World of Sam has been rebooted!

2018-07-04 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi everyone, www.worldofsam.org was first launched in 2005, on the then-current Drupal 4.4. Since then it's been kept alive across new hosting services, new web servers and new PHP language versions, but it's been getting harder and harder to hide its age. This version of the site has been

Identify this music?

2016-05-03 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi all, The Sam's FaceBook group recently drew my attention to this archive of over 600 Etracker tunes, which was quite fun and brought back the memories. Worth a visit, and it will always help to have more votes in the ranking system: http://zxart.ee/eng/music/top-100/sam-coupe/ Quite a lot

Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday

2014-02-24 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi, I guess the Sam's 25th birthday is coming up this year. I was wondering anybody regularly goes to any of the retro computer shows which happen from time to time, and whether there would be any interest from sam-users generally to meet up at one of them? If there's a good one towards the end

Re: WOS mega-spam

2013-12-12 Thread Andrew Collier
:( I'm using reCAPTCHA but they're all trivially defeated nowadays. This is why we can't have nice things... I've deleted the accounts responsible, but the recent comments block hasn't updated itself, so I've disabled it until I can sort it out. I need to port the whole thing to a less archaic

Re: WOS Down?

2013-11-27 Thread Andrew Collier
On 27 Nov 2013, at 12:36, Chris Pile chris.p...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: World of SAM seems down - is it just me? Yikes - I had a crashed mySQL sessions table. It should be back now. Unfortunately session cookies were invalidated so everyone will need to log in again. Andrew

Re: CLI based disk imager?

2013-10-07 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi, Oh my, that's some of the first c code I ever wrote. You're really probably better off without it! If what you want is to put a bunch of files onto a disk image, you can do that in pyz80 without having to change it. Just use -I on a command line, e.g.: pyz80.py -I file1 -I file2 -I file3

Re: ready for Python 3? Re: pyz80 with Notepad++ integration

2013-10-07 Thread Andrew Collier
On 7 Oct 2013, at 15:48, SCjoe sam.co...@centrum.cz wrote: Andrew, did you make the PYZ80 work with the new Python 3, with any script? (I started with the Python in the latest version from scratch...) I'm afraid not. Python 3.0 (or Py3k) is not backwards compatible with older programs, and

Re: pyz80 with Notepad++ integration

2013-10-06 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi, Hmm. It's a while since I wrote that code, but I think the effect of commenting out those lines may be that after an INCLUDE directive is used, it would continue assembling from the wrong line number in the parent file. Unfortunately I do appear to have made an implicit assumption about

Re:

2013-07-28 Thread Andrew Collier
On 27 Jul 2013, at 21:49, Andrew alp...@ntlworld.com wrote: Been out of sam stuff for a while but i want to get back. Anyone managed to use tommy gun to write for the sam? Or is there another windows development IDE i could use. Sorry, I haven't tried that one (I don't generally use

Re: The return of Jowspam on WOS?

2013-06-06 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi, Please calm down, most of those comments were on the web for less than three hours. In any case, a couple of other people *do* already have admin privileges over comments. It's not quite as simple as me handing out admin accounts left right and centre because the version of drupal running

Re: WoS: spam posts (two)

2013-05-01 Thread Andrew Collier
On 1 May 2013, at 21:27, Stefan Drissen stefan.dris...@gmail.com wrote: Just a heads up that there are two spam posts on WoS: http://www.worldofsam.org/node/250#comment-1662 The second one was spam, but this one looks perfectly legitimate... Andrew

Waterworks 2

2013-03-26 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi all, Not sure if this ever got discussed here, but... Did anybody ever manage to find the solution to level 3 of Waterworks II? Andrew

Re: New demo for Sam Coupe

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Collier
On 18 Mar 2013, at 17:39, ellvis ell...@zeroteam.sk wrote: Hi all, just a short note, there was another year of Forever party this weekend and for the first time we had a real Sam Coupe contribution, which even won the Other 8bit demo category. The name is Short Oldskool Demo and was

Re: Cross-development tools

2012-06-14 Thread Andrew Collier
On 14 Jun 2012, at 11:40, Simon Owen wrote: What I really could do with is a utility (preferably with a palette editor) for drawing graphics (tiles, sprites) that runs on Windows and spits out either DEFBs or binary files that I can INCBIN. Does such a thing exist? I mainly use Paint Shop

Re: Party like it's 1992, or 1984, or whatever.

