RE: Sophistry

2005-12-10 Thread Johnna
Any idea what happened to the online rom dump that was proposed on here about a year ago? I think Gavin was in charge (can't rememember) but I've been away from here for so long. johnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James R Curry Sent

RE: OT: Bring back the Wispa!

2005-03-10 Thread johnna
And I always preferred the Gambit - the Whispa with dark chocolate. Whatever happened to them? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gaz Wilson Sent: 10 March 2005 14:11 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: OT: Bring back the Wispa! I know

RE: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

2005-02-22 Thread johnna
Great to hear these things - nice to hear all the old lies trotted out (system 3 and codemasters having games ready for launch...REALLY!) 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

RE: Re[2]: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

2005-02-22 Thread johnna
1990 Mine is an A4 brochure, with very little detail inside! It's on thin glossy card if I remember rightly. Andy Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 1:20:23 PM, you wrote: Dan johnna wrote: Was wondering about the brochure though - I used to have one of these and remember they made the machine look

RE: Christmas Present

2005-01-24 Thread Johnna
Theyre just for dumping Spectrum ROMs onto a coupe for those games that couldnt load because of difficult loaders. Handy if youve a load of Spectrum games you want to convert, but not necessary now we have the Internet and access to ROM files. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How ROM knowns wheter a disk is bootable

2005-01-13 Thread Johnna
From what I remember, it just tries to boot whatever is the first file on the disk. If this is SAM Dos then fine, if not then it fails. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aley Keprt Sent: 13 January 2005 01:32 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no

RE: How ROM knowns wheter a disk is bootable

2005-01-13 Thread Johnna
Ignore me - I didn't read your question properly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aley Keprt Sent: 13 January 2005 01:32 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: How ROM knowns wheter a disk is bootable I have a little technical question: How

RE: Ice Chicken

2004-12-31 Thread Johnna
Another note Dave might be able to help with - there was a Snake game released with Craft by Persona and I can't for the life of me think what it was called. Still got tonnes more to go up there too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin

RE: Ice Chicken

2004-12-31 Thread Johnna
Another note Dave might be able to help with - there was a Snake game released with Craft by Persona and I can't for the life of me think what it was called. Still got tonnes more to go up there too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin

A Comprehensive List

2004-12-13 Thread Johnna
Just a thought - does anyone have a comprehensive list of software that was release on the SAM? A complete list of commercially released games and a utilities, a list of magazines that were available etc. On the new site it would be nice if each bit of software could be accompanied by

RE: Domain name - voting ends Fri night!

2004-11-26 Thread Johnna
rules, so speak your mind while you have the chance! :) worldofsam.org Andrew Collier Geoff Winkless Ian Spencer Matthew Craven Simon Owen Wolfgang Haller samcoupe.org Calvin Allett Dan Doore Frans van Egmond Gavin Smith Johnna Teare samcommunity.org Adrian Brown Colin Piggot

RE: SAM Software Archive

2004-11-24 Thread Johnna
Another one for samcoupe.org here. Let's ignore the SAM Elite, cos that was just a bastardised version of the Coupe! This is the kind of thing this list SHOULD exist for. Obviously, we don't want to tread on the toes of those who are still plying a trade with the machine, but an archive of what

RE: Dare to share (was re: Days of Sorcery)

2004-11-20 Thread Johnna
Agree with Gavin - it's all well and good saying 'wait for the right time' but when will that time be? 5 more years, maybe 10? In the PC industry, that is a lifetime. Most of the people who wrote these things will have no interest in an old 8-bit machine anymore. -Original Message-

RE: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Johnna
Well I've bid my time on here long enough playing by the polite 'rules' of not publishing other people's files. But I think that after all this time, it's getting a bit stupid. I haven't got Days Of Sorcery, but if I had it, I would share it. Technically it's software piracy, but in reality it

RE: Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Johnna
3818: EB E3 ; k - c (+80) so Missing disk becomes Missing disc!! This alone should have alerted us to the fact that Brenchley was behing the whole West Coast fiasco. He was quite passionate about that 'c'!

