Simon Owen wrote:
SimCoupe does have some convenience features that aren't true to the
real machine, such as turbo mode, fast disk access, fast startup, and
auto-booting. Adding support for fixed variable speeds (25%, 50%,
200%, ...) probably falls under the same category, and is something
Geoff Winkless wrote:
And on the subject of the accelerator board, I remember
Cookie showing one running Lemmings at the second Gloucester
show that someone (can't remember ... was it Nev? don't think
so) had built... what happened to that?
Well, here's a bit of history...
I designed
Just to change the subject quickly, on Ebay currently,
I see someone is selling all of their Sam stuff,
including 91 games and the machine (currently £16).
I have to add that it's not mine!
Curiously, whoever is selling it labeled the Sam a
Games Console. Not heard it called that before. ;-)
Geoff Winkless wrote:
And on the subject of the accelerator board, I remember
Cookie showing one running Lemmings at the second Gloucester
show that someone (can't remember ... was it Nev? don't think
so) had built... what happened to that?
I think it was the second show. I've
Andy Chandler wrote:
As for the accelerator, I think I remember seeing that in
action. Am I right in thinking it affected the screen refresh
slightly and there was the odd line across the screen,
possibly where the ASIC didn't gain access to the video RAM
in time? (I'm pretending to know
On Nov 19, 2004, at 11:32 am, Geoff Winkless wrote:
Heh. If Andrew's site comes back up in the near future I'll have a
play with
pyz80, then Statues might still see the light of day :) :) :)
Alternatively I might just write the shoot-em-up I always wanted but
couldn't be bothered with...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howard Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And on the subject of the accelerator board, I remember Cookie showing one
running Lemmings at the second Gloucester show that someone (can't remember
was it Nev? don't think so) had built... what happened to that?
BLUE RUBBER FEET!!! are you awake now?
And don't forget the rarer black feet! ;)
Colin
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Issue Ten of Sam Revival Magazine Out Now
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: ORSAM show report
BLUE RUBBER FEET!!! are you awake now?
And don't forget the rarer black feet! ;)
Colin
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Issue Ten
--- Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BLUE RUBBER FEET!!! are you awake now?
And don't forget the rarer black feet! ;)
Colin
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the Sam Coupe
Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/ and
http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/
Issue
Is it true that the SAM colours red - blue - white reperesents the
colours of the english flag?
PS: I have also a black footed SAM. Whats the reason for the black
feets?
Wolfgang (back to SAM related things)
;-)
Colin Piggot wrote:
BLUE RUBBER FEET!!! are you awake now?
--- Wolfgang Haller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it true that the SAM colours red - blue - white
reperesents the
colours of the english flag?
They are the same - but I think that was incidental.
The white could represent icecream - which gave SAM
the Coupe name(it was named after a Coupe
From: Slitscan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BLUE RUBBER FEET!!!
AMBER DRIVE LED !
unfortunately mine went to hardware heaven many ions ago.
are you awake now?
barely
ZZ
From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a) They're evil SAMs
b) They ran out of blue feet.
c) They are disguised black footed sheep ??
Howard Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BORING! Everyone's sound on this list, and I can get
bickering off any old net chatroom. That'll do now.
Apologies to all, hadn't intended my light-hearted comment to offend, and
Howard's absolutely right of course.
On to Sam stuff...
It
It occurred to me that with SimCoupe we could overclock the machine and
code
up stuff that wouldn't have been possible on the 6MHz Sam (except possibly
with the accelerator board, of course!). Do people think this destroys the
heritage of the machine or is it something they'd be happy to see
Colin Piggot wrote:
It occurred to me that with SimCoupe we could overclock the machine
and code up stuff that wouldn't have been possible on the 6MHz Sam
(except possibly with the accelerator board, of course!). Do people
think this destroys the heritage of the machine or is it something
Colin Piggot wrote:
Hmmm... the temptation would be there to run SimCoupe at
higher speeds, and yes great things could be done... but it
would lose the feel of the real machine along the way.
I do agree with that aspect of it, in that it only makes sense to emulate
features that can/do exist
something in previous posts so feel free to
elaborate...
Frans
-
Original Message -
From:
Geoff
Winkless
To:
sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent:
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject:
RE: ORSAM show report
What do you want, a medal
AMTo:
Sam users groupSubject: Re: ORSAM show report
Somehow I was expecting some idiot
wouldcome up with this...
- Original Message -
From:
Geoff
Winkless
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:33
AM
Subject: RE: ORSAM
And by the way: I have put my pictures from Orsam to my website. GO TO:
www.womoteam.de/SAM/
and choose Norwich Pics 2004.
Nice pics - did any of the videos ever surface? I'd like to see Colin's chat
about his new hardware in particular.
