Re: The Garden Centre of the Universe.

2011-09-10 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sep 10, 2011, at 8:41 PM, the_wub ! wrote: [snip] > I'm not sure what I need to do to approve it for download, I can't > remember for the life of me what I did on the page for wubtris... > As soon as it is available I would be very grateful for feedback on > how it plays, too hard/easy/boring e

Re: The Garden Centre of the Universe.

2011-09-11 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:11 AM, the_wub ! wrote: > I'm really glad you like the game! It certainly wouldn't look as nice > without Chris' amazing 3D stars! I'm also pleased you're finding it > hard to beat because I've been playing it a lot and was very unsure of > the difficulty level. I finally

Re: The Garden Centre of the Universe.

2011-09-11 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:45 PM, Stefan Drissen wrote: > Nice little game! BUT... level one really is too difficult. After at least > 10 attempts the little robot bugger is still getting his rocket ship just a > bit sooner. The first level should be a bit easier to have a nice learning > curve and pr

Re: New Game - "Dave Invaders"

2012-01-28 Thread Gavin Smith
Have to send a "me too" post - really impressed. Love the graphics. That's two good new SAM games in the last year (Rob's Garden Centre Of The Universe game being the other one) - what's going on?! -- Gavin Twitter: @gvnsmth, @libapp On Jan 28, 2012, at 7:38 PM, James R Curry wrote: > Very

Hotline tapes

2013-03-11 Thread Gavin Smith
Some time back, someone on the list mentioned that they had the MGT Hotline recordings in a cassette - I think they were going to upload them. Was this ever done? Are they available somewhere? http://www.worldofsam.org/node/438 Thanks -- Gavin Twitter: @gvnsmth, @libapp

Re: Hotline tapes

2013-03-11 Thread Gavin Smith
Cheers Mr Piggot. -- Gavin Twitter: @gvnsmth, @libapp On Mar 11, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Colin Piggot wrote: > Don't remember where exactly they were uploaded to, but I did download them > at the time - will pass them on to you. > > Colin > = > Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs

Re: SimCoupe / Trinity

2013-05-03 Thread Gavin Smith
I don't buy the argument that emulation helps or hinders sales of physical products, at least not these days! I think anyone who wants to use real hardware is probably already using it and anyone who doesn't want physical hardware probably isn't going to change their mind. In any case it's pret

Re: SimCoupe / Trinity

2013-05-03 Thread Gavin Smith
A super SAM-type project has been talked about since Bob Brenchley kept us all going about his SamSon idea! If it's ever to happen, it will take someone to do it off their own back and just see it through because most of us on this list will be too skeptical and jaded to lend much support! I thi

Re: The return of Jowspam on WOS?

2013-06-06 Thread Gavin Smith
I'd put money on it being him! Luckily, he never seems to capitalise his comments, so they're easily spotted (and ignored) in the Recent comments box. On Jun 6, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Chris Pile wrote: > A little heads up for Andrew: > > Someone called "jamesrjatkinson" is spamming World Of Sam.

Re: The return of Jowspam on WOS?

2013-06-06 Thread Gavin Smith
the window on > his comments! Also notice the "RJ" initials in the middle of Mr James "RJ" > Atkinson! ;) > > > On 06/06/2013 11:08, Gavin Smith wrote: >> I'd put money on it being him! Luckily, he never seems to capitalise his > comments, so th

Re: The return of Jowspam on WOS?

2013-06-06 Thread Gavin Smith
of the admin interface are a bit broken. This is not a UI > that I would expect most people to want to deal with. > > Andrew > > On 6 June 2013 14:03, Gavin Smith wrote: >> For goodness sake, can a few of us not get admin rights and remove this >> nonsense when he pos

Re: SAM Revival issue 25 now out! (And other recent releases!)

