Here's my vote then. Let's have all of them. We can redirect to the
actual content anyway, and it's basically fiddling while Rome burns.
Cheers
Howard
BORING! Everyone's sound on this list, and I can get bickering off
any old net chatroom. That'll do now.
Proud to say, I have a glorious MILES GORDON TECHNOLOGY PLC
Sam. And up til I swapped the ROM in '98 ish, it was a 1989
vintage.
Tobermory=Howard
At 09:09 18/11/2004, you wrote:
Theatrical
Hello everyone, quick question
Has anyone got an email address/contact detail for Balor Knight? I've
formed a band and named it after him (it's a great name!), and need to
apologise/congratulate him. Thanks!
Tobermory=Howard
- Now sadly hibernating from SAM but it's still only 10 feet
I think so! I'm just working on my PC at the moment. Oh for
the simplicity of memory you can trust :)
Howard
At 08:21 27/08/2004, you wrote:
Just a
test as I haven't had anything from the list since the 16th July..
Sams in hibernation, everyones on the beach
Ian
Hello LCD,
This looks interesting - are you going to put your VAnimator up for
download? Those compiled Blitz$ animations were really cool!
-Tob
At 08:42 12-04-04, you wrote:
Hi guys,
Another milestone release of BMP2SCR EXP, the version 2.11a is now available
for download from my webpage
.
I made also calculated Blitz$ animations for some demos and games, check
Heavier than Metal on my home
page, in games section.
Anyway, I think Bmp2scr EXP is much more useful for games development than
VAnimator ever was :-).
LCD
Howard Price wrote:
Hello LCD,
This looks interesting
Looking forward to it!
At 13:23 12-04-04, you wrote:
Excellent!
LCD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I will check the discs and hope to find a working version
again...
:-)))
LCD
Howard Price wrote:
Bummer! I think you underestimate how well a utility like that
would
go down though
Hey hey! I'm still here but under different email addresses.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] won't let me on any more.
-howard
At 16:44 09-04-04, you wrote:
good to see you! :)
Howard was on not so long ago as well
Stewart Skardon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
But I'm still here :o(
Please don't un-sub me!
Really impressed with Waitrose email. This is a free service I'm on, and
it caught Bagle straight off.
-howard
At 07:59 10-04-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is an auto-generated e-mail; please do not reply.
Dear Customer
An e-mail addressed to you was intercepted by our mail systems
I've got almost exactly the same setup as Andy here. I have occasional
problems with the connections so my SAM comes apart quite a lot at the
moment, and something must be badly earthed, because 'hard disk whine'
comes through the monitor quite badly. Maybe it's cos (I think) I've got
the
At 18:50 12-11-03, you wrote:
Arse candles
Go on! Indulge a man! Whassat mean?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=arse+candle
Term nicked from Chris Morris - from Brass Eye I think.
Dan.
I knew the Internet was useful for something!
Arse candles
Go on! Indulge a man! Whassat mean?
-howard
Hey have I got the right place? It's Howard Price aka Tobermory
Womble. Looks like I'll never get into my old email account... So what's
the goss these days?
-tob
At 03:45 31/08/02, Simon Cooke wrote:
I know this is a vague request, but currently we're looking at doing any
one of three different things - a 1st person puzzlesolver/shooter, a
real-time strategy game, or an updated port of Tempest ;-)
So... Chris? Colin McD? Anybody?
Thanks,
Si
I'm an
At 15:42 15/08/02, you wrote:
I *really* hate to bring this up again, but I need to ask your
opinions...I'll paste the below and I'd be very interested in your
opinions either on or off list, especially if you've ever developed or
published SAM software in the past. It's in relation to the
At 17:03 15/08/02, you wrote:
I've been a bit quiet lately but I thought I'd just chirp in - I support
your plan Colin, copyrighted material retains copyright, but if no-one can
be bothered to enforce it, even if you seek them out for two months, ignore
it.
Erm... the
At 10:17 07/01/02, Dan wrote:
I was playing Sam Manic Miner last night wearing only my pants - a truly
liberating experience :-)
Just like the old days eh? I was doing the same thing *the day before
yesterday* thinking how little things have changed.
Then my Sam promptly faked a broken video
I'm still kind of around so everyone have a good Christmas and stay friendly!
