Re: Prototype of case for planed new computer SAM COUPE 2

27;ll have to look closer on Velesoft's website. On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: How much will it cost? On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:29 PM, VELESOFT wrote: It's first version of case for planed new computer SAM COUPE 2: http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/SAM

Re: you dont know how to

Am 17.06.2010 15:29, schrieb Roger Jowett: anyone help to convert windows media player classic full screen 320x200 video can capture it with debut:capture at 256x192or512x384 or others say 384x256 for a rotate90º interlaced mode4 version? http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/ widnows media palyer

Re: Floppy Disks

The USB Floppys have a extremly cut down controller which is missing ability for low level access. So the answer is no. My Acer TM312T has a external parallel port Disc drive, and it can read and write Coupé Discs, only because the BIOS. It would be possible to make a USB Floppy which can use SAM d

Re: full motion video

That is how delta compression (in Retro-X) works. It stores the difference between two screens in s interleaved sequence of unchanged and changed byte sequences (omniting 1 and 2 unchanged bytes so save more space and gain speed, so copy them to screen even if unchanged). You can store e.g.: 50 byt

Re: full motion video

ssed delta chunk. 2011/5/31 Roger Jowett > so interlaced video could just display the same two frame for any > number of frames until it had loaded or decompressed another tow > frames... > > On 30/05/2011, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: > > That is how delta compression (i

Re: sam coupe - spec +3 psu question

Am 05.06.2011 21:38, schrieb Jonathan: Hi. I have a question about the sam coupe power input. Wasn't sure where to ask it so I thought I would try here A while ago I bought a sam coupe on the net. It didn't have a power supply but the seller said that a spectrum +3 supply works with sam and se

Re: sam coupe - spec +3 psu question

The plug is the same, but connections are different. GND is on different pins too. He will blow up his SAM or the PSU or both. It will definitly not work. Technicaly impossible! If you like the smell of burned electronics, test it yourself. Spectrum+3 PSU has 2x+5V, -5V, 2x+12V, -12V SAM has +5V

Re: ST Mice

2011/6/6 > Here's something interesting... > > An Atari ST mouse to usb mouse connector. In theory, this should also work > with the SAM mouse interface, should it not? So we could use a modern usb > mouse with the old MGT mouse interface? > > > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Atari-ST-USB-Mouse-Adapter-Br

Re: who wants some then ?

2011/6/7 Roger Jowett > humble apols > spam is asking for something as well as sending invites from social > networks is it? > Not if this will happen ONCE (one time, without repeats). Spaming is hammering thousands of times to multiple people (I got three invitations for Facebook). Spaming is

Re: keyboard membrane replacement

Warren, you are speaking for everyone here, I think. At least for me. Maybe Roger will ask next time about tips how to fix his car? @Roger: You got a hardware cheaper or gratis for your contract, which is running for a defined time period, so if you cancel the (no one cares about it) contract, you

Re: who wants some then ?

2011/6/7 Roger Jowett > oh shit im sorry i didnt realise i was talking to LCD > Orly? > your wonderful bmp2scr program has crashed like a thousand times Then do not use my program, write one yourself! Your computer crash very often, reading from your other mails about your internet connection

Re: ST Mice

input port, and SAM expansion bus interface for non-standard reading of additional buttons and wheels. 2011/6/10 Roger Jowett > you say it will velesoft says it wont? > im getting a bit spammed misself here?! > > > On 06/06/2011, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: > > 2011/6/6 >

Re: ST Mice

l in work getting free internet - in your lunch breaks > of course! > > So your computer must be replaced asap, there is something wrong. It can be the PSU, the caps on Mainboard or faulty memory > On 06/06/2011, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: > > 2011/6/6 > > > >>

Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive

I had only success using a slim line Parallel port floppy with my olt Travelmate TM 312T Subnotebook. 2011/7/22 > Hi Dicky > > I remember this question from a few months back, especially because I've > run out of space in my half height PC case too. > > The USB floppy drives simply aren't sophis

Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive

> > > You're welcome, glad to hear you got your data back. Most of my Sam disks > > are unreadable; whether my original Sam was close to the edge of spec or > > whether the disks have just degraded over time I'm unsure. > > > > And congrats on the new arrival! Sell the Sam and invest in some > heav