RE: Port discriptions at the rear

2004-03-15 Thread Johnna
How many production runs of the SAM did they do in the end? And how many NEW units were actually sold? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Sent: 15 March 2004 19:39 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Port discriptions at the rear

RE: SAM populair on ebay

2004-03-05 Thread Johnna
not a particularly well kept box either. somebody will fall for it, i'm sure. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris White Sent: 05 March 2004 15:42 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: SAM populair on ebay Well I know the sam's are sort

sam games giveaway

2004-03-05 Thread Johnna
there are boxes with these, but if anybody wants them, let me know. cheers johnna

RE: AJ Incorporates Demodisks

2004-03-05 Thread Johnna
i've just found number 5 - will see if it still plays and try and upload it tonight johnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2004 17:11 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: AJ Incorporates Demodisks Does

RE: sam games giveaway

2004-03-05 Thread Johnna
that was suppoesd to say there are NO boxes with these. blimey - more posts today thatn in the last 12 months! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Johnna Sent: 05 March 2004 17:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ntnu. No Subject: sam games giveaway i

SAM Disk images, ROMS and help please!!

2004-02-06 Thread Johnna
please! And then the rest of what I've got that's not already been done, I can spend time getting onto my machine. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. __ Johnna Teare e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: {Spam?} Re: SAM Disk images, ROMS and help please!!

2004-02-06 Thread Johnna
! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Haller Sent: 06 February 2004 17:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: {Spam?} Re: SAM Disk images, ROMS and help please!! Johnna wrote: Just been tidying up the garage. Hi Johnna. I know those

Whatever happened to...?

2003-03-27 Thread Johnna Teare
liven the list up for a second. Johnna Saddam Coupe - for some people still, a weapon of mass debation.

RE: Moment of truth

2003-01-15 Thread Johnna Teare
, but it's nice that people still care and great to see people still getting use out of the SAM. Nowt wrong with hobbies, as others have said. 11) if yes to 10 then why? peacelovekisses ___ Johnna Teare w: www.johnnateare.co.uk e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: SAA1099P

2003-01-14 Thread Johnna Teare
Tell me that that is a made up name... ;) Thank you Spencer Gaylord Account Manager

RE: Announcement - Sam Revival 3 out now!

2003-01-02 Thread Johnna Teare
It's worth reading and nice to see Ledbury doing good stuff again, rather than getting overly insensitive on the mailing list ;) But I digress... Overly insensitive? OVERLY INSENSITIVE? I've had it with this list - f*ck the lot of you, i'm unsubbing tonight, and you'll never hear from me

RE: Announcement - Sam Revival 3 out now!

2003-01-01 Thread Johnna Teare
A walk-thru for Manic Miner...?! Erm...collect all the keys and head for the exit? :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Piggot Sent: 01 January 2003 00:00 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Announcement - Sam Revival 3 out now! Issue

johnna strikes back

2002-11-05 Thread Johnna Teare
hey guys not been on here for an age do we still have a message archive? or is somebody going to update me and let me know what's happening in the world of sam these days? cheers in advance johnna

RE: johnna strikes back

2002-11-05 Thread Johnna Teare
that's helpful! johnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of f-k-nose Sent: 05 November 2002 00:04 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: johnna strikes back - Original Message - From: Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users

RE: johnna strikes back

2002-11-05 Thread Johnna Teare
thanx!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of f-k-nose Sent: 05 November 2002 00:43 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: johnna strikes back - Original Message - From: Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent

adios

2002-03-31 Thread Johnna Teare
off to greece, land of the no-email unsubbing, so rest in peace 4 a bit xx johnna

RE: Please remove

2002-03-12 Thread Johnna Teare
in touch? Did they ever get back into the pc industry again? --- Enough from me for now. Take it easy Johnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred Bloggs Sent: 12 March 2002 12:36 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Please remove

