Re: Letter

1998-08-07 Thread Simon Cooke
I agree that a PC Basic, based on SAM Basic, which is of coursed based on Spectrum Basic, would be a nice idea - the big question is /who could write it?/ Personally, just getting a few people together to help sort out SAM's ROM and DOS is a hard enough task -it seems that there are

Community Service Announcement (was Re: Letter)

1998-08-07 Thread Simon Cooke
'nothing like a real SAM' - yeah, nothing like all the shit you face if your drive goes down... a PC drive = about a tenner.. How much for a SAM drive, eh? eh? Phew.. I seem to be blowing a gasket or something.. better calm down, eh? :-) Bye, Dave Just out of interest, the most common form of

Re: Format

1998-08-07 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Robert van der Veeke Lets say that Stonehenge moves faster than the Samson :) Probably because of the monolithic design. Anyone noticed how they hid the prototype in the woods? Simon __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: Letter

1998-08-10 Thread Simon Cooke
So. Why did they have two controllers then? There must have been a reason. Bill. Erm, nope, nothing sensible i believe, not that i know of, but it did fill the internal drive cases !, enter BB. Uhh... they were very cheap controllers so adding one to each drive meant you could detect

SIM Coupe for Windows?

1998-08-18 Thread Simon Cooke
Well, folks, I've started working on a port of SIM Coupe to Windows 95. As far as I can see, there may be some scope for some more optimisation on the graphics side; giving the system a memory and a bit of intelligence so that mode switching is faster, things like that. Also, the main reason

RE: SIM Coupe for Windows?

1998-08-19 Thread Simon Cooke
Ideas? Views? Only that you can bear my children if I can run SimCoupe on NT 4.0 :-) I'll see what I can do ;) Sound might be DirectSound only though -- I've not decided yet. You'll be able to disable it though :) Simon __ Get Your

Re: Bwah?

1998-08-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Does this mean my power supply had been going wrong for at least the past year? What could a dodgy 12V line have done to the colours anyway? Why was it working fine with a TV? I mean, WHY? Oh well, that just leaves me with problems which *are* inherent incompatibilities, ie blurring of adjacent

Re: Hello again!

1998-08-23 Thread Simon Cooke
Oh and BTW has Cookie got to Seatle yet? :) Not yet - but in two or three weeks, the great migration west starts. I only hope poor Sarah can keep up with the pace. (Sarah being my car... poor thing, got her in May, have 6300 miles on her already) Simon

Re: Yoooo hooo!

1998-08-26 Thread Simon Cooke
Y hooo! Anyone alive? *dies loudly* Simon ;) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: I'm new here.

1998-08-30 Thread Simon Cooke
| Is there any operating system that supports hard disk? HDOS is good, but could be better, and because of the lack of co-operation from people on this list there seems little hope of any advance in the near future. Sorry, SAMSBOSS, but it's not OUR problem. We're not paid to write YOUR

Re: I'm new here.

1998-08-30 Thread Simon Cooke
I saw SAMDOS, MasterDOS and PRODOS. Are there more of them? BDos, can be used with or without a Atom-interface and Harddisk and is freeware. QDOS doesn't support the hard-disk, but it cleans up your system and reports system status when you boot it. Handy if you need to switch from MasterDOS to

Re: z80 snaps

1998-09-01 Thread Simon Cooke
also: if anyone is seriously (as in, actually) considering porting simcoupe to native win32 code then i will be HAPPY (read: willing, and (possibly) able) to help. especially doing the bits that no-one else would probably want to do (eg, sound) Well, I've started on it - initially in MFC, but I

Re: Hello?

1998-09-14 Thread Simon Cooke
Apart from an answer from Ian and David W ... I think everyone else is dead? *corpses* Simon ;) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: The removal to PC cover.

1998-09-19 Thread Simon Cooke
What do you want to do with Spectrum programs that test keyboard with 0 in high byte? Hi byte is 0 mostly for a PRESS 'ANY KEY' test. I would map row SPACE SS M N B as the first row to scan. So one of these keys can be pressed in a ANY KEY situation. Hmmm... the way Martin and I came up for

Re: Using a syquest.