2015-10-15 Thread Gavin Smith
My copy arrived yesterday. I’ve missed a couple of issues lately but this is definitely the best SAM Revival issue that I’ve ever seen. It’s so packed with stuff that you’d be forgiven for thinking it was the early 90s again :) Love the original Robin Evans artwork too, can’t believe you tracked

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-20 Thread Gavin Smith
Aley Keprt wrote: > > Well, > What is the really worst ever game? > Some weeks ago somebody said Parallax, Vegetable Vacation, or > FutureBall. > What is the worst one? > When I understand "worst" as "unplyable" I must mention > FutureBall, Vegetable Vacation, Sam Strikes Out and Coloris. > (Also

Still no rest for the Z80...

1999-09-20 Thread Gavin Smith
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990920S0013 Gavin

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Gavin Smith
Johnna Teare wrote: > > On 21 Sep 99, at 19:41, Thomas Harte wrote: > > > > STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris. > > > > Anywhere I can get a copy? > > FREd - forget the issue number ... (checks disk box) ...bugger - > can't find it! > > Remember Santa Goes Psycho?

Re: Sams worst game ever

1999-09-22 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert Wilkinson wrote: > PS . Can I assume that a new Sam can't be bought, seeing as nobody has > bothered to answer my query. > > I could do with one to modify, but don't want to knacker the one I have. Its > given nearly 10 years good service and I'm not prepared to rip it apart and > re-modge

Teledisk shmeleshmisk

1999-09-23 Thread Gavin Smith
Aren't we all fed up with tdo files by now? I can't remember the last time I successfully got teledisk to give me an uncorrupted SAM disk...(and besides, I work mostly on a Mac now). It might also be a little off putting to newbies to find different file formats in NVG. How about someone takes the

Re: Teledisk shmeleshmisk

1999-09-23 Thread Gavin Smith
Simon Cooke wrote: > > > Aren't we all fed up with tdo files by now? I can't remember the last > > time I successfully got teledisk to give me an uncorrupted SAM > > disk...(and besides, I work mostly on a Mac now). It might also be a > > little off putting to newbies to find different file format

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Gavin Smith
Simon Cooke wrote: > > > On 21 Sep 99, at 23:07, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > > > The > > > canoeing was always the hardest bit.. after that it moved from being > about > > > pure wiggling and into timing & skill, which was beyond me... > > > > > > > This is where my girlfriend has problems wit

Re: Hi Sam Dudes,

1999-09-25 Thread Gavin Smith
Richard Moore wrote: > > Hi Sam Dudes, > I'm new to this list, I used to have a Sam Coupe back in those glory days, > and wasn't it great, > I was wondering if anyone knew the whereabouts of a certain Martin > Fitzpatrick, he used to run Metropolis software, I used to write music for > him. > Chee

Re: Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Chris White wrote: > > Attached is a Text File which contains ALL my Sam Disks. > > Some of which I clearly don't own , but just incase if ANYONE owns the > Copyright to any you must email me directly with your Agreement or > Non-Agreement of Upload , or if ANYONE knows the Copyright Owner then p

Re: Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Nick Humphries wrote: > > I've always been an advocate of the Chris White Method (do things first, ask > questions later), but I'm sure he'll take anything down if requested to by the > copyright owner. It's the way The World Of Spectrum archive works. It's the > way > the YS Rock'n'Roll Years wo

Re: Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert van der Veeke wrote: > Yeah where the hell is Bob? as if he has been so good for the Sam the last 2 > years. If he is so protective about his rights on the Sam and its software > then he is clearly showing it. He disapeared without a trace to this list, > the decent thing he could do was at

Re: Re Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert Wilkinson wrote: > About time everything done for the Sam was put up for grabs I agree that if you aren't going to sell the stuff anymore, it should be made easily available. My point was simply that you can't stick other people's work up - it's up to them what they want to do with it.