2012-05-04 Thread Andrew Collier
On 4 May 2012, at 13:32, David Sanders wrote: The compiler actually didn't make mincemeat of this one :-) http://www.dsanders.co.uk/living.dsk Nice track! Reminds me of some of the demo coder music from Sam's early days. Again you manage to get a much punchier bass sound than I ever can,

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-25 Thread Andrew Collier
On 16 Apr 2012, at 16:28, Simon Owen wrote: On 16 Apr 2012, at 16:13, Andrew Collier wrote: It still amuses me that the biggest side-effect of my contributions to the Sam scene was to necessitate accuracy in the emulators :) Getting the textured scroller right in part 2 of MNEMOdemo1

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Collier
On 23 April 2012 18:10, Tommo H tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: Re: Samdos, is it definitely legal for redistribution? I thought we had explicit clearance but I notice that it's 'not yet approved' on World of Sam. I've fixed this, it must have been overlooked previously. Dr Andy Wright gave a

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-22 Thread Andrew Collier
so this is what people do on the internet these days, is it? Actually it does remind me a bit of the kind of stuff that ended up on early issues of Fred... You'd need to draw the stars manually, but that should be achievable. Andrew On 22 Apr 2012, at 19:45, James R Curry wrote: There

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-22 Thread Andrew Collier
on the Spectrum version, you could probably do it in Mode 1 or 2, just using the attributes? On 22 Apr 2012, at 13:32, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.uk wrote: so this is what people do on the internet these days, is it? Actually it does remind me a bit of the kind of stuff that ended up

Re: E-Tracker Compiler

2012-04-20 Thread Andrew Collier
On 20 April 2012 10:56, David Sanders dsuzukisand...@gmail.com wrote: Well this is embarrassing. Does anyone know who one goes about playing compiled E-Tracker tunes? I've completely forgotten. I thought it was call the base address first, and then the base+6 bytes, but I am demonstrably

Re: Musics

2012-04-20 Thread Andrew Collier
On 20 Apr 2012, at 20:07, Aleš Keprt wrote: I haven’t seen any protected EDSK files anywhere, Almost all the previously-commercial software on worldofsam.org, for a start. Andrew

Re: Musics

2012-04-20 Thread Andrew Collier
:13 PM, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: Really? I didn't know it. Believe me, I don't lie, I never saw any EDSK or at least I don't remember any. I don't know much about World of Sam. It is something like NVG FTP archive? Aley -Původní zpráva- From: Andrew Collier Sent: Saturday

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Collier
On 16 April 2012 11:29, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Speed is fine with the normal SDL build, even with demanding titles like MNEMOdemo1 part 2. Oooh! Nice. It still amuses me that the biggest side-effect of my

Re: SimCoupi

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Collier
On 16 April 2012 16:48, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: On 16 Apr 2012, at 16:17, Tommo H wrote: Looking good though! Versus running it on a normal computer, do we get genuine 50Hz output? That's something I'm aiming for too, as it'd make a huge difference to the experience.

Re: Essential Sam Goodies

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Collier
On 12 April 2012 11:19, Graeme Gregory x...@xora.org.uk wrote: Ok, to change the topic from current discussion lately ;-) I am a newbie to the Sam world, I bought a machine on ebay as a whim and to reach one of my childhood dreams of owning one. As a kid I could not afford one and by the time

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-04 Thread Andrew Collier
On 4 Apr 2012, at 23:39, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Was it just me who was sent a huge number of un-requested files? I've added the sender to my email blacklist. No, I got that as well (plus some personalised vituperation). I fear it might be some kind of attempt at reprisal for me

Re: Please help with screen$ loader

2012-03-16 Thread Andrew Collier
On 16 Mar 2012, at 20:09, Aleš Keprt wrote: I received a bunch of screen$ files in a tape file. I want to read and show then at 25 fps. This is possible in emulator, because it loads files immediately. I have got this code: 10 poke svar 33,1 20 load “”screen$ 30 pause 2 30 goto 20

Re: Jam Assembler

2012-02-12 Thread Andrew Collier
On 12 Feb 2012, at 23:01, Stefan Drissen wrote: Andrew's py80 (of which the only reference I can find is on a Czech site referring to a SAM Revival article) http://www.intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/pyz80.html Andrew

Re: WOS crash?

