Re: Merhabalar;

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:02:36 - Fri, 14 Dec 01 22:36:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are we so quiet these days, that we need to respond to spam??? :) Yep. Merry Christmas everybody! Dave

Re: Sam Prime

2001-08-15 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:58:58 +0100 Tue, 14 Aug 01 20:58:06 BST, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *I* created the SAM Newsdisk - with Alan Miles *I* created PRIME when SAMCo went down... SAM Premier was the working name for the Newsdisk you see ;) BTW - I still own all copyright on SAM

Re: Sam Prime

2001-08-15 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:27:03 +0100 Tue, 14 Aug 01 23:58:02 BST, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christ, I could almost hear strains of Sir Edward Elgar during that little rant! Please elucidate? Pomp and Circumstance. Or 'Land of Hope and Glory'. Clear enough? :-) Dave

Re: Who's Ken Elston?

2001-08-15 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:52:17 +0100 Wed, 15 Aug 01 21:14:18 BST, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 08:09 pm, Mark Sturdy wrote: And Frank Broughton...? Mark We did find this one out. A Welsh relation, possibly a cousin IIRC. A couple of us even tried to

Re: Who's Ken Elston?

2001-08-15 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:47:51 +0100 Wed, 15 Aug 01 19:18:40 BST, Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:05:37 +0100, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea who Ken Elston is? Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with Samsboss? IIRC Mr R P

Re: Sam CPU timing

2001-08-03 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:00:08 +0100 Fri, 3 Aug 01 00:03:27 BST, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Apologies, I thought it might have. :-) Dave (have u got fed up with clara then?)

Re: Back... with assorted questions

2001-05-13 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 13 May 2001 00:15:38 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Sun, 13 May 01 00:25:43 BST, Mark Sturdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. In connection with the above, I seem to remember years ago that Derek Morgan's SAM PD catalogue listed a program that converted files from various SAM word processors into

Re: SimCoupé/Win32 updated to 0.81

2001-02-27 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:58:39 - Tue, 27 Feb 01 01:02:13 GMT, Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes indeed, believe you eyes, from our grip, at last you prise... a new Win32 version of SimCoupé!!! Excellent - thank-you, thank-you, thank-you! One question - sorry if this seems ungrateful -

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-22 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:11:28 -0800 Thu, 18 Jan 01 23:30:18 GMT, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BTW: Generations 8.0 [which you'll see in stores in the UK] is MY baby ... and I accept no blame whatsoever for its bugs, given that I managed to fix over 200 of them for the latest release :))

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:17:49 -0800 Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:19:14 GMT, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Frans van Egmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Still one question left; what happened to (any) leftover stock from West Coast Computers ? Bob ate it. Si Bob told me once that there is a 'lock-up'

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:23:49 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:26:13 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another sad soul up at silly hours :) I'm not sad at all. I'm dying with a cold and I'm sparing the missus the joys of my sniffing, coughing and spluttering. That half litre of Whisky is doing the

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:33:42 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:39:38 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good on you! At least you've got some great telly on at the mo :) What am I missing?! Jesus, I've been sat here trying to suss the intricacies of making VCDs all night and missing out on TV. That

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
Easy - no year 0 - and 2000 + 1 = 2001 So the people said 'this is year 1', even though it didn't happen? I mean, I wasn't 1 until I'd lived a year. It still doesn't explain why everyone celebrated it last year. Maybe they're all cretins? Dave

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:59:37 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 04:01:10 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the people said 'this is year 1', even though it didn't happen? I mean, I wasn't 1 until I'd lived a year. It still doesn't explain why everyone celebrated it last year. Maybe they're all

Re: Progress

2000-10-20 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:07:04 +0100 Fri, 20 Oct 00 00:42:16 BST, Colin Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Mr Doore will be able to help with this, but while I'm remembering, I'm willing to allow the remainder of the copyrighted items I still own (Outlet, Enceladus, SCPDU, some games and