Re: Resistor R55

2011/10/4 nev young > On 03/10/11 23:40, Andrew Collier wrote: > >> On 3 Oct 2011, at 16:22, Thomas Harte wrote: >> >> It looks like a previous owner of my current SAM has had occasion >>> to replace resistor R55, or at least, to solder an additional copy >>> of R55 on top of the existing one. S

Re: Resistor R55

old Ataris ST, these are very cheap on eBay) and drive from samcoupe.com I think, your problem is the drive too, not the controller, as mine is. LCD On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: 2011/10/4 nev young On 03/10/11 23:40, Andrew Collier wrote: On 3 Oct 2011, at

Re: full motion video

ontact lcd to get it to work please:- > > Leszek Chmielewski > > i just want to see one mode 3 interlaced animation working even if we > never have an dma hi density mb-02+ style interface for sam or a ula+ > > On 30/05/2011, wrote: > > That is how delta compression (in

Re: Power supply circuit diagram

No, but my PSU was very "loud" after few minutes, so I adopted a normal +5V/2A +12V/2A PSU by soldering the SAM PSU connector to it. Works excellent! In the manual they state which pins are GND, +5V and +12V, so it is very easy and modern PSU are smaller and stronger. LCD 2012/1/14 Aley Keprt >

Re: Power supply circuit diagram

2012 09:39, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: No, but my PSU was very "loud" after few minutes, so I adopted a normal +5V/2A +12V/2A PSU by soldering the SAM PSU connector to it. Works excellent! In the manual they state which pins are GND, +5V and +12V, so it is very easy and modern PSU are s

Re: Drive/SCART fault?

Am 24.01.2012 01:01, schrieb Andrew Gillen: Anyone experienced any issues whereby accessing the floppy drive causes the display to corrupt? It starts off with the left hand side phasing off in jagged lines, then eventually the entire screen goes blank. When the drive has been shut off the displ

Re: Drive/SCART fault?

? I'd like to keep the original SAM supply really for aesthetic value. Cheers Andrew *From:* Leszek Chmielewski <mailto:retr...@gmail.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:21 AM *To:* sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no <mailto:sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no> *Subject:* Re: Drive/SCART fault? Am

Re: Power supply circuit diagram

9, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: No, but my PSU was very "loud" after few minutes, so I adopted a normal +5V/2A +12V/2A PSU by soldering the SAM PSU connector to it. Works excellent! In the manual they state which pins are GND, +5V and +12V, so it is very easy and modern PSU are smaller and s

Re: New Game - "Dave Invaders"

I wanted to note that Boriel want to expand his ZX BASIC Cross-Compiler to support SAM Coupé in future too: http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/Other_architectures But he will surely need help to finish it. His ZX BASIC is already great for coding games on Spectrum because he expanded the Sp

Re: Dave Infuriators

The saving from Basic is a good idea because it will make possible to use different Media for saving, but then you should also Load from Basic too. Nice looking game btw. LCD 2012/3/14 Andrew Gillen > Pleased you're all looking forward to it :) > > I'm looking to include the level editor as par

Re: Junk mail

And he wonders if his internet provider caps his speed??? I got 2 e-mails with links and attachments and 35 exactly same mails with recommendation of a f*g godd**n speedup software to my private mail adress with a requst to click a link to let them know that he recommendet it. This is enough! I

Re: Junk mail

Am 07.04.2012 15:30, schrieb Colin Piggot: It certainly kills most of the fun of what used to be a great hobby and a certainly one of the major contributing factors as to why I've been so quiet in recent times, all it takes is one idiot to take all the enjoyment out of it. Same here. He is th

Re: Junk mail

Am 11.04.2012 23:18, schrieb Wayne Weedon: On 05/04/2012 06:57, nev young wrote: On 04/04/12 23:39, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Was it just me who was sent a huge number of un-requested files? I've added the sender to my email blacklist. * WOOT * My R* J* spam filter works!

