Re: I'm back.

1998-08-23 Thread Gavin Smith
persona wrote: 3) Did many games have on-body printing on the disc? I've just looked through my collection and there was not many. Fred did it with Lemmings... And a few others IIR Erm, mine didn't! (And yes, I ordered it as soon as it was announced). Had a quick look through most of my SAM

FS: Formats and Speccy stuff (still)

1998-08-24 Thread Gavin Smith
My collection of Formats - someone please take them! £10 for the lot! There's loads of the things! Also: Speccy bits and pieces - lightgun, power supplies, Multiface 3, +2/+3 keyboards (mail me for details). (Also some C64 stuff for sale *boo hiss* etc) Gavin

Re: FS: Formats and Speccy stuff (still)

1998-08-24 Thread Gavin Smith
David wrote: Gavin Smith wrote: My collection of Formats - someone please take them! £10 for the lot! How many issues? Out of interest ...? (Wahey you're back online!) About 5 year's worth I think - so that's over 100 issues). Get your PC fixed? Nice one!

Re: I'm new here.

1998-08-31 Thread Gavin Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I pointed out, and it is something that you cannot deny, is that if just a few of the people on this list had provided Nev with even a little bit of help the HDOS would be a lot better than it is. Oh joy, Mr Get-along-with-everyone is back. Okay, if you want to

Re: Sam Users List 28th September 1998

1998-09-28 Thread Gavin Smith
David wrote: Wayne Coles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Wayne... finished Kaboom yet? ;) Blimey! That reminds me! Bob, I suppose that cheque for the refund of my SAM-Clock order (which must be years old by now!) is in the post? :) Gavin

Re: Samsgod

1998-10-16 Thread Gavin Smith
Simon Cooke wrote: Ummm... no, actually... I was talking about someone having the username Samsgod :) Simon Er, yeah, but I think Samsgod was taking the piss out of a certain other person, or just SAM people with inflated egos, in general :) --

State of the SAM and SAM Community

1998-10-16 Thread Gavin Smith
Things are getting a bit worked up on the list again! I can definitely see both sides of the argument. Of course people don't have as much time for the SAM anymore and part of the reason for that is that most of us were teenagers when we had the time - nowadays we've grown up, got jobs etc., and

SAM show

1998-10-17 Thread Gavin Smith
So what was it like? Any good? (M)any people? Any fights? Any drinking? And did Bob take the piss out of me in his little speechy thing again this time? -- *** Email- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ - 5099913 Website -

Re: a

1998-10-17 Thread Gavin Smith
Paul R Walker wrote: Not being a big fan of bacon grease, I just use it to taunt and rile people. (And moan at people with fsck-off big signatures. Hint.) Maybe people just have big fuck off signatures, to taunt and rile people who taunt and rile other people on the list? Just a thought. --

Re: SAM show

1998-10-18 Thread Gavin Smith
Graham Goring wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes So what was it like? Any good? (M)any people? Any fights? Any drinking? And did Bob take the piss out of me in his little speechy thing again this time? Yeah, and was there one of those discussions

Re: About my ISP

1998-10-25 Thread Gavin Smith
David wrote: Dean Liversidge wrote: I asked if anyone could give me a good reason to keep my sub going, not even one responce, let alone any responce to say keep it, does that not tell you something ! -- Dean Liversidge Welll, after my getting a sub to FredDisk (which is

Re: New game (maybe)

1998-11-12 Thread Gavin Smith
D A Fulton wrote: Would anybody be interested in a game for the SAM (possibly even the Speccy) called Palmyra? Yes, indeedy, I'd be interested in it. I love business/management games, and there isn't really a decent stocks and shares one on the SAM (never mind the Speccy). I used to have one

Re: YAWN!

1998-11-30 Thread Gavin Smith
Paul Walker wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Andrew Collier wrote: Alternatively, write something about copyright. Or repost any article from comp.sys.sinclair - there was an interesting one on the 21st of October in which the author admits to seeing nothing antisocial about posting to one

Re: New URLs

1999-01-01 Thread Gavin Smith
Stewart Skardon wrote: Hi folks, Yep, I'm still here. Just a quickie to let everyone know that owing to the demise of Crashed, I have I thought Dave Fountain was taking it over? Gavin

Re: SC Word Pro

1999-01-12 Thread Gavin Smith
Malcolm Mackenzie wrote: Dear Sammers, As from today, SC Word Pro and all other SC products will only be available from PERSONA. M.D.L.M Good to hear, I liked SC Word Pro - Malcolm could you tell me what the latest version number is, and if Steve gave you versions for different printers?

