I'm back!
Hello all, For various reasons although I've never left this list I've not downloaded email for this account in a couple of years! The account still exists although it only seemed to know about email since April - so I've not got years worth of email to catch up on! Anyway, that's it, hope everyone is well (regardless of if I know you or not). Tim
Re: ORSAM Show...
> Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but > given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted to verify that it'll > be a decent turn out - who all's going? Not me either I'm afraid. If I could do there and back in a day by train then I'd have gone, and even had permission from 'er indoors. The earliest I could get there was something like 2 in the afternoon (or I could have sat on a train station for around 8 hours between midnight and 8am - I think not!) Annoyingly had it been a weekday, the trains would have started earlier I could have. Bit of a cop-out I'm afraid. Had it been in Quedgley mind you.. ;-) Tim
FAQ (Was: Sam Coupe Scrapbook - new location)
> You're not kidding when you say the FAQ is old in those pages... Well Graham G used to do it, and then stopped (can't remember why) - since all the information was already elsewhere, didn't seem worth adding to it. Are there any "frequently" asked questions these days though? Tim
Sam Coupe Scrapbook - new location
Given mono.org's personal home pages have been gone so long that google denies all knowledge of my pages, I thought time had come to get a domain name I could use until the end of time. Hence the "Sam Coupé Scrapbook" can now be found at http://www.samcoupescrapbook.co.uk/ which should redirect to wherever I'm keeping the pages that month (I resisted the urge to go for www.samcoupe.info, or www.sam-coupe.info though). I've given them a very light clean at the same time, odd snippets of new hardware and Colin MacD's description of serial number generation. Could people update any links they might have please. (Now I just need to work out how to update the webring) Cheers, Tim
Re: passworts
> Well, it's not coming through the list... otherwise we'd all have received it. I was thinking more of emails pulled from list archives / lists of members on the web. But looks like I'll have to scratch my head a bit longer > It's quite amazing how easily email spam gets to people - I briefly had a BT > Anytime account for fixed rate dialup before moving to ADSL, and I *NEVER* used > that email address - yet it got spam, spam and more spam. > I have resorted to using Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net) which can block and > bounce back all the spam - to deal with about 25+ spams a day I receive on my > main email address. I've generally done quite well. I've had this freeserve something like 4 years, and this is the first time I'm aware I've had any direct to me (ignoring the stuff freeserve sends me!) I've had [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more like 7, and get something like 1 a month on average. Oh well. Cheers, Tim
passworts
Has anyone else been getting this a load of "passworts" spam recently? The headers say it's coming direct to me, rather than via the list, but I'm pretty careful about giving out my email address, and can't think where else it might have come from. Cheers, Tim
Re: Freds wanted
> DON'T POST BINARIES sigs shouldn't be more than 4 lines long ;-) I'm proud to say I have every fred, and the first 20 (the ones before I subbed) where, urm, individually mastered for my personal collection (i.e. At some point I gave Colin 20 blank disks, and got fresh copies of them all as part of some bigger deal). Of course, they where HD disks, so my Sam didn't like half of them. Hurrah for DSK. Tim (who knows there was never a GamesMASTER game to beat EGGBuM)
Re: Moment of truth
> There seem to be two groups, those who want the same and keep using it, and > those who have one sitting in a loft somewhere. For those in the latter > group, are you willing to sell on some bits and pieces to those who are > still using theirs? Sell them to a good home so to speak? Or are you > keeping it for nostalgia reasons. Mine isn't for sale - I'm waiting it being worth thousands. Or alternativally, I'm awaiting the mythical future house with study large enough to contain my (not over big) collection of computers, when I might fiddle again. It got boxed when I moved house, and never unboxed again I do live in the "still play with SimCoupé" camp though. Tim
