RE: Sam Hardware

2012-06-09 Thread Simon Cooke
Couple of Bare boards and a vlsi asic socket please :) I want to make a flashier home for my golden asic ;)

RE: Good resources for learning about the ASIC?

2012-06-09 Thread Simon Cooke
Well, I know it was done in wirewrapped logic chips first (a rats nest), and then that circuit schematic was turned into verilog and sent to vlsi for manufacturing. Although iirc Bruce told me they were using someone else first (or vlsi changed their process mid way), and they had to convert

RE: Fred 58: Sam Coupe book?

2012-05-14 Thread Simon Cooke
There should be a Fred file extractor I wrote a looking time ago somewhere on nvg, I think.

RE: border effects and tricks

2012-05-13 Thread Simon Cooke
David Zambonini wrote a whole article on the timings for this which became a part of Based On An Idea... (Iirc). I'll see if I can dig up a link to the pdfs. But! A lot of that timing info made it into Sim Coupe. Most of it's simple stuff - wait for the line interrupt for a specific line, or

RE: SAM HAM viewer

2012-04-12 Thread Simon Cooke
Btw... I think the link to the dsk is busted right now...

RE: SAM HAM viewer

2012-04-05 Thread Simon Cooke
I thought about doing something like this a while back, but as ever didn't get chance to play with the idea. For me, the trick would have been to say screw it and randomly/genetically generate the code required to change the palette. On modern CPUs it shouldn't take more than a few hours to

RE: Introduction and E-Tracker Query

2011-04-04 Thread Simon Cooke
If SimCoupe uses rdtsc without setting the CPU thread affinity, there are issues on some systems where it loses track when the thread is scheduled onto another CPU core. Usually a bios update can fix this, or switching to use QueryPerformanceCounter. -Original Message- From: Simon

RE: SAM Revival 24?

2011-03-11 Thread Simon Cooke
Oh god. I'm willing to bet I get ripped a new one on the Sandman's Shadow stuff. Yet another ball dropped :( sorry Gordon. -Original Message- From: Colin Piggot Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 17:08 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: SAM Revival 24? Any news on SAM Revival 24. ...

RE: Hi - just checking

2009-08-07 Thread Simon Cooke
or dedicated 3D instructions (such as the SAM), it's nearly always best to break out the matrix into individual linear equations, take the common pieces and only calculate them once, and then operate on them that way. -- Simon Cooke Director of Engineering / Business Developer, X-RAY KID STUDIOS

RE: SAM's 20th Birthday

2009-08-07 Thread Simon Cooke
Yeah, but you know, looking back... I think it was a bit of a pipedream. Would have been better to focus on coming up with a new system - or a new ASIC. *sigh* I hate getting older. It makes you much more cynical. -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no

RE: Hi - just checking

2009-08-05 Thread Simon Cooke
all the divides in. On machines without SIMD or dedicated 3D instructions (such as the SAM), it's nearly always best to break out the matrix into individual linear equations, take the common pieces and only calculate them once, and then operate on them that way. -- Simon Cooke Director

RE: sam birthday projects

2009-08-04 Thread Simon Cooke
I had an idea a while back to release it as an Incan themed game - kind of like Prey, but set in an Incan pyramid on the North Pole that was revealed via global warming. Filled with... Statues of Ice :) -- Simon Cooke Director of Engineering / Business Developer, X-RAY KID STUDIOS - www.x

RE: Hi - just checking

2009-08-04 Thread Simon Cooke
You only really need quaternions if you're doing animation or interpolation. If you can live with the gimble lock, euler's fine. -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Thomas Harte Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:05 AM To:

RE: Anyone help

2009-02-24 Thread Simon Cooke
I wish I did. would love to get in touch with him again. -- Simon Cooke Director of Engineering, X-RAY KID STUDIOS - www.x-raykid.com http://www.x-raykid.com/ Founder, Popcorn Films - www.popcornfilms.com http://www.popcornfilms.com/ Cell: 206 250 7892 XBOX Live GamerTag: Spec Tec

Fully detailed instruction timing breakdown?