Please remove

2002-03-11 Thread Johnna Teare
/TeareJohnna www.theunstoppablesexmachine.freeserve.co.uk www.johnnateare.co.uk Only a very minor thing, I know, but I'd be greatful thanks. Cheers, Johnna

RE: In response to Fred

2002-03-09 Thread Johnna Teare
' spectrum cloned atic atac now. Won't answer the door just in case you lot have phoned old Pc plod! Johnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Sent: 09 March 2002 00:04 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: In response to Fred

RE: Games

2002-03-07 Thread Johnna Teare
but thery're not are they? and there doesn't seem to be any sign that they ever will be. so WHY won't people give up the ghost and let some sam games out on ftp sites so that people like myself who spent so much time and money on our old friend can relive the glory days. I've got nearly all the

RE: Games

2002-03-07 Thread Johnna Teare
I appreciate that you said Gav could do something with the games you have a hold over, but as you rightly say that was one year ago. Time for a rethink maybe? (why am I getting so animated about all this - I don't even CARE about the SAM anymore!) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Games

2002-03-07 Thread Johnna Teare
puzzle games from Eastern Europe with irritating soundtracks. And now, I shall rest! see you around Johnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred Bloggs Sent: 07 March 2002 22:47 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Games The only reason

RE: Virus Alert!

2002-03-07 Thread Johnna Teare
shit - sorry everyone. I've been getting this flung at me for weeks and having to delete it all the time. Never figured it was me dishing it out! Anybody know a decent virus killer? (humble, and quiet!) Johnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

RE: re :- PAYPAL for auctions, a warning

2002-01-17 Thread Johnna Teare
may i suggest... www.nochex.com used them for ages, no probs. As long as you have a debit card and a bank account, you're in. 99p per transaction, but quite useful. Cheers Johnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dean Woodyatt Sent: 17

FW: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2001-11-22 Thread Johnna Teare
just downloaded 44 messages, mainly realted to this repeat prob. i am unsubbing for now. if anybody would be good enough to let me know when things are back to normal if not, i doubt i'd miss much!!! this list is dead dead dead these days. where's SAMSON progrssing? (snigger!) later johnna

mess

2001-03-31 Thread Johnna Teare
Check this url out... http://mess.emuverse.com/ It's a multi-machine emulator and claims to emulate the Sam. Anybody know anything about it? Or whos behind it? l8r Johnna

RE: Memory Lane

2001-02-28 Thread Johnna Teare
on the boys! Johnna

RE: Memory Lane

2001-02-28 Thread Johnna Teare
anyway? Surely better to give the whole lot away and keep this feeble SAM scene going? I've been arguing this for years, and I get the usual private email abuse for suggesting it - so go on, do your worst! Johnna { -Original Message- { From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Memory Lane

2001-02-27 Thread Johnna Teare
Love the new WinCoupe - made me take a trip down memory lane today and play some old SAM games. Sphera is still as terrible as it always was. Bit like a demo with a small game bolted on. Which got me thinking - what was the WORST commercial SAM game? I played Vegetable Vacation loads of times

Memory Lane

2001-02-27 Thread Johnna Teare
Love the new WinCoupe - made me take a trip down memory lane today and play some old SAM games. Sphera is still as terrible as it always was. Bit like a demo with a small game bolted on. Which got me thinking - what was the WORST commercial SAM game? I played Vegetable Vacation loads of times

RE: Memory Lane

2001-02-27 Thread Johnna Teare
a while. Still, I was like that with Lords of Midnight too, so maybe it's just me ?! { { Gavin Johnna

RE: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Johnna Teare
, or to use their knowledge to try and stop the accidents / viruses in teh first place. my 2 cents - sorry its off topic! Johnna { -Original Message- { From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] { Behalf Of Frode Tenneboe { Sent: 19 February 2001 14:10 { To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no { Subject

RE: New footy game

2001-02-06 Thread Johnna Teare
rather than BASIC. Would SAM C not help here? Johnna { -Original Message- { From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] { Behalf Of Gavin Smith { Sent: 06 February 2001 02:51 { To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no { Subject: Re: New footy game { { { on 2/5/01 6:37 PM, Johnna Teare at [EMAIL