Re: Console Coupe

2000-09-28 Thread Dave Whitmore
I'll elaborate on my original question. What I was trying to say was, would it be possible to alter a DSK image, to another filetype with a different extension that could be recognised by Windows (or another GUI O/S) to launch Sim Coupe, and in turn boot itself. In my mind, the emulator (and

Console Coupe

2000-09-27 Thread Dave Whitmore
What are the chances of making a DSK or SAD image (or altering an existing one) so that when clicked on in Windows, it'll launch the emulator and autoboot? Dave

Re: Games (Colony and F16)

2000-07-02 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 23:56:05 +0100, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent! Any chance of a copy of the tape, or better still can you get into a .dsk so I can make it available from the File Library and website? Gavin O stop it Gavs. You'll be wetting yourself.

Re: Big Trouble (in little SAM World)

2000-07-01 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:04:30 +0200, Edwin Blink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to boot anyway do a CALL 229385 for a 256K SAM or a CALL 491529 to continue booting DOS Don't you also need the older version of SAMDOS to be able to do that? No it works for any dos. you just boot a disk and when the no

Re: Web Sites

2000-06-25 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:26:50 +0100, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yarr, Taycombe-Fallop. Hannend. Heath, E... right? !!! Whatever :-)

Re: CD mag

2000-06-11 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 09:22:37 +0100, Stoned Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Cd mag will be a bit later than I said. Hopefully it will come out be early July. So there is more time to send me any work to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any chance of a brief idea about the contents? Dave

Re: contact

2000-05-30 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 29 May 2000 18:50:04 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just bought a new PC and was about to sign up with ICQ, but maybe I won't after all Hiya Phil - long time no see. No, I wouldn't let that put you off. I get the impression that he doesn't want to bother with any of us anymore.

RE: contact

2000-05-30 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 30 May 2000 16:37:49 +0100, Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What gives you that impression, anyway Just a guess. He isn't subbed to this group for example, and I can't see any evidence tha the has an interest in the SAM scene anymore; seeing how he failed to control us, and

RE: contact

2000-05-30 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 30 May 2000 18:59:55 +0100, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont remember a bob brenchley - who was/is he? John. He was the proprietor and editor of Format magazine - the home of all things Spectum and SAM, and if you didn't subscribe to it, there was no way on earth you could ever be

contact

2000-05-29 Thread Dave Whitmore
Someone just pointed this out to me: Bob Brenchley's ICQ is 21064485 Just in case anyone is desperete to contact him. :-) Dave

Re: Spotted on c.s.s - Sam for sale

2000-03-27 Thread Dave Whitmore
All this about £100 for a SAM being a rip-off is a bit daft IMO. Fully working SAMs are becoming more rare, and I'm beginning to see them in a similar way to how people might look at vintage cars. I'd say people who sell them cheap aren't really doing themselves any favours. Just my opinion.

Re: SAM pic converter ?

2000-03-25 Thread Dave Whitmore
disk B of issue 13), and that is on NVG in the mags section somewhere... I think. HTH Regards Dave Whitmore

Re: The Millenium Poll

2000-03-10 Thread Dave Whitmore
Any results worth posting yet, Johnna? Dave

Re: Christmas Greetings, etc.

1999-12-23 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:49:17 +, Tim P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James R Curry wrote: Seconded, thirded, forthded... Etc!! ;-) Sign me up for some of those Season's Greetings, too. While we're at it, me too. By the way everyone, Merry Christmas! Infact, I'll wish Sam a happy 10th

Re: Sam Keyboard Membrane wanted

1999-12-05 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:00:57 - Sun, 5 Dec 99 19:19:38 GMT, Trevor Ashby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your name certainly rings a bell. Hmmm.. now where do I remember you from? Dave

Re:

1999-11-27 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:41:38 -0400 Sat, 27 Nov 99 00:36:01 GMT, James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 12:32:48AM +, Andrew Collier wrote: Indeed. You seem to have forgotten to put a quotation of the entire previous message including sig at the end of your mail.