Re: Re Finally

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Chris White wrote: > Okay everyone did miss understand me , i HAVE upload to a web page allready > that Contains of the CHRISWHITE&MISC list , getting web space increase 2 > upload more , but as i stated ' I CLEARLY DON'T OWN' will not be uploaded > Imediatley , and if anyone has the Copyright 2 s

SAM Community

1999-09-29 Thread Gavin Smith
The second issue of the SAM Community Newsletter will be mailed on Tuesday the 5th of October. Closing date for any news items is this Saturday (the 2nd) - all news items gratefully received! If you would like to find out more about the SAM Community (and there's only one or two members on this lis

Re: Sams worst game ever

1999-09-30 Thread Gavin Smith
Dan Dooré wrote: > My last word on the OT subject: > > http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/fifi_mentalwealth.jpg > > Before & After shots. I'm not sure if she looks better before or after... Gavin

Re: SAM Community

1999-09-30 Thread Gavin Smith
Johnna Teare wrote: > > Why don't you post a brief remit to this list? I'm interested, although > sadly no longer active in the 'real' SAM world... Okie dokie. The original idea of the SAM Community was to find out how many active SAM owners are left. I also decided to do a bi-monthly newsletter,

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-03 Thread Gavin Smith
Johnna Teare wrote: > > On 30 Sep 99, at 15:14, Gavin Smith wrote: > > > It's 2 > > quid for a year's membership, including 6 issues of the newsletter. If > > you're interested, drop me a mail off the list and I'll send you the > > address.

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-03 Thread Gavin Smith
Gavin Smith wrote: > > Johnna Teare wrote: > > Right Gav - Sorry for not signing up earlier. Email me your address > > and trhe cheque'll be in the post. > > > > There MUST be more than 30 active SAM users out there - are we > > all not active SAM u

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-04 Thread Gavin Smith
Ian Collier wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:04:53AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > > And please, no cheques! :) 2 quid in coins, or stamps or something, but > > no cheques. Looking forward to hearing from you soon :) > > What the devil is wrong with a cheque? The e

Re: SAM Community

1999-10-06 Thread Gavin Smith
Chris Pile wrote: > > Gavin, > > Could you e-mail me your address please as I wish to subscribe to SAM > Community. > > I would have sent you an e-mail direct, but Outlook Express decided *not* > to add your e-mail address to my address book the last time I mailed you, > even though > it's set

Re: Lost Games

1999-10-08 Thread Gavin Smith
Tim wrote: > > A thought I had just now, while reading through some old files... > > What ever happened to the F16 Simulator. Obviously it never got released, > but it did get to the demo stage (does anyone have this on a DSK?). The > quote from the SamCo newsletter was something like "the prog

Re: Lost Games

1999-10-08 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: > Kaboom - still waiting for Wayne to finish - he's supposed to have promised > to finish it after Driver was done Well, for months, the only thing he apparently had to do, was the protection routines. Then he decided to sell it himself didn't he? As shareware for a fiver i

Re: Erk!

1999-10-11 Thread Gavin Smith
Mr Samsboss wrote: > > > Well, that was.. erm.. "fun". > > > > Is everyone still with us? > > Yes. > > -- > -- > Samsboss - The One And Only. > Accept No Others. Oh for f*ck's sake, you're all we need now. Bob, stop being a twat, we know your Bob Brenchley, you've been writing to people persona

Re: What The Hell Is Going On?

1999-10-11 Thread Gavin Smith
Andrew Collier wrote: > > At 8:00 am +0100 11/10/99, Frode Tenneboe wrote: > > Could > >someone please tell me who [EMAIL PROTECTED] is? > > It's David Ledbury. > > Andrew I don't think he meant to do what he did though - I think it was just a stupid mistake. Gavin

Re: Lost games

1999-10-11 Thread Gavin Smith
Aley Keprt wrote: > > I have F16 Playable demo on DSK. > Does someone really want this stuff? Yes indeedy! If you could email it to me *off the list* I'd be ever so grateful! Or can you stick it on NVG or somewhere we can all get at it? Pleasy weasy? Gavin

Re: What The Hell Is Going On?

