given encouragement!) I might add mouse and bell support. I could also add num/caps/scroll-lock indicators (maybe with kaleidoscope...) Also, I've got to deal with key-clashing and do key repeat. The main annoyances at the moment are ESCAPE not working, and a strange bug when releasing a key... it thinks the key is pressed again briefly when it's released. I'm going to try adding a delay after the keyboard scan, to see if that makes the problem go away. Some sort of 'FN' key is something I'm thinking about... For example, it could toggle between function keys and the numeric keypad. Cheers, -- Stuart Brady
Re: Assembly Programming / Keyboard Relay
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:23:39 +0100 Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:10:00AM +0200, Frode Tenneboe wrote: Strange. I have no idea what that could be. It used to work I start by disabling the printing code, see what happens. Try with a simple basic program 10 do 20 pause 1 30 loop Then add dos, drivers, etc. -Frode -- ^ Frode Tennebø | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ | Ericsson AS | Isebakkeveien 49 | | N-1788 Halden | Phone: +47 45 24 99 39| | with Standard.Disclaimer; use Standard.Disclaimer;|
Re: Who`s missing?
- Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 11:37 AM Subject: RE: Who`s missing? Ian Collier wrote: MSN, that's, um, something to do with Microsoft, is it? Yeah, though it's a necessary evil to keep in touch with some people - certainly beats my cousins phoning me up for computer help! You can always use a libgaim-based client to avoid the slightly excessive official client. I use Miranda under Windows, AdiumX on the Mac and GAIM on Linux. Si I always use Trillian with MSN and AIM and have never had any problems with it. When I'm on-line I mostly use MSN as [EMAIL PROTECTED] in case anyone feels like a chat. Ian
Re: Assembly Programming / Keyboard Relay
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:23:39PM +0100, Stuart Brady wrote: The main annoyances at the moment are [...] and a strange bug when releasing a key... it thinks the key is pressed again briefly when it's released. I'm going to try adding a delay after the keyboard scan, to see if that makes the problem go away. The delay seems to have worked... although I'm wondering if there's a better way to fix this. Has anyone else had this problem? Cheers, -- Stuart Brady
RE: Assembly Programming / Keyboard Relay
Stuart Brady wrote: The delay seems to have worked... although I'm wondering if there's a better way to fix this. Has anyone else had this problem? Sounds like that could just be normal key bounce? The ROM scanning does a bit more tracking to avoid the duplicates. I'm still wondering whether you can use the ROM scanner, perhaps supplemented with manual scanning of some (mainly shift) keys. On the PC side you generally only to handle 1 regular key pressed at a time, with shift keys as special cases. On the SAM side you could track and report any changes in shift keys, any regular key events (including ROM-generated repeats), as well as key releases (monitored as you scan shift keys, to know when all are released). With those details on the PC side you should know enough to change from the previous to the new key state, including layout mappings for symbols. You could even generate missing PC keys by combinations of SAM keys, with it handled as another type of mapping. SimCoupe uses that trick already, but in reverse of course! Si
Re: SAM Coupe Keyboard Relay for Linux
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:27:43PM +0100, Simon Owen wrote: David Ledbury wrote: Hmmm - imagine a Spectrum emulator working with a Spectrum acting as a keyboard? :) I daren't suggest Stuart try using SimCoupe with his, so I'll have to try it myself! I've just tried it... actually, I was testing to see whether it would work in X, but SimCoupe happened to be running already. :-) One problem with SimCoupe: if you're using a real SAM as the keyboard, you presumably don't want the SAM mapping mode... but the raw mode doesn't map the -=[];',./ keys to the keys in corresponding positions on a SAM. (BTW, I've just tried using Dvorak in SimCoupe and it works as I'd expect -- the emulated SAM stays with QWERTY, but the UI does the right thing. Nice one, Si!) The other glitch I've noticed with SimCoupe (but it applies to other programs too) is with caps lock... ideally, it should not change X's caps lock state (except in GUI, obviously). I can imagine that being SDL's fault, though. The last problem is with my code... You can't press the numeric keypad keys as they've been mapped to the function keys. I think it's an interesting project, even if it's not all that useful to most people. People felt the same way about my Lenslok emulator (and were right). Thanks. :-) The Lenslok emulator looks cool, although I've not used anything that needs it, yet. Cheers, -- Stuart Brady
Re: Who`s missing?
Matt Craven wrote: Ohh, and Stefan Drissen, I know most/half members here were regulars at the UK meetings or had connections with SAMCo, but who amongst the scene do you wish was contributing or talking about SAM Still? I am still here, and i guess that Martijn Groen is on the list as well. Will ask him later somewhere in the next week, i must admit that things are slow on our side. -- Robert van der Veeke Ruysdaelstraat 21d 3141 HP Maassluis Tel.: 010 5915879 Basugasubasubasu Basugasubakuhaku Gasubakuhakuhaku!! Better is the enemy of good enough. Dr. Mikoyan of the Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.1/64 - Release Date: 04/08/2005
Re: Who`s missing?
Yes, mine's [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-)Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Parry-Thomas wrote: Any body want to post their MSN id ?My MSN is [EMAIL PROTECTED] if anyone ever fancies a natter.Colin=Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam CoupeApril 1995-2005 - Celebrating 10 Years of developing for the Sam CoupeNew Website now up: http://www.samcoupe.com/ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos
Re: Assembly Programming / Keyboard Relay
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:35:55PM +0100, Simon Owen wrote: Sounds like that could just be normal key bounce? The ROM scanning does a bit more tracking to avoid the duplicates. Ahh, I think so, then... You can tell I'm new to this, can't you? :-) I'm still wondering whether you can use the ROM scanner, perhaps supplemented with manual scanning of some (mainly shift) keys. On the PC side you generally only to handle 1 regular key pressed at a time, Generally, yeah... but I'd prefer to avoid that limitation. The delay that I've put in seems to work. [...] You could even generate missing PC keys by combinations of SAM keys, with it handled as another type of mapping. SimCoupe uses that trick already, but in reverse of course! I'm certainly thinking about that. It'll probably behave a bit like a laptop's FN key. Thing is, I'm not sure which key to use. Cheers, -- Stuart Brady