RE: The story so far

1999-01-13 Thread Gavin Smith
hardly blame him (or any of us) for joking about it. Gavin Smith IMDB Support ESN 3844 External (01232)363844

Re: Hurrah!

1999-01-16 Thread Gavin Smith
Andrew Collier wrote: It's great - I've finally got myself a PSU which actually works properly! For the first time in about a year, my Sam can actually display its screen in . . . wait for it . . . colour! Unless it's connected to the greenscreen, that is:) Ah yes, there's life

Re: Gavin Smith questions

1999-01-16 Thread Gavin Smith
The Mad Goose wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:46:51 +0100 Tue, 12 Jan 99 12:26:00 GMT, Robert van der Veeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who the hell is Frank Broughton, is he something like Kevin Smythe? :) Must be some kind of Howard Hughes - that's if he does exist? I'm led to

Re: Z80 Assembler Studio Update

1999-01-19 Thread Gavin Smith
Andrew Collier wrote: At 9:37 pm + 18/1/99, Simon Cooke wrote: Oh, and it's Windows only. (Sorry Andrew) Do you know - I once heard a scurrilous rumour that Java was cross-platform... Andrew I think I remember hearing that rumour too Andrew - of course Bill Gates and his evil

RE: Sam power units.

1999-01-19 Thread Gavin Smith
-Original Message- From: Malcolm Mackenzie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 11:06 AM To: Sam users Subject: Sam power units. Unfortunately, Greenweld have no more Sam power units left. M.D.L.M Shit, I've heard about

RE: Sam power units.

1999-01-19 Thread Gavin Smith
-Original Message- From: Ian Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sam power units. BTW, have you tried opening the PSU and making sure everything is screwed down tightly? Yeah,

RE: If it's such a problem for you lot...

1999-01-20 Thread Gavin Smith
-Original Message- From: Simon Cooke [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 9:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: If it's such a problem for you lot... I'm just sick of being looked at like I've got horns or something.

Games Ahoy!

1999-01-21 Thread Gavin Smith
, hopefully get a few goes at it over the weekend - my brother says its funky, so it must be good then. (Still looking for a SAM in mint condition, there must be one somewhere...) Gavin Smith IMDB Support ESN 3844 External (01232)363844

Re: I am ten...

1999-01-23 Thread Gavin Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, As it's soon to be SAM's tenth birthday, would anyone be interested in a special SAM lapel badge/tie or something similar? [snip] Phil Glover. Can't imagine me wearing a lapel badge somehow - a SAM Coupe T-shirt maybe! Hmm, black with the SAM logo

RE: Guess what?

1999-01-27 Thread Gavin Smith
-Original Message- From: David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 12:56 AM To: sam-users Subject: Guess what? Had a customer call the other day for a price of some components to be shipped to the Irish Republic - which, to be honest,

RE: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-03 Thread Gavin Smith
-Original Message- From: Justin Skists [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 9:50 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: 10th Birthday Party Ahhh.. Yes... The Babe of YS.. :) You've met her?

RE:

1999-02-05 Thread Gavin Smith
-Original Message- From: Andrew Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 10:37 am + 5/2/99, Malcolm Mackenzie wrote: who why where (uhoh, this could go on for some time...) Gavin

Re: who?

1999-02-05 Thread Gavin Smith
Malcolm Mackenzie wrote: On Friday 5th Feb 1999 (My bithday by the way) Andrew Collier wrote:- But the last bit is just the same - surely you must have known it in order to send your message to the list. :-) imc Andrew, it is not the same as the mailing list, that`s unit.no, that`s

Malcolm

1999-02-13 Thread Gavin Smith
Hard to know what to write. I do know that I've been very sad since I heard the news a couple of hours ago - a very bad shock. I haven't met Malcolm either, but I too have spoken to him on the phone quite a few times, and he came across as one of the sincerest, nicest guys you could talk to - very

RE: keyboard problems :(

1999-03-16 Thread Gavin Smith
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 10:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: keyboard problems :( I do have the packaging and discs ready to go for Kaboom (something I agreed to do for Colin when he went off to the states

Re: Forlorn plea...