Re: Junk mail

Am 12.04.2012 12:04, schrieb Geoff Winkless: On 12 April 2012 10:55, Wayne Weedon wrote: On 12/04/2012 10:23, Geoff Winkless wrote: On 12 April 2012 10:08, Wayne Weedonwrote: [snip valid points] Please, can we just drop this? Not while he's deliberately and probably maliciously targetin

Re: Junk mail

Am 14.04.2012 13:08, schrieb Balor Price: On 14/04/2012 11:43, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: My "Jowettish" is not good enough to recognise what does Roger mean with this personal mail to me: "the day i spam you you'll r a dint the bak u yar id!" Can anyone translate it

Re: Sam Hardware

Am 09.06.2012 22:11, schrieb nev young: Hi every one, I had a phone call this evening from a friend who has a shed (actually I think it's a shipping container) containing a large amount of Sam spares. This all has to go. Rather than take it down to the tip or re-cycling centre he would rat

Re: Good resources for learning about the ASIC?

I have a faulty ASIC, which displays no BRIGHT signal, so only 64 colours available. But I need a working ASIC first, before I can donate mine. LCD Am 10.06.2012 22:52, schrieb Thomas Harte: Maybe we should get some samples sent into the guys at visual6502.org who, despite the name, are attem

Re: Cross-development tools

Am 14.06.2012 10:23, schrieb Chris Cowley: What I really could do with is a utility (preferably with a palette editor) for drawing graphics (tiles, sprites) that runs on Windows and spits out either DEFBs or binary files that I can INCBIN. Does such a thing exist? Failing that, something that has

Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive

with a floppy drive controller, did anyone try the Kyroflux route? On Thursday, 28 July 2011, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: > You're welcome, glad to hear you got your data back. Most of my Sam disks > are unreadable; whether my original Sam was close to the

Re: Convert an Atari Neochrome to SAM with KEdisk

Am 25.12.2012 18:27, schrieb Marcos Cruz: En/Je/On 2012-12-25 15:57, Colin Piggot escribió / skribis / wrote : If you are after an easy way to convert images to the SAM, Yes, I'm seeking and trying different alternatives in order to make the conversion as automate as possible. (http://member

Re: Assistance required

Am 28.02.2013 18:09, schrieb da...@properbastard.co.uk: So I guess this is a no then? Quoting da...@properbastard.co.uk: I was wondering if anyone with PAWS (Professional Adventure Writing System) knowledge could help me try and transfer a game from SimCoupe DSK format to one that would work

Re: Sam Coupe project..making a real SAM in hardware ??

Sounds good. Yes! I would give two or three of the babies a new home. 2013/3/24, Leslie Anderson : > Hi. > > I'm new to the SAM COUPE group and wondered would anyone be interested in > making a homebrew SAM-COUPE ?? > > It would have an improved spec. on the original: > > Z84C0020 20MHz Z80 > 512

Re: Game Hot Pursuit

Hi, It was on a "Review" magazine and I displayed it on the last Commodore meeting in Vienna last May. Its here on one of my SAM game compilation discs, but download both "Review" magazines and you will find it. LCD 2013/5/26, Solaris104 : > Hi. > I can't find the game "Hot Pursuit" by Ron Stirlin

Re: Windows Tools for Sam

How about Retro-X? And no, I'm not Roger Jowett... LCD Design: Support for old platforms. Am 20.10.2013 um 11:35 schrieb "Andrew Park" : Hi Does anyone know of any windows based tools to create graphics for the sam? What i mean is you can draw the graphics in a windows based environment

Re: Raising the price benchmark??

I will take mine to Foreve demo party in Trencin. Shoul I fear street robbers? ;) Am 11.03.2014 15:38, schrieb Chris Pile: On 11/03/2014 14:23, Balor Price wrote: Would you sell though? Well if that eBay listing is a indication of future prices then I don't think I'd sell mine! Once it's go

Re: Prototype of case for planed new computer SAM COUPE 2

How much will it cost? On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:29 PM, VELESOFT wrote: > It's first version of case for planed new computer SAM COUPE 2: > > http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/SAMCASE_6E.JPG > http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/SAMCASE_6A.JPG > http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/SAMCASE_6D.JPG > http://