Re: Moment of truth
> 1) Do you have an actual Sam Coupe: Yes > 2) Does it work? Last time I tried - Yes. > 3) Do you still use it? No > 4) How many bits of sam software have you got? Half a dozen games, a couple of bits of utility, lots of Fred > 5) Do you still actively seek new sam bits and pieces? No > 6) Would you buy a new game for the sam coupe if the price was right? No > 7) What price would be right if you would? N/A > 8) Would you develop a title for the sam still? Probably not > 9) Would you help develop a title for the sam? Probably not (though more likely than 8) > 10) Do you think that all the work put in to keep the sam alive is a waste of time? No Tim
Re: OT: Arch emulators (was RE: Linux Format)
- Original Message - From: "Simon Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thomas Harte wrote: > > I don't suppose if someone with the magazine could check > > quickly whether my small emulator, ElectrEm (it does the > > Acorn Electron) is in there? > The emulator articles (by Simon N Goodwin) have been running for around > year I think, with the latest (and last?) covering more Z80-based > machines. I'd imagine ElectrEm will be in one of the previous issues, > along with BBC emulators, though I don't know exactly which issue > (Tim?). Acorns were covered in the March 2002 issue. ElectrEm got a mention, about a 1/6th ogf a page worht, although I can't spot it on the cover disk (unless it has a non-obvious name). The home page for it was included in the links sections at the end of the article though. Tim
Linux Format
For those who don't read it, this months Linux Format includes SimCoupe in the feature on Emulators, giving it almost a full page and some good press. Huzzah! Tim
Re: error 404
> found that http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/sskardon is no longer valid. Guessing that means Stewart Skardon, I've currently linked to: http://www.sskardon.fsnet.co.uk/ (which is probably the "real" location of www.sam-coupe.co.uk, not to be confused with www.samcoupe.co.uk or www.samcoupe.com). HTH, Tim
Reading Sam Floppies
Alas, neither SamDsk nor SamDisk seem to want to work on my shiney new PC (running Windows XP). Is it just me? Is there another tool out there I'm missing that'll do the job? Cheers, Tim
Re: Goodsam
-Original Message- >do you think the people who rename the dumps are telepathic, >if you've got bloody problems >or want to bitch about thats not what you would have called it, then EMAIL >the address IN THE README, Urm, I was going to. My whole point was to see if anyone knew who to contact without me downloading the program and looking. I'm kind of lazy you see, and thought it might have been one of those nice community type things where it was someone Sam related helping out with the lists. Plus the only email I still have lying around that mentions a site goes to one in Polish(?), which I failed to learn at school. I'm perfectly capable of finding these things out the long way, I was just trying for the short way first. Geez. What is it with all the people on this list who just blow up out of all proportion at the simplest request. If you'd even bothered to read what I originally wrote it would have been perfectly clear that my whole purpose was to mail the guy and see if i could get him to change it. What the hell is wrong with that? Sometimes I wonder why I still bother to read the complete crap that comes out of this list. How do you unsubscribe again ;-) Tim
Re: Goodsam
Fashoom! (1997) (Sad Snail Productions) News to me :-) Actually it is mine, but not what I'd have called it. Anyone know who compiles the list without me having to work to find it out? Tim
Re: F16 Combat Pilot download
From: Simon Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Was a bit of a bugger to convert too - took almost an hour! Yah! Hurrah for Simon! Tim
Re: Games
From: Dean Woodyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >so why not embrace that not bitch about it, chances are EVERYONE on the >group has sam related software that they shouldnt have, so stop being so >bloody hypocritical. I don't. Hmm although I may have bought some software off a certain company who it has been since been suggested may not have been in a position to legally sell it. Which possibly means I'm in receipt of stolen goods. Perhaps I should just turn myself in now ;-) I do wish a "History of the Sam" would come out one day. Does MacD still follow this list? Tim
Re: A few things.