1999-03-26 Thread Gavin Smith
Andrew Collier wrote: [Gavin Smith wrote:] Agreed! Although it's still quite hard to get SAM formatted disks from my floppyless iMac... You don't need formatted samdisks on PC. It is possible to format floppy disk on the PC (of course), and then you can put the sad/dsk on it. You can

Where's Bob?

1999-06-01 Thread Gavin Smith
Got a call from a SAM Community member the other night, Vic Taylor (he's 82 but sounds about 20!) - he's wondering what's happened to Bob Brenchley. Apparently he's phoned him a few times, but the number seems to have been cut off. Also he has written to him a couple of times trying to buy a

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-20 Thread Gavin Smith
Aley Keprt wrote: Well, What is the really worst ever game? Some weeks ago somebody said Parallax, Vegetable Vacation, or FutureBall. What is the worst one? When I understand worst as unplyable I must mention FutureBall, Vegetable Vacation, Sam Strikes Out and Coloris. (Also all the

Still no rest for the Z80...

1999-09-20 Thread Gavin Smith
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990920S0013 Gavin

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Gavin Smith
Johnna Teare wrote: 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

Re: Sams worst game ever

1999-09-22 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert Wilkinson wrote: PS . Can I assume that a new Sam can't be bought, seeing as nobody has bothered to answer my query. I could do with one to modify, but don't want to knacker the one I have. Its given nearly 10 years good service and I'm not prepared to rip it apart and re-modge

Teledisk shmeleshmisk

1999-09-23 Thread Gavin Smith
Aren't we all fed up with tdo files by now? I can't remember the last time I successfully got teledisk to give me an uncorrupted SAM disk...(and besides, I work mostly on a Mac now). It might also be a little off putting to newbies to find different file formats in NVG. How about someone takes the

Re: Teledisk shmeleshmisk

1999-09-23 Thread Gavin Smith
Simon Cooke wrote: Aren't we all fed up with tdo files by now? I can't remember the last time I successfully got teledisk to give me an uncorrupted SAM disk...(and besides, I work mostly on a Mac now). It might also be a little off putting to newbies to find different file formats in

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Gavin Smith
Simon Cooke wrote: On 21 Sep 99, at 23:07, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: The canoeing was always the hardest bit.. after that it moved from being about pure wiggling and into timing skill, which was beyond me... This is where my girlfriend has problems with me. The pure

Re: Hi Sam Dudes,

1999-09-25 Thread Gavin Smith
Richard Moore wrote: Hi Sam Dudes, I'm new to this list, I used to have a Sam Coupe back in those glory days, and wasn't it great, I was wondering if anyone knew the whereabouts of a certain Martin Fitzpatrick, he used to run Metropolis software, I used to write music for him. Cheers

Re: Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Chris White wrote: Attached is a Text File which contains ALL my Sam Disks. Some of which I clearly don't own , but just incase if ANYONE owns the Copyright to any you must email me directly with your Agreement or Non-Agreement of Upload , or if ANYONE knows the Copyright Owner then please

Re: Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Nick Humphries wrote: I've always been an advocate of the Chris White Method (do things first, ask questions later), but I'm sure he'll take anything down if requested to by the copyright owner. It's the way The World Of Spectrum archive works. It's the way the YS Rock'n'Roll Years works.

Re: Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert van der Veeke wrote: Yeah where the hell is Bob? as if he has been so good for the Sam the last 2 years. If he is so protective about his rights on the Sam and its software then he is clearly showing it. He disapeared without a trace to this list, the decent thing he could do was at

Re: Re Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert Wilkinson wrote: About time everything done for the Sam was put up for grabs I agree that if you aren't going to sell the stuff anymore, it should be made easily available. My point was simply that you can't stick other people's work up - it's up to them what they want to do with it.