2009-02-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Hey guys. I was wondering. does anyone have a fully-detailed breakdown of instruction timings for the SAM? Including at various points in the screen? I'm tempted to write a code-generator to render bitmaps in more than the 16 colors available, using a genetic algorithm (or even a monte

RE: Power supply making a buzzing noise

2009-02-17 Thread Simon Cooke
IIRC there's also a big brass one that goes all the way through to the black bottom of the PSU - try giving that a tighten too. (That's what always caused it for me). -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Colin Piggot Sent:

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-05 Thread Simon Cooke
Merry Christmas J I was digging through my old CDs, and I came across this: http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/samcoupe/boai/boai_issue_1.pdf Issue 2 will be up as soon as I find a converter from a 13 year old version of MS Publisher. :D

RE: Merry Christmas!

2008-12-05 Thread Simon Cooke
Sanders Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:01 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Merry Christmas! The link is broken, you cruel Santa! David 2008/12/5 Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Merry Christmas J I was digging through my old CDs, and I came across this: http://home.earthlink.net

RE: {Spam?} Re: interrupts

2008-10-30 Thread Simon Cooke
IIRC, RETI is used with Mode 2 interrupts to allow for interrupt daisy-chaining. Unless you've got hardware which uses them to vector interrupts to a table, you really don't want to use them. I'm curious.. why are you using Mode 2 interrupts? It's slower than the regular ones, as it has to look

RE: Speed issue's with POINT (x,y)

2008-09-27 Thread Simon Cooke
That's looking pretty solid dude J Si From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Calvin Allett Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:29 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Speed issue's with POINT (x,y) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RenBQ5GD24 That's nearly

RE: Grabbing floppy images

2008-06-17 Thread Simon Cooke
Activision, IIRC, owns the Infocom games. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:17 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no; Steve Parry-Thomas Subject: RE: Grabbing floppy images Quoting Steve

Anyone still in New Zealand...

2008-06-11 Thread Simon Cooke
ISTR Stefan being from there/living there. Anyone else? Friend of mine is moving to work @ WETA, and I was hoping I could set him up with someone to show him the sights ;-) Si

RE: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

2008-06-05 Thread Simon Cooke
I'm amused... was just doing a search for some old friends on Google, and lo and behold... we were talking about trying to get a good 3D renderer going back in 1995. Some things never change ;-) Si

RE: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

2008-06-03 Thread Simon Cooke
clipping isn't necessary and as a result to not pay anything for it. Simon Cooke: thanks for the link, obviously I'll have to read it before I can comment properly. Have you ever implemented whatever it suggests? On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Tobermory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks really good

RE: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

2008-06-02 Thread Simon Cooke
You might want to consider this method instead of a reciprocal table: http://swox.com/~tege/divcnst-pldi94.pdf See the book Hacker's Delight for a less opaque way of looking at this stuff :D Basically, though, it's a way of generating a table of constants that when multiplied with another

RE: Wish me luck...

2008-02-29 Thread Simon Cooke
website; www.ronstirling.co.uk, watch my films; www.youtube.com/ronstirling - Original Message From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:21:15 AM Subject: Wish me luck... I just sent out my first ever horror screenplay into the black

RE: USA move SAM stuff up for grabs

2008-01-31 Thread Simon Cooke
Yep, still in Seattle. I almost moved to Santa Monica recently, but the stars didn't align quite right. Victoria's awesome. Most Romantic BB Ever. :) Si -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James R Curry Sent: 01/30/2008 5:05 AM To:

RE: USA move SAM stuff up for grabs

2008-01-31 Thread Simon Cooke
Which side? British Columbia or Quebec? Or somewhere in between? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01/30/2008 3:06 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: USA move SAM stuff up for grabs Quoting Simon Cooke

RE: USA move SAM stuff up for grabs

2008-01-29 Thread Simon Cooke
4 or 5 last count? There's me, you, Steve Taylor... not sure who else. :D I'm way up for the idea of a reunion :) Of course, now I'm much older, so more drinking and drugs will need to be involved. :D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Hate to ask.. but...

