On 21 Sep 99, at 19:41, Thomas Harte wrote:
> > STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris.
>
> Anywhere I can get a copy?
FREd - forget the issue number ... (checks disk box) ...bugger -
can't find it!
Remember Santa Goes Psycho? I loved that aswell!
>
> -Thomas
>
On 21 Sep 99, at 15:05, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>
> David L wrote:
> >
> > > Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the
> > > days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my
> > > vocabulary today.. No wonder people give me weird looks someti
From: Aley Keprt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What is the really worst ever game?
> Some weeks ago somebody said Parallax, Vegetable Vacation, or
> FutureBall.
> What is the worst one?
EGGBuM ;-)
Or possibly just picked to the post by Colony. I bought it coz I thought it
might be a reasonable Sim* type
From: Martin Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> David L wrote:
> >
> > > Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the
> > > days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my
> > > vocabulary today.. No wonder people give me weird looks sometimes
when
> > >
> Otherwise games bore me to bits. ( most probably cos I cant program
them)..
> Anybody prepared to teach me how to program a game. I have some Ideas but
no
> Idea where to start. Z80 code please.
Mmm... how about: try writing a shoot-em-up, where all of the sprites and
game logic sit in the top
Prince of Persia
Good game
Bad games, Have'nt got a clue.
But why sod the disk up with a protection in that way.
Why can't I make a back up disk.
In my opinion, good game, worst marketing ploy.
Otherwise games bore me to bits. ( most probably cos I cant program them)..
Anybody prepared to teac
> STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris.
Anywhere I can get a copy?
-Thomas
> Its a shame nobody did a conversion of Daley Thompsons Super Test (or
> whatever) for the Sam.. I missed being able to knacker my joysticks (3
> in total).. it was kinda comical when the handle dislodged itself and
> you carried on wiggling for a while before realising... Ahh...
Wasn't Wayne Co
David L wrote:
>
> > Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the
> > days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my
> > vocabulary today.. No wonder people give me weird looks sometimes when
> > i say it.
>
> All I can say to that is Wibble!
And a
David Laundon wrote:
> NOPs removed HL on exit (sometimes varies by 1 between calls)
> 0/15d8
> 2/367e
> 4/574e
> 6/7859
> 8/99bd
> 10/11 bb0
I changed the uncontended timings to round them up to the next 4, as they
should be,
From: Dan Dooré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :)
>
>Whoa! Snap!
I wouldn't be surprised - that was the first disk to get a glowing review in a
computer mag.
Nick
> Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :)
Whoa! Snap!
Dan.
A-ha!!!
I got my copy from YS, then. and then copied it onto disk!
Well, that's one mystery solved... now for the next one: why can't I get
my code working here?!?!?!?!?!?
Justin
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrew Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 2:3
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Justin Skists wrote:
> Where on Earth did I get it from? I have no Fred disks at all...
>
> Was it ever on any YS tape?
Yes it was, and it's on nvg too.
Andrew
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Where on Earth did I get it from? I have no Fred disks at all...
Was it ever on any YS tape?
Justin
> -Original Message-
> From: Nick Humphries [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 2:19 PM
> To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
> Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game
>
To be honest, I have no idea...
I know my copy of it is on a different disk.
My guess is that it's from one of the Newsdisks that got sent out when
MGT/SamCo was still in control.
Justin
> -Original Message-
> From: Martin Fitzpatrick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 2
From: Martin Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>This has got me intrigued Sad that this is going to be what finally
>encourages to dig the Sam out off the shelf.. :).. Which disk was this
>on btw? Otherwise I'll be searching for hours...
Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :)
Nick
Justin Skists wrote:
>
> Sounds intruiging...
>
> Damn.. I gotta load it up again, now.. I don't remember anything dodgy
> going on with her lips...
This has got me intrigued Sad that this is going to be what finally
encourages to dig the Sam out off the shelf.. :).. Which disk was this
on
- Original Message -
From: Justin Skists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: RE: Still no rest for the Z80...