2012-02-02 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi Stefan, Eeek! Sorry about this. You must have uploaded these at the exact crossover point between me copying worldofsam to a new server installation, and the DNS change propagating out so the world would see it. Unfortunately there are a few lingering problems with the new installation, and

Re: New Game - Dave Invaders

2012-01-28 Thread Andrew Collier
On 27 Jan 2012, at 13:49, Andrew Gillen wrote: Hi folks I've finished writing my first game for the SAM. In fact it is pretty much the first game I've ever programmed in assembler (certainly on the SAM anyway) . I've tinkered with various high level languages over the years but have

Re: apols

2011-10-25 Thread Andrew Collier
Roger, Yes, sort of. To be more precise, in modes 1 and 2 a given cell can contain either two colours in the range 0-7, or two colours in the range 8-15. [And not one from 0-7 with another from 8-15]. However, unlike the Spectrum, the palette can be rearranged and each of these numbers can

Re: Resistor R55

2011-10-03 Thread Andrew Collier
On 3 Oct 2011, at 16:22, Thomas Harte wrote: It looks like a previous owner of my current SAM has had occasion to replace resistor R55, or at least, to solder an additional copy of R55 on top of the existing one. See http://postimage.org/image/1g4kbz490/ Immediate follow-on questions,

Re: Porting spectrum games...

2010-07-22 Thread Andrew Collier
On 22 July 2010 10:59, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: Both pyz80 and Jam are supersets of the Comet syntax, but I'm not sure what tools would be used to actually convert source back and forth (since I think it's stored tokenised on the Sam?). Back in the day, Simon Cooke wrote a

Re: Debugging - argh

2010-07-20 Thread Andrew Collier
On 20 July 2010 14:03, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: On 19 Jul 2010, at 22:47, Stefan Drissen wrote: Now hurry along Si and integrate the label.tab in SimIce… ;-) If it's just symbols you want tied in, I'm sure that can be arranged :) You may want to ask David to add page

Re: First public release of my 3d library

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Collier
On 27 May 2010 09:41, Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com wrote: is the ram contention slower for mode two thatn mode 1? Mode 1 is slowest (deliberately so; this mode was only intended for Spectrum compatibility, so the ASIC attempts to slow the Z80 down a bit until it is approximately the same

Re: First public release of my 3d library

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Collier
On 27 May 2010 10:46, Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com wrote: and when the screen is off its like rom or external ram? No, it's like time spent when the raster is in the border area; i.e. rounding to 4 t-states still occurs, but not the doubling to 8 t-states. Andrew

Re: Getting back into z80 programming (code included)

2009-10-24 Thread Andrew Collier
On 24 Oct 2009, at 20:08, Thomas Harte wrote: Anyway, if some of you z80 experts could have a quick look and tell me if I'm making any obvious style errors or otherwise missing obvious optimisations — even if only on a peephole level — I'd be infinitely grateful. One trick I almost always

Re: Getting back into z80 programming (code included)

2009-10-24 Thread Andrew Collier
On 24 Oct 2009, at 23:46, Thomas Harte wrote: By the way: ld d, (NUMVERTS) I don't think you can do this? No, you're right, you can't. It silently substituted ld a, (NUMVERTS), so that loop was running quite a bit longer than it needed to and the result not being visibly different

Re: World of Sam under spam attack

2009-10-04 Thread Andrew Collier
On 4 Oct 2009, at 18:53, Stefan Drissen wrote: Just a heads up that worldofsam.org is being spammed Thanks, I've cleaned it up again... Andrew -- http://www.intensity.org.uk/

