Re: Nyan Cat

2015-12-08 Thread Dan Dooré
:-> http://www.dandoore.com/coupe/downloads/nyancat.zip Dan. On 10/11/2012 19:54, Aleš Keprt wrote: I didn't finish it last winter. Actually, I finished the Nyancat itself, I also finished the compression system (I use all RAM for frame buffers, but keep it in one small 32 KB file on disk)

Re: Please somebody clean Sam web ring

2010-07-17 Thread Dan Dooré
On 13/06/2010 16:54, Aley Keprt wrote: Please can somebody clean Sam web ring of retro trader website? I can see they added themselves to our web ring, but - they didn't aded required navigation bar to previous and next sites in the ring - they don't have anything to do here (my opinion)

Re: unsubscribe

2009-08-10 Thread Dan Dooré
please can some one unsubscribe me. To subscribe to the sam-users miling list, send the following command in email to *sam-users-requ...@nvg.ntnu.no*: subscribe If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, send the following command in email to

Re: unsubscribe

2009-08-10 Thread Dan Dooré
please can some one unsubscribe me. To subscribe to the sam-users miling list, send the following command in email to *sam-users-requ...@nvg.ntnu.no*: subscribe If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, send the following command in email to

Re: ATT : Roger Jowett

2009-08-04 Thread Dan Dooré
Geoff Winkless wrote: 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?

Re: In pursuit of Dead Wild Cat

2008-05-17 Thread Dan Dooré
Thomas Harte wrote: It's originally on Fred 50, but not really in the sense that you have to expand it to another floppy disk and then boot it off that. But, here, I'll save you the effort of all that: http://members.allegro.cc/ThomasHarte/temp/DWC.DSK This appears to be a blank disc image

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Thomas Harte wrote: I've recently acquired a Sam from eBay (correction to my earlier comments: not from Colin — that was a misunderstanding on my part of the actual seller's advert) and it was advertised as coming with a Kaleidoscope. My problem is that having identified which box must be the

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Colin Piggot wrote: Dan Doore wrote: I think there should be more stuff on it - have a look at the scans in here: http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/download/HardwareDevKit.zip The full hardware dev kit has more parts in to give the user a couple of parallel ports that can be controlled. The

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Colin Piggot wrote: Thomas Harte wrote: 1) should the Kaleidoscope be a box that contains four ICs (t74ls20b1, gd74ls374, gd74ls14, t74ls133b1), some resistors and capacitors and about half a board of empty space with gaps for other chips and stuff? Yes, that's the Kaleidoscope. It's a half

Re: What is this?

2008-03-17 Thread Dan Dooré
Hi all, can somebody please tell me what the hell THIS is all about? http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.systems.sam-coupe I am absolutely furious that any e-mails I have sent to the SAM Group have been published on the net, I did not give permission for this! If the person who has

Re: SAM Coupé - software request!

2007-11-24 Thread Dan Dooré
Ron Stirling wrote: I'm still trying to get a hold of my Review diskzines. I have only managed to obtain issue #2 so far, and I put out five issues, so here's hoping! When you do please feel free to upload them to WoSam: http://www.worldofsam.org/node/589 Also, pimp your personal entry:

Re: SAM Coupé - software request!

2007-11-24 Thread Dan Dooré
Ron Stirling wrote: thanks for that. I should mention that I have tried - twice - to join the World of SAM website, with two different e-mail addresses, but to no avail! Can you help out? Not overly as it's Andrew's site - what problems did it chuck up and maybe Mr Collier can take a

Congratulations Mr MacDonald!

2007-10-30 Thread Dan Dooré
http://www.realtimeworlds.com/index.php?id=4pid=4nid=54 Dan.

Re: iChat/AIM users

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Dooré
Gavin Smith wrote: Perhaps you guys are all on Bebo or FaceBook or whatever today's fashionable social site is, but if any of you are on iChat or AIM and fancy a SAM chat now and then, feel free to add me - my address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: dandoore Also there's

Re: Rotating gfx

2007-09-02 Thread Dan Dooré
Can anybody recommend a good way of rotating some Mode 4 graphics at different angles other than 90? There is a rotator program in the 'Bits 'n' Bobs' on Fred 26 that might do. Dan.