1999-10-12 Thread Gavin Smith
Mr Samsboss wrote: > Not Welsh, not at uni anymore, so not into sheep. > > -- > -- > Samsboss - The One And Only. > Accept No Others. You said you never went to Uni :) Check the archives *snigger* Gavin

SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-16 Thread Gavin Smith
Issue 2 of the Newsletter is now available. If you want a copy of the 4 page A4 newsletter for SAM Coupé owners, send me an email with your address and I'll send you a free copy. Alternatively, send me 2 quid and you'll get the next 6 issues (a good time to do it, as this price won't last much long

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-17 Thread Gavin Smith
James R Curry wrote: > > > Issue 2 of the Newsletter is now available. If you want a copy of the 4 > > page A4 newsletter for SAM Coupé owners, send me an email with your > > address and I'll send you a free copy. Alternatively, send me 2 quid and > > you'll get the next 6 issues (a good time to d

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-17 Thread Gavin Smith
Dave Whitmore wrote: > > 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

Re: Someone's selling a Sam on ebay

1999-10-18 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert van der Veeke wrote: > Mmmm it now stands at $20.50, still not much. But it is not clear to me if > this Sam has a diskdrive and if it is fitted with 512k or just 256k memory. > > Robert van der Veeke aka RJV Graphics It now stands at $202.50! Damn, that kind of beats my initial bid of 20

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-18 Thread Gavin Smith
Dave Whitmore 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 trying to be smart, I just don't follow you here - you don't get it unless you ask

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-19 Thread Gavin Smith
Dave Whitmore wrote: > My irrational problem is that I find it incredibly frustrating to > contemplate sending or receiving information through snail-mail > (farting about with stamps and envelopes, etc. That's my problem though isn't it? You'd only have to do it once a bloody year! :) Lazy git

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-19 Thread Gavin Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Would you be able to send me up a copy - Issue 1 as well if you have any - > I'll send cash down if you give me your address. No problemo. Address is: SAM Community, 34 Craigowen Road, Carrickfergus, BT38 7NE. I'll shove them in the post in the morning. > At present

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-26 Thread Gavin Smith
Justin Skists wrote: > > I got the newsletter at the weekend. > > Good job, Gavin. > > Hell, there was some stuff in there that even I didn't know about!! > And yes, I'd agree to the suggestion about making it into more > than just a newsletter. Glad you liked it Justin. For everyone else, the

Re:

1999-11-15 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: > > Whoops! > > Posted in HTML :( Soz!!! > > As was saying, any one seen Bob recently? No, no sign. Our most recent sighting of him was Samsboss mailing this list and a few people off this list directly (offering them items that only Bob has for sale or something). I'm collecting

Re:

1999-11-15 Thread Gavin Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Who's this Bob bloke everyone's on about? Not Sambob Ritman by any chance? > > While we're on, or near, the subject, is Format still going? > > - Phil Glover No, not as far as I know. There hasn't been an issue for something like a year and a half (someone correct

Re: Question: MIDI sequencing

1999-11-19 Thread Gavin Smith
David Ledbury wrote: > > Will I be able to get a copy? > > Doubtful but legally it belongs to the Mackenzie family. > > > If so, how? > > You could try writing to: > > Duncan Mackenzie > 31 Ashwood Drive > Brandlesholme > Bury > (forgot the postcode!) > Make the cheque payable to Duncan Ma

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

1999-11-20 Thread Gavin Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > And this isn't one of those get rich quick scams. > > AOL are offereing ten hours free internet access at the minute - you don't > even have to pay for phone calls. Completely gratis. > > So it occured to me... > > If you loaded up one of those 'pay as you surf' ban

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

1999-11-20 Thread Gavin Smith
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Erm, I have an excuse though. You see, AOL were running an 0800 trial > > thing a while ago. Basically, 100 lucky people in the UK were sent the > > 0800 pack, which involves paying 30 quid a month, and you get 24 hours a > > day, totally free phone calls! So, erm I s