>web : http://www.sam-coupe.co.uk Nothing happens for me when I stick my pointer over navigate - any chance of less fancy navigation? Win98/Mozilla0.94 Java/Javascript enabled. Tim
Sniff
Amongst the joyous possibilities of SpeccyBob, I just thought I'd share my sad news with you all. 6 months after moving house, I've finally admitted defeat and put my post-move-still-boxedSam in the Loft. I do hope I'll find the room to let him come out again. :-( Tim
Re: IRC
Today, "Gavin Smith" did write about "Re: IRC": > We do wander into #samcommunity now and then. Perhaps we should have a > meeting once a week - say Monday night? :) Most IRC servers are very hard to > connect to at the moment. Search theregister.co.uk or similar sites for the > reason (those damn Russians!) - diemen.nl.eu.undernet.org seems to be the > best bet at the moment, followed by london.uk.eul.undernet.org. Well I'm there now, (on london), but would possibly try to make a regular one (if I was about). @/
Re: Memory Lane
Today, "Howard Price" did write about "Re: Memory Lane": > Nobody seems to have voted for COLONY (Persona release), written by I bought Colony from Fred, just before it become FredSoft, or something... > D.Koselo, which could just as easily mean that I simply didn't understand > it. Whatever this strategy game (written in BASIC) was about, I always died > for some unexplained reason in about 2 minutes! Was I doing something > wrong? Better than me. I never followed enough to bother trying to play it :-(
IRC
IIRC someone always suggests being on an IRC channel at a certain time, on a certain day. I can't find the details and wondered if someone would remind me incase I get the urge to come join in one night. Cheers, Tim
Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around - my summary
Today, "Aley Keprt" did write about "Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around...": > As far as I know, ILOVEYOU can't be activated by previewing received e-mail. > If you read this somewhere, please let me know and I'll look too. > > I heard that there exist a 'virus' which is activated without clicking an > attachment, but that 'virus' resides in e-mail, not in an attachment. KAK worm? I believe is a bit of javascript which will infect your computer if your eamil reader displays the HTML version of the email and runs the javascript. Presumably a 'preview' pane is enough to run this. This is one good reason why HTML formatted email should just be directed to /dev/null at the mail server ;-) I had an email the other day with KAK worm at the end. Tim
Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around
Today, "Aley Keprt" did write about "Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around": > What would you do if you would find a suspicious bottle and there is > hand-written "dear Johnna, drink this liquid, it's great."? > You would drink it at once??? I bet you don't. Keeping with cars. If you drove into a petrol station, and the pump said "unleaded petrol" that is exactly what you'd expect it to be, you wouldn't expect it to be diesel, or liquid gas (what a daft name that is!). So why shouldn't people expect that if the email they have has an attachment called 'readme.txt' then that attachment is infact a text file which will do no harm when they read it. Personally I'm over paranoid, I could happy argue all day about reading mail with a mail reader and not a HTML/javascript/vbscript interpreter, about the pros and cons of using filenames to determine file types, and far more. At the end of the day people have a right to expect their software not to do anything malicious without their consent. (Unfortunately at the end of the day, far to many people are fussed about style over content oh well) Tim
Re: 1 Meg users
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Howard Price wrote: > Does anyone know how many people have 1 meg upgrades on their SAM? I guess > it's round about 50-80 regular users... Gavin, maybe? I have one, don't think I've really used it much though. Tim
Re: SAM on eBay
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Aley Keprt wrote: > (imho. Messenger is a stupid piece of hardware which does only what could be > done by a very simple software.) I think the idea was that the problem most people had with the sam was actually getting the games to load in the first place, running them after that point was fine. Therefore you loaded it on a spectrum, which was more tolerant to old tapes, and then whizzed it down the wire to your Sam, where it worked happily ever after. I can't believe it's gone for 407quid. Perhaps I should be making mine a "named item" when I renew my insurance! Tim
Re: Fred Magazine Web Pages
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Fred Web Pages are now completed with contents, screenshots and > download links for issues 1-82. > > Not sure what else to do with them at the moment, any suggestions welcome. > > http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/fred Can I mutter again about wouldn't it be nice if people made all old software PD, so we can have a single CD with *every* sam disk as a .DSK (or similar) on it? @/
Re: Fred Magazine Web Pages
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, David L wrote: > 82? Is that including the one I compiled (yes, it was me!) for George Boyle? > > If anyones got a copy...??? I got a copy. However given my sub ran out on issue 80, and I'd just resubscribed only to see the whole thing disappear, I was needless to say hesitant about resubbing *again*. All I remember of that disc was that it had an early version of Bulgulators (which I already had from Lemmings being s late!), and that the editorial seemed to be one long rant about how he'd had no support in putting the disk out, had problems trying to get hold of a members list, didn't have any of the contribution disks, etc, etc. and pleaing for submissions. I'd have been happy to buy an #83 if it had come out, but was planning to only buy one at a time. And least anyone claim I helped bring the downfall of Fred, there were at least 2 copies of a disk, with several submissions on, which I suspect went missing in the all the confusion. @/
Re: SAM 2000?
