Re: Who are Andrews UK?

2018-04-13 Thread Graeme Gregory
Sam Coupe Mini? On Fri, 13 Apr 2018, at 9:17 PM, RWAP Software wrote: > Paul Andrews (Andrews UK) is part of the team behind the original > Sinclair Vega and Vega+ (not the version which Retro Computers Limited > are still struggling to get out to Kickstarter backers), and theC64Mini > which

Re: Floppy disk drive error

2016-05-24 Thread Graeme Gregory
On Mon, 23 May 2016, at 09:08 PM, Colin Piggot wrote: > As they are standard 34-pin floppy devices they do still need a > controller board to work with the SAM Coupe. > > I’ve build a few customised versions of my disk drive controller board > with longer cables to accommodate these in the past

Re: HxC and Sam Coupe

2013-05-21 Thread Graeme Gregory
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:40:34AM -0700, Tommo H wrote: What's the software like for the HxC? Can you just copy floppy images onto SD card or is there some Windows blob to convert to a more direct flux transition sort of representation? You use the software to convert .dsk/.sad/.mgt files to

Re: HxC and Sam Coupe

2013-05-19 Thread Graeme Gregory
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:03:17PM +0100, Graeme Gregory wrote: On 11/05/13 18:41, Colin Piggot wrote: From: Graeme Gregory wrote: So one of my Sams just happens to have a duff drive, I was wondering is it an easy enough job to dismantle the drive to extract the control board and hook up

HxC and Sam Coupe

2013-05-11 Thread Graeme Gregory
So one of my Sams just happens to have a duff drive, I was wondering is it an easy enough job to dismantle the drive to extract the control board and hook up a HxC instead? Graeme

Re: HxC and Sam Coupe

2013-05-11 Thread Graeme Gregory
On 11/05/13 22:12, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Quoting Colin Piggot qua...@clara.net: I know of one SAM user who uses a HxC, I built them up one of my disk drive controller boards with extra long cables so he could have the HxC sitting outside of his SAM. (There'll be photos of that

Re: HxC and Sam Coupe

2013-05-11 Thread Graeme Gregory
On 11/05/13 18:41, Colin Piggot wrote: From: Graeme Gregory wrote: So one of my Sams just happens to have a duff drive, I was wondering is it an easy enough job to dismantle the drive to extract the control board and hook up a HxC instead? You'ld have to do a lot of desoldering at the back

Re: Time has come to part with my Sam Coupé

2013-05-01 Thread Graeme Gregory
Sorry was too nice looking not to! Graeme On 01/05/13 09:50, Stephen Longhurst wrote: Indeed, nice looking Sam too. Mine is way more yellowed, but I prefer to think of it as much loved! Steve On 30 April 2013 18:38, Stefan Drissen stefan.dris...@gmail.com

Re: Essential Sam Goodies

2012-04-22 Thread Graeme Gregory
On 22/04/12 17:11, Colin Piggot wrote: Graeme 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 I had

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-14 Thread Graeme Gregory
On 14/04/12 13:08, Balor Price wrote: On 14/04/2012 11:43, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: My Jowettish is not good enough to recognise what does Roger mean with this personal mail to me: the day i spam you you'll r a dint the bak u yar id! Can anyone translate it for me to english? I live in

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Graeme Gregory
I have been planning for a while not to do this modification. But I was going to use an I2C IO Extender chip instead of the USB keyboard hack. With this I should be able to map exactly the spectrum keyboard map into Linux. Ive had the broken spectrum and a couple of beagle boards sitting on my

Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'

2012-04-13 Thread Graeme Gregory
I should run SimCoupe on my Pandaboard to actually give it a real use! I have so many of these embedded arm board lieing around I should use them :-) Graeme On 13/04/12 14:10, Simon Owen wrote: Bonus points if you then run SimCoupe on it, to see if it still feels wrong! I created a quick

Essential Sam Goodies

2012-04-12 Thread Graeme Gregory
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 I had $$$ Sam had dissapeared and it was time for Uni. So I now

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-05 Thread Graeme Gregory
I had only subscribed to the list a couple of days ago, good thing Im old school when it comes to the internet, would be really off putting to a newbie. I had assumed this was a virus attack, you mean this bloke actually does this for fun? He needs a game of roshambo :-) Graeme On 05/04/2012