New footy game

2001-02-05 Thread Johnna Teare
From what I remember, Football League Manager was quite a seller on the SAM and it certainly went down well with the punters so this is probably a good idea. Was it Dave Handley that wrote it? Are you still on here Dave? Was any progress ever made on that Kick-Off stlye game that Fred were

RE: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-25 Thread Johnna Teare
yawn yawn yawn - any chance of playing this out in private folks? { -Original Message- { From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] { [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aley Keprt { Sent: 25 January 2001 10:32 { To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no { Subject: Re: Where are YOU now? { { { { { On Thu, 25 Jan 2001

RE: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Johnna Teare
the graphics and a WAV file for the music, let me know. And a happy new year to everybody as well whilst I'm here! Cheers, Johnna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Whitmore Sent: 31 December 2000 03:49 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re

A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-30 Thread Johnna Teare
it seems a bit like tempting an argument here, but i was just wondering what ever happened to Bob Brenchley, the missing sam clocks, West Coast Computers, the proposed 3D sam game by Colin Piggot, WinCoupe's relaunch and the rest of it. If anybody has any of the latest news, let me know coz I've

SAM Coupe on eBay

2000-12-20 Thread Johnna Teare
Just thought I'd post this - a sam on ebay for those that were looking. Described as 'utterly useless' - I'm sure some of the staunch SAM defenders would have a few things to say about that! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1202752258 Peace, love and kisses, JohnnaPig

RE: [Off topic] Online ordering]

2000-11-30 Thread Johnna Teare
Gav, missed the original post, but cant u use ccnow? I know they put their prices in dollars, but the system can still be operated from the UK end of things - i know a mate of mine uses it to sell his band cd's over the internet. Just a thought. Johnna

Byee

2000-05-12 Thread Johnna Teare
See you all another time - have fun with SAM and try and keep the little blue footed baby alive. I'm off to get a suntan. If you see a poor english bloke in Greece, chuck him a few pennies! Peace, Love and Kisses... JohnnaPig Teare Get paid real money to surf the net - no catches...

Re: Lost games

1999-10-12 Thread Johnna Teare
On 11 Oct 99, at 14:50, Gavin Smith wrote: Aley Keprt wrote: I have F16 Playable demo on DSK. Does someone really want this stuff? Yes indeedy! If you could email it to me *off the list* I'd be ever so grateful! Or can you stick it on NVG or somewhere we can all get at it? Pleasy

Re: What The Hell Is Going On?

1999-10-10 Thread Johnna Teare
On 10 Oct 99, at 12:44, Andrew Collier wrote: At 12:15 pm +0100 10/10/99, Mr Samsboss wrote: My inbox gives me 48 messages from the SAM mailing list since Tuesday. That looks about normal. What did everyone else get? 138 - now sod off again, clone. Steady. He was only asking.

Re: Erk!

1999-10-09 Thread Johnna Teare
That took me back... ..to the days of who is west coast / SamSon / samsboss debates... Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare http://www.theunstoppablesexmachine.freeserve.co.uk ICQ: 48928093 It won't get better but it might never get worse...

Re: Erk!

1999-10-09 Thread Johnna Teare
On 9 Oct 99, at 12:27, Johnna Teare wrote: That took me back... ..to the days of who is west coast / SamSon / samsboss debates... By mtaht I meant cas of th 100+ something dowloaded mails... Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare http://www.theunstoppablesexmachine.freeserve.co.uk

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-08 Thread Johnna Teare
On 5 Oct 99, at 22:26, David L wrote: I suppose it also reffers to the number of people who actually *bothered* to subscribe to SAM magazines... WHILE THEY STILL EXISTED! 75 issues of Fred, 30+ issues of SAM Supp, SCAC, enceladus, newsdisk etc. I think I've done my bit for the SAM.

