Re: Porting spectrum games...

2010-07-18 Thread David Sanders
> > Regarding Spectrum ports...  Why this road?  I would have though that the > SAM's 16-colour > display would be more suited to many of the original (early/mid 80s) > old-skool coin-op arcade > games.  These games offer far more potential than colourising old Speccy > titles! > > Coin-op conversi

Re: SAM Revival 24?

2011-03-10 Thread David Sanders
I think I may be the only regular E-Tracker user left on the planet, so I'd be happy to help. Colin usually nicks all the new stuff I write. Cheers David On 10 March 2011 11:50, wrote: > I think Colin's probably been bogged down with that dreaded virus many of us > suffer with... WORK!! lol!

Re: SAM Revival 24?

2011-03-11 Thread David Sanders
On 11 March 2011 14:06, the_wub ! wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm here too, working hard on my game still!  I'm having many troubles > with e-tracker so maybe I need to hassle David for some advice! ;) Feel free - I did the music for Stax, which is pretty similar to Tetris so happy to advise on fallin

Re: who wants some then ?

2011-06-07 Thread David Sanders
If, like me, you get annoyed by endless rambling emails then please just filter them. Replies to these messages are the only time I hear about them at all, and it's always people complaining about them. Cheers David

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-05 Thread David Sanders
I'm still unconvinced that he's not a bot.

E-Tracker Compiler

2012-04-20 Thread David Sanders
Well this is embarrassing. Does anyone know who one goes about playing compiled E-Tracker tunes? I've completely forgotten. I thought it was call the base address first, and then the base+6 bytes, but I am demonstrably talking nonsense :-) Cheers David

Musics

2012-04-20 Thread David Sanders
Hello List, If anyone fancies a listen to the most fiendishly complicated piece of Sam music I've written, here it is: http://dsanders.co.uk/sanxion.dsk It's kind of a conversion of Rub Hubbard's Sanxion loader, but done from memory so probably quite different. I believe the effect at around 2:0

Re: E-Tracker Compiler

2012-04-20 Thread David Sanders
The only thing to watch is that if you're calling from BASIC, the base > address you give to the E-Tracker compiler needs to be in section C > (32768 - 41951) otherwise it won't be paged into the right place when > you call it. I think 99% of the tunes I saw started at 32768 (and call > 32774) - of

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread David Sanders
On 23 April 2012 21:34, Thomas Harte wrote: > If it's for some sort of quick attempt at multipart megademo (albeit > with all the parts being extremely similar), would it be safe to > assume that someone [else] is working on the music? I'd love to be > able to contribute but music is completely b

Not sure the last one got through

2012-04-27 Thread David Sanders
Basically it said something like "please feel free to fix any errors as I can't do anything more without going completely insane". http://www.dsanders.co.uk/nyancat.dsk Cheers David

Party like it's 1992, or 1984, or whatever.

2012-05-04 Thread David Sanders
The compiler actually didn't make mincemeat of this one :-) http://www.dsanders.co.uk/living.dsk D

Re: Party like it's 1992, or 1984, or whatever.

2012-05-05 Thread David Sanders
On 5 May 2012 13:06, Simon Owen wrote: > On 05/05/2012 01:27, James R Curry wrote: > > Hangs on boot in SimCoupe for me > > BDOS appears to get stuck in a loop accessing the 2nd drive. With an > Atom interface connected it's waiting for the HDD to be ready. With a > floppy drive present it's wa

Re: Party like it's 1992, or 1984, or whatever.

2012-05-05 Thread David Sanders
> > > http://intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/downloads/maaorava.dsk > > (made in Protracker 2, ripped from an ancient MOD of the same name by > "Stargazer"). > > It's from a little while back, and is a sort of a "b-side" in that I'm > happy with the way it turned out, but it didn't quite seem to mesh wit

Re: Quick attempt at a scroller

2012-05-15 Thread David Sanders
On 15 May 2012 01:42, Tommo H wrote: > I think it'd be nice to go full screen and properly clipped one way or > the other just to prove the point; I'm not sure I have your sort of > willpower for finishing a whole game beyond that. Though if it was a > simple run and jump, I guess there wouldn't

Re: Quick attempt at a scroller

2012-05-15 Thread David Sanders
On 15 May 2012 11:32, Thomas Harte wrote: > Or, more likely, the sad realisation that I can't scale the thing to a > proper game is fast approaching... > > For the record, this is it mostly at 25fps, running (essentially) full > screen with black guttering to hide the edge jittering of yesterday:

Wait for that game to load!