-howard
At 12:53 27/12/01, you wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I daren't send seasons greetings, for fear of getting my head bitten off. But
it's the thought that counts! ;o)
I've just seen an ad in the back of this issue's Edge (iss105):
CLASSIC GAMING SCENE
---
Commodore, Sinclair, Neo Geo, PC Engine, NEC, Sam Coupe
www.classicgamingscene.com
0114 239 1027 / 0181 0780997
Haven't tried the phone number yet, but 0114 is Sheffield's code, and the
website isn't
exist anymore.
I'll try google to see if I can track the org site down.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Howard Price
Sent: 29 October 2001 9:39 AM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Broken link
Hi
Anyone else finding it difficult
Hi
Anyone else finding it difficult to get to
www.samcommunity.org lately?? I wanted to visit the site and find out
what the goddam holdup is this time. Whoops this mail makes it sound like
I'm pissed off...
-Tob
At 16:39 04/09/01, you wrote:
On Tuesday, September 4, 2001, at 11:19 am, Howard Price wrote:
Doesn't seem to be anyone about at the moment. Am I having difficulties
being sent stuff to?
-howard, depressed that long-promised SAM Community still ain't arrived.
The erm. Er. Well you see
Doesn't seem to be anyone about at the moment. Am I having difficulties
being sent stuff to?
-howard, depressed that long-promised SAM Community still ain't arrived.
At 22:26 14/08/01, Si Owen wrote:
You'll certainly see the extra delays when writing to ports 248 and
above, or when the ASIC is drawing the main screen area. I'm confident
that the current SimCoupé is already accurate enough for you to be able
to develop your Mode 4 IM2 routines on it and have
At 11:59 10/08/01, you wrote:
Real SAM:
MODE 1: ROM=5.986, RAM=4.428
MODE 2: ROM=5.988, RAM=4.883
MODE 3 and 4 (video on): ROM=5.988, RAM=4.883
MODE 3 and 4 (video off): ROM=5.988, RAM=5.561
Si
Do you know how many T-states you get a
for not being in touch
I hope so!! :) Think you might be sailing close to the wind with such a
long gap though. Am I to expect SAMCOM to go yearly??
-Tob
howard price (Tobermory Womble)
www.cookingcircle.co.uk (Update #10a: 9/8/01)
First Aley wrote:
Look Simon you have a problem. You can't stand anybody saying truth...
Then Simon wrote:
Whatever... *sigh*... No, Mr. Smarty Superior Pants, ...Well DUH
Can we save the insults for after the discussion? I'm interested in your
views without the playground stuff.
there somewhere I hope he won't get too pissed off if I
said he was considering going to diskmag format, because the new format he
promised was turning out to be a hassle.
I've given up expecting anything now, frankly.
-tob
howard price (Tobermory
- Original Message -
From: Martijn Groen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 10:59 AM
Subject: duty call
Hi there,
It's pretty quite on the list.
Perhaps following message wakes up
some people
Yes! For what it's worth (ie not a lot) I've
Yes you are. Now leave all 50 of us alone :-)
- Original Message -
From: Mac Buster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sam Coupe Users ML sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:17 PM
Subject: Panic!
Am I unsubscribed from the SAM Users mailing list ?!??
Uncalled
for I think ???
Hah! Sorry there - it's just a bit boring on the list at
the moment. I didn't mean it!
-Tobermory
- Original Message -
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sam Users sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 6:10 PM
Subject: Did you know this? [continued]
And, of course, to make it a bit harder, GameBlaster has a different clock
(28kHz) compared to approx. 31kHz on Sam, so
You guys need to get out more!
Hey there everybody, it's my birthday today - 25 years old and I can't even
open me emails.
Question - is it a salient breach of netetiquette to post a zipped
attachment to this list? And if not, what's the biggest size you can accept
(ooer)...?
-howard
-
From: Mac Buster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Heh! Check our 4k intro called Goa. I wonder what you will tell then, if
you
will be able to say something after that at all of course ;) Also check
our
demo called ReFresh.
Very nice! I especially like your recurring textures bit and flying over
the
Mac Buster wrote:
Howard Price wrote:
[...]
First Association - 1.5Mb on the Speccy?
Yep :) But the demo itself isn't as good as its size :|
Agreed! I was amazed by Smile 4K and 5th element (texture mapping 3D on a
Speccy?! Sh*t the bed), but generally I thought the music's gone
Mac Buster wrote:
There are much more demos on Demotopia site :)
First Association - 1.5Mb on the Speccy? What does it come on, 2 C90s?
-howard
Hi all. Did we get any further with this idea? It sounds like a goodie,
seeing as real demo parties are pretty hard to whip up without lots of
money/time/space/support. I'm definitely up for this, after getting loads
of *fabulous* demo stuff from World of Spectrum.
