Re: GoodSAMC

2001-05-01 Thread Nev Young
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:43:49 +0100, Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:13:35PM +0100, Nev Young wrote: AFAIK Format died a death last century g It's been over a year since I last thought of SAM stuff, from memory. :) Bob is still alive and ripping people

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-05-01 Thread Robert van der Veeke
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Datum: dinsdag 1 mei 2001 8:00 Onderwerp: Re: GoodSAMC He still terrorises alt.rec.cats and uk.legal and a few other newsfroups. You DO abuse your cats, you keep cats indoors all

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-05-01 Thread Nev Young
On Tue, 1 May 2001 08:26:20 +0200, Robert van der Veeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Datum: dinsdag 1 mei 2001 8:00 Onderwerp: Re: GoodSAMC He still terrorises alt.rec.cats

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-30 Thread Paul Walker
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:13:35PM +0100, Nev Young wrote: AFAIK Format died a death last century g It's been over a year since I last thought of SAM stuff, from memory. :) Bob is still alive and ripping people off erm I mean providing a valuable service to the PC community. I'm strangely

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-29 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:09:37 +0100, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What? You mean he actually *did* have some copyrights???!! No, I mean he actually claimed to have :-) -- Nev - no longer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and getting no spam at all (yet) Webpage under construction at

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-29 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:56:29 +0100, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what happened to the Sam clocks Sh. But just between me and you, they didn't work. You had to set the time every time you turned the SAM on cos the battery couldn't do the job. -- Nev - no longer at

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-28 Thread Paul Walker
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:02:07AM +0200, Robert van der Veeke wrote: No he only had the rights to distribute them, that is something completely different from holding the copyright. But Bob being Bob tried to explain in such a way that it looks like he rights where just as important as those

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-28 Thread David Ledbury
- Original Message - From: Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:31 PM Subject: Re: GoodSAMC On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:02:07AM +0200, Robert van der Veeke wrote: No he only had the rights to distribute them, that is something

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-28 Thread Paul Walker
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:56:29PM +0100, David Ledbury wrote: And what happened to the Sam clocks Good grief, I'd forgotten all about those. People still haven't received them? -- Paul Some of us don't have cable. Me, for instance. I don't have it because I'm afraid that if I did, I'd

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-28 Thread David Ledbury
- Original Message - From: Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:58 PM Subject: Re: GoodSAMC On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:56:29PM +0100, David Ledbury wrote: And what happened to the Sam clocks Good grief, I'd forgotten all about

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-27 Thread Nev Young
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:44:21 +0100, Luke Trevorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dark and distant memory of Andy posting on the list that the SAM ROMs are PD. This was so that they could be distributed with SimCoupe. Luke I have an archive that says

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-27 Thread David Ledbury
What? You mean he actually *did* have some copyrights???!! - Original Message - From: Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:04 PM Subject: Re: GoodSAMC On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:44:21 +0100, Luke Trevorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-27 Thread Robert van der Veeke
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Datum: vrijdag 27 april 2001 1:08 Onderwerp: Re: GoodSAMC What? You mean he actually *did* have some copyrights???!! No he only had the rights to distribute them

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-26 Thread Allan Skillman
Hi Simon (and all), I have the mail from Andy Wright giving permission to distribute the Sam Rom binary in SimCoupe field away on my PC at home. I will dig it out and post it to the list. BTW Simon, SimCoupe and SDL is a great idea. I'm sure someone here can port the Windows UI to UNIX, either

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-26 Thread David L
But I doubt he would have made the PD - only that he'd allow Allan to distribute them with the emulator - if i recall. - Original Message - From: Allan Skillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:33 AM Subject: Re: GoodSAMC Hi Simon (and all

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: I had to unpack all my images, since it stupidly doesn't accept sad.gz / SADv2 images. Yeah, seems odd that the program uses ZLib, but only for zip files - it didn't seem to like my .gz files either. Also, it seemms that it refuses to accept SAD converted to DSK or vice

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Dean Woodyatt
-Original Message- From: Simon Owen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2001 12:25 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: GoodSAMC Aley Keprt wrote: I had to unpack all my images, since it stupidly doesn't accept sad.gz / SADv2 images. Yeah, seems odd

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
And, finally, it refuses to accept disks with more than 80 tracks (maybe all except 80, but I have only 80, 82 and 84). Must be a non-80-track thing, as it also complained about undersize SAD images - your 'alternative module player' comes on a small SAD image, and that had to be converted

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Dean Woodyatt
the existance of the crap in the db, and only renaming good stuff - i guess its just easier that way -Original Message- From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2001 13:55 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: GoodSAMC And, finally, it refuses to accept disks

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Dean Woodyatt
-users@nvg.ntnu.no' Subject: RE: GoodSAMC they'll get to that, trouble is, they have to filter out the dross first, if you look at the other good utils, any confirmed good dumps are marked ! thats what will probably happen to goodsamc, i dont know why the author allows crap to be listed

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew J Craven
You never know what is official. It contains tens of spectrum games collection or demos collection images. That's why I wrote it is a nonsense to make database of diskettes. I think we should build a database of ROMs instead. (real roms - MGT Sam Basic version 1,2,3..., SamCo ROM, etc.) Who

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Dean Woodyatt
werent they released as PD? -Original Message- From: Matthew J Craven [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2001 14:26 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: GoodSAMC You never know what is official. It contains tens of spectrum games collection or demos collection

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Chris White
Dr A Wright (author) / SamCo Recievers / Format Not sure about PD , infact i haven't seen them anywhere -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dean Woodyatt Sent: 25 April 2001 14:32 To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' Subject: RE: GoodSAMC werent