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

1999-11-22 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:55:48 + Sun, 21 Nov 99 23:57:53 GMT, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not permanent 0800 access, though, is it? ie 24/7? If so, then I might consider using AOL. If I can find a way to dial up using Linux. If it wasn't, I certainly wouldn't be using it

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

1999-11-22 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 08:30:10 EST Mon, 22 Nov 99 18:10:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed. Sounds good to me. I still have loose plans that one day I'll resurrect FRED, but I'd need to sort out a few personal things, as well as get enough support drummed up to ensure it lasted! In the

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

1999-11-22 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 22 Nov 99 18:58:56 GMT Mon, 22 Nov 99 19:00:23 GMT, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're a star Colin! I'll take back all the nasty and horrible things I ever said about you grinz. What? All of them? Including that comment about the squirty cream, the banana and the nun?

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

1999-11-20 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:46:57 EST Sat, 20 Nov 99 00:19:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You bunch of stupid demo coders. So you were Bob all along! :) Seriously Johnna, AOL!? Oops - sorry Phil. :- Dave

Re:

1999-11-14 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:34:00 - Sun, 14 Nov 99 20:52:06 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any sign of Bob? No - thank god! :)

Re: Wincoupe

1999-11-14 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:58:32 - Sun, 14 Nov 99 22:49:19 GMT, Maria Rookyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And we didn't have fancy stuff like calculators either, we had to count things up on our fingers... if we wanted to do subtractions we had to have fingers amputated. wen we wuz likkle we ad to

Re: New WinCoupe alpha test version (Was: Re: Defender)

1999-11-11 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 02:00:55 - Thu, 11 Nov 99 02:09:36 GMT, Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Cooke wrote: Mr. Owen... pretty please... release a new beta? alpha? anything? Aw, go on then, as long as you promise the GPL goblins won't come and get me! I've uploaded a new alpha test

Re: Greetz

1999-11-10 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 20:17:35 +0100 Mon, 8 Nov 99 22:34:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi evereyone, it`s me Martijn Groen. Hello Martijn, great to see you here! Regards Dave

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-18 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:10:20 +0100 Mon, 18 Oct 99 18:37:03 BST, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-17 Thread Dave Whitmore
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 a swipe, btw, I just don't

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-17 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:37:25 +0100 Sun, 17 Oct 99 14:44:48 BST, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What makes it exclusive? The simple fact that it excludes anyone who doesn't subscribe. Anyone can get it for next to nothing so I'm not sure how it's exclusive. That's true, but it isn't

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-09 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:26:12 +0100 Wed, 6 Oct 99 18:15:46 BST, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well with the greatest respect, this is the first I've heard about it... I suppose it also reffers to the number of people who actually *bothered* to subscribe to SAM magazines... WHILE THEY STILL

Re: oops

1999-10-09 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 00:57:37 +0100 Sat, 9 Oct 99 01:01:13 BST, Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going on?! Is it just me, or has everybody got about 15 copies of this message so far? And the Recieved: headers are getting longer... Then again, I just got two copies of this one.

Re: unsubscribe

1999-10-09 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:34:08 +0100 Sat, 9 Oct 99 00:37:26 BST, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that wasn't a sensible way to unsub now - was it? /Some people/ Tsk. Dave

Re: unsubscribe

1999-10-09 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:37:25 +0100 Sat, 9 Oct 99 00:48:21 BST, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He wrote nothing really Just chill, you idiot. Flooding everyone's mailbox with shite isn't gonna get you anywhere! Okay, what would you like me to say then - SORRY? You were shouting in an

Re: Erk!