2007-12-29 Thread Simon Cooke
Would you guys mind digging my screenplay post? This is a bit of an experiment; I'm in the middle of writing another one and I'm trying to see where it goes. Link here: http://digg.com/movies/UNSEALED_a_fantasy_horror_black_comedy_screenplay Cheers! Si -- Blog:

RE: Sam Family -1

2007-12-16 Thread Simon Cooke
Damn, that sucks. My sympathies to his family L From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Spencer Sent: 12/11/2007 5:53 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Sam Family -1 Sadly I have to report that the Sam family has just lost a long standing member. Bob

RE: SAMDOS

2007-11-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Isn't MasterDOS effectively PD now? You could just require people to have that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Brant Sent: 11/21/2007 1:56 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: SAMDOS I've had ago with your information

I honestly have no idea what this is...

2007-10-16 Thread Simon Cooke
. honest. It's a surprise. Or will be. Some day. http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/images/whatsdis.png Si -- Blog: http://www.accidentalscientist.com http://www.accidentalscientist.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/people/fleetingshadow

Terrible terrible idea...

2007-08-31 Thread Simon Cooke
Has anyone considered porting SimCoupe to C#, so that it could be put out as an XNA project, and people could run SIMCoupe on their XBOX 360's? :D Ah, running on a television. that's old school ;-) Si -- Blog: http://www.accidentalscientist.com http://www.accidentalscientist.com

RE: What genre`s are we missing

2007-08-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Oh crap... Yeah, I was looking into doing it at some point... unfortunately, I never got around to it :( I really did Gordon a huge disservice. In my defense, it was right at the point when I started college, and lost steam on a lot of projects. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: What genre`s are we missing

2007-08-21 Thread Simon Cooke
. We've got enough people in the biz on here :) Si -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08/21/2007 6:53 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no; Simon Cooke Subject: RE: What genre`s are we missing Quoting Simon Cooke [EMAIL

RE: source of a music track

2007-07-29 Thread Simon Cooke
It's from the soundtrack to John Carpenter's The Fog - composed by John Carpenter http://forums.finalgear.com/showthread.php?t=20392 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Collier Sent: 07/28/2007 5:14 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no

RE: New Stuff

2007-05-24 Thread Simon Cooke
Ouch. I'm hurt. :D Of course, no way to work on it now. No idea where all my equipment went. I had a bunch in the loft at my Dad's place. But it's not there any more :( So no discs, no source material :( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: SimCoupe 1.0 released

2006-07-22 Thread Simon Cooke
Interesting... Defender uses HPEN/LPEN... any idea how it uses it? I always figured that by the time you've read it, it's too late to do anything useful with it - never mind make a choice about what to do next. Support for unresponsive ASIC? Sounds kinda weird :) What's that either? :) Nice work

RE: Are you in the who's who?

2006-05-05 Thread Simon Cooke
Wow That's pretty awesome. Thanks Dan for putting me in there - although I really need to edit a bit here and there. I don't think it was Dave Gommeren's fault; I may just have been using the compressor wrongly. (erk!) Si -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Cookie

2005-12-30 Thread Simon Cooke
Hehehe :) Kind of scary to see how much.. erm.. thinner I was looking back then. And geekier :) If you want to find out how it works, do a search online for "Card Manipulation", and look at the various routines - you'll find it eventually :) (or for more explicit info, just email me

RE: Who`s missing?

2005-08-04 Thread Simon Cooke
Back in ye olde days, Colin MacD, Ian Slavin, Steve Taylor and Stefan all posted here. I think most of them still lurk - at least, Colin MacD certainly does. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Calvin Allett Sent: 08/02/2005 5:56 PM

Quick question...

