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

2004-11-29 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:05:21 - Slitscan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a bit old now - but seriously Frode, do you think the GoodSAMC list is anything even slightly approaching comprehensive? I would say not. Your original comment was about anything. While not claiming to be

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

2004-11-28 Thread Slitscan
: Dare to share (was Re: Days of Sorcery) On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:58:45 - Slitscan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to kind of agree here - When I first started trawling the web to see if I could get anything Coupe-related, the biggest suprise wasn't that there was anything available at all

Re: Dare to share (was Re: Days of Sorcery)

2004-11-22 Thread Edwin Blink
- Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] The later SimCoupe betas can open .td0 files (read-only), so they can be copied across to something more compatible fairly easily. I found some Russian docs that covered just about enough to work out how it was done. I didn't

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

2004-11-22 Thread Edwin Blink
I've noticed the Annotated rom disassembly is downloadable. Waited a long time for this ! I just recently got permission from Andrew Wright. -Frode Thats the Spirit ! Edwin

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

2004-11-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Simon Owen wrote: Simon Cooke wrote: Look at the files on the archive which were kept in teledisk format (ending in .td0) for example - we have no way of extracting these now. It'd be a shame to lose other things that way. The later SimCoupe betas can open .td0 files (read-only), so

Dare to share (was re: Days of Sorcery)

2004-11-20 Thread Edwin Blink
I'm with Gavin to share the lot ! Many things where created for SAM and are hold back because of the 'respect' and while time passes things get lost or will get bad as floppies won't live forever. Then things that where created with enthiousasm and took many hours of work will simply disappear.

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

2004-11-20 Thread Gavin Smith
However, I do take your point that floppy disks have a limited lifespan, so we should try to make sure that everything is imaged and catalogued. Perhaps we could maintain a list of what images exist - not necessarily to release the images right now, but to make sure that everything will still

Re: Dare to share (was Re: Days of Sorcery)

2004-11-20 Thread Colin Piggot
Geoff Winkless wrote: But one of the great things about the Sam was (and is!) the respect and sense of community which the users showed to each other. By insisting that we check with the original authors we are maintaining that level of respect which I for one have no wish to destroy. I

Re: Dare to share (was Re: Days of Sorcery)

2004-11-20 Thread david
--- Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have already spent time over the last couple of months tracking down programmers and have been able to secure the re-release of some Sam games which will be appearing on future Sam Revival coverdisks under the heading 'Classic Coupe Collection'.

Re: Dare to share (was Re: Days of Sorcery)

2004-11-20 Thread Gavin Smith
I have already spent time over the last couple of months tracking down programmers and have been able to secure the re-release of some Sam games which will be appearing on future Sam Revival coverdisks under the heading 'Classic Coupe Collection'. The first coverdisk with issue 9 which

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

2004-11-20 Thread Slitscan
, and much respect to be had by releasing them to the public. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin Smith Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:31 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Dare to share (was Re: Days of Sorcery) I

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

2004-11-20 Thread Wolfgang Haller
Hi Gavin. I full agree with you and all those, who are thinking in the same way. And I offer you my help, as I can send you a list of my collected SAM stuff of more than thousands programs of all sort I collected in many years (worldwide) to show what was programmed for the SAM. If you want,

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

2004-11-20 Thread Luke Trevorrow
in the day, and feel warm and cuddly about the fact that we were all there at the time ;o) Luke -Original Message- From: Gavin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 November 2004 13:34 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Dare to share (was re: Days of Sorcery) However, I do take

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

2004-11-20 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:58:56 +0100 Edwin Blink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed the Annotated rom disassembly is downloadable. Waited a long time for this ! Thanks Frode I just recently got permission from Andrew Wright. -Frode -- ^ Frode Tennebø | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-11-20 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:58:45 - Slitscan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to kind of agree here - When I first started trawling the web to see if I could get anything Coupe-related, the biggest suprise wasn't that there was anything available at all (which was quite suprising to say the

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

2004-11-20 Thread Johnna
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin Smith Sent: 20 November 2004 13:34 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Dare to share (was re: Days of Sorcery) However, I do take your point that floppy disks have a limited lifespan, so we should try to make sure

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

2004-11-20 Thread Simon Cooke
Frode wrote: In the GoodSAMC directory there are currently 525 files which I'm fairly certain nobody cares is released or not. At least nobody has raised their voice yet. Well, apart from the fact that there's a bunch of unfinished stuff by me in there, which is a little embarassing (because

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

2004-11-20 Thread Simon Owen
Simon Cooke wrote: Look at the files on the archive which were kept in teledisk format (ending in .td0) for example - we have no way of extracting these now. It'd be a shame to lose other things that way. The later SimCoupe betas can open .td0 files (read-only), so they can be copied across

Re: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Colin Piggot
Anyone ever buy this? I kept intending to, because I thought the demo on Fred looked fab. Anyone have a .dsk of it and a scan of instructions (if there any) or is the author likely to mind? Nigel Kettlewell's not been seen around for a bit, and it would of course always be best to get the

Re: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Smith
Quoting Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone ever buy this? I kept intending to, because I thought the demo on Fred looked fab. Anyone have a .dsk of it and a scan of instructions (if there any) or is the author likely to mind? Nigel Kettlewell's not been seen around for a bit, and

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: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
Johnna wrote: So I say - Publish and be damned! Let's get a website up and running and dump EVERYTHING we've got on there that is SAM related and then maintain it as a homage to what was, once, a great machine. Nobody else is going to do this. We are almost the last bastions of the SAM World,

RE: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Smith
I used to be dead against sharing SAM files but as time goes by, it really is getting a bit pointless, EXCEPT for the obvious exceptions of anyone who we know would be against it or for anyone still producing stuff that isn't free such as Colin. I agree with most of what you said - basically we're