Re: Forlorn plea...
>Hello - > >I've just found out that there were 21 issues made of SAM2Sam. Which >is a bit of a surprise. Hang about... Sam2Sam was *your* magazine, wasn't it?? How can there be any more issues than you know about, did you compile them in your sleep or something? >Any news on previous issues of FRED? Are they PD yet? If so, we >should try and get them up on nvg. I think issues 1 to 12 are up already. I doubt there are plans to upload any more. How do you mean, "PD yet?"? Copyright will not expire, as such, until 72[1] years after the copyright-holder's death. Yet, I suppose, if the copyright-holder declared FRED to be PD, then it would be such. But that isn't as easy as it might sound, because I _think_ the authors of the individual programs are currently the copyright-holders, and not Colin MacDonald or Persona the current owners. Then again, IANAL.[3] It's all a bit hazy - but certainly I didn't sign any sort of copyright release when I submitted my programs to FRED. I'd assume I implicitly granted permission for my program to distributed, for that month, on the disk magazine, but I think the copyright on the program would still be owned by me. If the magazine as a whole were distributed online, that might be viewed as a violation of my copyright on my program. Personally of course, I'd have no particular objection to that, but I can see why it might cause problems. [1] Or was it 75?[2] [2] 50? [3] I am not a numbe^H^H^H^H^H^H lawyer. >And one other thing - why not start converting nvg files to .dsk >format seeing as it is just as easy to use on a PC, and yet can also >be back-written onto a SAM format disk. Wouldn't that be nice? I was going to help convert the .TD0 files to .dsk files myself, but unfortunately my plans were scotched by the relentless march of technology. Of the 7 PCs on my corridor in college (4 people's rooms...) not a single stupid one of them would run teledisk properly. So there's nothing I can convert One other related thing... I know I've asked this before, but there's been a bit of a rollover of list subscribers since then so maybe somone new can help with this: Did anyone buy (and still has a copy of) the "ILLUSION PD" disk from Sam PD? I want to make it available online, but I no longer seem to have my original copy and I can't remember exactly what I put on it (I think Derek changed bits of it anyway - added a proper menu, and instructions and things. I never really sent him a finished disk, just the accumulated programs and bits of junk I'd never seen fit to use anywhere else) >Just a few quick thoughts - this list is almost as dead as the >computer it is supporting at the moment... ;-) Dead?! Whimper... Are you sure it's not just pining for the fjords? Andrew -- | Andrew Collier | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Talk sense to a | Part 2 NatSci | http://carou.sel.cam.ac.uk/ | fool and he ++-+ calls you foolish | Selwyn College Student Computer Support Team | -- Euripides
RE: Forlorn plea...
At 2:21 pm + 25/3/99, Aley Keprt wrote: [>Gavin Smith wrote:] >> Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks >> from my floppyless iMac... >> >You don't need formatted samdisks on PC. It is possible to format >floppy disk on the PC (of course), and then you can put the sad/dsk on it. >You can look to my web page for more information. Depends exactly what he's using them for... the raw .dsk files are all very fine and well for use in SimCoupe, but I suspect Gavin is trying to use the disk images in a real Sam, so they really need to go on a more solid medium. Gavin - if it helps, I've got a (really quite quickly hacked together) Mac program which will let you [retrieve files from | store files in] a .dsk image... that may or may not be useful, depending on exactly what you're trying to achieve! I *think* something very similar exists for other O/Ss already... but if someone wants to look at my source, I can put it up somewhere. There's just a couple of functions which will need to be changed in order to run it on other platforms... >I would be really happy if someone will convert at least teledisk files to >sad/dsk (The Lyra III etc.). The Lyra 3 is already there in .dsk format. That was done weeks ago. I know, because I did it myself. >(As you know, you cannot assign one suffix to several programs in Win32. >And since Win32 is the main op.system in the world, we should follow its >rules.) If everybody took that attitude, there's no reason to be on this mailing list... Andrew -- | Andrew Collier | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Talk sense to a | Part 2 NatSci | http://carou.sel.cam.ac.uk/ | fool and he ++-+ calls you foolish | Selwyn College Student Computer Support Team | -- Euripides
Re: Gloucester April
>In a message dated 22/03/99 18:20:25 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >writes: > >> Being that time of year again, is anything happening at Quedgely, and if >> so which date. >> >> Trying to sort out my schedule ;-) >> > >No April show this year due to my recent illness(s) and time pressures. Back >to normal in October. Should be the last Saturday of the month but we are >waiting for booking conformation. Anything planned for November, to co-incide with Sam's 10th Anniversary? I was half-expecting you to move the October show back a bit, but maybe you're planning two shows? Andrew -- | Andrew Collier | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Talk sense to a | Part 2 NatSci | http://carou.sel.cam.ac.uk/ | fool and he ++-+ calls you foolish | Selwyn College Student Computer Support Team | -- Euripides
Re: Forlorn plea...