Re: WOS spam

2007-08-20 Thread Dan Dooré
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 don't have rights for that but I emailed Andrew yesterday about it. Dan.

Re: source of a music track

2007-07-28 Thread Dan Dooré
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 is used a lot on the telly.

Re: New Stuff

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Dooré
It's a pretty good idea but I'm not sure there's *that* much going on. It would seem to make sense if people just talked a little more about their projects on the list and that way people could contribute if required. Agreed, the list is the place for it. If Web-Heads want a but more

Re: New Stuff

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Dooré
Cool. My only problem with WoSAM is the lack of visibility of certain sections. I realise there's the RSS feed but I'm thinking of people who stumble across the site for the first time. How would they find the above page if it hasn't been updated for a while? I think the front page could be

Re: Acadia Disk Mag

2007-05-15 Thread Dan Dooré
Calvin Allett wrote: http://www.4shared.com/file/16014910/5a4803f8/ARCADIA_6.html Verified and pushed to incoming/ on NVG Can`t find issue 4 at the mo, but I`m sure I had it, so will see if there`s any disks I forgot to rip... also noticed that I couldn`t find any issue`s of SCPDU on nvg,

Re: That RGB demo...

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Dooré
Gavin Smith wrote: ...the one from Fred, many years ago (naturally). The one that didn't work first time and needed a patch. Was it just me or did the patch not work either? My memory might be completely wrong, but I don't think I ever did see the demo and I don't see it up at World of SAM.

Re: That RGB demo...

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Dooré
Stefan Drissen wrote: Oh, and... http://www.worldofsam.org/node/573#comment-490 Please try again... ;-) Eh? It's the right one - I just pulled RGBDemo.zip down to check.. Dan.

Re: That RGB demo...

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Dooré
Gavin Smith wrote: ...the one from Fred, many years ago (naturally). The one that didn't work first time and needed a patch. Was it just me or did the patch not work either? My memory might be completely wrong, but I don't think I ever did see the demo and I don't see it up at World of SAM.

From WoS: Sam Coupe for sale

2007-04-11 Thread Dan Dooré
This was posted onto World Of Sam (http://www.worldofsam.org) but it really belongs on the list (http://www.worldofsam.org/node/184) : I have a original Sam Coupe for sale. It was my first computer, and i love it for many year... i don't want to throw it away, because i know there are many out

Worldofsam.org is Down

2006-10-28 Thread Dan Dooré
Worldofsam.org and www.intensity.org.uk has been down for a few days and I've just had a bounce from Andrew's mail address so I thought I'd post here as well in case anyone has any other contact details for him. Dan.

Re: MULTIROM

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Dooré
DAVID LED BURY wrote: From what I recall it would allow 256 banks of 32K ROM space.. by allowing a register to control each bank used... and Simon had been working on getting TurboMon running from this as well I believe. Have a look at the draft specs: http://www.worldofsam.org/node/431 Dan.

SCPDSA

2006-06-14 Thread Dan Dooré
All, What do you know about the SCPDSA (http://www.worldofsam.org/node/507) does anyone have any of the demo disks and a bit of a potted history? Dan.

WorldOfSam.org - 500 nodes and counting

2006-06-11 Thread Dan Dooré
http://www.worldofsam.org has just hit 500 nodes. That's 500 items, products and people connected with the Sam Coupé. Recent highlights: * SimCoupé running on a Sony PSP: http://www.worldofsam.org/node/23 * The Games of NoName: http://www.worldofsam.org/node/470 * Sam Coupé Adventure Club:

Steve Pick's SamDisk

2006-05-24 Thread Dan Dooré
Has anyone got copies of SamDisk magazine lurking in their disc boxes? There are no copies on NVG, none from GoodSamC or anything. Dan.

Re: ROM Versions

2006-05-16 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: I just have one side note/question: Why is Mr. Wright always mentioned as Dr.? Is it his first name, or an academic title? If it's a title, I don't understand why it is so much emphasized, because titles aren't widely used in the UK in public informal places (like this, as

Re: ROM Versions

2006-05-15 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: Though I don't have answers to those, I aquired a selection of extra ROM versions from Simon N Goodwin a while back. I thought I also uploaded them to NVG but I can't see them anywhere. There are nestling under /pub/sam-coupe/emulation/roms (dunno who put them there :-p)

Re: ROM Versions

2006-05-15 Thread Dan Dooré
Edwin Blink wrote: The orgiginal had plc in lower case another one had PLC in uppercase Then there was the one that had disk with 'c' Cheers, I have added that into the node http://www.worldofsam.org/node/430 I also made three different 'BOOTROM's that booted directly from floppydrive By

Are you in the who's who?