2005-07-06 Thread Simon Cooke
Does anyone have a working email address for Chris White any more? Just wondering :) Si (busy busy busy trying to ship http://sufferingtiesthatbind.com/)

RE: Fuxoft music

2005-04-06 Thread Simon Cooke
Nice work! What did you use to do that? -Original Message- ... ever since getting the audio CD on the front of Sam Revival 11 (great work, by the way, Colin!) I had been wondering what some of the old E-Tracker (etc) music would have sounded like without the technical restrictions of the

RE: Blue Two

2005-04-04 Thread Simon Cooke
Dave wrote: We had ProDOS in ROM at the show, IIRC. Or at least, we copied it into and out of ROM so you could boot to CPM. Yep, I remember that you where also working very hard on a dos to live in it as well, IIR? Yeah, but like most things of mine, too many great ideas, not

RE: Blue Two

2005-02-28 Thread Simon Cooke
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] david: Except for the CF side of this, this does sound a little like the idea Cookie Martin Rookyard worked on - the MultiROM... I only know the MGT ROM-RAM interface. Dis it get further than an idea and are there any docs/details about it ?

RE: Brochure scans

2005-02-23 Thread Simon Cooke
Ah yes... The Nick Roberts brochures :) Si -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Owen Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:29 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Brochure scans Andy Chandler wrote: You can find it's

RE: Anyone going to E3 this year?

2005-02-23 Thread Simon Cooke
to all audience, is it? (Or do you mean the same E3 as I do?...) /--- Aley - Original Message - From: Simon Cooke mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday

RE: Brochure scans

2005-02-23 Thread Simon Cooke
OK, sorry for being, like, totally redundant there. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Cooke Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:13 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Brochure scans Ah yes... The Nick Roberts brochures

Anyone going to E3 this year?

2005-02-16 Thread Simon Cooke
I will be there! Yay! (Oh, and I just got made Lead Engineer of the Tools Division @ Surreal Software :-) double yay!)

RE: Newbie would like help ... Please!

2005-01-30 Thread Simon Cooke
Jason Thacker wrote: One snag, I haven't got a clue how! I have a Sam on the way courtesy of E-Bay, but no manuals :( I am desperately trying to track down online resources for teaching programming on the Sam, I haven't had too much success so far, but does anybody have any ideas where I

Burning Man 2005 E3?

2005-01-27 Thread Simon Cooke
It's a little early for this, I know... but... Anyone planning on being at Burning Man or E3 this year? I'm going to be at both (provided that life stays on an even keel). And I'd love to get together for a drink somewhere and show off my new 'Merkin accent. (And awful Sean Connery and

RE: Shanghai

2005-01-20 Thread Simon Cooke
Stewart Skardon wrote: If this was on a tape file, it's probably the version of Shanghai that was given away on a Your Sinclair cover tape with issue 84, where the game was credited to Franxoft on the cover tape pages. I think they probably changed the name to avoid offence.Simon

RE: Fuxoft [Re: Still no tapes received]

2005-01-20 Thread Simon Cooke
Aley Keprt wrote: Frantisek Fuka told me, that ALL texts of his 128k demos Fuxoft Soundtrack part 3 or 4 were removed, including the country of origin. I don't know what issue of what magazine it was, otherwise we could possibly compare it to the original version. (Fortunately, both these

RE: Fuxoft [Re: Still no tapes received]

2005-01-20 Thread Simon Cooke
Aley Keprt wrote: Exactly. I looked at it, and there is - changed name of the proggie - no author name - no country info - no description of tunes Originally the proggie contains a detailed description of all 26 tunes. I think it is one of the best AY music demos ever written (all

RE: Comet-ASCII

2005-01-14 Thread Simon Cooke
Edwin Blink wrote: From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey! Mine converts both ways too! For PC too ? Nah, runs on the SAM itself. But it converts to and from ASCII and COMET formats, with your own choice of line terminator.

RE: Comet-ASCII

2005-01-13 Thread Simon Cooke
Hey! Mine converts both ways too! What files does it fail on, Andrew? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin Blink Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:02 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Comet-ASCII From: Andrew Collier

RE: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games

2005-01-11 Thread Simon Cooke
Aley Keprt wrote: I must add that this GoodSAMC is a holy nonsense. Sorry that I complain once again, but really - eh - where is any good point in having all these non-official ZXS games compilations in a disk database? I bet every one of us have got his own 10 or 30 ZXS disks. Should

RE: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games

2005-01-09 Thread Simon Cooke
Aley Keprt wrote: Codemasters and a few others denied the distribution. Of course. We can check each game against WoS for sure. I'd like to point out at this point that we really need to make sure that - regardless of copyright issues - we have copies archived for posterity. Even if most

RE: Multiplayer Sam

2005-01-05 Thread Simon Cooke
Aley Keprt wrote: Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:18 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Multiplayer Sam Sorry, I am really busy now, so I really can't continue this. I will end up with a short message: IT'S ALREADY DONE AND IT WORKS! If this is not enough, I can't help you.

