The bizarre thing is if you actually read this and think about it it's
kind of an admission that he _does_ need the expertise of some of the
people on this list depsite his previous claims to the effect that he
Good point, actually. That hadn't occurred to me.
Paul
--
MicroSoft Windows -
I see that Bob's tact and diplomacy courses must have paid off.
Just when I thought we were all starting to get along again...
I did wonder whether to actually post it here, but the target was so
thinly veiled that I thought people deserved to know.
As for egos - well, I haven't seen the
That would be a copyright infrigement :)
Do I look like I care? ;)
But post it anyway, I like to see how Bob talks himself out of this one.
I'll type it up sometime tomorrow. From what I remember, Guy's
basically come to the same conclusion that we have on the list - the
amount of changes
Hi All,
Warning - this is fairly long.
---
Dear Editor,
Here are some thoughts on SAMson. In one way they are a bit
depressing, but there is a happy ending.
I started making a wish list, of things like instant Spectrum
emulation, a real serial interface so I can plug in a
New issue is out, and arrived here this morning. That's in the letters
section, answering (IIRC) Guy Inchbald.
Wasn't Guy the chap who Alan Miles made acting Educational Representative for
SAMCo...?
Possibly. I just remember him for writing a version of Go for SAM. :)
Paul
--
Fine, if you don't want to use a hard drive like a /real/ hard drive. It
may require calls, but at least HDOS takes the right approach.
The right approach is to write an entirely new DOS, and hang
backwards compability.
Unfortunately, that's not really the *practical* approach.
Paul
--
Well the headers of the message did state charset=iso-8859-1 so
if your mailer didn't use the right font then it is at fault.
Works fine here, and I'm using the same program.
Paul
--
MicroSoft Windows - where do you want to crash today?
FidoNet: 2:254/211.44
Or scratch off the Windows logo from one of the keys and
Friends of mine have been known to remove those keys.
With screwdrivers.
Paul
--
MicroSoft Windows - where do you want to crash today?
FidoNet: 2:254/211.44 2:442/103.13
---
No they don't, they need to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something wrong with [EMAIL PROTECTED] all of a sudden?
Paul
--
MicroSoft Windows - where do you want to crash today?
FidoNet: 2:254/211.44 2:442/103.13
---http://www.craybbs.co.uk/foti---
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Graham Goring wrote:
I did, and I'm grateful as it's allowed me to use the word nadir for
the first time. :(
I picked a good time to let my sub lapse, then?
(Assuming this mail makes it onto the list, of course.)
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Simon Cooke wrote:
I don't know. But I think that it's a White Hole.
No white holes, sorry. I have a White Star, if that's any use?
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, David wrote:
No wonder the SAM is dying on it's feet. There are those that do, and
those that can't be arsed. Prove me wrong.
And those that have better things to do with their available time than
write software or build hardware for a machine that was dead years ago, if
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know. But I think that it's a White Hole.
No white holes, sorry. I have a White Star, if that's any use?
From Red Dwarf to Babylon 5?
Probably passing through lost in space on the way, but yes.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Nev Young wrote:
Question - how many people use this list for anything other than chatting
with friends, currently?
I use it to fill up the empty space on my hard drive.
Hope you've got a small hard disk, in that case, or you could be here for
a long long time.
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Graham Goring wrote:
That's large, if not huge. Too damn big, either way.
Maybe large, but not huge...
I suppose.
This is positively tiny.
Yep. Much nicer as well.
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nice to have someone with a BRAIN back on the mailing list.
Put those claws away. ;)
'scuse me, just one quick test.
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, David wrote:
'scuse me, just one quick test.
And here's another
Didn't work, unfortunately. :/ Every other list I'm on gets filtered into
the right place by procmail, except sam-users. God knows why.
On 19 Oct 1998, Lee Willis wrote:
Well OK, I realise that this is just asking for another mousse type
debate but what's your recipe ?
Apologies for non-unix people...
===
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
VERBOSE=on
LOGABSTRACT=all
# Back it all up (doesn't work?!)
:O c
backup
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Ian Collier wrote:
OK, first question... why are you writing :O instead of :0?
Can't remember. Still seems to work, though.
The subsidiary question is what character you expect to be matched by
the dot, except for a space.
Just a space.
On 19 Oct 1998, Lee Willis wrote:
OK, first question... why are you writing :O instead of :0?
Yep, problem numero uno ...
I was confused by the fact that all the other lists filtered okay, and
they had a :O there as well. Changed it now and it's working, so.. :)
I'd guess that he just
On 19 Oct 1998, Lee Willis wrote:
Can't remember. Still seems to work, though.
Erm I thought you said it didn't ...
Did for the other lists, for some strange reason.
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Ian Collier wrote:
I thought you started this thread precisely because it doesn't work...
Leave me alone, it was a case of fingers before brain... :/
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Andrew Collier wrote:
Alternatively, write something about copyright. Or repost any article from
comp.sys.sinclair - there was an interesting one on the 21st of October in
which the author admits to seeing nothing antisocial about posting to one
mailing list under three
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All I content is that there is no need, in normal everyday use, for any
additional chips on the disc system.
So why did I regularly used to have to reset the machine several times
before the drive light would go out? Sounds fscked to me.
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Robert van der Veeke wrote:
got a dejanews reference for me, or anything I can search under/for? :)
Try Copyright in postings? Legal or not
Tried, but it doesn't seem to have anything from 21/10.
On 1 Dec 1998, Lee Willis wrote:
So why did I regularly used to have to reset the machine several times
before the drive light would go out? Sounds fscked to me.