Re: Prototype of case for planed new computer SAM COUPE 2

enhanced to 512 or even 4096 colours? > Will it have hardware scrolling or hardware sprites too? > Greetings > > LCD > > > Originalmitteilung > Von:VELESOFT > Gesendet:Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:09:58 +0200 > An:sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no > Betreff:Re: Prototyp

Re: Advice requested

You need a special Scart cable. The wiring is in the manual. Alternative is the Composite Video and Audio signal from the Power socket. On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Jason Thacker wrote: > All the electronics have arrived, but when I connect it all up, there is > no video signal. > > > > My d

PC -> SAM Picture conversion

Hi there! After giving up my old BMP2SCR I'm working currently on Retro-X, which can convert PC images to SAM Coupé Modes 1-4, and save them in MGT container. This is a unfinished work in Progress version: http://rapidshare.com/files/106078373/Retro-X_WIP6.zip.html It is very different from BM

Re: New SAM!

That's a bit bad, unfortunally it is not possible to edit (at least one day before auctions end), a eBay fault! There will be no second time for you to try, unless you stop the auction, but I would write something like "SAM Coupé (SAM Coupe)". I myself have two SAM Coupé so no need for it at mo

Re: Grabbing floppy images

Simon Owen schrieb: Thomas Harte wrote: Although I'm aware that my USB drive may be hard coded somehow not to support anything other than the PC layout That's pretty much it I'm afraid! USB floppy drives are seen as simple block devices, and the linear->CHS mapping is done inside the unit.

Re: Grabbing floppy images

Simon Owen schrieb: Leszek Chmielewski wrote: You coded the fdrawcmd.sys? It should work with onboard floppy connector under Win2K. Yes, and yes :-) I changed the code from example HANDLE h = CreateFile(".\\fdraw0", GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0

SAM Games and Retro-X

Hi there! There are some Perfect condition SAM Coupé games available on austrian eBay: http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250273008908 http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250273010072 http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250273011162 And now: Did some

Re: Random Sam BASIC question.

James R Curry schrieb: Okay, utterly random question... How does one determine the start address of the screen in Sam BASIC? I forget. It has been years. -- James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAM adv. technical manual says: 10 LET A=IN 252 BAND 31 20 LET BASE=(A+1)*1

Re: Random Sam BASIC question.

251 = High Memory Page Register 250= Low Memory Page Register Greetings, LCD Thomas Harte schrieb: Port 252 is read/write? Anybody got any idea about ports 250 & 251? On 28 Aug 2008, at 20:22, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: James R Curry schrieb: Okay, utterly random question... How does

Re: Random Sam BASIC question.

und a copy of the Technical Manual online and discovered that they are read/write, which I wasn't expecting. On 28 Aug 2008, at 21:06, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: 251 = High Memory Page Register 250= Low Memory Page Register Greetings, LCD Thomas Harte schrieb: Port 252 is read/write?

Re: Random Sam BASIC question.

nd using ROM Routines), I'm looking forward to see your work, as you are much more gifted coder than I'm. Most importantly, I'm really, really keen to get what I have bundled up so that you don't have to understand it to be able to use it. I understand |-D. LCD On 28 Au

Re: Random Sam BASIC question.

Thomas Harte schrieb: To be honest, I houugh Acorn Electron has the same processor as C64 and Atari XL, and I was sure, they hawe no Ports and anything is memory-mapped (By the way, I currently extending my Retro-X to Acorn Electron and Amiga screen conversion, is your Electron Emulator probab

Re: Random Sam BASIC question.

Sorry, I was very busy improving my Retro-X in the last time. I found more and more messages from Sam-users in my gmail spam directory... Thomas Harte schrieb: Aha. I never stop learning. That was completly new for me... For Acorn emulation I currently use Beeb. Just requested from the authors

Re: New SAM emulator for Windows

Am 26.02.2010 20:41, schrieb sam.co...@centrum.cz: Folks, please look at this: http://www.indigobanquet.adsl24.co.uk/x128wip/x128wip.htm even the SID and much more could be expected betatesters with various Windows (non-XP) systems are needed Wow! I did not knew it. Thank you!...