Gavin (currently SAMless and missing it)
On Nov 18, 2004, at 10:00 am, Gavin Smith wrote:
did any of the videos ever surface? I'd like to see Colin's chat
about his new hardware in particular.
I haven't got the tape back yet. I'll let you know when I do.
Unfortunately there was so much continuing background noise, I'd be
surprised
nt out that what you wrote seemed a little petty, I'm sorry
that you didn't see it that way, perhaps a liberal sprinkling of smileys would
have been useful?
Geoff
From: Leonard Bennett
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 November 2004
18:03To: Sam users groupSubject: Re: ORSAM show
report
Som
t it. Can I get some
crib-notes?
-
Original Message -
From:
Geoff
Winkless
To:
sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent:
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject:
RE: ORSAM show report
What do you want, a m
@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject: RE: ORSAM show report
What do you want, a medal?
G
From: Leonard Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 November 2004 11:08
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: ORSAM show report
I would just like to point out here
--- Howard Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BORING! Everyone's sound on this list, and I can
get bickering off any old
net chatroom. That'll do now.
Indeedy.
I'll go back to sleep until someone says something SAM
related
BLUE RUBBER FEET!!! are you awake now?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of david
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:24 PM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: ORSAM show report
--- Howard Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BORING
Somehow I was expecting some idiot
wouldcome up with this...
- Original Message -
From:
Geoff
Winkless
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:33
AM
Subject: RE: ORSAM show report
What do you want, a medal?
G
From: Leonard
, does it David
S-S!
Len Bennett
- Original Message -
From:
Wolfgang
Haller
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:41
AM
Subject: Re: ORSAM show report
Hi to all...Beeing back in Cologne since last night,
coming from the warm temperatures
What do you want, a medal?
G
From: Leonard Bennett
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 November 2004
11:08To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.noSubject: Re: ORSAM show
report
I would just like to point out here that
Wolfgang was staying with me as my house guest here at Welwyn Garden City from
David S-S!
Len Bennett
-
Original Message -
From:
Wolfgang
Haller
To:
sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent:
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:41 AM
Subject:
Re: ORSAM show report
Hi to all...
Beeing back in Cologne since last night, coming fro
Wolfgang Haller wrote:
And by the way: I have put my pictures from Orsam to my
website. GO TO: www.womoteam.de/SAM/ and choose Norwich Pics 2004.
Nice to see more show pics :-)
From your second page:
Andrew with Simon Owen and possibly a visitor (or who?).
The extra person was Andy Kavanagh,
] On Behalf
Of Wolfgang HallerSent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:21
PMTo: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.noSubject: Re: ORSAM show
reportThese is one of the days I don´t like. You are in a
good mood and then such a mail comes in, I was fully unprepared.I
don´t want make a big thing of it, I wrote him
On Nov 9, 2004, at 3:18 pm, Simon Owen wrote:
Andrew Collier wrote:
Here are someone else's pictures of this year's show:
Here are the ones I took:
http://www.simonowen.com/photo/showimg.php?file=/orsam2004/
2004_11_06%20012.jpg
Good gracious, that extreme red-eye makes me look
changing), by bus (in Norwich) and at last by
feet.. :-)
But alright, flying is wonderful and it needed me not longer from
Cologne to Ldn-Stansted as about one hour ;-) Think, I will do it again
next ORSAM show, as I enjoyed it very much (except that my camera has
broken).
Wolfgang
david
is wonderful and it needed me not longer from
Cologne to Ldn-Stansted as about one hour ;-) Think, I will do it again
next ORSAM show, as I enjoyed it very much (except that my camera has
broken).
Wolfgang
david wrote:
--- David Suzuki-Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Crikey
Crikey - where were you travelling from?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of david
Sent: 07 November 2004 22:18
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: RE: ORSAM show report
It cost me 69 quid - and booking earlier wouldnt have
made much
--- David Suzuki-Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Crikey - where were you travelling from?
The arse end of Bolton - 5 hrs in the train
Definately worth flying next time - 55mins in the plane
Andrew Collier wrote:
Here are someone else's pictures of this year's show:
Here are the ones I took:
http://www.simonowen.com/photo/index.php?folder=/orsam2004/
Si
: Re: ORSAM show on Saturday
Arse! I think I've broken my Sam.
Whose bright idea was it to use a non-standard SCART pinout, so you
have to get cut some some of the cable's wires before most TVs will
even display a picture?