RE: Lost Games

1999-10-08 Thread Johnna Teare
On 8 Oct 99, at 15:33, Justin Skists wrote: There was a demo of SAM F16 on YS!?!?!?!?!?!?! I'm sure I would've remembered that since I loved flight sims and the only YS I didn't get was the last one... (Or were there others?) It was on Crash - and I've sold all my tapes and mags on

RE: SAM Community

1999-10-05 Thread Johnna Teare
On 5 Oct 99, at 9:08, David Laundon wrote: David L (not me!) wrote: Looking forward to the next ish Gavin!! Me too! (Yes - I'm one of the *TWO* on this list that could be bothered to subscribe!) Erm, *I* subscribed. Does that make it three, or were you talking about me anyway?

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-01 Thread Johnna Teare
On 30 Sep 99, at 15:14, Gavin Smith wrote: It's 2 quid for a year's membership, including 6 issues of the newsletter. If you're interested, drop me a mail off the list and I'll send you the address. Right Gav - Sorry for not signing up earlier. Email me your address and trhe cheque'll be

Re: Finally

1999-09-30 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Sep 99, at 11:10, Nick Humphries wrote: I've always been an advocate of the Chris White Method (do things first, ask questions later), but I'm sure he'll take anything down if requested to by the copyright owner. It's the way The World Of Spectrum archive works. It's the way the YS

Making dsk / sad files

1999-09-26 Thread Johnna Teare
Right,I'm having bother using the SAD converter thingy. Couldanybody email me the original SAMDSK or point me to it at the ftp? Cheers. Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare http://www.theunstoppablesexmachine.freeserve.co.uk ICQ: 48928093 It won't get better but it might never get

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-25 Thread Johnna Teare
On 22 Sep 99, at 17:03, Simon Cooke wrote: This is where my girlfriend has problems with me. The pure wiggling bit I'm fine at. But the timing and skill... Just have a one-player game to increase your stamina beforehand, and then when you get into the game proper, listen for the

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Johnna Teare
On 22 Sep 99, at 18:48, Maria Rookyard wrote: Oops, did I say same old sh*te? Of course what I really meant was the usual high standard of interesting discussion ;-) It's nice to be back; anything exciting happened since the beginning of last month? Three members havehad sex changes,

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Johnna Teare
And leave me alone for the goat thing. I'm from the Isle of Man... Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare http://www.theunstoppablesexmachine.freeserve.co.uk ICQ: 48928093 It won't get better but it might never get worse...

RE: Sams worst game ever

1999-09-23 Thread Johnna Teare
On 22 Sep 99, at 10:40, Justin Skists wrote: I remember wanting to buy Atomic Robokid after playing the demo on a YS tape... I was hooked on it from playing it on an Arcade machine. Even though the demo was slow, I was hoping the full release was faster - it just never came along! :(

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Johnna Teare
On 21 Sep 99, at 23:07, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: The canoeing was always the hardest bit.. after that it moved from being about pure wiggling and into timing skill, which was beyond me... This is where my girlfriend has problems with me. The pure wiggling bit I'm fine at. But the

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Johnna Teare
On 21 Sep 99, at 19:41, Thomas Harte wrote: STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris. Anywhere I can get a copy? FREd - forget the issue number ... (checks disk box) ...bugger - can't find it! Remember Santa Goes Psycho? I loved that aswell! -Thomas

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Johnna Teare
On 21 Sep 99, at 15:05, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: David L wrote: Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my vocabulary today.. No wonder people give me weird looks sometimes when i

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Sep 99, at 13:25, Gavin Smith wrote: Most-hyped-game-that-turned-out-to-be-not-very-good goes to Legend of Eshan. Hurrah! Somebody who agrees with me. I remember reviewing this for SAM2Sam and giving it something like 9% and I got loads of stick for it. Not the worst game ever, but