1998-09-26 Thread Simon Cooke
In theory, I'd expect it could be done... at the end of the day it's really down to understanding how the Zip actually works. But that's the problem. Iomega are hardly forthcoming with techy details. Edwin'll be better placed technically for this ;) The internal IDE ones will work -- after all,

Re: Using a syquest.

1998-09-27 Thread Simon Cooke
Help's having people on the inside ;) Wel... actually, you can get them even if you don't work for MS -- it's all downloadable from the MSDN website :) Si __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Unforgivable (But Intriguing) Spam

1998-09-29 Thread Simon Cooke
I've heard it's going to be called the ZX2000. Basically, it's going to be a nice fast portable computer (to fight against other expensive ones), NON-IBM like, NON MS Windows, with his revolutionary battery technology. Oh Goody (says Simon, typing from within the Microsoft library). ;)

Re: Meeting in Holland Sound stuff

1998-10-03 Thread Simon Cooke
Who else is going to the SAM/Spectrum meeting in Bunnik tommorow ? I'm going defenitely ! Alas, a bit too far for me to make it :) Simon ps. Regarding the sound stuff for the Windows port of SIM Coupe -- Dave, can you send me the info for your interface at [EMAIL PROTECTED], as in all my

Re: Glos Show

1998-10-05 Thread Simon Cooke
Just to confirm. The glos show is week saturday (17th) Doors open 10ish? Pub Lunch noon-ish Is there a discussion in the afternoon to encourage us back from the pub? I should be able to put in an appearance now, though probably not all day (too many things to do that weekend) so am

RE: Glos Show

1998-10-10 Thread Simon Cooke
Is there anyone else who made it as a 'professional' games programmer? I have. :) Not me... I traded it all in for the infamy* of working for Microsoft. Mind you, it's fun :) Current project: Controls for VJ++ Simon *You know, as in infamy! infamy! They've all got it infamy!

Re: Glos Show

1998-10-10 Thread Simon Cooke
Game Gear - Yogi Bear , Zoop Psx - Zoop , Sentinel Returns , Assault (LATEST) Doing N64 and DREAMCAST at moo See if you can get some kind of major bug in the WinCE subsystem, so that you can get a free trip to Seattle :) Si __ Get Your

Re: Copyrights still apply?

1998-10-11 Thread Simon Cooke
I really wonder how it does stand with regards to him? Technically, as the SAM version is only a patched Speccy one, it could be okay ... but it is a funny position. Nah - it's being sold for profit; this is the kind of thing that David Braben would get stroppy about. Also, Bob said: Full

Re: Copyrights still apply?

1998-10-12 Thread Simon Cooke
This is actually illegal; the purchaser of the SAM version must own the Amstrad version - that is, they must receive the magnetic media on which the game was originally distributed - for the license to use the software to be assigned to them. Destroying the media just means that you can

Re: Saturday

1998-10-15 Thread Simon Cooke
Just to start the traditional thread Who's going to Quedgeley on Saturday? Is anybody starting out from the south-east of England? I probably couldn't arrive much earlier than lunchtime, if I went by train. That's after leaving Cambridge at 7.45 and hanging about in London for an hour...

Re: Under New Management

1998-10-15 Thread Simon Cooke
Well you said it about being lazy didn't you? From what I understand, material was sent to Darren which wasn't even forwarded to George - and this obviously could have gone in the issue. So, as usual, you complain but are busy sitting doing fuck all. No wonder the SAM is dying on it's feet.

So what is it?

1998-10-15 Thread Simon Cooke
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:40:33 +0100 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Graham Goring [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: subscribing Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: subscribe Hello Malcolm, Not quite the right

Samsgod

1998-10-15 Thread Simon Cooke
And today, in a shock reversal on SAM Users, the modesty index was down, and egos were up, though analysts were saying that they were possible over inflated, and would go down again later. ;) Simon __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: Samsgod

1998-10-16 Thread Simon Cooke
And today, in a shock reversal on SAM Users, the modesty index was down, and egos were up, though analysts were saying that they were possible over inflated, and would go down again later. ;) Simon If you mean I'm on the warpath, and am fed up with detractors (who admittedly have

Re: Samsgod

1998-10-16 Thread Simon Cooke
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 :) I know. I saw an opening for a joke and went

Re: Samsgod

1998-10-17 Thread Simon Cooke
Do you actually have copyright to use this sense of humour? People with proper businesses to run have been trading on it for some time (whether they understand it or not) - better not distribute it or you could find yourself in court. Monopolies Mergers commission? Nah... We indeed have a

Re: a

1998-10-17 Thread Simon Cooke
I use it to taunt and rile people whilst I laugh merrily and rub myself with bacon-grease. Yourself? I just do the bacon-grease bit... Simon __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Sam show?