Re: Re Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Chris White wrote: Okay everyone did miss understand me , i HAVE upload to a web page allready that Contains of the CHRISWHITEMISC list , getting web space increase 2 upload more , but as i stated ' I CLEARLY DON'T OWN' will not be uploaded Imediatley , and if anyone has the Copyright 2 said

SAM Community

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
The second issue of the SAM Community Newsletter will be mailed on Tuesday the 5th of October. Closing date for any news items is this Saturday (the 2nd) - all news items gratefully received! If you would like to find out more about the SAM Community (and there's only one or two members on this

Re: Sams worst game ever

1999-09-30 Thread Gavin Smith
Dan Dooré wrote: My last word on the OT subject: http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/fifi_mentalwealth.jpg Before After shots. I'm not sure if she looks better before or after... Gavin

Re: SAM Community

1999-09-30 Thread Gavin Smith
Johnna Teare wrote: Why don't you post a brief remit to this list? I'm interested, although sadly no longer active in the 'real' SAM world... Okie dokie. The original idea of the SAM Community was to find out how many active SAM owners are left. I also decided to do a bi-monthly newsletter,

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-03 Thread Gavin Smith
Johnna Teare wrote: On 30 Sep 99, at 15:14, Gavin Smith wrote: It's 2 quid for a year's membership, including 6 issues of the newsletter. If you're interested, drop me a mail off the list and I'll send you the address. Right Gav - Sorry for not signing up earlier. Email me your

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-03 Thread Gavin Smith
Gavin Smith wrote: Johnna Teare wrote: Right Gav - Sorry for not signing up earlier. Email me your address and trhe cheque'll be in the post. There MUST be more than 30 active SAM users out there - are we all not active SAM users merely by participating in this list...? Hey

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-04 Thread Gavin Smith
Ian Collier wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:04:53AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: And please, no cheques! :) 2 quid in coins, or stamps or something, but no cheques. Looking forward to hearing from you soon :) What the devil is wrong with a cheque? The editor of Crashed is anti-cheque

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-06 Thread Gavin Smith
Chris Pile wrote: Gavin, Could you e-mail me your address please as I wish to subscribe to SAM Community. I would have sent you an e-mail direct, but Outlook Express decided *not* to add your e-mail address to my address book the last time I mailed you, even though it's set to do

Re: Lost Games

1999-10-08 Thread Gavin Smith
Tim wrote: A thought I had just now, while reading through some old files... What ever happened to the F16 Simulator. Obviously it never got released, but it did get to the demo stage (does anyone have this on a DSK?). The quote from the SamCo newsletter was something like the programmer

Re: Lost Games

1999-10-08 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: Kaboom - still waiting for Wayne to finish - he's supposed to have promised to finish it after Driver was done Well, for months, the only thing he apparently had to do, was the protection routines. Then he decided to sell it himself didn't he? As shareware for a fiver if

Re: Erk!

1999-10-11 Thread Gavin Smith
Mr Samsboss wrote: Well, that was.. erm.. fun. Is everyone still with us? Yes. -- -- Samsboss - The One And Only. Accept No Others. Oh for f*ck's sake, you're all we need now. Bob, stop being a twat, we know your Bob Brenchley, you've been writing to people personally on this

Re: What The Hell Is Going On?

1999-10-11 Thread Gavin Smith
Andrew Collier wrote: At 8:00 am +0100 11/10/99, Frode Tenneboe wrote: Could someone please tell me who [EMAIL PROTECTED] is? It's David Ledbury. Andrew I don't think he meant to do what he did though - I think it was just a stupid mistake. Gavin

Re: Lost games

1999-10-11 Thread Gavin Smith
Aley Keprt wrote: I have F16 Playable demo on DSK. Does someone really want this stuff? Yes indeedy! If you could email it to me *off the list* I'd be ever so grateful! Or can you stick it on NVG or somewhere we can all get at it? Pleasy weasy? Gavin

Re: What The Hell Is Going On?

1999-10-12 Thread Gavin Smith
Mr Samsboss wrote: Not Welsh, not at uni anymore, so not into sheep. -- -- Samsboss - The One And Only. Accept No Others. You said you never went to Uni :) Check the archives *snigger* Gavin

SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-16 Thread Gavin Smith
Issue 2 of the Newsletter is now available. If you want a copy of the 4 page A4 newsletter for SAM Coupé owners, send me an email with your address and I'll send you a free copy. Alternatively, send me 2 quid and you'll get the next 6 issues (a good time to do it, as this price won't last much

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-17 Thread Gavin Smith
James R Curry wrote: Issue 2 of the Newsletter is now available. If you want a copy of the 4 page A4 newsletter for SAM Coupé owners, send me an email with your address and I'll send you a free copy. Alternatively, send me 2 quid and you'll get the next 6 issues (a good time to do it, as