2006-05-04 Thread Dan Dooré
There are about 60 people listed on the hallowed pages of http://www.worldofsam.org/ with more being added all the time. Unfortunately a lot of say: 'Coder.' which although perfectly true it doesn't exactly set the world on fire. Check it out your entry at http://www.worldofsam.org/People

Re: FTP

2006-05-02 Thread Dan Dooré
Ok, so is it just me then ? Possibly :-D Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Danftp ftp.nvg.ntnu.no Connected to romeo-klive.nvg.ntnu.no. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.9 Server (ProFTPD) [romeo-klive.nvg.ntnu.no] User

Golden ASIC's

2006-05-01 Thread Dan Dooré
Who received these fabled items the only one I know of getting one was Stefan. Feel free to update the World of Sam node (http://www.worldofsam.org/node/336) or post here. Dan.

Re: (no subject)

2006-04-04 Thread Dan Dooré
Darren Sparrow wrote: How do I unsubscribe from this list? http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/maillist.htm

Re: Wanna some FREE games?

2006-03-22 Thread Dan Dooré
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some photos can be found on http://hvge.sk/foto/forever7/thumb.html Woo Hoo! http://hvge.sk/foto/forever7/original/IMG_5270.html I wrote that! Fame at last in big pixels - well 9 years late at least :-) Dan.

Re: erm hello

2006-01-29 Thread Dan Dooré
Nev Young wrote: Have I missed much? Well, there's http://www.worldofsam.org/ and the attached Google Earth link :- Dan. Gloucester Hall - SAM Coupe show.kmz Description: application/vnd.google-earth.kmz

Re: Google Earth Placemark: Gloucester Hall - SAM Coupe show.kmz

2006-01-11 Thread Dan Dooré
Stefan Drissen wrote: Note: dont miss 'The Basketmaster' (?) to the north-east of the hall. The Weavers Arms! Bristol Road, GL2 6PE On B4008 Tel. Gloucester (01452) 720124 BANKS'S Mild (E) BANKS'S Bitter (E) MARSTON'S Pedigree (H) Large two bar pub built in 1986 using bricks and timber

Re: Sophistry

2005-12-12 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: One problem is that it creates images in EDSK format, which the current SimCoupe releases can't read. Both Woo! and D'oh! in the same mail :) Is this EDSK as in http://andercheran.aiind.upv.es/%7Eamstrad/docs/extdsk.html or a new SDF-ish format? Dan.

Re: Missing Disks?

2005-11-08 Thread Dan Dooré
Calvin Allett wrote: What are the most important disks which you remember which are missing? I think most stuff is now up on NVG apart from these: These are the files that could not be unpacked as part of the achive re-org project. There are stored here as DSK files with the offending code

Re: What be classed as the standard nowadays?

2005-11-08 Thread Dan Dooré
Ian Spencer wrote: Never got anywhere with Bdos, but interested... Yes, it is possible to get B-Dos to work with Masterbasic I use it all the time. Ian D'oh - should have scrolled up to see the rest of the new messages :( Dan.

Re: Hi Dudes *_+ Full message

2005-11-06 Thread Dan Dooré
Calvin Allett wrote: The version I have is early but will upload it hopefully in next few days... also, who did the hack to allow Mouse control? It was the copy on the disc that came with the Sam Mouse so I think it was someone within or at least for SamCo at the time - Colin MacD may know

Re: Anyway to get WAV output from SAA32?

