Re: SIMCoupe question
...it produces anything but a random image. The same thing on the sam produces random dots all voer the place, but in SIMCoupe it gives ordered diagnal strips down the page. On my real Sam it produces diagonal strips given a while. (Not tried in on SimCoupe, so don't know if I'm thinking of the same effect - vague diagonal bands of each colour. Oh. Well bugger to that then. I remembered the SAM doign something very differnt. Shows how much I know! Question withdrawn. (sheepsihly...) eoe Tim @/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/ Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://www.yi.com/home/TeareJohnna It won't get better but it might never get worse...
a joke
Bill Gates dies and goes to Hell. Satan greets him: Welcome Mr. Gates, we've been waiting for you. This will be your home for all eternity. You've been selfish, greedy and a big liar all your life. Now, since you've got me in a good mood, I'll be generous and give you a choice of three places in which you'll be locked up forever. Satan takes Bill to a huge lake of fire in which millions of poor souls are tormented and tortured. He then takes him to a massive coliseum where thousands of people are chased about and devoured by starving lions. Finally, he takes Bill to a tiny room in which there is a beautiful young blonde with an alluring look on her face, sitting at a table on which there is a bottle of the finest wine. To Bill's delight, he sees a PC in the corner. Without hesitation, Bill says I'll take this option. Fine, says Satan, allowing Bill to enter the room. Satan locks the room after Bill. As he turns around, he bumps into Lucifer. That was Bill Gates! cried Lucifer. Why did you give him the best place of all! That's what everyone thinks snickered Satan. The bottle has a hole in it and the girl hasn't! What about the PC? It's got Windows 95! laughed Satan. And it's missing three keys, Which three? Control, Alt and Delete. Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://www.yi.com/home/TeareJohnna It won't get better but it might never get worse...
shameless pluggin
Erm... update your links. JohnnaPig OnLine has moved to: http://johnnapig.webjump.com Anybody who might have had a link please change it, the address is effective immediately. And anybody who didn't have a link - shame on you. On anothe note, I'm currently .dsking up the issues of SAM2Sam that I have - anybody know why SCADs games won't run in SIM Coupe? Kind of screws up the games disks...but I'll put them up on .nvg in case the bugs are fixed at a later date. Oh, and finally, I can never manage to dump stuff in the .nvg incoming directory - somebody talk me through connecting please. Oh, and fourthy, and definetly finally, can SAM2Sam have its own directory in the magazines section please. Thanks. Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
Re: Red Dwarf
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Aley Keprt wrote: not funny. That's my opinion. But I really don't understand, what has it to do with Sam. (Anyone would make a new stupid action game for Sam, as Nothing, but then neither does a lot of stuff on this list. :-) Yup - sometimes we should call it former-sam-users ;-) Paul Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
Forlorn plea...
Hello - I've just found out that there were 21 issues made of SAM2Sam. Which is a bit of a surprise. If anybody has issues 15 to 21 in .dsk format (or, in fact, any SAM Pd that they fancy posting to me) then I'd love to get hold of them. Email them over to me and I'll be forever in your debt. Any news on previous issues of FRED? Are they PD yet? If so, we should try and get them up on nvg. 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. Just a few quick thoughts - this list is almost as dead as the computer it is supporting at the moment... ;-) Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
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? Gave the rights to another guy - forget his name now - on the deal that me and Rob would see each new issue before it was published. Kind of a quality control thing. Obivously, he never bothered to keep his part of the deal. How do you mean, PD yet?? Copyright will not expire, as such, until 72[1] years after the copyright-holder's death. Sorry pedant ;-) - I meant has Colin declared any issues PD, and if not, why not? There can't be much sales volume in issues 1-50 can there? | 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 Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
RE: Real Sam Users List 30th March 1999
Oooh... Took me a while to realise I wasn't Johnna Teare nor Lee Willis.. :) Eh? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Ritman What ever happened to these guys? Both sort of disspeared around about the time Bob went quiet. Not that I want to open up THAT can of worms again... Jut. Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
RE: Real Sam Users List 30th March 1999
Johnna wrote: Took me a while to realise I wasn't Johnna Teare nor Lee Willis.. :) Eh? The poster of the list, mixed with my mailer which decided to word-wrap it all around the place, made it look like my name belonged to one address and my address belong to another name... Ah! Formatted fine for me in Pegasus Mail - easily the best client Justin. Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
Win32 SimCoupe
Where can I get hold of the alpha SimCoupe for Win32? Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
Re: New Argument about COPYING (WAS CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON
I never thought I'd do this, but *PLONK*. Andrew Is he having a poo? -- | 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 Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
Re: New Argument about COPYING (WAS CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON
Some already does ;) Especially if it happens to be the Atom ;) David Ledbury - you are a walking advertising hoarding ;-) Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks C
. @ 1 point i was about to DUMP all my sam stuff onto NVG's ftp for all to have , this would have included the ablility to recreate a POP/LEMS disk with out any probs at all (I Still have MAsters) , and E-Copy 3. But was asked not to so what was still being sold on Sam could continue and bring in what little money was still coming in. Chris Do it. Everybody who has ever wanted to buy lemmings or pop has got it now surely - I wouldn't even know where to point someone t buy a copy. The SAM world can only survive if we start to pool our resources and help to advance SIM Coupe ie. getting it running in WIn32 properly. (Still no nearer tofinding that Win32 version - anybody going to let me in on th esecret?) Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