2012-05-24 Thread David Sanders
I admit defeat slightly, but it was a valiant effort. http://www.dsanders.co.uk/oceanloader.dsk Cheers David

Re: Wait for that game to load!

2012-05-25 Thread David Sanders
** ** > > Stefan > > ** ** > > *From:* owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] *On > Behalf Of *David Sanders > *Sent:* donderdag 24 mei 2012 12:08 > > *To:* sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no > *Subject:* Wait for that game to load! > > ** ** > &

Re: Wait for that game to load!

2012-05-25 Thread David Sanders
ssen wrote: > > Sounds like a sanxionish remix? Wonderful instruments! And has a nice > unique > > artist sound to it! > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > > > > > Stefan > > > > > > > > Fr

Re: Wait for that game to load!

2012-05-25 Thread David Sanders
‘sanxion.dsk’. Listening to the > second one (electro) now… wow! It *also* has the sanxionish tune in it – > or am I simply going mad? > > ** ** > > *From:* owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] *On > Behalf Of *David Sanders > *Sent:* vrijda

Re: Sim Coupe

2013-06-24 Thread David Sanders
On 24 June 2013 23:05, Adrian Brown wrote: > This is most odd, I haven’t got a virus, it’s a false positive that killed > the dll. However I get internet explorer cannot display the webpage error > - the full link it goes to is > http://sourceforge.net/projects/simcoupe/files/simcoupe/SimCoupe%20

Anyone care to help out?

2014-04-20 Thread David Sanders
Hi All, As mentioned in a previous post, my real Coupe was mercilessly destroyed by t'mother. I'd really like a chance to hear a bunch of my E-Tracker stuff on a real SAA-1099. Does anyone have any kind of setup that'd make recording some of this easy? The emulation seems pretty good, but it sti

Re: who

2017-11-26 Thread David Sanders
Me, for one. On 25 Nov 2017 22:49, "Frode Tennebø" wrote: who

Re: who

2017-12-07 Thread David Sanders
Good to see a lot of people still here :-) Here's an actual thing for your Sam: http://innsmouth.dsanders.uk/ETracker-Brexit_Special.dsk David On 27 November 2017 at 21:40, Thomas Harte wrote: > I have recently been puzzling again on the topic of efficient division as > I think I've finally

Re: [Sam-users] So what's up in SAM Wolrd?

2021-09-03 Thread David Sanders
That's next level playback! I have the quality of Edwin's original player running Bacardi.mod burned into my memory, so it's a slightly strange experience. David On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, 21:55 Stefan Drissen, wrote: > I’m still tinkering away at samagi – see > https://github.com/stefandrissen/lsl

[Sam-users] Sam Coupe

2021-10-25 Thread David Sanders
are? If so please let me know! Best regards David Sanders (Pyramex) ___ sam-users mailing list sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no http://nvg.ntnu.no/mailman/listinfo/sam-users

Re: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

2008-04-10 Thread David Sanders
Right. Nice troll. Stratosphere looks pretty good though eh? On 09/04/2008, Aleš Keprt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guys, please be realistic. 3D on Sam sucks. > /--- > Aley > > -- > > - Original Message - From: "Tho

Re: Merry Christmas!

2008-12-05 Thread David Sanders
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/~simoncooke/samcoupe/boai/boai_issue_1.pdf > > > > Issue 2 will be up as soon as I find a converter fr

Re: Hi - just checking

2009-08-19 Thread David Sanders
Roger, Can we not keep on-topic just slightly? I really don't see what relevance the cost of broadband in Hong Kong has to the blue-footed one. Though actually it's a little like having James Joyce on the list, so I'll try not to complain. David 2009/8/19 Roger Jowett : > !hd > also sim coupe di

Re: Micro Men

2009-10-14 Thread David Sanders
> It seems to me that successive governments since Thatcher have deliberately > tried to remove any manufacturing capability from the UK. My belief is the > action in the 70s and early 80s by the unions sealed the death knell of > British industry; foreign investors were terrified of getting involv

Re: Micro Men

2009-10-15 Thread David Sanders
> The problem is that the unions had decided that, even though the economic > realities, and not the companies themselves, were dictating the required > action, they were not prepared to accept it. That, to me, is moronic. The > most obvious example is Scargill, who would not accept that cheap fore

Re: First public release of my 3d library

2010-05-25 Thread David Sanders
> Some documentation is included in a variety of formats, but the data > formats are currently documented in the source only. Nevertheless, I'm > optimistic it'll be reasonably straightforward and I'm happy to answer > any questions. The 2008 modification dates on some of the files are > embarrassi