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

1999-11-20 Thread Gavin Smith
Martin Wilson wrote: > Like most people though I've had absolutely loads of AOL CDs sent to me. I've > literally had about 80 sent to me in the last 3 years. Actual AOL subscribers > have > to pay for the cost of these so no wonder its such a rip off. > > I mean £30 a month is £360 for a year. T

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

1999-11-21 Thread Gavin Smith
The Mad Goose wrote: > Lets get our act together and get some of the sam-users ftp site > turned into .dsk format stuff. Anybody got a real SAM running > who'd be willing to get some of this stuff converted over? Agreed mate! I asked for this a month or two ago, but we somehow got bogged down into

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

1999-11-22 Thread Gavin Smith
Paul Walker wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Gavin Smith wrote: > > > You obviously don't use the net as much as me! Before I got the 0800 > > number, my phone bills were massive! Now I can download things like > > It's not permanent 0800 access, though, is

Re: samdsk

1999-11-24 Thread Gavin Smith
Justin Skists wrote: > > OK, gang. > > SAMDSK - right... > > What does Error 0x2000 mean? it seems to try writing the first sector > a few times, say the error and carry on like nothing has happened. > > Oh, I'm running it in a dos box in NT4.0 SP-something-or-other. > > Justin. Completely of

Re: Hello

1999-12-01 Thread Gavin Smith
Justin Skists wrote: > Format's dead. Persona's dead. Practically everyone has given up. > Only Quazar (and a handful of souls) seem to be holding up the > SAM Banner. Excuse me but the SAM Community Newsletter thingy has about 40 or 50 readers now! And growing every week! More news on that this

Re: Seattle's Burning

1999-12-01 Thread Gavin Smith
Simon Cooke wrote: > > Ok... the map should be up at: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/MapImage.gif > > Also... (listening to a police scanner) apparently, someone's just stolen > two buses. > > Oh dear. > > Simon Hey, this sounds just like Belfast in Summer! You should see the amoun

Re: Hello

1999-12-01 Thread Gavin Smith
"D.A. Fulton" wrote: > > > Excuse me but the SAM Community Newsletter thingy has about 40 or 50 > > readers now! And growing every week! More news on that this weekend > > actually... > > This is new to me! > > What is it? > Where can I get it from - Gavin? It started purely as a Newsletter, th

Re: b-dos docs

1999-12-03 Thread Gavin Smith
Justin Skists wrote: > > Where can I get ATOM from, now? Pricing? > (I'll probably just get an external version - if it has a through-putter) Go check issue 2 of the SAM Community Newsletter (if you haven't wiped your arse or something with it by now). Gavin

Re: MS-BDOS?

1999-12-03 Thread Gavin Smith
Martijn Groen wrote: > > It's possible to implement MS-DOS read & write commands in > B-DOS. However, at the moment there is only about 300 bytes free > in B-DOS 1.6d, so there are 3 options for a new B-DOS version. > I know how to read MS-DOS disk, but not how to write to it. Perhaps, > the progr

Re: Kilroy on Monday

1999-12-08 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: > > Anyone watching Kilroy on monday may have seen a certain lady in the > audience... > > Dawn Mackenzie & daughters > > Off topic, but nice to see them! > > David Blimey! What was the topic of discussion and did they say anything? I wonder what she has done with all the SA

Re: Christmas Greetings, etc.

1999-12-22 Thread Gavin Smith
Stephen McGreal wrote: > Much as I hate to jump on the bandwagon I spose I should pass on my > greetings to SAMmers. You kids just remember to be careful to protect your > little slopey white machines from the Millenium Bug now, won't you? > Hehehehehe > > Steve Hey, maybe that's why Bob has dis

Mr. Brenchley

1999-12-22 Thread Gavin Smith
A few people have been recently asking if Bob is still about, and although it seems he is staying well clear of Spectrum/Sam areas, it appears he is alive and kicking. A quick search on deja.com, revealed he posts regularly to a few newsgroups. Ironically in one of his posts he uses the (seemingly