1998-10-18 Thread Simon Cooke
I do not recall ever going to an All Formats fair in Haydock... Perhaps it was Simon Cooke. Or possibly Ian Slavin. Apart from the glasses, we both had a very similar line in hair and leather jackets. Simon __ Get Your Private, Free

Re: a

1998-10-19 Thread Simon Cooke
I use it to taunt and rile people whilst I laugh merrily and rub myself with bacon-grease. Yourself? I just do the bacon-grease bit... Simon You always told me you preferred the chocolate mousse sob I feel so betrayed Well, I wasn't going to tell them about *that* was I? In a public

Re: SAM projects?

1998-11-01 Thread Simon Cooke
Simon's apparently working on something called Statues of Ice ... ;) Oh, look, someone's just come running past shouting something about the Ides of March. Oh, look, someone's just come running past with a knife and stabbed me in the back! My god! I know who it was! ;) Si

Re: Disk Controllers...

1998-11-01 Thread Simon Cooke
Talking of the DOS, we've got both the ROMs and MASTERDOS source files on the ftp site... but not SAMDOS2. Any reason why not? Because the source for that is copyright to Bruce Gordon, I believe... and not only that, but all my disks are back in the UK... Si (I had the ROM and MasterDOS source

Re: SamDOS copyright.

1998-11-19 Thread Simon Cooke
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:07:19 + (GMT) From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Sam Users Mailing List sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: SamDOS copyright. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who owns the SamDOS copyright, and is there permission to freely distribute it? Given that in the good old days

Re: dave Ledbury off line

1998-11-23 Thread Simon Cooke
== Microsoft Auto-Assimilation Responder == Move along please. Nothing to see here. === Dave is always blowing his computer up! What on earth does he keep doing to it Running Windows ? :) Lee.

Re: Missing disk error.

1998-12-01 Thread Simon Cooke
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:24:54 EST To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Missing disk error. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 30/11/98 10:56:56, you write: . MR BRENCHLEY?!? You reading this? What can I do to replace my disk drive if my drive is

Re: Missing disk error.

1998-12-01 Thread Simon Cooke
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:21:39 EST To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Missing disk error. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 30/11/98 10:17:22, you write: ) Turn it off and leave it to sulk for a few minutes then try it :) Seriously it's probably the

Re: More Sim Coupe probs...

1998-12-02 Thread Simon Cooke
From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:SAM-Users Mailing List sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: More Sim Coupe probs... Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:08:58 - Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, now Bill's back with a very sensible question regarding Sim Coupe = ... here's=20 another Is there

Re: Rights to the SAM Robot.

1998-12-08 Thread Simon Cooke
The rights to the SAM 'robot' are owned jointly by Robin Evans, Alan Miles and myself. Speaking of whom, any idea how to contact Alan these days? Si __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

RE: Looked into it yet Mr Bob?

1998-12-13 Thread Simon Cooke
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:59:42 + To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Looked into it yet Mr Bob? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 8:19 am + 11/12/98, Dan Doore wrote: Sam-users emails always come From: whoever posted the message. Depends what

Re: IDSA/SimCoupe

1998-12-23 Thread Simon Cooke
So no pirated images on Sim-Coupe! Hmmm. Well I guess your right, I have not seen any myself, but the real SAM has pirated software all over the place, I know because it affects myself and programmers. One thing about the new Digital Reality game `DEFENDER` it will not work on Sim-Coupe, thus

Re: IDSA/SimCoupe

1998-12-23 Thread Simon Cooke
Surely the copyright to the Rom belongs to Dr Andy Wright? Yup - and he has given permission for it to be distributed. And as for the ASIC - which of course must be emulated in Sim Coupe - I was under the impression this belonged to Bruce Gordon? Doesn't apply; when we reverse engineered it,

Re: IDSA/SimCoupe

1998-12-25 Thread Simon Cooke
Fairymuff re the copyright... although if that's the case, why does the Rom say (c) MGT/WestCoast etc... and not Patent? Because the ROM is a bit of a grey area - the contents of the ROM (the code) is copyrighted; it's treated as a language/artistic work. The design of the ROM chip itself is

Merry Christmas!