RE: Multiplayer Sam

2005-01-05 Thread Simon Cooke
Aley Keprt wrote: Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:18 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Multiplayer Sam Sorry, I am really busy now, so I really can't continue this. I will end up with a short message: IT'S ALREADY DONE AND IT WORKS! If this is not enough, I can't help you.

RE: Working copy of RGB demo?

2005-01-04 Thread Simon Cooke
Whenever I try to run the one from the GoodSAMC library, it does nothing and then crashes. Even if I use Andy Collier's fix from Fred 80. Mine? Yeah... At least, it had the Mnemotech logo on it... Maybe DZ's? Si

RE: Working copy of RGB demo?

2005-01-04 Thread Simon Cooke
Whenever I try to run the one from the GoodSAMC library, it does nothing and then crashes. Even if I use Andy Collier's fix from Fred 80. Mine? Yeah... At least, it had the Mnemotech logo on it... Maybe DZ's? Si

RE: Multiplayer Sam

2005-01-03 Thread Simon Cooke
Aley wrote: No complete dump! You just need to start with the same emulator.exe file, the same ROM files, and DSK/TAP file. Then you send keys (+ additional I/O input, if it's random). That's all you need to handle. Sam doesn't have any ability of real random number generation. It's

RE: Multiplayer Sam

2005-01-03 Thread Simon Cooke
Aley wrote: No complete dump! You just need to start with the same emulator.exe file, the same ROM files, and DSK/TAP file. Then you send keys (+ additional I/O input, if it's random). That's all you need to handle. Sam doesn't have any ability of real random number generation. It's

RE: Sam Coupe TAP files

2005-01-03 Thread Simon Cooke
Edwin Blink wrote: Had a quick look at it but my Cs not that good. Could your explain your solution ? Edwin OK... Gotta ask... What's your day job, Edwin? If you can write assembler like a demon, and not C, then we need to fix that. I'm willing to help in any way I can.

RE: Sam Coupe TAP files

2005-01-03 Thread Simon Cooke
Edwin Blink wrote: Had a quick look at it but my Cs not that good. Could your explain your solution ? Edwin OK... Gotta ask... What's your day job, Edwin? If you can write assembler like a demon, and not C, then we need to fix that. I'm willing to help in any way I can.

RE: NVG DSKification

2005-01-01 Thread Simon Cooke
Dan Doore wrote: Aley Keprt wrote: DSK has no header, so it is good as long as it has .dsk file extension... They have indeed. Well, and what is that MaxiDOS? Cookie's A-level Computer Studies project :-) It's a special format that uses extra tracks (81 and 82?) to store the

RE: NVG DSKification

2005-01-01 Thread Simon Cooke
Dan Doore wrote: Aley Keprt wrote: DSK has no header, so it is good as long as it has .dsk file extension... They have indeed. Well, and what is that MaxiDOS? Cookie's A-level Computer Studies project :-) It's a special format that uses extra tracks (81 and 82?) to store the

Working copy of RGB demo?

2004-12-27 Thread Simon Cooke
Just out of interest... does anyone have a working copy of the RGB demo from Fred 74 too? Whenever I try to run the one from the GoodSAMC library, it does nothing and thencrashes. Even if I use Andy Collier's fix from Fred 80. Thanks, Si

Working copy of RGB demo?

2004-12-27 Thread Simon Cooke
Just out of interest... does anyone have a working copy of the RGB demo from Fred 74 too? Whenever I try to run the one from the GoodSAMC library, it does nothing and then crashes. Even if I use Andy Collier's fix from Fred 80. Thanks, Si

How to install SAMDOS?