2005-06-21 Thread Dan Dooré
actually running an audio cable between the SAM and the PC. Ooh, I fried my SAA in 1996 trying to do just that - then again I might have plugged the Sam Line out into the PC's Line Out :-( Is it possible to somehow pipe the audio to a WAV or RAW file perhaps? I've got an Audigy in my

Re: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

2005-02-22 Thread Dan Dooré
johnna wrote: Was wondering about the brochure though - I used to have one of these and remember they made the machine look great. Any chance we could get a pdf of this done - anybody have one anymore? I have a brochure - A5, colour and about 8 pages long, text by Nick Roberts - is this the

Re: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

2005-02-22 Thread Dan Dooré
Edwin Blink wrote: Could you scan your brochure Dan ? No need - it's the one that Si has scanned. Dan.

Re: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

2005-02-22 Thread Dan Dooré
Edwin Blink wrote: Thanks for telling. Does yours also have a address sticker at the rear page 8 ? Dunno *looks* No sticker, but at the bottom is the address of Sam Computers Ltd obliterated with black magic marker. Dan.

Re: Where can I get latest SimCoupe?

2005-02-11 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: I can't reproduce either of these here - can anyone else? Nope - I too often run with sync turned off and it always remembers (which often gives me a shock if I load up something with music in it). Incidentally, when DirectDraw is enabled the screen is all anti-aliased -

Re: Text conversion

2005-02-08 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: I have plenty of disk images, and simply don't have time to do anything with them. In the past, many times somebody said he will look at it, unpack and sort the software, and upload it to NVG, but actually nobody ever did anything (except getting the stuff from me)... :-(

Re: Text conversion

2005-02-07 Thread Dan Dooré
Andy Chandler wrote: KEYIN - That was the little devil I was thinking of ;-) KEYIN was a corker of a command, when I think back to the amount of times I crashed by blue footed friend with that one I go all misty-eyed and the missus has to poke me with a stick to bring me back. I have

Re: Sam`s Spreadsheet Mauanls as pdf.

2005-02-04 Thread Dan Dooré
Has anyone got a copy of the Campion spreadsheet? They actually forwarded this to Persona for release -but the disks where scrambled I've not seen it in the NVG DSKification/GoodSAMC trawl but I would guess that Steve has a copy given that he's been taking screenshots from it :-P Dan.

Re: NVG/samcoupe.org Accessability Project

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Dooré
Andrew Collier wrote: ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/disks/demos/MNEMOtech/ MnemotechMnemotextDemo.zip I don't particularly object to it being up there, but I'd be interested to know where it came from? It was never exactly released... It was in GoodSAMC IIRC which means that it

Re: unsubscribe

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Dooré
Scott Macdonald wrote: unsubscribe http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/maillist.htm Dan.

Re: Where can I get latest SimCoupe?

2005-01-27 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: Dan Dooré wrote: I have just noticed something similar with some options like the 'auto boot on startup screen' which if you set them, exit and then go back in they stay but if you exit and then launch a .DSK file that fires up the EXE the option is lost. I can't

Re: Where can I get latest SimCoupe?

2005-01-26 Thread Dan Dooré
Ian Spencer wrote: Might just be me but with the new version 2005/01/25 if I select for ex. atomhd.hdf as an atom drive in drive 2 Simcoupe forgets my selection every time I exit the program or return to the options menu ? I have just noticed something similar with some options like the

Re: Where can I get latest SimCoupe?

2005-01-23 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: Where can I get latest SimCoupe, or some other utility that could create empty SAD image? SimCoupe 0.9 Beta 10 - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/simon.owen/sam/simcoupe/ Although Si said he might be putting up a new beta witht the format fix for ProDos this weekend. A cynic

Re: Christmas Present

2005-01-21 Thread Dan Dooré
Dan Dooré wrote: Simon Cooke wrote: OK; it's currently in Incoming (probably belongs in the demos section under Entropy) called Gameboytetris.zip What is it? Oh, just part of Statues of Ice. \o/ Roger Hartley converted the music from an Amiga MOD tune that goes along with this. (I

Geoff Winkless Scrolly Bars and Bouncy Balls Bemo

2005-01-20 Thread Dan Dooré
I was browsing Andrew's site and saw this demo with a link to NVG that I didn't remember seeing when I did the DSKification - http://www.intensity.org.uk/image.php?i=samcoupe/db/gwdemo.GIFn=1max=1 This is linked as ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/demos/misc/balls.zip which although now

NVG/samcoupe.org Accessability Project

2005-01-20 Thread Dan Dooré
Gents, I have now completed trolling through GoodSAMC, my collection and various others from those who have helped me in this endeavour. I have not included any of the WAREZ elements, well - at least the ones I know are hacks/cracks/copies for the reasons mentioned in previous posts i.e.