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-17 Thread Gavin Smith
Dave Whitmore wrote: Gavin, I'm having difficulty trying to understand the motivation behind a printed newsletter. There obviously isn't any money to be made (from what you are charging), and the only thing I can figure is that you're aiming to start an exclusive club of sorts. This isn't

Re: Someone's selling a Sam on ebay

1999-10-18 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert van der Veeke wrote: Mmmm it now stands at $20.50, still not much. But it is not clear to me if this Sam has a diskdrive and if it is fitted with 512k or just 256k memory. Robert van der Veeke aka RJV Graphics It now stands at $202.50! Damn, that kind of beats my initial bid of 20

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-18 Thread Gavin Smith
Dave Whitmore wrote: What makes it exclusive? The simple fact that it excludes anyone who doesn't subscribe. Eh?! But surely that makes this list equally as exclusive, in that you have to subscribe. I'm not trying to be smart, I just don't follow you here - you don't get it unless you ask -

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-19 Thread Gavin Smith
Dave Whitmore wrote: My irrational problem is that I find it incredibly frustrating to contemplate sending or receiving information through snail-mail (farting about with stamps and envelopes, etc. That's my problem though isn't it? You'd only have to do it once a bloody year! :) Lazy git :)

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-19 Thread Gavin Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you be able to send me up a copy - Issue 1 as well if you have any - I'll send cash down if you give me your address. No problemo. Address is: SAM Community, 34 Craigowen Road, Carrickfergus, BT38 7NE. I'll shove them in the post in the morning. At present

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-26 Thread Gavin Smith
Justin Skists wrote: I got the newsletter at the weekend. Good job, Gavin. Hell, there was some stuff in there that even I didn't know about!! And yes, I'd agree to the suggestion about making it into more than just a newsletter. Glad you liked it Justin. For everyone else, the

Re:

1999-11-15 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: Whoops! Posted in HTML :( Soz!!! As was saying, any one seen Bob recently? No, no sign. Our most recent sighting of him was Samsboss mailing this list and a few people off this list directly (offering them items that only Bob has for sale or something). I'm collecting a

Re:

1999-11-15 Thread Gavin Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who's this Bob bloke everyone's on about? Not Sambob Ritman by any chance? While we're on, or near, the subject, is Format still going? - Phil Glover No, not as far as I know. There hasn't been an issue for something like a year and a half (someone correct me if

Re: Question: MIDI sequencing

1999-11-19 Thread Gavin Smith
David Ledbury wrote: Will I be able to get a copy? Doubtful but legally it belongs to the Mackenzie family. If so, how? You could try writing to: Duncan Mackenzie 31 Ashwood Drive Brandlesholme Bury (forgot the postcode!) Make the cheque payable to Duncan Mackenzie. Er,

Re: Money For Nothing...(but the chicks aren't free...)

1999-11-20 Thread Gavin Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And this isn't one of those get rich quick scams. AOL are offereing ten hours free internet access at the minute - you don't even have to pay for phone calls. Completely gratis. So it occured to me... If you loaded up one of those 'pay as you surf' banners

Re: Money For Nothing...(but the chicks aren't free...)

1999-11-20 Thread Gavin Smith
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Erm, I have an excuse though. You see, AOL were running an 0800 trial thing a while ago. Basically, 100 lucky people in the UK were sent the 0800 pack, which involves paying 30 quid a month, and you get 24 hours a day, totally free phone calls! So, erm I signed

[OFF] Re: Money For Nothing...(but the chicks aren't free...)

1999-11-20 Thread Gavin Smith
Martin Wilson wrote: Like most people though I've had absolutely loads of AOL CDs sent to me. I've literally had about 80 sent to me in the last 3 years. Actual AOL subscribers have to pay for the cost of these so no wonder its such a rip off. I mean £30 a month is £360 for a year. The

Re: Let's get our act together...

1999-11-21 Thread Gavin Smith
The Mad Goose wrote: Lets get our act together and get some of the sam-users ftp site turned into .dsk format stuff. Anybody got a real SAM running who'd be willing to get some of this stuff converted over? Agreed mate! I asked for this a month or two ago, but we somehow got bogged down into

Re: [OFF] Re: Money For Nothing...(but the chicks aren't free...)