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Sep 99, at 14:19, Nick Humphries wrote: The best Columns game on the SAM was the one on one of the Arcadia disks - used to play that for hours, I think my longest game was about 1h 30... Wasn't that Coloris? iirc Nick Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Sep 99, at 13:38, Andrew Collier wrote: Another Columns clone STAX by Wayne Coles, which was much better... STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris. Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --My other --

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Sep 99, at 23:42, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Btw. where did the whole fnar fnar thing come from? In my head its a peculiarly 'Sam' thing (probably Fred, i can't imagine it being Format :o)... Your Sinclair methinks. And zucchini to you too. Hmph. Martin Fitz -- Email:

Re: The SCART socket

1999-09-12 Thread Johnna Teare
On 12 Sep 99, at 10:33, Dave Whitmore wrote: There used to be loads of info about things like SCART in ye olde Sam Supplement. I wonder if Dave Tonks would have any objections to the lot going up on nvg? Is anyone in contact with him these days? Didn't they have a website as one point?

Re: Might be interested

1999-09-03 Thread Johnna Teare
Now what confuses me is *how* they pay me. They didn't ask for a credit card number, and only have my address (no way am I giving them my phone number... Ive was phoned by some weird American company once, and had a massive conversation where they tried to convince me that I'd really rung

Might be interested

1999-09-02 Thread Johnna Teare
Just thought people might be interested in this... Sounds a bit fishy, but if they stick to their agreement, it could earn a couple of quid a month... {HYPERLINK http://www.sendmoreinfo.com/id/42361}http://www.sendmoreinfo.com/id/42361 Basically, they pay you $5 to receive an email advert.

Re: Might be interested

1999-09-02 Thread Johnna Teare
On 1 Sep 99, at 22:56, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Johnna Teare wrote: Just thought people might be interested in this... Sounds a bit fishy, but if they stick to their agreement, it could earn a couple of quid a month... Yeh.. a bit fishy. What confuses me is presumably it'll

Re: Anybody know who Anonymity Smith was?

1999-08-31 Thread Johnna Teare
On 30 Aug 99, at 19:18, Me wrote: I know who it was, but I think it would spoil the fun to tell you :) He wrote under a few other psuedonyms too, but no - it wasn't Bob Brenchley. Wasnt it graham whatsit? I thought possibly graham because I remember he did some scifi stuff for SAM2Sam.

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 19:20, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Hehe... I'm getting all reminiscent, I might even dig out my Big Box of stuff that I wrote Does it work on SimCoupe? (SCADS that is) Think you might have problems programming in it - but the games seem to run. The actual designer -

Anybody know who Anonymity Smith was?

1999-08-30 Thread Johnna Teare
Who was Anonymity Smith? The bloke (i am assuming it was a bloke) who wrote those spoof sci-fi stories on Fred from years back?  If it's anyone on teh list...get in touch coz I'm after stuff like that for my new cult tv magazine. And don't forget, if you fancy writing a bit - get in touch.

Re: Sam's Birthday

1999-08-30 Thread Johnna Teare
On 30 Aug 99, at 19:34, Tim wrote: - Original Message - From: Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED] My suggestion would just be to all meet up in the pub opposite Quedgely village hall, making sure we all wear a black arm band to keep Graham happy. Is that the Basket Weaver or the

Who Wants To Be An unnapreciated contributor?

1999-08-29 Thread Johnna Teare
Anybody fancy writing some stuff for a cult tv magazine I'm putting together? Sci-fi, soap opera etc. It's going up on the net and getting distributed in caporial form aswell. Mail me if you're intersted. Oh, and as for SAM content (better put some of that in otherwise people will treat this

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 13:17, Andrew Collier wrote: But I don't think it was Sam's worst ever game for my money, that honor goes to... fx type=drumrollfx type=rips open envelope Parallax. /fx Controversial? FutureBall? Has there ever been a poll done on sam-users? To see who likes

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 16:14, Gordon Wallis wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) -- The HEXdidn't... Homepage: -- Featuring The U.K. Policenauts Homepage -- http://www.hexdidnt.clara.net \-- AOL

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 17:32, Thomas Harte wrote: Arcade perfect, is it? Does it have the coloured strips? Eh? Eh?! Surely the coloured strips would be the easiest thing to get arcade perfect because of the ease of switching palette entries halfway down the screen? -Thomas It was

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 17:51, Chris White wrote: On 29 Aug 99, at 16:14, Gordon Wallis wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) And what was wrong with mine :) I could never get it running (never had a compiler...)