2004-12-26 Thread Simon Cooke
Hi folks.. Embarassing question here... *cough* Anyone got any idea how to install SAMDOS on a new disk? I tried copying onto a new SimCoupe disk,but for some reason that didn't work. I've got a christmas pressie for you if you can figure it out :) Thanks, Simon

How to install SAMDOS?

2004-12-26 Thread Simon Cooke
Hi folks.. Embarassing question here... *cough* Anyone got any idea how to install SAMDOS on a new disk? I tried copying onto a new SimCoupe disk, but for some reason that didn't work. I've got a christmas pressie for you if you can figure it out :) Thanks, Simon

Christmas Present

2004-12-26 Thread Simon Cooke
that goes alongwith this. (I think it's an old C64 tune that was ported to the Amiga). =====Simon Cooke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 12/26/2004

Christmas Present

2004-12-26 Thread Simon Cooke
with this. (I think it's an old C64 tune that was ported to the Amiga). = Simon Cooke ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 12/26/2004

RE: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-10 Thread Simon Cooke
Dan Dooré wrote: I like the idea of a new, all-encompassing disk format for the samcoupe.org archive (SCOA anyone?) as it will bring together many disparate formats DSK/SDF/SAD etc. into one, but it has to be able to hold the full geometry of the disk. One thing to remember though is that

RE: Domain name - voting ends Fri night!

2004-11-26 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Colin Macdonald What about the paper mags, does anyone still have those? I've got all ... Erm... 2 issues of BOAI that I can put up, provided that there are no objections from the Rookyards. (I lost touch with them a while back... I need to get back in touch). C. PS : Mr Cooke,

RE: Dare to share (was Re: Days of Sorcery)

2004-11-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Simon Owen wrote: Simon Cooke wrote: Look at the files on the archive which were kept in teledisk format (ending in .td0) for example - we have no way of extracting these now. It'd be a shame to lose other things that way. The later SimCoupe betas can open .td0 files (read-only), so

RE: overclocked Sam programs [was RE: ORSAM show report]

2004-11-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Geoff Winkless wrote: And on the subject of the accelerator board, I remember Cookie showing one running Lemmings at the second Gloucester show that someone (can't remember ... was it Nev? don't think so) had built... what happened to that? Well, here's a bit of history... I designed

RE: overclocked Sam programs [was RE: ORSAM show report]

2004-11-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Andy Chandler wrote: As for the accelerator, I think I remember seeing that in action. Am I right in thinking it affected the screen refresh slightly and there was the odd line across the screen, possibly where the ASIC didn't gain access to the video RAM in time? (I'm pretending to know

RE: Dare to share (was Re: Days of Sorcery)

2004-11-20 Thread Simon Cooke
Frode wrote: In the GoodSAMC directory there are currently 525 files which I'm fairly certain nobody cares is released or not. At least nobody has raised their voice yet. Well, apart from the fact that there's a bunch of unfinished stuff by me in there, which is a little embarassing (because

RE: Someone may find this useful...

2004-11-19 Thread Simon Cooke
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I wrote this mainly for my own use, but in case anyone else would find it useful I've put it up for download: http://www.intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/pyz80.html COMET's a great program, but recently I've been spoiled by exposure to luxuries like

RE: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Simon Cooke
For the hard of reading among us... erm... huh? Sorry, I'm watching this whole theatrical drama unfold, and I just don't get it. Can I get some crib-notes? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard BennettSent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:03

RE: Re[6]: Email

2004-10-25 Thread Simon Cooke
Andrew Collier wrote: On Oct 24, 2004, at 10:54 pm, Andy Chandler wrote: when you think of SAM music, who springs to mind first? I dunno - Craig Turberfield? ;) Andrew Ah yes... The best musician ever to be named after somewhere you grow potatoes. Oh wait a minute... That would

One more time (was: Short Film Stuff)

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Cooke
Here we go... :) Si == Hi folks, I just thought I'd throw a few pictures your direction from the short film I've been working on. (I produced it (as well as some 2nd-unit camera work) and am editing, compositing and color timing it... other friends of mine wrote, directed, acted

So what's everyone up to?