1999-11-22 Thread Gavin Smith
Paul Walker wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Gavin Smith wrote: You obviously don't use the net as much as me! Before I got the 0800 number, my phone bills were massive! Now I can download things like It's not permanent 0800 access, though, is it? ie 24/7? If so, then I might consider

Re: samdsk

1999-11-24 Thread Gavin Smith
Justin Skists wrote: OK, gang. SAMDSK - right... What does Error 0x2000 mean? it seems to try writing the first sector a few times, say the error and carry on like nothing has happened. Oh, I'm running it in a dos box in NT4.0 SP-something-or-other. Justin. Completely off the top

Re: Hello

1999-12-01 Thread Gavin Smith
Justin Skists wrote: Format's dead. Persona's dead. Practically everyone has given up. Only Quazar (and a handful of souls) seem to be holding up the SAM Banner. Excuse me but the SAM Community Newsletter thingy has about 40 or 50 readers now! And growing every week! More news on that this

Re: Seattle's Burning

1999-12-01 Thread Gavin Smith
Simon Cooke wrote: Ok... the map should be up at: http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/MapImage.gif Also... (listening to a police scanner) apparently, someone's just stolen two buses. Oh dear. Simon Hey, this sounds just like Belfast in Summer! You should see the amount of

Re: Hello

1999-12-01 Thread Gavin Smith
D.A. Fulton wrote: Excuse me but the SAM Community Newsletter thingy has about 40 or 50 readers now! And growing every week! More news on that this weekend actually... This is new to me! What is it? Where can I get it from - Gavin? It started purely as a Newsletter, the idea being

Re: b-dos docs

1999-12-03 Thread Gavin Smith
Justin Skists wrote: Where can I get ATOM from, now? Pricing? (I'll probably just get an external version - if it has a through-putter) Go check issue 2 of the SAM Community Newsletter (if you haven't wiped your arse or something with it by now). Gavin

Re: MS-BDOS?

1999-12-03 Thread Gavin Smith
Martijn Groen wrote: It's possible to implement MS-DOS read write commands in B-DOS. However, at the moment there is only about 300 bytes free in B-DOS 1.6d, so there are 3 options for a new B-DOS version. I know how to read MS-DOS disk, but not how to write to it. Perhaps, the programmer

Re: Kilroy on Monday

1999-12-08 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: Anyone watching Kilroy on monday may have seen a certain lady in the audience... Dawn Mackenzie daughters Off topic, but nice to see them! David Blimey! What was the topic of discussion and did they say anything? I wonder what she has done with all the SAM stuff

Re: Christmas Greetings, etc.

1999-12-22 Thread Gavin Smith
Stephen McGreal wrote: Much as I hate to jump on the bandwagon I spose I should pass on my greetings to SAMmers. You kids just remember to be careful to protect your little slopey white machines from the Millenium Bug now, won't you? Hehehehehe Steve Hey, maybe that's why Bob has

Mr. Brenchley

1999-12-22 Thread Gavin Smith
A few people have been recently asking if Bob is still about, and although it seems he is staying well clear of Spectrum/Sam areas, it appears he is alive and kicking. A quick search on deja.com, revealed he posts regularly to a few newsgroups. Ironically in one of his posts he uses the (seemingly

Re: your mail

2000-01-06 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: Dont be pedantic A Z380 or Z280 machine would, I would imagine, be remotely of interest to some people on the list. Obviously not. Oh well. Don't worry David, it was interesting, thank you for pointing the URL out to us. Some people just like to complain about things

SAM Community

2000-01-24 Thread Gavin Smith
projects floating around, any bits and pieces at all would be gratefully received. Current subbers will receive the issue hopefully by the end of this week. If you aren't subbed up, send a fiver (cash or cheques made payable to Gavin Smith, NOT SAM Community) if you're in the UK or £8 (sterling

Re: Take a look at this URL if you're remotely interested in SAM Comms....

2000-01-25 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: http://www.nenie.org/cpcip/ Okay, not strictly SAM related - but it is at least Z80 related David Quite a coincidence you brought this up, cos in the latest SAM Community I've made a bit of a plea for someone to implement the TCP/IP stack on the SAM. Gavin

Re: new member

2000-01-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Mac Buster wrote: Hello! I am new in this mailing list and would like to know is there any log file of this list ? I don't want ask same questions if there are qnswers already. Also I wold like to know about programming for Sam, is there any books, references available yet ?