1998-12-25 Thread Simon Cooke
I don't know if I've said this yet, but if I haven't... ... Merry Christmas one and all from rainy/sleety/snowy/cold Seattle. Just tried to go get a Chicken from the shops (well, I'd decided not to do Christmas this year, and then decided against it). Would you BELIEVE IT? 10pm on Christmas

Re: Gavin Smith Questions, the story so far

1999-01-13 Thread Simon Cooke
At 6:38 pm + 12/1/99, Malcolm Mackenzie wrote: I was asked in one mailing about `KABOOM!` and if I had any idea when if ever it would be released. I answered by saying that I had spoken to wayne Coles, he told me that as soon as he had finished the project he was working on he would finish

Re: Gavin Smith Questions, the story so far

1999-01-14 Thread Simon Cooke
Regarding Kaboom Simon Cooke wrote:- If it's just the disk protection that's needed, couldn't Chris and I just bang together a revamped version of the Lemmings/Parallax protection, and then it could be distributed with E-Copy which a few publishers have

Re: Gavin Smith Questions, the story so far

1999-01-15 Thread Simon Cooke
At 9:07 pm + 14/1/99, Simon Cooke wrote: Also, it doesn't matter *WHAT* protection you put on it, E-Copy will copy it. There's NO foolproof way to stop someone from copying it. Otherwise, the computer wouldn't be able to read it, would it? Precisely true. And of all the sam-users capable

Re: Z80 Assembler Studio Update

1999-01-19 Thread Simon Cooke
Okay folks, here goes: The color-highlighting editor and most of the parsing stuff is done. It's slightly flickery, but on a Gateway G6-200, the performance is respectable (it's written in WFC and Java, folks). Sorry, I've missed a lot of this conversation I think. What exactly is this?

Re: Z80 Assembler Studio Update

1999-01-19 Thread Simon Cooke
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 followers (that includes

Re: Z80 Assembler Studio Update

1999-01-19 Thread Simon Cooke
Oh yeah... bit more info. With part 1 of the SAM ROM source loaded into it (401K of data, 14681 lines), it's quite happy, and still keeps its speed nicely up (in fact, I can't see a difference; you would on a 486 though, I'm betting). Memory footprint: 10Mb, including the system libraries. As

Re: Z80 Assembler Studio Update

1999-01-19 Thread Simon Cooke
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Simon Cooke wrote: multiply that by a factor of 2 because each line's small... so make that 1602K. If people complain about performance, I may fix it - if not, there's no I don't care about that (lots of memory free, even under Windows). The fact that I can't just use

Re: Z80 Assembler Studio Update

1999-01-19 Thread Simon Cooke
But this steamrollering of Java is something which does bug me quite a bit. When it gets to the point when programmers think absolutely nothing of writing single platform code, then the entire point of Java, its raison d'etre, is totally nullified. Keeping the name Java implies some attempt at

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

1999-01-19 Thread Simon Cooke
If you hate Microsoft, and all things Microsoft, and the way I code so much, then go write your own fucking assembler. As of now, this project is terminated. Simon __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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

1999-01-19 Thread Simon Cooke
I'm just sick of being looked at like I've got horns or something. Religious debates. I hate them. Simon __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: I am ten...

1999-01-24 Thread Simon Cooke
Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] As it's soon to be SAM's tenth birthday, would anyone be interested in a special SAM lapel badge/tie or something similar? Sexist or what? What would I want with a tie? (cough) Dunno if this still applies these days, but back when I was a lad

Re: Midi Stuff...

1999-01-26 Thread Simon Cooke
The MIDI-In interrupt is useful. :) But, with the MIDI-Out interrupt, I agree. In fact, depending on your interpretation of the Tech Manual, MIDI Out doesn't generate and INT signal...(?) Umm... actually, how you should probably do it is this: Assuming that you control all interrupts, etc: At

RE: Midi Stuff...

