Re: A dumb and ill considered idea

1999-06-13 Thread Thomas Harte
[cut] thinking about one of the posts I read, and it gave me an idea... Actually this is the one consideration that keeps me bothering to even think about writing anything for the SAM since my real machine is far too beyond useful life to make it worth it. Shame really. It is a nice

Some questions

1999-06-13 Thread Thomas Harte
Hi, to aid me in my continuing attempts to write some code that does something interesting, please feel free to answer the following questions : - is LDIR the fastest way to draw sprites to random positions on the screen (random in the same way as random access memory is

Re: Sam-the years ahead.

1999-06-13 Thread PGLOVER43
SAM - the years ahead, Hmmm - I'm not too optimistic about SAM's future, but if you're after SAM spares, disk drives, etc. I'd suggest browsing the pages of MICRO COMPUTER MART, with its pages of classified ads. Occasionally you find someone selling a SAM at a knockdown price, usually with a

Re: Sam-the years ahead.

1999-06-13 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
jadams1 wrote: All I need is someone to sell me some software I need and a printer interface.A clock would be nice as well as a second disk drive. Well I've got (and willing to part with maybe... since i never really used them anyway) ..A printer interface (which works perfectly).. and

Re: Some questions

1999-06-13 Thread Andrew Collier
to aid me in my continuing attempts to write some code that does something interesting, please feel free to answer the following questions : - is LDIR the fastest way to draw sprites to random positions on the screen (random in the same way as random access memory is anyway)

Re: A dumb and ill considered idea

1999-06-13 Thread Tim
From: Graham Goring [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, I imagined it, then I thought about the tons of PC software that's either cheaper or free, and that's far better than Matt Round's game. I don't think there's anything that's available on the SAM that hasn't been done better on the PC. (The only

Re: A dumb and ill considered idea

1999-06-13 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes From: Graham Goring [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, I imagined it, then I thought about the tons of PC software that's either cheaper or free, and that's far better than Matt Round's game. I don't think there's anything that's available on the