> The chance of anyone looking into eZ80 for the SAM? :)
What i specially liked about it is this:
--
The 8-bit version of the eZ80 famil
Sounds intruiging...
Damn.. I gotta load it up again, now.. I don't remember anything dodgy
going on with her lips...
Jut.
> -Original Message-
> From: Dan Dooré [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 10:20 AM
> To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no'
> Subject: RE: Sam's
> Who was she, anyway? I remember the scrolly saying something
> like the piccy was taken from the Archemedes..
She was in 8 greyscales plus there was something dodgy going on with her
lips.
It always looked like the cropped top of a porn picture to me :-)
Not that I played it a lot or anything
The chance of anyone looking into eZ80 for the SAM? :)
> -Original Message-
> From: Gavin Smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 5:07 PM
> To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
> Subject: Still no rest for the Z80...
>
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990920S0
>Would that be the tetris thing with the picture of that lass behing the
>blocks things?... I remember (when aaah was a ladd) getting a seriously
>distrubing interest in the Sam coupe, purely because it had a fit (or
>'fine' for the americans :o>) girl on it... They were like "wow..
>phwooaar this
From: Stewart Skardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>My worst game ever had to be the 'Mindgames' collection. I can't believe that
>it was even released.
Well it WAS released during the "Horace Goes Skiing" phase of SAM games
development...
Nick
On Mon 20 Sep 1999 (23:20:30),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>On 20 Sep 99, at 14:19, Nick Humphries wrote:
>
>> The best Columns game on the SAM was the one on one of the Arcadia
>disks -
>> used to play that for hours, I think my longest game was about 1h
>30...
>>
>
>Wasn't that Coloris? iirc
>
- Original Message -
From: Martin Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game
> Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the
> days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my
Simon Cooke wrote:
>
> > Btw. where did the whole fnar fnar thing come from? In my head its a
> > peculiarly 'Sam' thing (probably Fred, i can't imagine it being Format
> > :o>)...
>
> It's from Your Sinclair ;)
Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the
days... (etc.
On 20 Sep 99, at 23:42, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Btw. where did the whole fnar fnar thing come from? In my head its a
> peculiarly 'Sam' thing (probably Fred, i can't imagine it being Format
> :o>)...
Your Sinclair methinks.
And zucchini to you too.
>
> Hmph.
>
> Martin Fitz
>
> --
> Btw. where did the whole fnar fnar thing come from? In my head its a
> peculiarly 'Sam' thing (probably Fred, i can't imagine it being Format
> :o>)...
It's from Your Sinclair ;)
Simon
Johnna Teare wrote:
>
> On 20 Sep 99, at 13:38, Andrew Collier wrote:
>
>
> > Another Columns clone STAX by Wayne Coles, which was much better...
>
> STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris.
Would that be the tetris thing with the picture of that lass behing the
bloc
Johnna Teare wrote:
>
> On 20 Sep 99, at 13:25, Gavin Smith wrote:
>
> > Most-hyped-game-that-turned-out-to-be-not-very-good goes to Legend of
> > Eshan.
>
> Hurrah! Somebody who agrees with me. I remember reviewing this
> for SAM2Sam and giving it something like 9% and I got loads of
> stick
On 20 Sep 99, at 14:19, Nick Humphries wrote:
> The best Columns game on the SAM was the one on one of the Arcadia disks -
> used to play that for hours, I think my longest game was about 1h 30...
>
Wasn't that Coloris? iirc
> Nick
>
>
>
>
>
Peace, Love and Kisses,
JohnnaPig Teare
http
On 20 Sep 99, at 13:25, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Most-hyped-game-that-turned-out-to-be-not-very-good goes to Legend of
> Eshan.
Hurrah! Somebody who agrees with me. I remember reviewing this
for SAM2Sam and giving it something like 9% and I got loads of
stick for it.
Not the worst game ever, bu
On 20 Sep 99, at 13:38, Andrew Collier wrote:
> Another Columns clone STAX by Wayne Coles, which was much better...
STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris.
>
> Andrew
>
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> -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --My other
> -- http://mnemote
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