Re: your mail

2000-01-06 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: > > Dont be pedantic > > A Z380 or Z280 machine would, I would imagine, be remotely of interest to > some people on the list. > > Obviously not. > > Oh well. Don't worry David, it was interesting, thank you for pointing the URL out to us. Some people just like to complain about

SAM Community

2000-01-24 Thread Gavin Smith
news items, any projects floating around, any bits and pieces at all would be gratefully received. Current subbers will receive the issue hopefully by the end of this week. If you aren't subbed up, send a fiver (cash or cheques made payable to Gavin Smith, NOT SAM Community) if you're in t

Re: Take a look at this URL if you're remotely interested in SAM Comms....

2000-01-25 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: > > http://www.nenie.org/cpcip/ > > Okay, not strictly SAM related - but it is at least Z80 related > > David Quite a coincidence you brought this up, cos in the latest SAM Community I've made a bit of a plea for someone to implement the TCP/IP stack on the SAM. Gavin

Re: new member

2000-01-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Mac Buster wrote: > > Hello! > > I am new in this mailing list and would like to know is > there any log file of this list ? I don't want ask same > questions if there are qnswers already. Also I wold like > to know about programming for Sam, is there any books, > references available ye

Re: Sam Elite

2000-01-31 Thread Gavin Smith
Mac Buster wrote: > > Hello! > > Could someone tell me about Sam Elite ? All I know so far is name. > Which are differences to base model of Sam Coupe ? Year of release, > how much machines was released, its price, etc. Actually I've to > write 2nd article for magazine ( first was about

Re: Sam Elite

2000-01-31 Thread Gavin Smith
"D.A. Fulton" wrote: > The impression I got (and people may want to correct me here) was that it > was simply the addition of an internal version of the printer interface > and a re-labelling (I seem to remember reading somewhere that you could > peel off the "Sam Elite" sticker and find the words

SAM drawings

2000-01-31 Thread Gavin Smith
Quick request - I'm looking for lots of the little SAM cartoon drawings - the sort of thing that was in SAM manual. I think Steve Pick had scanned a lot of them in, and also drawn some more of his own, but his site seems to have gone. Anyone know where can I get such things as I have no access to a

Re: SAM Community iss 2(...3!)

2000-03-07 Thread Gavin Smith
shawm wrote: > > I think that Sam Community issue 2 is cool, and will also be > subscribing. I don't know why everyone is talking about issue 2 - it's issue 3 that you just received :) And Matt, you're already a subscriber...glad you liked it though. > I am also intersested in getting hold

Re: Unusual hardware

2000-03-10 Thread Gavin Smith
Jarek Adamski wrote: > > On 00-03-08 The Mad Goose wrote: > > > Sam related - who's got the best specced- SAM on the list then? > > And who owns the most unusal piece of hardware... > Look at "http://nautilus.torch.net.pl/zxland/pic.samhdd.jpg";. > This is rear of my SAM. You should see there: >

Re: Help!

2000-03-15 Thread Gavin Smith
Mac Buster wrote: > > Hello! > > Tell me please how to write .dsk images back to real disk with using of > PC ? It is needed for Forever 2e3 organizers to show Sam entries on the > party. Help please! Samdsk.exe is what you need mate. It's on NVG, it's no problem to use. Can you upload

Re: Introducing Myself

2000-03-15 Thread Gavin Smith
Steve Longhurst wrote: > I'm in the process of getting an Atom disk interface at the moment and have > found a few bits of my old software and managed to pick up some pieces on > eBay.Is it still possible to get much in the way of software for the > Sam? I have Colin Piggot's catalogues but w

Re: SimCoupe

2000-03-21 Thread Gavin Smith
Frans van Egmond wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > I was the lucky winner of an auction at e-bay and I paid about 120 Uk pounds > including shipping. > I've searched for info on the Atom but Persona doesn't seem to exist > anymore... > > Frans Len Bennett used to make them for Persona - he now sells them

Any news?