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Aley Keprt wrote: > Okay, it's 1:1. Who's next.? 2 Against. > Also, C is not so compatible too, since Watcom C - one of the best > compilers - doesn't follow the standard of (all) other compilers. Then it's not the best compiler. Any decent C compiler should be ANSI compilant. That's the whole point of having an ANSI standard. (Apart from the fact I don't think there are any compilers compilant with the '99 Spec) > I wonder, how much Sam C is compatible. It isn't. It's a cut down version (based on small C for CP/M?). It's memory management sucks, it doesn't do floats, it doesn't have a lot of the standard libraries, and probably lots more. (But I liked it anyway, it was fun to play with). Tim
happy Birthday....
So, after the spectacular 10th Birthday celebrations, anyone got any plans to do something this year? (I was driven past the wickerman a few weeks ago, was almost tempted to go there for lunch...) Tim
Re: Console Coupe
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dave Whitmore wrote: > What are the chances of making a DSK or SAD image (or altering an > existing one) so that when clicked on in Windows, it'll launch the > emulator and autoboot? Good I'd hope. It was certainly possible to associate a .DSK image with the DOS SimCoupe and have the it run with the disk image specified on the commandline. Does Si's windows version have a similar commandline? If so you just need to get it to autoboot. I remember imc posting a patch to the ROM image that would make it do just that. I appear to have lost the email now though. So it was certianally possible at one point, and ought to be possible now. (I'd fire up simcoupe and see, but that would require me to reboot!) Tim
Re: Sam Coupe wake up call
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Edwin Blink wrote: > > I occasionally get this for no reason with my Sam. I find pop the disk > > out the drive, and press reset a few times. Normally I get a nice > > "crunch" sound come from the drive with one of the resets, plop the disk > > back in and works no problem. > > > > Of course, that's dark magic that may only work with my Sam > > Yes if you don't use a DPU then dark magic is really what you need ... I always meant to get one of them, but always worried I might scar my Sam for life if I risked taking a soldering iron to him. (That's aimed at my soldering skills, not at the DPU...) Tim
Re: Sam Coupe wake up call
Hi, > Doing some belated spring cleaning, I and my son felt eager to set up the > Sam Coupe and have a play around. It hasn't been used for a few years and > when a software disk is put in and F9 is pressed I got error code 53 NO > DOS. Tried several disks and got the same, does that mean that the > internal disk drive has died (never woke up)? I occasionally get this for no reason with my Sam. I find pop the disk out the drive, and press reset a few times. Normally I get a nice "crunch" sound come from the drive with one of the resets, plop the disk back in and works no problem. Of course, that's dark magic that may only work with my Sam HTH, Tim
mono.org / sam coupe scrapbook
Incase anyone misses it mono.org is physically moving home this weekend, so the web service is likely to disappear. It'll have "reduced bandwidth/service" for a while afterwards, so that may mean the web server is lower down the list of things to be restored. Tim
Re: scads
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Andrew Gale wrote: > Wow... looking back, it's hard to believe how much optimism people had > in the Sam market, isn't it?! I remember that Graham Burtenshaw used to sell > something like 200 of each issue of Enceladus and made a tidy packet > (well, enough to make an A' level student feel rich). Am I the only > Sam user that didn't make any cash?! I made about 4 quid out of EGGBuM, urm, until you offset costs ;-)
Re: Games (Colony and F16)
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, James R Curry wrote: > By judicious use of monkeys and typewriters, Gavin Smith came up with: > > 2) We were talking a while back about the F16 Combat Pilot demo that > > was on Crash - didn't someone say they had a copy of it or am I > > misremembering? I'd love to see it - I know it turned out to be slow > > in the end, but still! > I have the tape, but it's back in England so not much good. I'd ask Graham to > pay a visit to my parents and locate it, but he is regrettably now living in > Manchester, so there's not very much I can do... :( WOS appears to have a TZX of it, although how to load that into a Sam I have no idea (at least a TZX was on the WoS extras CD I got this morning) HTH, Tim
Re: Floppy
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, D.A. Fulton wrote: > > I Got another question, a friend of mine has a sam without diskdrive , where > > can he get one or adapt a pcfloppy to the sam ? > An original sam drive will be hard to find I would imagine. It used to be > possible to get a kit that let you adapt a pc floppy, but that was from > Bob Brenchley / Format who seem to have disappeared (although a friend of > mine who lives in Gloucester says the shop is still trading). Urm, If you mean the one down from KFC, I suspect it's unrelated ;-) (There is one in Chelt too, it sells a mix of PC games, jigsaws, a few board games, packs of cards, trading cards, and hand puzzles. I've never noticed anytihng sam related, or Bob, in them!) I did see Bob at Picnic in the Park one year (It's a chelt thang), the next one is next w/e I think so I'll keep an eye out for him. @/
Re: Shows etc
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, David L wrote: > How many people on this list would actually be bothered to go to another SAM > Show, if there was such a thing...? Depended how accessable a location it was for someone who'd have to rely on public transport ;-) Did anything happen for the 10th birthday?