Andrew Collier wrote: > [>Gavin Smith wrote:] > >> Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks > >> from my floppyless iMac... > >> > >You don't need formatted samdisks on PC. It is possible to format > >floppy disk on the PC (of course), and then you can put the sad/dsk on it. > >You can look to my web page for more information. > > Depends exactly what he's using them for... the raw .dsk files are all very > fine and well for use in SimCoupe, but I suspect Gavin is trying to use the > disk images in a real Sam, so they really need to go on a more solid medium. I think the original poster (Johnna??) wanted the files as .dsk files, for convenience, I was merely agreeing with them, whilst adding that it doesn't really matter to me anyway, as I have an iMac which doesn't have a floppy drive... > Gavin - if it helps, I've got a (really quite quickly hacked together) Mac > program which will let you [retrieve files from | store files in] a .dsk > image... that may or may not be useful, depending on exactly what you're > trying to achieve! See above, but thanks anyway, I'll keep it in mind if I ever get a floppy drive for the iMac (I was considering getting a SuperDisk - the one which can accept normal floppies as well as their own 120 Meg format. >>(As you know, you cannot assign one suffix to several programs in Win32. >>And since Win32 is the main op.system in the world, we should follow its >>rules.) > If everybody took that attitude, there's no reason to be on this mailing > list... Entirely agreed! *pats his Speccy, SAM, iMac, Electron and (dead) Linux box.* Gavin
RE: Forlorn plea...
Aley Keprt wrote: > (As you know, you cannot assign one suffix to several programs in Win32. There can only be one associated application to handle a double click, but there's no reason why we can't use a shell extension DLL that adds one or more items to the context menu when you right click on a .DSK file. We just need to be able to recognise which files are for us - we can even have different icons for both cases too. > And since Win32 is the main op.system in the world, we should follow its > rules.) Be careful with statements like that! ;-) Personally I prefer Linux to Win32, but unfortunately I work all day under M$ Windows and most of my games only run under it, so Win32 stuff is just more convenient! Si
The State of things
First of all a thanks to Martin Fitzpatrick and Stefan Drissen for kindly donating a body-part for my Sam, the keyboard is functioning fine again :) The Spectrum Emulator (2.something). Martijn bought a CD full with speccy-games at the last HCCSinclair-meeting in Houten, and thought it was a good idea to make the emulator work with the CD-drive so that one can load games directly from CD. Well, the first results looks good, Martijn was able to load Z80-files directly from CD, but we are not sure how it will work with CD's that are slower then 36speed(1). -- Robert van der Veeke, aka RJV Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently listening to : Soldier - OST (1) Last year, the HCC-day in Utrecht at the Sinclair stand where somebody muttered "How the hell do they do that, a 36speed CD on such a computer", most satisfying :)
Re: The State of things
> (1) Last year, the HCC-day in Utrecht at the Sinclair stand where somebody > muttered "How the hell do they do that, a 36speed CD on such a computer", > most satisfying :) I think the question should be more "why" - talk about a waste of a 36x drive. ;-) Paul -- "I want and need junk email to the same degree that I want and need to have my head nailed to the floor." -- Rich Tietjens in news.admin.net-abuse.email
Re: The State of things
HEHEHEHEHE - Original Message - From: Paul Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 26 March 1999 16:58 Subject: Re: The State of things > > (1) Last year, the HCC-day in Utrecht at the Sinclair stand where somebody > > muttered "How the hell do they do that, a 36speed CD on such a computer", > > most satisfying :) > > I think the question should be more "why" - talk about a waste of a 36x > drive. ;-) > > > > Paul > -- > "I want and need junk email to the same degree that I want and need to > have my head nailed to the floor." > -- Rich Tietjens in news.admin.net-abuse.email > >