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: Really? It's called Aley's instead of Alternative. I don't know who the f. wrote the worng name into the database. Heh - they should have known that there are no other 'A' words! ;-) And I don't know why it has undersized SAD. Isn't the file corrupted? My mistake - the

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew J Craven
Subject:RE: GoodSAMC You never know what is official. It contains tens of spectrum games collection or demos collection images. That's why I wrote it is a nonsense to make database of diskettes. I think we should build a database of ROMs instead. (real roms - MGT Sam Basic version

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Luke Trevorrow
Subject: RE: GoodSAMC werent they released as PD? No idea! I *thought* that was just Amstrad (even though they retain copyright). Did Samco, MGT actually do that? -Original Message- From: Matthew J Craven [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2001 14:26 To: sam-users

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew J Craven
I have a dark and distant memory of Andy posting on the list that the SAM ROMs are PD. This was so that they could be distributed with SimCoupe. Luke Yes. It would be logical. That's good news then! --Matthew.

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Simon Owen
Luke Trevorrow wrote: I have a dark and distant memory of Andy posting on the list that the SAM ROMs are PD. This was so that they could be distributed with SimCoupe. *forms a circle and joins hands* Allan? Can you hear us out there? Si

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
Really? It's called Aley's instead of Alternative. I don't know who the f. wrote the worng name into the database. Heh - they should have known that there are no other 'A' words! ;-) !!! [EMAIL PROTECTED]@% They are other words too. I know at least one: Axoft ;-) I don't know what's wrong

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Dean Woodyatt
aley, make up a list of the ones your name should be in I've spoken with cowering before, i'll make sure it gets done! -Original Message- From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2001 15:23 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: GoodSAMC Really? It's

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: I don't know what's wrong on having my name at the beginning of some programs, jsut to distinguish them from other software. Other people or companies do it as well. e.g. Corel Draw, Microsoft Windows, Adobe Acrobat, Norton Commander, etc. It stands out to me because it's

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Dean Woodyatt
] Sent: 25 April 2001 15:33 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: GoodSAMC Aley Keprt wrote: I don't know what's wrong on having my name at the beginning of some programs, jsut to distinguish them from other software. Other people or companies do it as well. e.g. Corel Draw

RE: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Simon Owen
Dean Woodyatt wrote: I think, that given the enthusiast nature of the sam coupe that people should be given full credit by name in the Db this wouldnt work for the NES, or Megadrive, but seeming as most stuff for sam was PD, this would be best! Yep, agreed (I was only talking about the

Aley [Was: Re: GoodSAMC]

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: RE: GoodSAMC Aley Keprt wrote: I don't know what's wrong on having my name at the beginning of some programs, jsut to distinguish them from other software. Other people or companies do it as well. e.g. Corel Draw, Microsoft Windows, Adobe

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
I think, that given the enthusiast nature of the sam coupe that people should be given full credit by name in the Db this wouldnt work for the NES, or Megadrive, but seeming as most stuff for sam was PD, this would be best! Yep, agreed (I was only talking about the program names before).

RE: Aley [Was: Re: GoodSAMC]

2001-04-25 Thread Dean Woodyatt
SiCoupe? Mmm. ;¬) -Original Message- From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2001 16:04 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Aley [Was: Re: GoodSAMC] You should know that Aley is not my real name, it's my nick and I use it instead of Axoft

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Paul Walker
At 17:05 25/04/01 +0200, Aley Keprt wrote: I see I won't release my programs for Sam, otherwise you will put me in the lowest coders quality cathegory. Interesting assertion - that PD programs are the lowest quality. Presumably you also rank people who write software for money as the best

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
I see I won't release my programs for Sam, otherwise you will put me in the lowest coders quality cathegory. Interesting assertion - that PD programs are the lowest quality. Presumably you also rank people who write software for money as the best coders? Usually people who really can earn

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew J Craven
Usually people who really can earn money from *it*, don't do *it* for free. ;-) Actually, I know my software for Sam, and I know what cathegory they are. :-( If somebody is going to cathegorize authors by quality, I will fall into the lowest one, if I upload anything more than 10% of my

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Paul Walker
At 18:50 25/04/01 +0200, Aley wrote: Usually people who really can earn money from *it*, don't do *it* for free. ;-) I'd be interested to hear what you think of, say, free software, then. (In the GNU sense.) Or people who both write software for money, and for free... -- Paul

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
Usually people who really can earn money from *it*, don't do *it* for free. ;-) I'd be interested to hear what you think of, say, free software, then. (In the GNU sense.) Or people who both write software for money, and for free... off topic

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Paul Walker
At 19:51 25/04/01 +0200, you wrote: I'd be interested to hear what you think of, say, free software, then. (In the GNU sense.) Or people who both write software for money, and for free... off topic Private email? -- Paul

Re: GoodSamC (Was Help Me:) )

2001-04-24 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:12:57 +0100 Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's complete and being uploaded to Nvg , When the SysOp sorts it into its own dir anyone who wishes to may grab it from there I have moved it into temp/from_CW. I have no idea what to do with it. Should I create a separate

RE: GoodSamC (Was Help Me:) )

2001-04-24 Thread Chris White
C -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frode Tenneboe Sent: 24 April 2001 20:32 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: GoodSamC (Was Help Me:) ) On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:12:57 +0100 Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's complete and being

RE: GoodSamC (Was Help Me:) )

2001-04-24 Thread Chris White
What is your private email :)