Re: Rom Calls

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Collier
On 3 Sep 2009, at 09:25, Andrew Park wrote: Hello I want to use JPUT (0133) to display my graphics to compare speed with my own routine, on a 512K Sam where is the default screen page stored? I understand that as long as the graphics are between 16384 and 32767 or above 57344 in the

Re: wubtris

2009-08-14 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi, I suggest using nvg for now. I think ftp.worldofsam.org might be interesting at some point, but I'm about to go away for a couple of weeks and I would need to edit worldofsam.org's DNS entry to add a subdomain even if I didn't have to set up the actual ftp service (Adrian owns the

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Collier
On 3 Aug 2009, at 20:23, Adrian Brown wrote: I remember selling my spectrum to part fund my sam and living without a computer for 5 months running up to the release of the sam before i could afford one :) Those were horrible days, but all worth it when i got the sam - even though it didnt

Re: Hi - just checking

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Collier
On 31 Jul 2009, at 18:46, LCD wrote: maybe everyone is busy with their next SAM Mega hit game? ;-). Actually, it's funny you should mention that Andrew -- http://www.intensity.org.uk/

Re: Fully detailed instruction timing breakdown?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Collier
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: Andrew Collier wrote: I think the only question it doesn't answer is what happens to the 112 t-state difference between the number of t-states measured with the screen off (119696) and the number that would be expected

Re: Fully detailed instruction timing breakdown?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Collier
On 24 Feb 2009, at 00:27, Simon Owen wrote: Andrew Collier wrote: That would mean there should be 384*312=119808 t-states between frame interrupts, but according to that article, if you measure the number of instructions executed during a frame, then even with the screen off it turns out

Re: Fully detailed instruction timing breakdown?

2009-02-22 Thread Andrew Collier
border near the frame interrupt, and is unlikely to inflict any significant disruption. Another rather interesting prospect would be that you might be able to literally improve the graphics by plugging in a mayhem accelerator... Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http

Re: ANNOUNCE: SAMflate - gzip file decoder

2009-02-04 Thread Andrew Collier
On 4 Feb 2009, at 08:33, Simon Owen wrote: Andrew Collier wrote: - an implementation of the inflate decompression algorithm from RFC1951, as used by gzip and other compatible utilities. Very nice! Can it be fed straight gzip file data, or does it need the file header stripping from

ANNOUNCE: SAMflate - gzip file decoder

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Collier
Type 2 is the most efficient, and gzip seems to use it for all compression levels 1 to 9, so it's unlikely that anyone will see that problem...) Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: Who remembers about the floating point calculator?

2009-02-01 Thread Andrew Collier
On 1 Feb 2009, at 13:00, Frode Tennebø wrote: On Saturday 31. January 2009, Andrew Collier wrote: Hi, AS you may know, if you CALL a machine code routine with some parameters, they are pushed onto the ROM's floating point calculator stack. I'm trying to use this, but having some difficulty

Who remembers about the floating point calculator?

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Collier
call JGETINT ld a,h or a jr nz, invalid_argument_error ld a,l dec a cp 32 jr nc, invalid_argument_error ld (TO_page),a -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: Tiny sound programming query

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Collier
the ProTracker player to support doing that. Bear in mind it is decade-old code, though...) Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: New projects Byte-Back 2009

2008-09-23 Thread Andrew Collier
towards, if nothing else. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

wos outage

2008-08-28 Thread Andrew Collier
wasn't compatible. I've updated that file and, fingers crossed, everything is back to normal again. Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

2008-05-30 Thread Andrew Collier
for distribution. Hi, It looks like Comet is available from Edwin's own website here: http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/edwin/software/comet/comet.htm Edwin - i would it be okay by you, if I enable the download on WOS as well? Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier

Re: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

2008-05-30 Thread Andrew Collier
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 03:11:07PM +0200, Edwin Blink wrote: Edwin - i would it be okay by you, if I enable the download on WOS as well? Go ahead you have my permission. Thanks! The Comet page on WOS has been duly updated. Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier

Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew Collier
: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Short, short questions Hi, I'm sceptical about this claim. I've never heard anybody say that the vector formed is big-endian - it's just you don't know the byte offset

Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew Collier
to mind. Anyway - in this particular case I wanted to display the whole screen; and in the case of one or two scanlines, it probably takes longer to set up the line interrupt handling, than you save by having the screen turned off. Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier

Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew Collier
machine that has a variable screen start address. Also, one further question: am I right to think that the Sam has no means of producing interlaced video? On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:16:07PM +0100, Thomas Harte wrote

Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew Collier
to fetch should imply? The number of available t-states per second is the same in mode 2, 3 and 4. Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r2+ T4* cSEL dMS hEn/CBBL A4 S+*++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT

Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-20 Thread Andrew Collier
= 28 instead of ld bc, table 12 add hl, hl 16 add hl, bc 16 = 44 HTH, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r2+ T4* cSEL dMS hEn/CBBL A4 S+*++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab

Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-20 Thread Andrew Collier
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 03:22:54PM +0100, Andrew Collier wrote: correction: ld a,h 4 sla l 8 rla4 add table/256 8 ld h,a 4 = 28 You can also shave a little more time if you're willing to rearrange the table: Instead of word pairs (low

Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-20 Thread Andrew Collier
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Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-20 Thread Andrew Collier
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Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-20 Thread Andrew Collier
the table and use the same address for all entries and over run it by one it will work. My demo of a full scrolling football pitch used this system, which I believe you saw many years a go. Dave - Original Message - From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users

Re: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

2008-04-08 Thread Andrew Collier
to 64 pixels in either x or y offset would take roughly 300k (plus a 16k table pointing to the location of each routine) so that could be a viable approach. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Mailing list archives

2008-03-17 Thread Andrew Collier
the archives are a useful resource. Now that you are aware they exist, you might choose to exclude your past and future messages; that's entirely your own decision, but I think it would be a shame if you decided that it was necessary. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http

Re: Mailing list archives

2008-03-17 Thread Andrew Collier
- your mail seems to be down - can you forward me the details for the dns for worldofsam.org - its vanished i think due to my server upgrades -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Collier Sent: 17 March 2008 14:45 To: sam-users

Re: SAM Revival issue 20 out now...!

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Collier
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Re: SAM Coupé - software request!

2007-11-17 Thread Andrew Collier
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Re: pyz80 question

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew Collier
is to use a new pyz80 extension, whose intent should be much clearer: DEFS ALIGN 256 HTH, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: WOS spam

2007-08-27 Thread Andrew Collier
On 21 Aug 2007, at 08:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gavin Smith wrote: WOSam is currently getting spammed like crazy by a user called brianbaker. Andrew or Dan can you guys delete his account? Is there an easy way to delete all his comments? I

Re: Basic keyboard scanning with IN

2007-08-07 Thread Andrew Collier
are in different groups. not needed too urgently, but any help or links appreciated :) Cal... Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today. Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try it now. -- --- Andrew

Re: source of a music track

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Collier
On 29 Jul 2007, at 22:54, Simon Cooke wrote: It's from the soundtrack to John Carpenter's The Fog - composed by John Carpenter http://forums.finalgear.com/showthread.php?t=20392 That's the badger. Thanks. Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http

Re: source of a music track

2007-07-28 Thread Andrew Collier
On 28 Jul 2007, at 11:59, Dan Dooré wrote: Andrew Collier wrote: Hi all, The music on Fred 34, E-Tunes, 4th track (Andy Monk - Untitled) ... does anybody know if that's an original composition, or based off something else? Sounds like Faithless - Drifting Away (Paradiso Mix) to me which

source of a music track

2007-07-27 Thread Andrew Collier
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Re: Which assembler?

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Collier
favourite text editor (using familiar Comet syntax) then run pyz80 with them: it spits out a disk image which you can load into SimCoupe directly. You can see your code running within seconds of typing it. Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: Grrrr...

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Collier
a Spectrum. Has Sam Coupe written on it). Ah, the cultural celebration of ignorance. He must be a Cool Person. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r2+ T4* cSEL dMS hEn/CBBL A4 S+*++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh

Re: MC Interrupts

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Collier
On 17 May 2007, at 23:24, Calvin Allett wrote: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because of the Sam's memory timings, using JR is usually as fast (or slightly faster than) using JP. That may change with Mayhem accelerator! Thanks :) I`ve been reading the 1995 posts to the mailing

Re: That RGB demo...