1999-01-26 Thread Simon Cooke
The point is that (a) the MIDI OUT interrupt is quite difficult to catch if there are line and frame interrupts going on as well because you coul easily miss one while the interrupts are disabled; and (b) you don't need that flag because in(248) already contains one (bit 1). imc Thanks

Re: Replacement power-supplies

1999-01-26 Thread Simon Cooke
Indeed, the 1377 is just a D-to-A converter. There is even a version of the chip that does not need the 12v. Well, that's probably because it has an electron pump in there to generate the 12V internally. SCART only machines are great - the composite sync is generated by the SAM's motherboard,

RE: Midi Stuff...

1999-01-26 Thread Simon Cooke
Oops. That first EI should probably be after the frameflag check. Si __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Replacement power-supplies

1999-01-27 Thread Simon Cooke
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:48:17PM -0800, Simon Cooke wrote: SCART only machines are great - the composite sync is generated by the SAM's motherboard, the RGB values are generated by the resistors on the board. Why not just rip out the MC1377P entirely? Because... Some TV's will only

Re: A new subscriber to this mailing list.

1999-01-28 Thread Simon Cooke
Some people might recognise my name as I've had a Coupe since about 91/2. Unfortunately I'm not one of those clever programming types. Although I did buy Sam C and actually have a CG Level 2 in C programming (if you actually saw the crappy C code that enabled me to pass you wouldn't be

Re: Who's still doing graphics?

1999-02-01 Thread Simon Cooke
At 5:01 pm + 1/2/99, Dave Hooper wrote: what's this for? Well... that would be telling, wouldn't it! acid flashback By hook or by crook, we will... /acid flashback *ahem* Simon __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-02 Thread Simon Cooke
Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors, maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that strict, do we? Ahem. She had a voice like sunshine, and was cute as hell to boot. :-) Si __ Get Your

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-04 Thread Simon Cooke
I'm still looking for old YS's if anyone has any they don't want... Gavin Simon, do we still have your old copies lying around in the attic? If so, are you planning to keep or get rid? Maria. Possibly - in one of the boxes... ...but I've got all the ones I was in here. Also, thing is,

Re: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-04 Thread Simon Cooke
Future haven't made any official statement regarding YS copyrights. They haven't said no, but then they haven't said yes either. Most YS writers had a contract that gave Future first serial rights (i.e. YS printed their stuff first) but after that, copyright is owned by the witers themselves,

Re: sim-coupe

1999-02-12 Thread Simon Cooke
But yeh. If you have a pc and want to transfer normal sam disks to .dsk files, then for gawd's sake DON'T USE SAMDISK! USE SAMDSK! ( At least until Martin's better-than-samdsk-and-written-in-pascal version comes out ) I forget where... but it's definitely in nvg *somewhere* try something like

Re: sim-coupe

1999-02-12 Thread Simon Cooke
So, even though I legally own PoP, a SAM, and the emulator (:), you're trying to tell me I wouldn't be allowed to run it? Re-arrange these two words into a popular phrase or saying... How about What complete bollocks is THIS?. I'm stuck in a country where I can't use my SAM. My only option is

Re: sim-coupe

1999-02-12 Thread Simon Cooke
If it's NT or Windows 98 which won't let you read sector 10 then you basically seem to be asking people to write a working floppy device driver for Windows, which would seem to be the job of Microsoft... According to the NT file system team, I can do it (as far as they know) by getting a handle

Re: SAM FAQ Version 2

1999-02-20 Thread Simon Cooke
Heck, I've not seen it running on ANY SAM, never mind a *REAL* one. Any chance you can put out a demo version, Chris? Time limited to 10 seconds or something? PRETTY PLEASE?!?!?!?! Si From: Chris Pile [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Sam Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SAM FAQ Version 2

Re: SAM FAQ Version 2

1999-02-20 Thread Simon Cooke
Martijn Groen? Has made several demo's, a very nifty Spectrum/ZX81 emulator, A Sam version of Professional Adventure Writer, the latest version of the Atom HyperBoot is very cool, and furthermore some very usefull utillities like a disk-checker, a Wave- and Mod-player that are compatible with the