-Tobermory
- Original
The same here - it's only a matter of time before this membrane goes, so
I'll need a couple more. Also, my mouse interface seems to be getting
dodgy. Does anyone still tinker with them?
-howard
I'm in the process of talking to a company to have them create new SAM
keyboard membranes, I'm
Nobody seems to have voted for COLONY (Persona release), written by
D.Koselo, which could just as easily mean that I simply didn't understand
it. Whatever this strategy game (written in BASIC) was about, I always died
for some unexplained reason in about 2 minutes! Was I doing something
wrong?
Can everyone let me know how much ram they have so i can continue writing.
My setup has 512K RAM with Meg...
-howard
Is this anything as satisfying as the splat Bill Gates game I was addicted
to a year or two ago?
-tob
The last I ever heard of it was someone wrote bobbings - the wondrous
SAM
game - and gave out free copies at one of the Format shows. Good game
for
getting out your aggression.
Luke
This is a mighty fine idea, hell it has my vote!
-howard
Hello!
There are organised a virtual party on the Speccy scene. Why we can't do
something like that ? Lets make a party with four competitions: 4k intro,
single disk demo, music, graphics. After a deadline all entries will be
Hello y'all
Sorry for clogging up Aley's mailbox (!) but the bosses are getting scared
of the large amount of personal Email I'm getting here. Came back after
Chrimbo to 100 messages! Stern corporate finger-wagging ahoy. My new
Email address is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and I've unsubscribed this
Thanks for the replies, people!:
Fake Full Motion Video in 3D on the SAM? It may even be feasible.
0.5 to 1K for each frame, 12 frames per second = minute long silent movies
with extra memory. But let's not get overoptimistic, it doesn't work yet.
-tobermory
The NTICS Group: providers of
At 12:14 11/12/2000 -, you wrote:
I've been making stuff with Quazar Video and its successor Quazar Video 2
for video on the Sam for 4 years now. This uses image compression and
up to a max of 25 frames a second, complete with a sampled soundtrack.
Sounds impressive! I'm doing it
Quick straw poll for anyone out there.
Does anyone know how many people have 1 meg upgrades on their SAM? I guess
it's round about 50-80 regular users... Gavin, maybe?
-howard
The NTICS Group: providers of Database Services to learndirect and Sheffield
TEC. Contract management:
At 16:18 04/12/2000 +0300, you wrote:
I am not going to argue with you, I just want to say that SAM
deserves better file manager with better features and better interface that
NC has.
I can't work out whether Aley or Mac Buster wrote this, but it seems to be
the point. What's the idea with
At 15:09 04/12/2000 +0100, Aley wrote:
Look at the paraphrase:
What's the idea with making left-hand drive cars in the UK, simply because
left-hand drive is standard in the UK?
The only point is to give everyone an easier time when they drive the car.
Point taken. We seem to be coming at this
At 22:58 19/11/2000 +, Gavin Smith wrote:
If anyone has received issue 5 of SAM Community, *please* drop me a note
as soon as possible (preferably before Monday lunchtime if you can).
That's a negative, fieldmarshal Smith. Sorry!
-private Price (call me howard)
The NTICS Group: providers of
At 17:45 16/11/2000 GMT, Matthew Harding wrote:
Anybody got dsk or sad images of the following games
Pipemania, Sphera, and Void.
Sorry, no images - but what hassles are you having with Sphera? It wasn't
even protected (just hidden, in straight DOS). If the original doesn't
work I can do you a
Someone, could be Luke Trevorrow, wrote:
Cross compilation into Z80 - what about SDCC, but I'm sure there are
others. How good is Small C on the SAM (which I would like to get a copy of)?
Well, after giving SAM C another go I have to take back the majority of
what I said before. If you forgive
At 11:22 31/10/2000 GMT, Luke Trevorrow wrote:
Why don't we look at porting a new OS of some sort. This is one of the
things that was mentioned when Dave was on this list inspiring people.
Howzabout GEMDOS or one of the embedded UNIX kernels like ELKS
Ugh - sorry - slow Emailman. Ignore that last mail of mine.
-howard
The NTICS Group: providers of Database Services to learndirect and Sheffield
TEC. Contract management: Sheffield Libraries, Archives Information Service.
National Training Information Central Support
Unit 4 AVEC 1 Sidney
Whoops, I mean 384 pixels:
It's really easy to software-code an interlace mode like the Amiga, making
the top resolution 512*384 in MODE 3 (4 colours per scan-line),
It's not true interlace though -- but you can tell some monitors to move the
display down a scanline and have true interlacing
Templates, classes, inheritance or at least usage of virtual methods is very
strong tool
for programmers.