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Collier
don't see it up at World of SAM. Anyone...? Thanks! Gavin Until someone gets round to uploading it at WOSam, there's a copy available at: http://intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/download.html HTH, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew Collier
stores the values for you to check later (I have a vague recollection it does, but I may well be wrong!), It does, and so does the ProTracker2 compiler. HTH, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r2+ T4

Re: Comet problem

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew Collier
, we see ORG address and we now do know this. But when we get to JP start, we don't know the value yet. It may be possible to parse this file by running more than two assembler passes, but I don't think people write like this very often... Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier

Re: Another year, another pyz80 revision

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Collier
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Geoff Winkless wrote: Simon Owen wrote: So, what are you waiting for? :-) Integration with SimCoupé to include clock-accurate debug stepping and real-time code reassembly? :) SimCoupe: The Eclipse Plug-in Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier

Re: Another year,another pyz80 revision

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Collier
made it a command-line option to enable this behaviour (because I had already started writing source files which didn't obey this rule). Add --case to the command line to get Comet's behaviour. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Another year, another pyz80 revision

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Collier
with FOR loops, IF ... ELSE constructs, local symbols and more. So if you're doing any assembly language development on the Sam, why not check it out? http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyz80 Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

World Of Sam web site is back up

2006-11-01 Thread Andrew Collier
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Re: Kaleidoscope

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Collier
is limiting your graphics to 16 unique colours - and Kaleidoscope doesn't help with that. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r2+ T4* cSEL dMS hEn/CBBL A4 S+*++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4

Re: Kaleidoscope

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Collier
that make it into production? Did the designer - or the people at SamCo, who marketed it and put a write-up in the NewsDisk at the time - ever actually believe that anyone would be able to make use of it? Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk

Re: long and boring one

2006-02-09 Thread Andrew Collier
, into the larger .M format which E- Tracker can load. That way you can see how some of the original music achieved their effects. Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: Sophistry

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Collier
, but I think I can have a prototype ready for content by Christmas. Andrew On 13 Dec 2005, at 01:23, david wrote: You're probably right. It was a waste of my time anyway. Project abandoned. --- Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Dec 2005, at 19:31, david wrote: (Blah

Re: Sophistry

2005-12-12 Thread Andrew Collier
just looking to image some disks. Thanks for the offer; I'm not desperate to get my hands on it immediately, but I'm very glad to hear it's being worked on! Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: Sophistry

2005-12-12 Thread Andrew Collier
... Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: Sophistry

2005-12-10 Thread Andrew Collier
going on in tracks 80 and 81? If so, what can any of us do about it? Is there a way to create SimCoupe-compatible images of protected disks yet? There was a lot of talk about this about a year ago... Simon? Anyone? Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http

Re: Sophistry

2005-12-10 Thread Andrew Collier
start one instead, and it hasn't got going yet. I'm about this close --- --- to give up waiting, and doing one myself (want a job done properly, etc.) Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: More than a coincidence...?

2005-09-23 Thread Andrew Collier
and named it after him (it's a great name!), and need to apologise/congratulate him. Thanks! So you deducations are correct :) Oh yes, so he did! Oh well, I blame a poor memory. Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

More than a coincidence...?

2005-09-23 Thread Andrew Collier
famous in other fields? Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Fzzzzt.

2005-09-12 Thread Andrew Collier
myself? Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- Have you lost your Marbles? http://www.marillion.com/

Re: SAM C

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew Collier
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, david wrote: 2 - a PC (WIndows) based Z80 compiler that will output to Z80 code How about this one: http://www.intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/pyz80.html (purpose built!) Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk

Re: Classic Gaming Expo - UK show - in 9 days time!

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Collier
. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- --

Re: Fuxoft music

2005-04-07 Thread Andrew Collier
probably pay twice as much and get Logic Pro, but actually I'm very impressed with the features you get at this price. http://www.apple.com/logicexpress/ Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk

Re: Fuxoft music

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Collier
shamelessly pilfered. Cheers, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- Have you lost your Marbles? http://www.marillion.com/

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