Re: SAM FAQ Version 2

1999-02-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Yep! A handy bootable menu, to select different records, files etc with ease. Bloody quick handy! (Be interested to see the one howard price has done tho - using the last available record on the disk as a storage area!) Awww... bless 'im :) MaxiDOS rides again :) (I knew I shouldn't have

Re: SAM FAQ Version 2

1999-02-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Heck, I've not seen it running on ANY SAM, never mind a *REAL* one. Any chance you can put out a demo version, Chris? Time limited to 10 seconds or something? PRETTY PLEASE?!?!?!?! The game is actually finished and complete. I *would* put out a demo but the trouble is that it doesn't run on

E-Tracker

1999-02-22 Thread Simon Cooke
Hey folks... I started playing with DirectX yesterday, and got into the sound side of things, so I'm wondering if anyone has the ETracker module format and a couple of modules they can send me to try out my code on? Thanks :) Si __ Get Your

Bug in SIMCoupe - procssor.c

1999-02-24 Thread Simon Cooke
Hey Allan... here's some bugs for you in 0.78's source... Line 333; this should be: hpen = LineNo-59; // new code! if (hpen 192) hpen = 192; Also, the status_reg stuff... you're only allowing one interrupt at any time... how exactly does interrupt clearing work? Does each interrupt last for

Addenda

1999-02-24 Thread Simon Cooke
I think I may also know what's going wrong with the disk emulation; you're not emulating index pulses, as far as I can see, nor are you clearing the spin-up flag; ideally, the disk should take some time to spin up, clear the spin up flag, and then perform the current command. Si

Re: Anyone wanna help?

1999-02-26 Thread Simon Cooke
Would anyone be willing to take my existing stuff from NVG and put it into DSK format for me? what format is it on on the nvg?... urm... is it all in zips??... is just depends whether i'd need to use my sam :o).. otherwise yup, i'd be willing to do some mindless menial slave labour.. :o I

Re: Anyone wanna help?

1999-02-28 Thread Simon Cooke
..i could try the thing i did with trying to work out how SAMDISK stored its disk wrote a program looking for an occurrence of the same bytes in the same order in the disk file... it was slow... and tedious (and threw up loads of false alarms).. BUT!... with a bit of calculating it would

Re: Anyone wanna help?

1999-02-28 Thread Simon Cooke
Actually... can you send it to my Microsoft address? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks :) Si __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Anyone wanna help?

1999-03-01 Thread Simon Cooke
No probs - thanks for sending it to me :) Cheers, SI From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buffer Underrun) To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone wanna help? Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:41:12 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:51:53 PST Sun, 28 Feb 99 19:08:33 GMT, Simon Cooke

Re: Anyone wanna help?

1999-03-01 Thread Simon Cooke
As far as I remember, most of the images on NVG are not compressed nativly with Teledisk. Instead, the final result is compressed with zip. If someone is willing to do a Teledisk - DSK conversion I would be grateful and it will clean up the mess at NVG. I know for a fact that any I did had

RE: Anyone wanna help?

1999-03-02 Thread Simon Cooke
Is that like a Simon-Emulator (aka SimCoupe) ? Actually, the algorithm is closer to this: public static void main(String[] args) { while (1) { for (int i=0;i999;i++) { pretendToWork(); } doWork(); } } /** * Pretend to Work * @return no output */ public void

RGB Demo...

1999-03-02 Thread Simon Cooke
I never managed to get this to work - the copy on FRED was broken, and so was my FRED disk by the time I got the patch. And the patch didn't seem to work. Erm... So... what is it? Anyone fancy describing it? Simon __ Get Your Private, Free

RE: SimCoupe for Win32

1999-03-05 Thread Simon Cooke
I believe you, it just ain't working over here. I have even downloaded a fresh copy of the 0.78 and tried it with that - no dice. I've tried it on a win95 box and it's fine but on the four NT boxes I've tried it on you just get nowt. Hmmm... I'm running Service Pack 3.99* and Service Pack 4,

Zilog Assemblers!

1999-03-06 Thread Simon Cooke
For those who are interested Zilog have released their Zilog Developer Studio v2.00 as a free download from their site! Hit: http://www.zilog.com, and go to the software download section :) Si __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Severe Lameness...