2000-04-23 Thread Gavin Smith
Hello folks, Next issue of SAM Community will be going out during next week, so if you have any news vaguely SAM related, please email me as soon as possible. Also, is anyone able to do a Bunnik report? Wolfgang, would you be able to do it again (you did a great job last time). Finally, for the la

Re: Response Please.

2000-04-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Andrew Collier wrote: > > > > >Can anyone tell me if MasterDOS and MasterBASIC are freely available now, > > >or do we still have to buy it. If so, Where from. > > > > As far as I understand the current situation; you're not allowed to copy > > it, but no-one can sell

SAM website

2000-04-29 Thread Gavin Smith
Was away for a couple of days there, so it was nice to see a bit of activity on the list. There was some talk of a SAM website and I thought you might like to know about the site I'm putting together. I've been working on it, albeit slowly, for the last few weeks. Although the URL is www.samcommuni

Re: Another one bites the dust

2000-05-05 Thread Gavin Smith
Robert Wilkinson wrote: > > Any chance of me getting the schematic. > > Bob Wilkinson > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Gale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I have had an IBM-PC keyboard interface working on my SAM > >for a long time now (about 3 years) but I haven't ma

Re: SAM Community mag

2000-05-12 Thread Gavin Smith
Howard Price wrote: > > Hello SAMchatgroup! I've just subscribed. Does anyone know when the next > SAM Community magazine thing's out > > Tobermory Er, it should have been out by now *grins* But I've got a bit behind in work, so I'm a bit busy. I aim to post it by next Friday (realisticall

SAM Community website

2000-05-26 Thread Gavin Smith
If all goes according to plan (and it usually doesn't), both the SC website and issue 4 will be available from Monday. If there is anything you would like to see on the website, email me directly or else take a look on Monday. Also, any late news for the new issue would also be appreciated. Cheer

Very quick SAM Community update

2000-06-05 Thread Gavin Smith
Just a quick note to those interested - issue 4 will be finally posted today. The website will be uploaded over the next few days (promise!), although it could do with some nice graphics - anyone on this list willing to do a few nice icons? Gavin

Re: Very quick SAM Community update

2000-06-05 Thread Gavin Smith
Edwin Blink wrote: > > > Just a quick note to those interested - issue 4 will be finally posted > > today. The website will be uploaded over the next few days (promise!), > > although it could do with some nice graphics - anyone on this list > > willing to do a few nice icons? > > What you're tih

Re: Printer request

2000-06-08 Thread Gavin Smith
Howard Price wrote: > > Can anyone get their hands on a printer interface any more?? > > -howard Try Bennett Electronics - see his advert in this issue's SAM Community (which should have arrived today or tomorrow at the latest!) Gavin

[Off topic] Online ordering]

2000-06-09 Thread Gavin Smith
Trying to sort out the online ordering bit of the SC website, but can't find a UK company that does what I want. The closest thing that I am aware of is with the American company Kagi (www.kagi.com), but the problem with them is that I would have to convert the cheque they would send me from Dollar

Re: Looking for old SAM stuff

2000-06-09 Thread Gavin Smith
Neil Holmes wrote: > > Alright? > > I'm new to this list so: "hi! everyone!" Hi Neil! Good to see you on the list! > So, if anyone has copies of things like Exodus (both disks), the official > SAM demo, our slideshow disks, demo disks, no way back, parallax (although > I'm not sure of the stat

Re: Printer request

2000-06-09 Thread Gavin Smith
Howard Price wrote: > > At 18:26 08/06/2000 +0100, you wrote: > >Try Bennett Electronics - see his advert in this issue's SAM Community > >(which should have arrived today or tomorrow at the latest!) > > > >Gavin > > Cheers - may come in very useful. Funnily enough, Community ain't arrived > yet

Re: SAM Community on line

2000-06-13 Thread Gavin Smith
Edwin Blink wrote: > > Great to to see it online. Can't wait to see more of it ! I'm having problems with the tracker. I was playing around with it, moving the image around, so it probably cacked the site up a bit when you saw it. Also, on Windows the text appears larger than it does when I did i

