SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Chris Pile
Hi All, Some of you may know about SAM DEFENDER and my reluctance to release it because of the moral issues surrounding Persona, even thought I own all rights to the program. Basically I was waiting for David Ledbury's instructions with regards to Persona. Now David has left the SAM scene,

Re: SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Simon Cooke
Ok... so what did you do to it that breaks SimCoupe? :) Simon

Re: SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Chris Pile
-Original Message- From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date: 26 August 1999 02:08 Subject: Re: SAM DEFENDER Ok... so what did you do to it that breaks SimCoupe? :) A seasoned 'hacker' like yourself will have no trouble cracking it! ;-)

RE: SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Justin Skists
But anyway, good on you for uploading that! Remind me to buy you a drink some time... speaking of which, doeS aNyBody know whether there is a Quedgeley show planned for this October?? I realise Bob's the person to ask, but has anyone managed to contact him recently? I'd hate to think that Sam's

Re: SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Andrew Collier
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Simon Cooke wrote: Ok... so what did you do to it that breaks SimCoupe? :) Well, it isn't *that* long since I posted a little timing routine which prints a repeatably different result on SimCoupe (up to 0.78) and Sam Coupe... it wouldn't be hard just to have automated that!

RE: SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Andrew Collier
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Justin Skists wrote: But anyway, good on you for uploading that! Remind me to buy you a drink some time... speaking of which, doeS aNyBody know whether there is a Quedgeley show planned for this October?? I realise Bob's the person to ask, but has anyone managed to

Re: SAM networks

1999-08-26 Thread Jarek Adamski
Ian Collier wrote: At least, I don't know of any way to control those two pins separately from the MIDI, and the networking bits of the Sam ROM use port 253 in such a way that you can connect a normal MIDI lead and communicate over it. There's a bit port that allows control ouput line apart

Re: SAM networks

1999-08-26 Thread Jarek Adamski
Justin Skists wrote: I had always had the impression that the network port was, in fact, the MIDI port. You connect the SAMs up as a daisy chain and tell the SAM about it. (Oops, I should write all I know first.) Gasson wrote: Kinda-sorta right. It is the MIDI port, but it's not the MIDI

Re: SAM networks

1999-08-26 Thread Simon Cooke
The UART used for MIDI works also in network. But in multi point network the first byte of frame (computer number) must be send with checking of actual state of line. If you want low state, but the state is high, this means other computer also started transmission and its number is higher, so

Re: SAM networks

1999-08-26 Thread Ian Collier
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 03:54:29AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote: Umm.. actually, the priority of the other computers aren't taken into account; the ROM just checks to see if the line is busy; if it is, it waits ... a random amount of time before checking again ... until it isn't. Because of

Re: SAM networks

1999-08-26 Thread Andrew Collier
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Jarek Adamski wrote: I would like to know is there software that allows connect more than 2 SAMs or connect SAM with Interface 1. Actually, some years ago I did work on a token-ring[1] system for connecting Sams together - my experiments at the time only went as far as

Re: SAM networks

1999-08-26 Thread Ian Collier
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 12:37:39PM +0100, Jarek Adamski wrote: Does is use a kind of network protocol (frames) or only sends bytes like for tape? The Sam ROM does not use network protocol and behaves pretty much like the tape interface. If MasterDOS is loaded then you can do it by putting n:

SAMDISK.exe + Simcoupe.

1999-08-26 Thread Robert Wilkinson
Can anyone tell me why Samdisk will not work with my PC. I have a 386 x 16mhz laptop and Samdisk works perfectly on that. I've had various flavours of PC.. 486 DX2 66 Samdisk would not work. .. P100 Samdisk would not work.

Re: SAMDISK.exe + Simcoupe.

1999-08-26 Thread Andrew Collier
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Robert Wilkinson wrote: Can anyone tell me why Samdisk will not work with my PC. Any Ideas I hope this doesn't sound trite, but have you tried samdsk instead? (ISTR it works much more reliably than the other program). Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL

Re: SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Graham Goring
In message Pine.SOL.3.95q.990826085542.26407A- [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'd hate to think that Sam's tenth birthday may go by without a proper party... Don't you mean wake? Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even

Re: SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Chris Pile
Original Message- From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sam Users Group sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date: 26 August 1999 09:41 Subject: Re: SAM DEFENDER Not that I want to be unnecessarily picky, but on the site you say: LEGAL JARGON: I'm releasing SAM DEFENDER into the

Re: SAMDISK.exe + Simcoupe.

1999-08-26 Thread Robert Wilkinson
Andrew Collier wrote I hope this doesn't sound trite, but have you tried samdsk instead? (ISTR it works much more reliably than the other program). Andrew No, I don't have Samdsk, where can I get it. Bob Wilkinson.

Re: SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Gasson
Andrew Collier wrote: I'd hate to think that Sam's tenth birthday may go by without a proper party... Graham Goring wrote: Don't you mean wake? Well, I'm glad you didn't organise _my_ 10th birthday party. ;-) -- James Gasson