Of course, you can do anything like this better or less in C or asm, but if
you are familiar with the theory of OOP,
you have no reason to not use C++.
Agreed. When I'm trying to write
I'm afraid I side with Aley. I wouldn't say it's impossible, or even that
hard, if you know what you're doing, but there are loads of drawbacks.
People who want to use the SAM in its own box don't need Ethernet etc etc.
They want a cheap copy of the SAM, no Rage, no 600MHz (what would the point
Downgrading for the SAM is complicated, because it has 7-bit colour. 2
bits for each of RGB, and the Spectrum handed down its 'half-brightness'
bit.
I knew there was a reason I shouldnt go down this road!
[rr][gg][bb][x] is the layout?
Actually it works as [0][R][G][B][h][r][g][b]. As you
Graphics:
This uses downgraded graphics in 16 colours. Because we will spend the
most time on making these look good and touching up the graphics so they
dont look like routine scaled and degraded graphics this will be the
version that has most of the time on it.
Ive tried thinking about how I
At 20:16 17/10/2000 +0100, you wrote:
I don't know where we stand with Protracker, but this package (in my
opinion) is loads better for chip music.
As far as I'm concerned - he can have a copy - if anyone can sort it out for
him!
David
So where do we stand Dave? Do you know anything about
Mackenzie) who ran the company, died in early 1999. The
rest of the Mackenzie family decided to call it a day after that, leaving
things a bit muddled now. If you can get your hands on a copy, good for you.
Good luck man
-howard price
The NTICS Group: providers of Database Services to learndirect
Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-)
But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked my geeky
interest.
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers,
Cantor sets, and
At 16:31 02/10/2000 +0200, you wrote:
Hey man, your subscribe is longer than your message!
Don't I know it! - Nothing to do with me - I'm forcefully appended by a
central 'bureacracy computer', cos I work for the council. They think that
anything I send over E-mail might get them into court.
And I mean immutable, not commutable, don't I?
-tob
The NTICS Group: providers of Database Services to learndirect and Sheffield
TEC. Contract management: Sheffield Libraries, Archives Information Service.
National Training Information Central Support
Unit 4 AVEC 1 Sidney Street Sheffield S1
Aley Keprt wrote:
zero divided by zero was. We had people arguing for '0/x = 0', others for
'x/x = 1' and the rest as 'x/0 = undefined'.
If you assume that all of the above are true and commutable, you must also
assume that on the graph where these equations drawn, the point x=0 is
where
Well, things haven't been that off-topic for a while. I accidentally
started an argument on IRC the other day by bringing up the question of
what
zero divided by zero was. We had people arguing for '0/x = 0', others for
'x/x = 1' and the rest as 'x/0 = undefined'. Perhaps we should do the
At 14:21 28/09/2000 +0200, you wrote:
So why cannot we accept any (numeric) answer?
0*anything=0
infinite*anything=infinite
This implies that 0=infinite.
(Brain melts)
When my gradient routine has to work out a horizontal line, it behaves very
intelligently. It puts off giving me an answer until
Hi everyone
I'm afraid I haven't been paying attention in the past, so sorry for going
over old topics
I've been having serious problems with key to mouse contention, using Steve
Taylor's routines. The arrow keys with F0 and fullstop do not read at the
same time as moving the mouse, and
At 02:54 19/07/2000 +0200, Edwin Blink wrote:
(Currently Enjoying a proto B2K MOD slide demo)
What's this doodie then?
-tobermory
The NTICS Group: providers of Database Services to learndirect and Sheffield
TEC. Contract management: Sheffield Libraries, Archives Information Service.
National
At 14:27 19/07/2000 +0100, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
That reminds me of an idea I had - quite often the sound in Speccy games
being played on the sam is horrible because of the different clock
speeds. What would be involved in making a software-controllable clock?
For example, a small piece of logic
At 20:29 17/07/2000 +0100, you wrote:
-general bickering-
I can see both points fairly well. There's nothing like a good bit of
programming to make you feel like you're SAM is every bit as good as the
standard PCs - they all seem to be programmed so flimsily that a simple
routine takes a whole
Sounds like fighitng talk. I've recently had to resort to a BASIC word
processor from Enceladus 8 because I couldn't get Outwrite to work for me
(Atom compatibility etc etc)..Is it time for a WYSIWYG?!!
