Well not quite, but I was reading the latest issue of ZXF there
(http://www.woodcock88.freeserve.co.uk/zxf/zxf.html) and there is news
of WorldOfSpectrum gaining permission from our old friend Bob Brenchley
to scan and distribute Formats! As the article points out, this is
something of a
Yer - I was asking about this - If needed I could contact bob as I have
several old format issues I could turn into pdf.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gavin Smith
Sent: 09 December 2004 01:01
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Format
I would just like to point out that the WoS Formats are not a proper pdf,
just scans placed in a word doc and then compiled into a pdf.
You cannot search copy, paste any thing from them. You just as might
as well have the scans. I see no point in make pfds that are just scans
what do you
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:44:44 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would just like to point out that the WoS Formats are not a proper pdf,
just scans placed in a word doc and then compiled into a pdf.
You cannot search copy, paste any thing from them. You just as might as
well have the scans.
WorldOfSpectrum gaining permission from our old friend Bob Brenchley
to scan and distribute Formats!
Personally I like scans more than pdf. Other magazines on wos
are scans also. But It's nice to have them available to the public in any
form.
something of a surprise that Bob has allowed
Here is weeks of work and the result version 1 of the users manual as a
full
pdf
Excellent.
Looking forward to the Masterdos one (maybe Masterbasic next ?)
Edwin
WorldOfSpectrum gaining permission from our old friend Bob Brenchley
to scan and distribute Formats!
Personally I like scans more than pdf. Other magazines on wos
are scans also. But It's nice to have them available to the public in any
form.
Personally I prefer PDF as what
I gave it some thoughts and here's what I've come up with.
The Idea is to make it possible to handle it on a real SAM using
CD-ROM and CF in the future.
--
SDI or Sam DiskImage is a new diskimage format to replace the
.DSK .MGT
On 9 Dec 2004, at 1:24 pm, Edwin Blink wrote:
I gave it some thoughts and here's what I've come up with.
The Idea is to make it possible to handle it on a real SAM using
CD-ROM and CF in the future.
--
SDI or Sam DiskImage is
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:24, Edwin Blink wrote:
[2] disk geometry:
bit 7 = sides: 0 for single sided 1 for double sided
bits 6-0 = tracks 1 to 127 tracks
bit 15= start sector: 0 start with 0, 1 start with 1
bits 14,13 = sector size: 00 128 byte sectors
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But surely this geometry information needs to be changable on a
per-track basis? Protected disks could have different geometries on each
track,
This format is not for protected disks. I think SDF and FDI cover that quite
well.
Besides that it is Also
and listen to:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/audio/hotline.mp3
also get the add for a real nostalgic feel at:
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/Crash/Issue80/Pages/Cra
sh820.jpg
(sorry for hotlinking WOS)
Enjoy,
Edwin
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 15:15, Edwin Blink wrote:
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But surely this geometry information needs to be changable on a
per-track basis? Protected disks could have different geometries on each
track,
This format is not for protected disks. I think SDF and
and listen to:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/audio/hotline.mp3
Wow! Great stuff!
In the MP3 tag: Alan Miles and Colin McDonald ... The short bit doesn't
sound like a scottish voice ... Colin Jordan perhaps?
Colin
=
Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam
Wow! Great stuff!
In the MP3 tag: Alan Miles and Colin McDonald ... The short bit doesn't
sound like a scottish voice ... Colin Jordan perhaps?
Ah Yes There where two Colin's working at SAMCo at that time. So you could
be
right. If any one else can confirm this I will change the tags.
BTW I
almost certainly just uncompress the image into a record anyway, so the
reduction in file size would seem inconsequential.
Thats gonna change :-)
Edwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well not quite, but I was reading the latest issue of ZXF there
(http://www.woodcock88.freeserve.co.uk/zxf/zxf.html) and there is news
of WorldOfSpectrum gaining permission from our old friend Bob Brenchley
to scan and distribute Formats! As the article points out,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The best thing would be, if it is possible to reach Mr. Bob, was to
see if it was possible to have the original files he used for his
typesetting and convert from them. I have no idea what tool he used,
but it should be possible to do a bulk conversion some way or
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