Re: Sam Elite

2000-01-31 Thread Gavin Smith
Mac Buster wrote: Hello! Could someone tell me about Sam Elite ? All I know so far is name. Which are differences to base model of Sam Coupe ? Year of release, how much machines was released, its price, etc. Actually I've to write 2nd article for magazine ( first was about Sam

Re: Sam Elite

2000-01-31 Thread Gavin Smith
D.A. Fulton wrote: The impression I got (and people may want to correct me here) was that it was simply the addition of an internal version of the printer interface and a re-labelling (I seem to remember reading somewhere that you could peel off the Sam Elite sticker and find the words Sam

SAM drawings

2000-01-31 Thread Gavin Smith
Quick request - I'm looking for lots of the little SAM cartoon drawings - the sort of thing that was in SAM manual. I think Steve Pick had scanned a lot of them in, and also drawn some more of his own, but his site seems to have gone. Anyone know where can I get such things as I have no access to

Re: SAM Community iss 2(...3!)

2000-03-07 Thread Gavin Smith
shawm wrote: I think that Sam Community issue 2 is cool, and will also be subscribing. I don't know why everyone is talking about issue 2 - it's issue 3 that you just received :) And Matt, you're already a subscriber...glad you liked it though. I am also intersested in getting hold of

Re: Unusual hardware

2000-03-10 Thread Gavin Smith
Jarek Adamski wrote: On 00-03-08 The Mad Goose wrote: Sam related - who's got the best specced- SAM on the list then? And who owns the most unusal piece of hardware... Look at http://nautilus.torch.net.pl/zxland/pic.samhdd.jpg;. This is rear of my SAM. You should see there: -HDD

Re: Help!

2000-03-15 Thread Gavin Smith
Mac Buster wrote: Hello! Tell me please how to write .dsk images back to real disk with using of PC ? It is needed for Forever 2e3 organizers to show Sam entries on the party. Help please! Samdsk.exe is what you need mate. It's on NVG, it's no problem to use. Can you upload any

Re: Introducing Myself

2000-03-15 Thread Gavin Smith
Steve Longhurst wrote: I'm in the process of getting an Atom disk interface at the moment and have found a few bits of my old software and managed to pick up some pieces on eBay.Is it still possible to get much in the way of software for the Sam? I have Colin Piggot's catalogues but was

Re: SimCoupe

2000-03-21 Thread Gavin Smith
Frans van Egmond wrote: Hi Rob, I was the lucky winner of an auction at e-bay and I paid about 120 Uk pounds including shipping. I've searched for info on the Atom but Persona doesn't seem to exist anymore... Frans Len Bennett used to make them for Persona - he now sells them

Any news?

2000-04-23 Thread Gavin Smith
Hello folks, Next issue of SAM Community will be going out during next week, so if you have any news vaguely SAM related, please email me as soon as possible. Also, is anyone able to do a Bunnik report? Wolfgang, would you be able to do it again (you did a great job last time). Finally, for the

Re: Response Please.

2000-04-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Andrew Collier wrote: Can anyone tell me if MasterDOS and MasterBASIC are freely available now, or do we still have to buy it. If so, Where from. As far as I understand the current situation; you're not allowed to copy it, but no-one can sell it to you

SAM website

2000-04-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Was away for a couple of days there, so it was nice to see a bit of activity on the list. There was some talk of a SAM website and I thought you might like to know about the site I'm putting together. I've been working on it, albeit slowly, for the last few weeks. Although the URL is

Re: Another one bites the dust

2000-05-05 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert Wilkinson wrote: Any chance of me getting the schematic. Bob Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Andrew Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have had an IBM-PC keyboard interface working on my SAM for a long time now (about 3 years) but I haven't made it [snip]

Re: SAM Community mag

2000-05-12 Thread Gavin Smith
Howard Price wrote: Hello SAMchatgroup! I've just subscribed. Does anyone know when the next SAM Community magazine thing's out Tobermory Er, it should have been out by now *grins* But I've got a bit behind in work, so I'm a bit busy. I aim to post it by next Friday (realistically)

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