I must have got one of the pins wrong, and shorted something, because
Well, yesterday was the ORSAM (Spectrum clones) show, and since noone
else has posted about it yet I thought I would do a quick report:
I arrived at the centre with about two minutes to spare (having been
within a mile for about the last quarter of an hour, I think. It isn't
the easiest
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Andrew Collier
Sent: 07 November 2004 14:13
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: ORSAM show report
Well, yesterday was the ORSAM (Spectrum clones) show, and since noone
else has posted about it yet I thought I would do a quick report:
I arrived at the centre
- Original Message -
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: ORSAM show report
Well, yesterday was the ORSAM (Spectrum clones) show, and since noone
else has posted about it yet I thought I would do a quick
On Nov 7, 2004, at 7:16 pm, Robert van der Veeke wrote:
Well, yesterday was the ORSAM (Spectrum clones) show, and since
noone
else has posted about it yet I thought I would do a quick report:
Was that Wolfgang Haller on one of the ORSAM pictures?
Probably... (which picture?)
Here are
--- Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 7, 2004, at 7:16 pm, Robert van der Veeke
wrote:
Well, yesterday was the ORSAM (Spectrum clones)
show, and since
noone
else has posted about it yet I thought I would do
a quick report:
Was that Wolfgang Haller on one of the
--- Robert van der Veeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: ORSAM show report
Well, yesterday was the ORSAM (Spectrum clones)
show, and since noone
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:24:59 - Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hope to see some of you there!
Sadly I can't be there this time either. I hope all who go have a
grand time! Take pictures! :)
-Frode
--
^ Frode Tennebø | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^
| Ericsson AS |
Arse! I think I've broken my Sam.
Whose bright idea was it to use a non-standard SCART pinout, so you
have to get cut some some of the cable's wires before most TVs will
even display a picture?
I must have got one of the pins wrong, and shorted something, because
now I can't get a picture
--- Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a quick reminder to everyone that the ORSAM
2004 show that's being
organised by Tarquin Mills is taking place on
Saturday, from 10am to 4pm.
Information is up on his site at:
http://www.speccyverse.me.uk/orsam/index.html
Hope to
Just a quick reminder to everyone that the ORSAM 2004 show that's being
organised by Tarquin Mills is taking place on Saturday, from 10am to 4pm.
Information is up on his site at:
http://www.speccyverse.me.uk/orsam/index.html
Hope to see some of you there!
Colin
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- Original Message -
From: Colin Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sam Users sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 11:16 PM
Subject: ORSAM Show...
Greetings all,
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but
given it'd be a 900-odd mile round
- Original Message -
From: Matthew J. Craven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: ORSAM Show...
I have decided against going as a lot of things have come up in the
past couple of weeks. Also I investigated the train times
- Original Message -
From: Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: ORSAM Show...
People seem to backing out at the last minute, what they do not
seem to appreciate is that I spent a 3 figure some on this show
- Original Message -
From: Colin Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sam Users sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 11:16 PM
Subject: ORSAM Show...
Greetings all,
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but
given it'd be a 900-odd mile
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Colin Macdonald wrote:
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but
given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted to verify that it'll
be a decent turn out - who all's going?
I regret not. I would have loved to go, and I was planning
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but
given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted to verify that
it'll
be a decent turn out - who all's going?
Not me either I'm afraid. If I could do there and back in a day by train
then I'd have gone, and even
Greetings all,
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but
given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted to verify that it'll
be a decent turn out - who all's going?
And in case anyone can't guess my next question, who's staying over and
fancies a few
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but
given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted to verify that
it'll
be a decent turn out - who all's going?
I'll be at the show as a trader, travelling there on the Friday due to lack
of trains early on Saturday
I have decided against going as a lot of things have come up in the
past couple of weeks. Also I investigated the train times and coach
journeys available and discovered it took an absolutely inordinate
amount of time to get the small distance from Manchester to
Norwich. :-(
--Matt.
On 26
On 26 Oct 03, at 23:16, Colin Macdonald wrote:
Greetings all,
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend,
but given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted to verify
that it'll be a decent turn out - who all's going?
And in case anyone can't guess
27 October 2003 17:21, Tarquin Mills wrote:
People seem to backing out at the last minute,
I'm still coming.
I created this show because I believe in retro computers, and have
just collected a commercially made sign for the show. Hope to see you
there, hope my straight talking has not
People seem to backing out at the last minute, what they do not seem
to appreciate is that I spent a 3 figure some on this show, not 75p
and a pack of rolos. I am not cancelling the show at this late stage.
I do appreciate that you've spent a large sum of money on the
show, and never would
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:16:38 -, Colin Macdonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings all,
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but
given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted to verify that it'll
be a decent turn out - who all's going?
I'll be
Colin Macdonald wrote:
wanted to verify that it'll be a decent turn out - who all's going?
Far from decent, but I'll be there :-)
Si
- Original Message -
From: Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: ORSAM Show...
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but
given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted
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