1999-03-06 Thread Simon Cooke
U... just out of interest... Why don't we have more stuff on the SAM archive? There's nary a *.dsk file in sight. I can't find anywhere to download The Lyra 3 from in a format I can use. I don't have my disks here, otherwise I'd be copying disks up like mad. So that's my excuse - what's

Assembler...

1999-03-12 Thread Simon Cooke
Well, folks, the Assembler is moving onwards. The lexer is up and running quite happily, and I'm in the middle of writing the parser. Then it's the preprocessor and the support code wrapped around it. Now, at the moment, the assembler itself is WFC-specific. However, that's easily changed by

Red Dwarf

1999-03-15 Thread Simon Cooke
Nyah nyah n-nya nyaah I've just seen all 8 episodes of season 8 of Red Dwarf. Ah Smug Mode On, Sir. Simon ps. I just had to do that, after originally thinking that I wouldn't see it for months... pps. Verdict: BRILLIANT. An astounding season, with (apart from a couple of

Archive?

1999-03-19 Thread Simon Cooke
Does anyone have an archive of the last week's posts? Hotmail's been acting funny... (I'm moving to a new address soon too - [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I've tried the archive on ruby, but it only goes up to 1998? Si Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: MasterBASIC Source

1999-03-23 Thread Simon Cooke
for MasterBASIC currently is Dr. Andy Wright. Whereas the MasterDOS and SAM BASIC source are up on the FTP site, I never received a copy of the MasterBASIC source code :( Simon Cooke (The views of this poster are his and his alone, and may or may not reflect the views of the Microsoft Corporation).

Re: Sam tech info?

1999-03-27 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Can anyone point me to to any documentation for the Sam's clock I/O port? (mouse information would be appreciated too!) I've got the 3.0 technical manual, but there's no real mention of either! I've looked around the various Sam web pages for it but

Re: something different.....

1999-04-02 Thread Simon Cooke
doing, they (a) wouldn't have spelled Outlook wrong in the source (it was spelled Outilook when it was looking for the registry key), and (b) they would have used the MAPI address book, instead of tying it to a single mail program - for maximum coverage. *sighs* Amateurs. Simon Cooke (The views

Re: Win32 SimCoupe (was: Z80 flags for INI(R) and OTI(R)? #2 (oops!))

1999-04-07 Thread Simon Cooke
demos?), but that'll have to be once most other things are done (and if I get a replacement PSU so I can play with things on a real SAM). I'm not so worried about getting the timings right or performing proper stepped seeks (yet) - I think Simon Cooke is still working on a (Java) VL1772-02

Re: Win32 SimCoupe (was: Z80 flags for INI(R) and OTI(R)? #2 (oops!))

1999-04-08 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aley Keprt wrote: Well, I have used another Z80 CPU emulator in my SAA1099 player. It is not 100%, but it uses very efficient algo's for computing flags. And it is platform independent. This may help. Sounds good - I'd come across the look-up tables in

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Simon Cooke
:) Not at the moment anyway. I was asking the kernel team some questions... seems it *MIGHT* be in NT5, but don't hold my breath. Not that many people want to read/write at that low a level, it would seem... Simon Cooke (The views of this poster are his and his alone, and may or may not reflect

Re: SimCoupe interrupt timings

1999-04-10 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems my code was reading the status register, and jumping for LINEint correctly, but performing the wrong test for FRAMEints and jumping to the FRAMEint handler iff the corresponding status register bit was high. My guess is that on a real Sam, this

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-10 Thread Simon Cooke
Parallax for Colin) so that it could understand the Lemmings format (which was based on one I came up with -- though I can't remember if I told Chris about it, or if he came up with it on his own). :) So, not so much cracked, as copied :) But it only took me 10 minutes or so :) Simon Cooke

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-10 Thread Simon Cooke
(implicitly) agreeing with it. Next? :-) Chris is right; the EULA is in the box, and the software is sealed IN ANOTHER PACKAGE in the box, and it's this package that the EULA refers to. Don't believe everything you read at /. -- namely because 99% of the posters seem to be a pack of morons. Simon Cooke

Re: Copyright

1999-04-11 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] At then end of the day its Illegal to Speed but who sticks below or on the limit? , from my experince noone (Especially me :) ) , and when they catch me they prosicute me And I know for a fact that it's very hard to catch Chris :) Hey.. Chris? Maybe this is

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