Putting the whole boring argumet simply
Forget the law - we're all old enough to realise taht there is no money to be made in teh SAM world these days anyway so if people copy software there is sod all you can do about it, but there is sod all you are losing either. The fact is this...SIM Coupe is the only way many people will maintain an interest in teh SAM World. My power supply is on its way out, and my disk drive is knackered. When they finally die, I will not be replacing them. instead, I'll keep hold of my sam stuff in a nice little file on my PC. If we kick up a fuss about distriubting software in .dsk format, SIM Coupe will become utterly useless and what is left of the SAM community will die out. It's a choice as simple as that - support SIM Coupe, or kill off the last connection many people will have to SAM, and effectively kill off this little community of which we are all so fond. Thoughts? Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
Re: Putting the whole boring argumet simply
If the only Sams being used are virtual then probably less software will be produced. Why write software for a virtual Sam as hardly anyone will use it or need to use it as anything the VR Sam can do the machine they are running it on can do and faster. This would be a problem if there was any great supply of work-in-progress software out there. But there isn't. Chris' Defender came as a nice surprise to everybody, but can anybody realisiticly remember the last game that was released before that? Stratosphere is about as far back as I can think, and that was at the start of last year! And to counter that argument, if people could develop on SIM Coupe and then write the4 software back to floppy for distrubiton on standard SAM's then I think we would see more released on the SAM. What would you rather do - roam through your atic blowing the dust off your SAM and setting it up (plugging it into your telly, digging out your old disks box, crossing your fingers and hoping everything still works), or double click on the SIM Coupe icon on your desktop and crack on? Without a real Sam the Sam community will die or stay at maybe 100 users as no new users will be recruited to a virtual Sam community, because to use a virtual Sam you need a fast machine and if you have one most people will use software produced by the big software companies as most will not have heard of Sam. Firstly, dispell the myth that there are new users comig to the SAM. there are not. THe only people still here are those who mades friends in teh community and want to keep in touch. People who use the machine as a serious computer can be counted on one hand. As to saying no new users will be recruited to a virtual SAM comnuity, that is ludicrous. If the SIm Coupe source is out there, then those who heard of the SAM Coupe but never got around to buying one can now try the machie for free. Okay, maybe they'll download the software, try it once ad then bin it, but at least we are getting ourselves seen by others. Nobody is going to spend stlg200 ona new SAM just to test the water when they can run it perfectly well, and buy legitiimate games from legitimate publishers, on a PC. If the software companies such as Persona and Revelation think on ahead, they could supply the .dsk files themselves, charging for them as they would software in SAM format, and us PC owners could go about using them quite happily. Accept that SIM Coupe is here, and attempt to do something abotu it other than complain. Get one step ahead of the game by supplying your own .dsk files for sale - yes they;re easily copiable, but so has nearly all SAM software since the dawn of time (XCopy Pro on the Amiga worked fine for me). Oh, and you don't need an especially fast maching to run SIM Coupe. I've got a 486/66 that runs it rather nicely in DOS. Power supplies are easy things to replace a standard PC supply can be modified very easily as long as you use the scart for sound and picture. I use one on my Sam. Disk drives can be replaced not as easily but it can be done. Most of the problems with the slimline drives is the drive belt which can be replaced. But why should I have to pay inflated prices for disk drives - I can get one for a tenner for my PC. And the SAM power supplies are so damn unreliable (I've had about sven of them) I'm loathe to invest more dead money into them when I can run my SAM, write games, stay in touch all from my PC. I am not saying that the SimCoupe should be stopped but protection of new software must be the priority. So if you want to run software on SimCoupe then do it legally. This means that there must be protection built into SimCoupe so anyone releasing software can release a version that will work on simcoupe if the purchaser requests it. So maybe the software would need to be licensed to that person, as mentioned by Si Owen. It may come as a shock to many SAM users, but there is a whole new worl dof technology out there that we must eitehr embrace, by supporting SIM Coupe in every way we possibly can, or watch the SAM community upgrade to PC and forget all about our lovealbe little bluer footed soldier. My friends, it is time to move on. Richard. Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
Leaving on a jet plane
And so three years on sam-users comes to an end. My time at uni is up, I don't have internet access at home, and I'm going back into the sam wilderness. It's been fun, mostly, and we've had some interesting debates. Things have gone a bit shit recently with all that dull microsoft / pc stuff - you can get that kind of chat anywhere on teh net - we're a sam-users list and we should stay that way - but when we do get on about sam, we come up with some intersdting stuff that's worth hanging around for. i don't imagine they will, but if anybody has got an urgent need to contact me, my account at uni will be opne unti lthe end of may, and then I'll have a hotmail one ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) which I'll be checking once every blue moon. Right, that's it! I'm hanign garound till the end of teh afternoon, and then unsubbing. Thank you to one and all, and keep the faith with SAM in some form, especially SIM Coupe, because if it wasn't worth it we wouldn't still be here after ten baron years. Love long and perspire Peace, Love, Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare JPOL: http://johnnapig.webjump.com It won't get better but it might never get worse...