1999-10-09 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 03:32:54 + Sat, 9 Oct 99 11:13:00 BST, James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that was.. erm.. fun. Yeah, I thought it'd never stop. Is everyone still with us? Good question. Dave

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:48:02 +0100 Wed, 22 Sep 99 19:34:18 BST, Maria Rookyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's nice to be back; anything exciting happened since the beginning of last month? Yeah, another woman came in and stole your crown. :-) Dave

Re: 5 1/4inch drives (was RE: MY MAGS)

1999-09-19 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:44:53 +0100 Sun, 19 Sep 99 10:38:28 BST, Will Easson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Kev Cooper on this list?! If he isn't (he dips in and out of here), he can be mailed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave

Re: MY MAGS

1999-09-18 Thread Dave Whitmore
Adie, I think Kev Cooper's got all your old disk mags - but he can't convert them and probably wont part with them - unless you can be bothered asking him? :-) BTW - you deliberately spelt my name wrong mutter mutter. I'd email you direct but I don't want to get caught in your kill filter. :)

Re: The SCART socket

1999-09-12 Thread Dave Whitmore
There used to be loads of info about things like SCART in ye olde Sam Supplement. I wonder if Dave Tonks would have any objections to the lot going up on nvg? Is anyone in contact with him these days? Dave

Re:

1999-08-22 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:01:30 +0100 Sun, 22 Aug 99 20:36:48 BST, Martin Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Email to the above address only for 1 week - after that I'm off line for good. Offline for good?! Jesus are you in the last stages of a terminal disease or something? Is the internet

Re: Re : SUUG

1999-08-13 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:03:03 +0100 Fri, 13 Aug 99 11:28:44 BST, michael sleight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Morgan - That name rings a bell with me too - say more!! Derek used to run 'SAM PD' and 'F9 Software' (the latter title cunningly invented by me!). He was an agent for SAMCo and was (I

Re: Re : SUUG

1999-08-12 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:34:33 -0700 Wed, 11 Aug 99 23:35:44 BST, Robert Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spectrum Unemployed User Group... Didn't Derek Morgan have something to do with that too? Dave

ooer

1999-08-12 Thread Dave Whitmore
Did anyone see Martin Maria dancing naked in the moon shadow at Marazion on the telly this (oh hang on) yesterday morning? RFC Dave

Re: Hello

1999-08-01 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:33:35 -0700 Sun, 1 Aug 99 21:29:33 BST, Robert Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all Sam users. From Bob Wilkinson (Peterborough England) Please send emails here as plain text or the others will start moaning at you. Welcome anyway. :) Bye for now, Dave

Re: SimCoupe : wide spread? (was New: SimCoupe 0.783a...)

1999-07-22 Thread Dave Whitmore
On the subject of autoboot, yep, I'm very much in favour so long as it's optional. Ideally with a virtual hard drive if no disk is in fd1. I don't think there's anything wrong in making improvments to an emulated SAM in this way, so long as there are options to make it behave authentically when

Re: Sam -year 2000-The Secretary

1999-07-08 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:51:23 +0100 Wed, 7 Jul 99 20:02:34 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think it is MasterDOS that needs a patch. | | Waste of time anyway. Who the hell would want to use that crap in this | day and age? Are we talking MasterDos or Secretary? The Secretary. Do you think

Re: Sam -year 2000-The Secretary

1999-07-06 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:30:22 +0100 Sat, 3 Jul 99 17:04:50 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Has anyone got a fix for the Secretary wordprocessor to make understand the | year 2000 I think it is MasterDOS that needs a patch. Waste of time anyway. Who the hell would want to use that crap in

Re: Format

1999-07-06 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:28:29 +0100 Sat, 3 Jul 99 17:04:49 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | What's the story with Format these days. Any news - anybody? | | Dave | If you have read my past messages you will know that Bob hopes to restart Format very soon. Try sending him a direct email at

Format

1999-06-17 Thread Dave Whitmore
What's the story with Format these days. Any news - anybody? Dave

