Re: Newbie would like help ... Please!
Welcome to the SAM-users and this list ! The manuals should be no problem. Stephen Parry-Thomas did some excellent PDF-alization of most of the manuals made for SAM. To get started I recomend to get the SAM Users' Manual and SAM Drive Users Manual to get a understanding of SAM Basic and DOS You can get them from Gavins Site: http://www.samcoupe.org/downloads/docs/ You can shoot your questions on this list or search the archives for info at: http://www.mail-archive.com/sam-users%40nvg.ntnu.no/ To discover SAM on the net start at the SAM Webring: http://v.webring.com/hub?ring=samcoupe Adrian wrote: If anyone has any midi programming knowledge on the sam then please let me know as im having a lot of fun with a little project that many should like ;) Anything to do with 4 pasive components and a serial cable ? I only missuse the midi port to communicate with a PCs serial port. But what do you want to know about midi ? Edwin
RE: Newbie would like help ... Please!
I think the best one to start with is a Sam Coupe users's Guide. It's excellent, and it'sa vailable in a PDF format from ftp.nvg.ntnu.no server (and possibly also www.simcoupe.org - I'm not sure). /--- Aley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Thacker Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:20 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Newbie would like help ... Please! It had to happen, after nearly thirty years of using all sorts of computers I saw a Sam and said There is an 8-bit machine I want to develop for!. 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 could find this type of information? Thanks! Jason
Newbie would like help ... Please!
It had to happen, after nearly thirty years of using all sorts of computers I saw a Sam and said There is an 8-bit machine I want to develop for!. 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 could find this type of information? Thanks! Jason
Re: Newbie would like help ... Please!
Hi Jason, There's lots of documentation up at http://www.samcoupe.org/docs.html and also at NVG at ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe. The samcoupe.org project is also intended to archive all SAM software released so that it's not lost over time and the site will also cover new releases. Finally, believe it or not, Colin Piggot (Quazar) runs a very professional SAM magazine! Check it out at http://www.quazar.clara.net and sub up as it won't be long until the next issue is out. Congrats and welcome to the SAM! Gavin On 30 Jan 2005, at 11:20 am, Jason Thacker wrote: It had to happen, after nearly thirty years of using all sorts of computers I saw a Sam and said There is an 8-bit machine I want to develop for!. 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 could find this type of information? Thanks! Jason
RE: Newbie would like help ... Please!
Oh - forgot to say - get Sam Revival off Colin - it's a great mag. If you want to know how to program anything - just post questions here, this is the best knowledge base of any programming system :) Youll need to pick up Comet off Edwin's site - oh - think about getting a hard disk interface for your Sam - it makes life much quicker :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Thacker Sent: 30 January 2005 11:20 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Newbie would like help ... Please! It had to happen, after nearly thirty years of using all sorts of computers I saw a Sam and said There is an 8-bit machine I want to develop for!. 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 could find this type of information? Thanks! Jason
RE: Newbie would like help ... Please!
Welcome to my world ;) 15+ years programming and im still working on Sam stuff as well :D If anyone has any midi programming knowledge on the sam then please let me know as im having a lot of fun with a little project that many should like ;) Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Thacker Sent: 30 January 2005 11:20 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Newbie would like help ... Please! It had to happen, after nearly thirty years of using all sorts of computers I saw a Sam and said There is an 8-bit machine I want to develop for!. 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 could find this type of information? Thanks! Jason
Re: Newbie would like help ... Please!
On Jan 30, 2005, at 11:20 am, Jason Thacker wrote: It had to happen, after nearly thirty years of using all sorts of computers I saw a Sam and said There is an 8-bit machine I want to develop for!. Hello and welcome! What sort of thing are you looking to write? The Sam has a very rich BASIC language, but the most interesting things are only possible in machine code. Are you already familiar with Z80 assembly language? On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:33 pm, Adrian Brown wrote: Youll need to pick up Comet off Edwin's site Or - if you're developing using an emulator rather than using real hardware directly (not that this is a bad thing, but) you may find it convenient to use pyz80: http://www.intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/pyz80.html pyz80 runs on a host pc, Mac or unix system; accepts text files containing z80 opcodes (using the same syntax as the Comet assembler) and outputs a disk image, which can be loaded by SimCoupe. I've put a few bits of code on-line at http://www.intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/mnemotech.html which you could have a look at (they're the utilities rather than my usual demos though - scroll down to find the Source Code links). HTH, Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- Have you lost your Marbles? http://www.marillion.com/
RE: Newbie would like help ... Please!
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 could find this type of information? As well as the other resources you've been pointed at, I've got example Z80 source code up on my website at http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/samcoupe/infobase/index.html