Re: Web Sites
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Stoned Design wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a program to do web sites. > What do people use on this list? I just use my favourite text editor. I find with a little effort to learn the tags, (the basics easy to pick up, it's worth looking at page source to see how they do things), you can do some wonderful stuff. Doing it by hand means your more likely to produce something that degrades well, and doesn't try to force the page to look exactly how you want it. (The Sam Coupe Scrapbook was all done by hand, except a few lists which were produced using a script, but the template was hand done) One of my friends had a lot of trouble with some design program. I sent him an email with some basic help in, and since then he's been a "by hand" convert as well, just using a designer to work out things like tables. I wouldn't pay for a product either, You see to get a lot dished out for free with various magazines, (and presumably download). HTH, Tim
Re: Following on from Sam forsale
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Stephen Longhurst wrote: > Anyone got a gold chip jobbie? I have a frames gold ASIC. I've not dared try to fit it to my machine though. The text below my ASIC claims it's from a limited edition of 40, and has Bruces signature as well. Is a gold ASIC really worth that much? If so I got it for a bargain price and will be contacting my insurers shortly! Tim
Re: Spotted on c.s.s - Sam for sale
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Dave Whitmore wrote: > Fully working SAMs are becoming more rare, and I'm beginning to see > them in a similar way to how people might look at vintage cars. I'd > say people who sell them cheap aren't really doing themselves any > favours. Or us. The more people sell there Sams for, the more ours are worth when we come to sell^H^H^H^Hinsure them. ;-) @/
Re: Introducing Myself
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Steve Longhurst wrote: > stands at the Royal Horticultural Halls back then? My one claim to fame in > the Sam community is that I went to Southampton University a couple of years > before Tim Paveley and once sold my Sound Sampler to him. Wow! I do believe it was you who possibly introduced me to nvg and the mailing list. :-) Cor, doesn't time fly eh? Tim
Re: Computer Shopper Feb 2000
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: > What on earth for? The robot that is, not the computer or your old > school friend. It's in a collage(sp?) as part of some sort of millennium article. oooh-oooh I wonder who owns the copyright, and if they gave permission? > Is it out now? (Why do mags come out a month early??) If so I'll pop > down the newsagent and leaf through it annoying the newsagent as > normal. Which page? Still on the shelves locally - Page 563 - and he's drunk ;-) @/
Computer Shopper Feb 2000
has a picture of Sam in it. The robot that is, not the computer or my old school friend. Tim
Re: Christmas Greetings, etc.
James R Curry wrote: > > > Seconded, thirded, forthded... Etc!! ;-) > > Sign me up for some of those Season's Greetings, too. While we're at it, me too. Infact, I'll wish Sam a happy 10th birthday as well. It must be around now.
Re: b-dos docs
Martijn Groen wrote: > I'll try to make a B-DOS 1.6d doc file as soon as possible and send it > to Andrew Collier, ready for downloading. Any chance of putting it on ftp.nvg as well if it isn't already? Cheers, Tim