Re: Spectrum on Sam games at NVG

2005-01-20 Thread Dan Dooré
Gavin Smith wrote: This is probably a good time to ask people's opinions on including Speccy games that have been made to run on a SAM, on samcoupe.org - my opinion is that they are still Speccy games and they should initially be left out. What do others think? I think that any game/demos

Re: Uploaded stuff at NVG

2005-01-20 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: I uploaded this stuff to NVG. Please let somebody (Frode?) move it from incoming to the right places. /pub/sam-coupe/tapes/games/ and /pub/sam-coupe/tapes/demos/ would be favorite I think :-) Dan.

Re: Spectrum on Sam games at NVG

2005-01-20 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: But I think that 128k, AY and tape-disk converted games should stay. They have always been a part of the SAM scene, so it does feel like they belong in the archive. I'd still be tempted to keep them in a different category from native SAM software, to make sure people are

Re: Suspisious files at NVG

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: I found some suspicious files at NVG. The directory missing contains some ZIP files marked as cannot unpack. I unpack these files without problems. So why are they marked cannot unpack? I assume that the man who did the so-called NVG dskification process used some old

Re: Suspisious files at NVG

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Dooré
Dan Dooré wrote: Aley Keprt wrote: I found some suspicious files at NVG. The directory missing contains some ZIP files marked as cannot unpack. I unpack these files without problems. So why are they marked cannot unpack? I assume that the man who did the so-called NVG dskification process

SimCoupe formatting query

2005-01-18 Thread Dan Dooré
With MasterDOS loaded under SimCoupe I have been trying to format a drive with more than 80 file allocations e.g. FORMAT d2,6 and the disk formats but only reports 80 files free. Am I doing something daft -I even checked Steve's scan of the Mdos manual and the command looks fine. Dan.

Re: SimCoupe formatting query

2005-01-18 Thread Dan Dooré
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ha... this works fine on my copy ! Format d2:, 6 I get 770 kb free with 118 slots. my exe Sim Coupe exe is version 0.90 Beta 14 which I used the test Pro-Dos bits with. I see, looks like I'm part of the SimCoupe underclass with my 0.9 Beta 10 then :-) Dan.

Re: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games

2005-01-11 Thread Dan Dooré
Stuart Brady wrote: You're absolutely right. Also, I doubt that much of the software in GoodSAMC has been verified to see if the dumps are actually good! (IIRC, disks use a 16-bit CCITT checksum, which isn't brilliant.) You had better believe it - I took a fair amount of the stuff from NVG

Re: Another example why I dislike .DSK format

2005-01-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: And of course, .SAM means sample, it's used for years for sound samples. :-) And AMIPro Word docs and a myriad of others :-) Don't we have SDF or something, which is a generic Sam disk format? From what I understand SDF is a discontinued format and this spawned the

Re: Another example why I dislike .DSK format

2005-01-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Andrew Collier wrote: But the new über-format could inherit the name .SDF it that helps. Indeed - IIRC there's only two SDF files in the wild anyway Lemmings and PoP. Sam Disk Format does have a nice ring to it to boot :-) Dan.

MasterDOS

2005-01-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Quickie - how many versions of MasterDOS were made, I purchased it at version 2.3 but I keep finding disk images with MDOS31 and MDOS41 as the filename which suggests much later versions. Dan.

NVG DSKification

2005-01-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Gents, The DSKification of NVG has been uploaded and awaits Frode's magical touch to move it into position. In the meantime here is the new structure, very similar to the old but with a few tweaks to separate native Sam stuff from PC/Emulation stuff. +---disks | +---adult | +---demos |

Re: MasterDOS

2005-01-09 Thread Dan Dooré
hookares wrote: IIR the high numbers indictated it was combined with Masterbasic. Those seem to be files like SD+MBAS1x or MD+MBAS1x from what I've seen on the discs I've trawled through. Dan.

Re: NVG DSKification - complete...

