SAM's 20th Birthday

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Pile
Hi folks... There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Chris...

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

2009-08-02 Thread Colin Piggot
Chris wrote: There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Sometime in December, from when the first lot of SAMs were sent out. Exact date who knows :) Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs

Re: Hi - just checking

2009-08-02 Thread Colin Piggot
Ian wrote: Not heard anything on the group for quite a while so just thought I would send a 'test' to check it's not me that's got a problem and say hi to everyone. I know you've all taken your Sam's to the beach and so no activity on the group. I've been a bit quiet, but still been getting

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

2009-08-02 Thread Wayne Weedon
Chris Pile wrote: Hi folks... There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Hiya Chris If it was December then we certainly got ours fairly early? I do recall having to collect mine from the couriers Southampton

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

2009-08-02 Thread Ian Spencer
Yes it was December, I remember having to go to the customs office here in Germany to pay the customs duty and collect mine and was pleased to have it in time for Christmasbut no disks and after hours and hours of loading and reloading the demo tape I was tearing my hair out. But it was

Re: ATT : Roger Jowett

2009-08-02 Thread Roger Jowett
i cant say i blame you the sites i have seen so far are utter rubbish £1000 on a dual core64 bit machine and it cant even stream video of a higher quality than the spectrum pathetic waste of time and money! cpm? tried the 80 colum text editor but really dont like it it seems incredibly slw

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Pile
Hi Wayne! Yep - seems like it was early if it was around December time... Memory isn't too good these days! ;-)) I have a couple of projects I started 10+ years ago, but never finished. It would be nice to complete one of these in time for the SAM's birthday. I've just been made redundant

Re: ATT : Roger Jowett

2009-08-02 Thread Geoff Winkless
Roger Jowett wrote: tasword+2 with tascon+d from format was much more my cup of tea im amazed no one has bothered to convert it for sam is it incredibly difficult to convert a 128k porgram I'm confused. I'm 99.9% sure I have Tasword for the Sam, no? Geoff

RE: ATT : Roger Jowett

2009-08-02 Thread Steve Parry-Thomas
BTY : - SAM Tasword's manual is here http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/othersammanuals.html Steve(spt) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Geoff Winkless Sent: 02 August 2009 20:19 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:

Quest Pro-DOS Adventure Compilation - Discs 1 2

2009-08-02 Thread Steve Parry-Thomas
Has anyone got a copies of the above? Which can be archived on the Pro-Dos site See here :- http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/wanted.html Thanks in advance, Steve(spt)

Re: ATT : Roger Jowett

2009-08-02 Thread Roger Jowett
yes tasword 2 not tasword +2 the +2 was a sinclair128k witha tape recorder in ohter words this is the 128 version with a 64kb text file also thanks to tascon+d it reads +d discs the beauty of it was that unlike tasword 2 this had 32 column as well as the louzy speccy 64 colum 4 pixels per letter