-tobermory
btw. Outwrite is the most stupid text editor for Sam Coupe.
Doesn't support
At 15:00 13/07/2000 +0100, you wrote:
I would be happy to bid on behalf of anyone if you would like it. I've
done a bit of buying and selling and have a good rating and would be happy
to ship it anywhere in the world as long as you pick up the cost. It's
currently at 10.50 UKP. The seller
Of the two
16K ROM images that come with the emulators, am I right in
thinking that ROM0 goes in lower 16K of the eprom and ROM1
in the top 16K?
Thanks,
Andy
Yeah, that's right - but what actually went into the ROM1?? I've never
found a use for it. I expect it's FPC stuff ...?
-howard
The
After 5 days being lost from the net, thanksfully to the biggest PC crash I
ever
Sort of related - - I've had one or two scary run-ins with my Hard Drive
the past few weeks. It seems sometimes that the power supply is dipping
(my guess), and this means it can't find sectors (??!) for some
At 23:40 03/07/2000 +0100, you wrote:
SAM Community issue 5 will be posted this Friday. Any news or bits
and pieces of anything SAM related appreciated as ever, especially
any projects (whether software or hardware) which are being
started/being picked up again/being considered. Would be easier
1 x SAM (i.e. BBC) parallel printer cable
I'm well interested in this one Andy. How much do you want for it?
Cheers!
-howard
The NTICS Group: providers of Database Services to learndirect and Sheffield
TEC. Contract management: Sheffield Libraries, Archives Information Service.
National
*if* I could code I'd probably have a bash at it myself...
H... would it be usable under Scads I wonder?
BTW - reloaded the Persona site again... although added a warning so people
dont try and order stuff :)
i'll be glad when the 250mb of space I've got waiting for me goes on
line.,...
My advance apologies. The business EMail server will now put a 50-line
signiture on the end of each and every EMail I send.
Don't 'flame' me!
-tobermory
At 00:50 26/06/2000 +0100, you wrote:
saw Wayne Hay other day ( incase you don't know him he did Pipemania on Sam
for Enigma )
No showed him WinCoupe and he loved it , now he need a image ov Pipemania.
Anyone feeling helpfull email it to me
Never heard of him, sorry! Did he do anything else in
...
-howard
PS I hope this one gets to you - the server I'm on refused to sent the
other one.
Regards,
Howard Price
Regards,
Howard Price
Good greif! I was just leafing through SAM Community and I noticed (much
to my amazement) that I haven't got the middle pages (11-14). What's
happening? Any news I need to know about?
-howard
Daveykins wrote:
* 380w Speakers
What the hell?!! I'm not sure I want a WindowsDing to go that loud.
You must be pretty damn deaf, man.
-tobermory
a bit of a labour of love!
I look forward to this event if you're having it. I've never had any real
contribution to make to the SAM scene, and now I'd like to do something a
bit worthwhile. Good luck!
-tobermory=howard
Regards,
Howard Price
Anyone okay for Horwich, some time a little later in the year, where the
last NSSS was held?
Weelll... that's 2 votes for November any further ones? :)
Novenber in Horwich suits me mighty fine. Best get booking my good man!
-tobermory
Hiya Gavin,
Nice going with the latest issue. A little late (again) but what do you
want? A stopwatch?? (Again)
A small question, though. Valient as your mag is, what I really want is a
full and comprehensive list of the only SAM PD library in existence. How
can I get hold of one? This
At 18:26 08/06/2000 +0100, you wrote:
Try Bennett Electronics - see his advert in this issue's SAM Community
(which should have arrived today or tomorrow at the latest!)
Gavin
Cheers - may come in very useful. Funnily enough, Community ain't arrived
yet - must be the Ireland-England crossover.
it for Crashed column in future - - new ish out in about a week I
think. E-Mail to Dave Fountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] for info!
Regards,
Howard Price
Can anyone get their hands on a printer interface any more??
-howard
And can anyone put this
great package out into the public domain or something? Or make it run on
my Atom harddisk? I'd love it if you could. Fiscally.
If you just mean my compiler, then I don't see a problem with distributing
it and it should work fine from the Atom.
But since you probably
does ANYBODY on this list actually use my ProTracker2 compiler? Or know
anybody else that uses it?
YES!!! I've written about 20 minutes of fabulous music for a game which
isn't finished yet! Do you want to hear it??? Protracker is the best
fucking chip music package there is, and I love it.
Hello SAMchatgroup! I've just subscribed. Does anyone know when the next
SAM Community magazine thing's out
Tobermory
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