Re: SAM Community on line

2000-06-13 Thread Gavin Smith
Ian Collier wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:07:57AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > > I know this is a common problem with viewing > > websites on a Mac, and then a PC, so what am I doing wrong? Any ideas? > > Yes, it sounds like what you are doing

Re: SAM Community on line

2000-06-13 Thread Gavin Smith
Ian Collier wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:23:42AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > > Thanks for your helpful/patronizing words :) As I said, this is a > > *platform* issue, not a browser issue > > You don't seem to understand. A platform issue *is* a browser

Re: SAM Community on line

2000-06-13 Thread Gavin Smith
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: > Mac's show the text at about 1 size smaller than on other machines, for > whatever reason. SO for example, looking at Size 2 on a Mac looks the > same size as looking at Size 1 on a PC. Size 1 is almost unreadable on a > Mac (which is a bugger, cos its the nicest looki

Re: SAM community

2000-06-13 Thread Gavin Smith
Howard Price wrote: > A small question, though. Valient as your mag is, what I really want is a > full and comprehensive list of the only SAM PD library in existence. How > can I get hold of one? This is the second time it's fallen off the end > of the priority list, and I'm thinking it alw

[OT] Re: Web Sites

2000-06-16 Thread Gavin Smith
Andrew Gallagher wrote: > > > Stoned Design wrote: > > > > While we are talking about web sites etc. > > > > I'm thinking of buying a program to do web sites. > > What do people use on this list? > > Nedit for *nix - my favourite text editor! > > I have used StarOffice in the past though - I lik

Re: Shows etc

2000-06-19 Thread Gavin Smith
David L wrote: > > How many people on this list would actually be bothered to go to another SAM > Show, if there was such a thing...? > > (Even if it ends up basically being an informal booze up and natter > session!) I'm self employed now so I can make my own holidays (and er, I've a nasty habi

Re: Oh no! I'm missing out

2000-06-21 Thread Gavin Smith
Good greif! I was just leafing through SAM Community and I noticed (much to my amazement) that I haven't got the middle pages (11-14). What's happening? Any news I need to know about? -howard Hmm! Sorry about that. Pages 11-13 contained an article/program about using MasterBasic with BDOS an

Re: Renegade game ?

2000-06-29 Thread Gavin Smith
From: "Gordon Wallis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It _was_ going to end up on my website as 'what might have been', but if anyone is interested, I might get active on it again. Gord. Deefinitely :) I remember Malcolm Mackenzie talking about it on the phone a number of times - I think he even sai

Re: Renegade game ?

2000-06-29 Thread Gavin Smith
> Yes I remember it. Wish I got that demo ... I'm sure I've got a copy somewhere Steven Harding IIR Did u ever contact him Gavin? No Dave, forgot all about it - number 2631 of things I never got around to :( Have you still got his address? How finished was it? I remember seeing

Games (Colony and F16)

2000-06-30 Thread Gavin Smith
Whilst we're talking about games, I've two questions: 1) Did anyone ever manage to last more than one or two bloody minutes in Colony? If so how?! Any chance of a little playing guide? (Trying to get stuff for the next issue of SC ;) 2) We were talking a while back about the F16 Combat Pilot

Re: Renegade game ?

2000-06-30 Thread Gavin Smith
At 12:51 am +0200 30/6/00, Edwin Blink wrote: What's Monster Racers? Monster racers is a isometric 3D off road racing game (like Iron Man is on speccy). At first I'd wanted to just make a full color version of ironman. But after reverse engeneering ironman and discovered lots of odds and end

Re: scads

2000-07-01 Thread Gavin Smith
At 11:34 pm +0100 30/6/00, David L wrote: Brenchley was coming out with all sorts of Bollocks about Glen Be interesting to find out if he ever gave Bob permission to reprint and sell his manual - let alone to release SCADS as PD... If not, yet another case of BB coming out with crap :(

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