Re: Derek Morgan

1999-06-12 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:35:51 EDT Fri, 11 Jun 99 19:36:00 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Derek Morgan is still active on the SAM scene, or if he's joined the ranks of PC users? Good question. The last time I spoke to Derek (seems like years ago) he said he /might/ get a PC

Re: Based on an idea

1999-06-11 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:25:24 -0700 Wed, 9 Jun 99 18:04:29 BST, jadams1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a spare copy of the above magazine I could buy as I would like to have a read of one. j adams A good case of sporadic enthusiasm, if ever I saw one! Bye for now, Dave

Re: Anybody Know Dave W`s mail addr

1999-06-04 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:17:28 +0100 Fri, 4 Jun 99 21:35:48 BST, Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hullo Hallieow its [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ I'm afraid it isn't. :) ...though he probably got your message on the list!! That's true though. [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now, but

Re: Manual

1999-05-27 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 24 May 1999 21:20:50 +0100 Tue, 25 May 99 18:47:01 BST, Thomas Harte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a spare manual here that I could rip up, but if you insist... If you've got a spare manual, I don't suppose you feel like sending it to me? Unfortunately, no. :) BTW, if

Re: Manual

1999-05-24 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 23 May 1999 23:10:14 +0100 Mon, 24 May 99 20:31:26 BST, Ian Dalziel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering. Did anyone ever bother to OCR the standard SAM manual (the one that Bob said he'd allow)? Er, well, in principle I'm doing it - there's a Sam manual sitting next to my scanner,

Manual

1999-05-23 Thread Dave Whitmore
Just wondering. Did anyone ever bother to OCR the standard SAM manual (the one that Bob said he'd allow)? Dave

Re: Leaving on a jet plane

1999-05-10 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 10 May 1999 17:35:57 +0100 Mon, 10 May 99 18:58:29 BST, Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you to one and all, and keep the faith with SAM in some form, especially SIM Coupe, because if it wasn't worth it we wouldn't still be here after ten baron years. TTFN to Johnna. Is it

Re: comp.sys.sinclair... jesus...

1999-05-08 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 7 May 1999 19:15:59 -0700 Sat, 8 May 99 12:31:18 BST, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hehe - if you work at Microsoft, say 'Hi' to the Mindcraft people for me! Yeah, right. Like I'd know them. You may well have done. :) There's 30,000 people at Microsoft in Seattle alone -

Re: New Argument about COPYING (WAS CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright )

1999-04-21 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:27:02 +0100 Wed, 21 Apr 99 20:00:12 BST, Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SAM software disks could always be personalised with the details of the owner before being sent out, as people will be a lot less likely to distribute disks if their name and address is part of them.

Re: Putting the whole boring argumet simply

1999-04-21 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:19:39 GMT+0 Wed, 21 Apr 99 20:00:18 BST, Psycho Billy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a choice as simple as that - support SIM Coupe, or kill off the last connection many people will have to SAM, and effectively kill off this little community of which we are all so fond.

Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks C

1999-04-21 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:43:44 +0100 Wed, 21 Apr 99 20:00:23 BST, Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SAM world can only survive if we start to pool our resources and help to advance SIM Coupe ie. getting it running in WIn32 properly. My thoughts exactly, but one or more people on this list

Re: Bob is missing

1999-04-21 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:44:43 +0100 Wed, 21 Apr 99 20:00:15 BST, Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely, someone on here is his friend, what about Samsboss and Bill Ritman? Won't they tell him? ISTR from a post he made recently that he wasn't feeling too well. I can vouch for the fact that

Re: COMPUTERMARKET Shows was The State of things

1999-04-20 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:15:45 +0100 Mon, 19 Apr 99 23:30:52 BST, Richard Jowett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be careful with some of the HD's on sale. Especialy the ones marked untested as I got 2 at about £8 each and only one works and that has a lot of sector errors. I reformated it but that only

Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright

1999-04-20 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:28:35 +0100 Mon, 19 Apr 99 23:31:01 BST, Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on with the PSX thread. Well, no one is complaining yet maybe its like some walkie-talkies(1), i.e., its not illegal to own them, sell them, make them or whatever just use them is

Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright

1999-04-20 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:07:09 +0100 Tue, 20 Apr 99 18:04:15 BST, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for advocating Copying Tape to Disk , this was not the case as it stated that it was for BACKING UP you current Tape software to Disk. And should not be used as a COPYING DEVICE Okay then, I

Re: New Argument about COPYING (WAS CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright )

1999-04-20 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:20:37 +0100 Tue, 20 Apr 99 20:17:50 BST, Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why DO you keep PUSHing this thREAD, when the law DEFines that you are wrong and I am right? Why do I get the feeling you're using a programmers editor? I don't know what's happening

Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright

1999-04-18 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 02:39:43 +0100 Sun, 18 Apr 99 11:42:51 BST, Richard Jowett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to a TV program It is illegal to chip and maybe even to own a chipped PSX (not sure if they said own). Yet loads of shops/people are offering this service, but nothing is really being

Re: Sam Juggler (Re: SimCoupe protected disks)

1999-04-17 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:42:26 +0100 Sat, 17 Apr 99 00:54:05 BST, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any other stuff that doesn't work with SimCoupe? (disk protection excluded, for now) Defender - thank goodness! pedant He said disk protection excluded for christsakes! \pedant Dave

Re: SAM floppy disk storage

1999-04-17 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:38:57 EDT Sat, 17 Apr 99 00:53:54 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: centre. Among the crap CDs and discontinued cookery books was a display of cassette, video and disk storage items. One that caught my eye was a well-made unit holding up to 240 floppy disks. It takes the

Re:

1999-04-17 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:17:08 +0100 Sat, 17 Apr 99 20:05:27 BST, Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 7:05 pm +0100 17/4/99, David Ledbury wrote: Knickers! Yeah, whatever. At least you've turned the HTML off this time... Shall we kill him anyway? :) Dave

Re: Using Sam on a SVGA Monitor

1999-04-15 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 21:00:11 +0100 (BST) Tue, 13 Apr 99 20:00:09 BST, Andrew Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... Sam users are not alone in this how-do-I-connect-a-monitor problem. Atari ST and Amiga users have the same problem (well, older Amigas certainly do - don't know about newer ones), and

Re: Copyright

1999-04-10 Thread Dave Whitmore
My view is that it is now impossible for anyone to control piracy. It's so wide-spread now with CDR (people copying playstation games, CD-ROM, music, etc), web and ftp sites (offering cracks, etc.), that it's only a matter of time before the laws will need to be looked at again - and changed in

Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright

1999-04-10 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:30:22 +0100 Sat, 10 Apr 99 13:02:03 BST, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a developer of software , which a present is costing over £250,000 to write a product for 18months on PSX , and will have to sell over 80,000 Sharp intake of breath Look for a safer platform

Re: Real Sam Users List 30th March 1999

1999-04-09 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 01:52:14 +0100 Fri, 9 Apr 99 18:15:42 BST, Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any objections to me putting this as part of my Sam pages on the Net? Yes. If you put the list online, remove my email address beforehand. Mine as well please.

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:13:08 +0100 Thu, 8 Apr 99 18:59:51 BST, Chris Pile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before Malcolm's untimely death he informed me that E-Copy (version 3 I think) failed to copy the protection I created for Defender... I tried *all* the PC copiers I could find and they failed

Re: sim-coupe

1999-03-20 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:44:26 - Sat, 20 Mar 99 11:32:26 GMT, Peter Harkess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manic Miner. I've got that as a Dsk. Prince of Persia Samtape4(lerm).(by the way who has the copyright to lerm software?) Wop Gamma Not those though. The original of the first used