2005-01-03 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: If you really N*E*E*D it, load TAP files into ASCD, and save them to a disk image. But do you? I formerly created all those TAP files by conversion from a DSK. So :-) Well, not now as I've found a copy of Craft which is the only TAP file :-) Dan.

Re: NVG DSKification - complete...

2005-01-03 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: If you really N*E*E*D it, load TAP files into ASCD, and save them to a disk image. But do you? I formerly created all those TAP files by conversion from a DSK. So :-) Well, not now as I've found a copy of Craft which is the only TAP file :-) Dan.

Re: ARC files on NVG

2005-01-02 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: This is probably one for Si to look at really but as an example the PAK file in this DSK - http://www.landofpod.co.uk/swiss.zip - comes up with this error. That does indeed hit a HALT with interrupts disabled. At the point it enters the debugger the raster hasn't advanced

Re: ARC files on NVG

2005-01-02 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: This is probably one for Si to look at really but as an example the PAK file in this DSK - http://www.landofpod.co.uk/swiss.zip - comes up with this error. That does indeed hit a HALT with interrupts disabled. At the point it enters the debugger the raster hasn't advanced

Re: Best emulator

2005-01-02 Thread Dan Dooré
Marian Krivos wrote: what is the best Sam Coupe emulator today? http://homepage.ntlworld.com/simon.owen/sam/simcoupe/ Dan.

NVG DSKification - complete...

2005-01-02 Thread Dan Dooré
... well, as much as I can do for the moment. The main problems are that of corrupt PAK archives and being unable to extract 'Library' LIB/LCB files due to an error in the decompression routine (Mat even mentions it in the README of the utilities disc that it is on!) There is a LIB30b file in

NVG DSKification - complete...

2005-01-02 Thread Dan Dooré
... well, as much as I can do for the moment. The main problems are that of corrupt PAK archives and being unable to extract 'Library' LIB/LCB files due to an error in the decompression routine (Mat even mentions it in the README of the utilities disc that it is on!) There is a LIB30b file

ARC files on NVG

2005-01-01 Thread Dan Dooré
Any clue what format these ARC files are in: /pub/sam-coupe/demos/misc/d-nut.arc /pub/sam-coupe/graphics/slideshow/screen.arc There's also a couple of TAP files there, any clues how these were mand and how I can extract them? /pub/sam-coupe/games/craft.tap DSKification of NVG is going well,

ARC files on NVG

2005-01-01 Thread Dan Dooré
Any clue what format these ARC files are in: /pub/sam-coupe/demos/misc/d-nut.arc /pub/sam-coupe/graphics/slideshow/screen.arc There's also a couple of TAP files there, any clues how these were mand and how I can extract them? /pub/sam-coupe/games/craft.tap DSKification of NVG is going well,

Re: ARC files on NVG

2005-01-01 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: They both seem to be PAK files, going by the RUMSOFT strings a short way into the file. Something like: load at 32000 and call 32000, then insert a formatted disk to write the contents to? I had tried that and they either reset or bring up an SimICE window in SimCoupe, it

Re: ARC files on NVG

2005-01-01 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: They both seem to be PAK files, going by the RUMSOFT strings a short way into the file. Something like: load at 32000 and call 32000, then insert a formatted disk to write the contents to? I had tried that and they either reset or bring up an SimICE window in SimCoupe, it

Re: ARC files on NVG

2005-01-01 Thread Dan Dooré
Marian Krivos wrote: Dan Dooré napsal(a): Any clue what format these ARC files are in: /pub/sam-coupe/demos/misc/d-nut.arc /pub/sam-coupe/graphics/slideshow/screen.arc There's also a couple of TAP files there, any clues how these were mand and how I can extract them? /pub/sam-coupe/games

Re: ARC files on NVG

2005-01-01 Thread Dan Dooré
Marian Krivos wrote: Dan Dooré napsal(a): Any clue what format these ARC files are in: /pub/sam-coupe/demos/misc/d-nut.arc /pub/sam-coupe/graphics/slideshow/screen.arc There's also a couple of TAP files there, any clues how these were mand and how I can extract them? /pub/sam-coupe/games

NVG DSKification

2004-12-31 Thread Dan Dooré
I have been going through all my disks and making copies of the ones with bad sectors that I couldn't before the most lovely SamDisk2.0 was born. I have also been going through NVG as I nicked an entire copy the other month and grabbing stuff that I haven't got locally and I realised that