Re: Sam Printer

1999-08-27 Thread Johnna Teare
On 22 Aug 99, at 20:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From : Robert Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] adie-usm Carter fan? Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare http://www.theunstoppablesexmachine.freeserve.co.uk It won't get better but it might never get worse...

Re: SAM Downloads

1999-08-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 21 Aug 99, at 0:25, Andrew Collier wrote: At 12:10 am +0100 21/8/99, Jonathan Bristow wrote: Great, fine... I would love to buy up all the software titles that my newly acquired SAM could revel in, trouble is that with the Crap Response that i have had concerning getting hold of a

Re: SAM Stuff for sale

1999-08-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Aug 99, at 20:07, Thomas Harte wrote: Famous Five, Witchin Hour, Lemmings, Ore Warz 2 (NEVER RELEASED!), Labyrinth, Bombs Away, Invaders, Muncher, PoP, Quizball, Defenders, bulgulators, dyzonium (which are shareware anyway iirc), batz n ballz, manic miner, eftpotrm, klax,

Re: SAM Stuff for sale

1999-08-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Aug 98, at 19:20, David L wrote: I could do with at least one copy of all those titles. What's a fair - and not forgetting I'm no millionare - price for them all (software wise!)? You tell me... Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare

RE: SAM Downloads

1999-08-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 21 Aug 99, at 0:23, Andrew Collier wrote: At 5:59 pm +0100 20/8/99, Johnna Teare wrote: From what I remember, The Bulgulators and Dyzonium were released as shareware anyway, when Lemmings went overdue. Certainly all those who had paid for Lemmings but had not yet received it got

Re: SAM Downloads

1999-08-20 Thread Johnna Teare
On 16 Aug 99, at 16:25, David Ledbury wrote: On 15 Aug 99, at 22:24, Martin Wilson wrote: The last time this one was mentioned someone went on to say that they shouldn't be uploaded because of various copyright reasons. =20 =20 I think before u even think of doing this -

Re: SAM Downloads

1999-08-20 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Aug 99, at 10:21, Andrew Collier wrote: It's difficult to contact anyone who owns anything anymore - and that's assuming you can even work out who owns what. The only person I'm convinced is familiar with enough of the details to be sure about the situation is Bob who, frankly, I

Re: SAM Downloads

1999-08-20 Thread Johnna Teare
On 19 Aug 99, at 22:53, Robert van der Veeke wrote: Even in the very unlikely case that there are people who are willing to buy a Sam overhere in the Netherlands, there is no way that they gonna pay another 100 to a 150 quid for a decent collection of software. And i don't blame them (mind

SAM Stuff for sale

1999-08-20 Thread Johnna Teare
Anybody who wants some SAM software, I'm selling the rest of mine... All magazines £1 each FRED 1-75 SAM Supp 1-24 SCAC 1-12 (although you can downloads these anyway from somewhere) Newsdisk 1-5 Various others (enceladus, primus etc.) Make an offer for the games (some have got the original

RE: SAM Downloads

1999-08-20 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Aug 99, at 16:47, Andrew Collier wrote: Don't forget that Astroball and Dyzonium are also bundled with Defender... both superb games too, IMHO (they each got Game Of The Month! in Second Opinion - see http://mnemotech.ucam.org/zodiac.html for reviews). From what I remember, The

Re: Er .. ignore me.

1999-08-16 Thread Johnna Teare
And now something on topic. Are Fred issues available for download anywhere? Would anyone care if I uploaded the ones I had. The last time this one was mentioned someone went on to say that they shouldn't be uploaded because of various copyright reasons. But I think this one is a bit lame

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