2004-08-28 Thread Simon Cooke
[sorry if this arrives multiple times... I've got way too many email accounts... and I figured that the list rejects messages if they're not from subscribers] Just wanted to do a quick roll call... the last person I saw in person was Colin MacDonald when he came out to do some

RE: Sam Lives - Maybe

2004-08-27 Thread Simon Cooke
I hear that in spades I'm just watching the 641st error come up in memtest on my PC at the moment. Damn you Corsair! :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard PriceSent: Friday, August 27, 2004 1:43 AMTo: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.noSubject: Re:

RE: A slice of Nostalgia

2004-05-08 Thread Simon Cooke
*sniff* *sniff*... That was beautiful :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Doore Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:43 AM To: Sam Users Subject: A slice of Nostalgia It's been on CSS but I'd though I'd post it here too.

RE: :-)

2004-04-11 Thread Simon Cooke
Yeah, this is the latest greatest trick they're using to get around AV software. Zip files are encrypted when they're password protected, so they generate a random key, and zip it up using it. They then get the user to decrypt it manually. The AV software can't do anything about it unless it can

RE: Atom Poll

2004-04-02 Thread Simon Cooke
Nope, not got one. No SAM here, alas. :( Si -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin Blink Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:40 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Atom Poll How many of you : -Do have a Atom ? -Don't have a atom ? If you

RE: /XMEM

2004-03-24 Thread Simon Cooke
IIRC, the XMEM line goes low when the external memory area is addressed (upper 32k of the memory map, with external memory turned on in HMEM). The external memory addressing is controlled by two latches at ports 128 and 129 (XMEML and XMEMH), which decide which 16k page of the external memory is

RE: Antw: RE: /XMEM

2004-03-24 Thread Simon Cooke
It's fully encoded with A15 and MREQ, from what I remember. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:34 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Antw: RE: /XMEM Thanks for the braindump Simon But

RE: AJ Incorporates Demodisks

2004-03-13 Thread Simon Cooke
, March 05, 2004 1:00 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: AJ Incorporates Demodisks Does anyone still have the AJ Incorporates Demodisks? Disks 1, 7 and 8 are on NVG in .td0 format, but only disk 8 appears to work. Disks 1 and 7 use a custom boot loader (written by Simon Cooke?), which attempt

Re: English

2004-03-13 Thread Simon Cooke
We're all friends here... Realization: U.S. English. Realisation: U.K. English. Some U.S. spellings are actually old English spellings, and the language separated over time. So the correct spelling depends on the country you're in. Typically, if you see z being used for s in words, it's

Re: AJ Incorporates Demodisks

2004-03-13 Thread Simon Cooke
or that screen. This was before compression became commonly available, which is why it was useful. Simon - Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 6:57 AM Subject: RE: AJ Incorporates Demodisks Simon Cooke wrote

Fw: MC Utils

2004-01-12 Thread Simon Cooke
From: david Unfortunately it wasnt - but Simon Owen found a copy. Unfortunately again - only the Comet to Ascii bit works :( Huh... That's odd. It should have worked. The original version only did one way, but the v2 one should have worked both ways. Simon

Re: MC Utils

2004-01-11 Thread Simon Cooke
david wrote: I wonder if anyone can assist? Basically I'm looking for two utilities... 1) A disassembler for SAM which will output a raw ASCII listing 2) an ASCII to Comet convertor. I know the second certainly exists - indeed, I think one may have been written by either Cookie or Andrew

Re: OpenGL shaders

2003-10-21 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. Very OT, but I'm having trouble finding information about this topic and since I know some people are very knowledgable in this area on the list I thought I should try Does anybody here know a great deal about the workings of shaders

Re: Hardware....

2003-10-13 Thread Simon Cooke
From: David - Original Message - From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 9:11 PM Subject: Re: Hardware Yeah, you can. That's how the MultiROM worked :) Si Did you ever get TurboMon working with that btw? You

Re: Hardware....

2003-10-12 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it is a read of the ROM then you need to assert ROMCSL ROMCSRL to turn off the ROM. Dunno if you could do that fast enough to be effective within one read cycle though. I'm sure some one will be along in a moment to prove me wrong. *cough* ;-) Yeah,

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