NVG DSKification

2004-12-31 Thread Dan Dooré
I have been going through all my disks and making copies of the ones with bad sectors that I couldn't before the most lovely SamDisk2.0 was born. I have also been going through NVG as I nicked an entire copy the other month and grabbing stuff that I haven't got locally and I realised that

Re: NVG DSKification

2004-12-31 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: DSK has no header, so it is good as long as it has .dsk file extension... They have indeed. Well, and what is that MaxiDOS? Cookie's A-level Computer Studies project :-) It's a special format that uses extra tracks (81 and 82?) to store the DOS, leaving only 500-odd

Re: NVG DSKification

2004-12-31 Thread Dan Dooré
Aley Keprt wrote: DSK has no header, so it is good as long as it has .dsk file extension... They have indeed. Well, and what is that MaxiDOS? Cookie's A-level Computer Studies project :-) It's a special format that uses extra tracks (81 and 82?) to store the DOS, leaving only 500-odd bytes

Re: samcoupe.org update

2004-12-30 Thread Dan Dooré
Stuart Brady wrote: I can't seem to log in anonymously. I'm in work and I can't FTP out the way - can someone confirm? Password is blank... Works for me, but not as anonymous it has to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the userid and the password is blank/anything you like: 220 ProFTPD 1.2.10

Re: samcoupe.org update

2004-12-30 Thread Dan Dooré
Stuart Brady wrote: I can't seem to log in anonymously. I'm in work and I can't FTP out the way - can someone confirm? Password is blank... Works for me, but not as anonymous it has to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the userid and the password is blank/anything you like: 220 ProFTPD 1.2.10 Server

Re: Christmas Present

2004-12-26 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Cooke wrote: OK; it's currently in Incoming (probably belongs in the demos section under Entropy) called Gameboytetris.zip What is it? Oh, just part of Statues of Ice. \o/ Roger Hartley converted the music from an Amiga MOD tune that goes along with this. (I think it's an old C64

Re: Christmas Present

2004-12-26 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Cooke wrote: OK; it's currently in Incoming (probably belongs in the demos section under Entropy) called Gameboytetris.zip What is it? Oh, just part of Statues of Ice. \o/ Roger Hartley converted the music from an Amiga MOD tune that goes along with this. (I think it's an old

Re: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Dooré
Geoff Winkless wrote: On a side track (hah), has anyone else found that all their old Sam disks are completely unreadable? None comepletly unreadable, many with errors which ment I couldn't make a DSK of them at the time. Unless SamDisk2 can skip errors (I haven't got the URL to hand)

Re: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: Does the archive need to be a single format for all disks? Or could the 95% of normal format disks be kept in a simple dumped image format, with only protected disks using a different format needed to describe them correctly? I think yes, the idea of tagging extra data into

Re: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Dooré
My two penneth of the disk format discussion: I like the idea of a new, all-encompassing disk format for the samcoupe.org archive (SCOA anyone?) as it will bring together many disparate formats DSK/SDF/SAD etc. into one, but it has to be able to hold the full geometry of the disk. After

Webring (Was Re: Sam's 15th Birthday!)

2004-12-03 Thread Dan Dooré
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Parry-Thomas www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk *blinks* My webring admin gland has just woken me up. http://v.webring.com/wrman?ring=samcoupeaddsite And that goes for anyone else too - go on, you know you want to. Dan.

RE: Sam Elite

2000-01-31 Thread Dan Dooré
As far as I recall, the Sam Elite was simply a 512k SAM with the new style disk drive fitted and it had a built-in printer port (quite where this appeared on the back I'm not sure. IIRC there was a ribbon cable coming out of the case above the expansion port with a 25-D dongle on the end.

RE: new member

2000-01-30 Thread Dan Dooré
BTW Is Dan about? need to update/remove/edit my entry on the web ring? *blinks* Yep, still very much alive! You can amend your entry on www.webring.org or just send me the details and I'll do it from the admin screens. Dan. Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shirk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VVeb:

RE: Re[3]: Christmas Greetings, etc.

1999-12-21 Thread Dan Dooré
Ditto. Me too! :-) http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/chrimbo/ D.

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