My point exactly when I said there was a problem but Bob refused to
admit it, it was nowt to do with corrupting discs but the
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So why did I regularly used to have to reset the machine several times
before the drive light would go out? Sounds fscked to me.
I thought the drive light doesn't go out on a Sam drive until you put a disk
in.
Ignoring the fact that might well
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Allan Skillman wrote:
Well after a week in the States sorting out Microsoft problems, I'm back,
but as busy as ever :( Nice to see Simon is alive and well (and driving a
Always doubtful, since he doesn't post to the list that much now.
hint hint :)
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh yes, you put a disk in the drive, it spins, stops, the light goes
out, then you can access the drive fine. Bill.
The number of disks I had corrupted doing that is beyond a joke.
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Dave Hooper wrote:
nah, that can't be right, because as far as i'm aware it's only big bad
Bob who doesn't tend to read personal E-Mail.
And he's hardly the most likely to be of assistance.
Either way, do we really care?
I had a phone call from David tonight. Guess what folks - yep his computer's
well and truly buggered (again); so he asked me to let everyone know that
Good grief .. what on earth does he *do* to these things?
Paul
--
.signature file has escaped, will recapture it later.
it is down to the e-mail client you are using... I don't know, I leave all
that
boring stuff to people like Microsoft...!!! ;-)
Ick, bad move. We're talking about people who wrote an email server which
you can crash simply by sending an email with a certain subject line,
remember?
Paul
Apparently this nice mailer (mutt 0.95.1i in case you can't show the header)
ignored the nasty HTML to the extent that I didn't even know it was there
until I looked at the saved message. :-)
I can ignore the HTML, it's just a bugger to download it first; plus the MIME
formatting makes it
Wish I could any suggestions any other win98 users?
Use Pegasus instead? :-) Easy, complies AFAIK with all the standards
(unlike MS stuff), still being developed, and best of all it's free. You can
find
a mirror on ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors, I believe.
Paul
--
.signature file has
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Simon Cooke wrote:
Maybe I should just release E-Copy and be done with it. It's very handy
for copying floppies - not necessarily games.
You might as well; security through obscurity is never a good idea, and
that's basically all Martin'd be relying on.
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Chris White wrote:
BUT I OWN SOLE COPYRIGHT TO E-COPY AND IF ANY SELL I'LL SUE FOR A MILLION
That's okay, Simon didn't say anything about selling it. ;)
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Simon Cooke wrote:
multiply that by a factor of 2 because each line's small... so make that
1602K.
If people complain about performance, I may fix it - if not, there's no
I don't care about that (lots of memory free, even under Windows). The
fact that I can't just use
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Simon Cooke wrote:
If you hate Microsoft, and all things Microsoft, and the way I code so
much, then go write your own fucking assembler.
Keep your hair on. I don't hate Microsoft; I don't hate all things
Microsoft (some of them, though ;), and the assembler sounds like a
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Simon Cooke wrote:
If I'd written it in VB, you'd have to have the new VB runtime and VM
dlls.
Most cover CDs seem to require newer libraries anyway, so...
If I'd written it in C++, you'd need the MFC dll's.
See above. :)
If I'd written it in Sun's version of Java,
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, David wrote:
I think your clock is wrong. ;)
Perhaps if we all got onto the IRC channel once in a while we could perhaps
have a decent discussion... and maybe even get something done and agreed on
for a change!
It's an idea, although I somehow doubt Simon's likely to
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Simon Cooke wrote:
It wasn't:
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println(Hello World\r\n);
}
was it? :-)
Probably not, since unless they've rewritten C while I wasn't looking,
that's Java. ;-)
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Ian Collier wrote:
public static void main(String args[]) {
Since when has main() been void?
Since it started taking String[] as arguments? :-)
Hi All,
Hmm. Now that Greenweld have apparently run out of power supplies, this is
very bad timing, but...
A friend of mine in Holland (Sieg Kempees - some of you might know the
name) gave his Sam to his grand-daughter when he got a PC. Unfortunately,
since then they've managed to blow the
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, David wrote:
Why not try a PC power supply instead? It's been used to some effect... and
you'd even have the spare power for an external hard drive for an Atom as
well :)
The guy's getting on for 80-odd. I'm not sure I want to tell him to mess
around with a PC power
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Justin Skists wrote:
It's the BIOS that stops the reading of sector 10.
IIRC, there's a few BIOS extending TSRs out there
What you'll probably find is that the BIOS refuses to read 10 sectors in a
row. If you read nine, then the tenth separately, I'd give you good odds
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Gavin Smith wrote:
nice guy. I have one of his emails in my inbox, sent during the week, to
which I hadn't replied. I'm so very sad that I won't be able to send him
a reply now. Goodbye Malcolm, you are sorely missed.
I replied to one earlier, and having just read
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
threw up loads of false alarms).. BUT!... with a bit of calculating it
would have been possible (i opted for asking someone instead) urm...
the files not encrypted or anything?...
They're almost always compressed, and I have no idea
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
not funny. That's my opinion. But I really don't understand, what has it
to do with Sam. (Anyone would make a new stupid action game for Sam, as
Nothing, but then neither does a lot of stuff on this list. :-)
Paul
(1) Last year, the HCC-day in Utrecht at the Sinclair stand where somebody
muttered How the hell do they do that, a 36speed CD on such a computer,
most satisfying :)
I think the question should be more why - talk about a waste of a 36x
drive. ;-)
Paul
--
I want and need junk email to the
As for another HCC-days story, Harddisk, no problems if you want 6.4gig or
more, but a 200 to 540mb was (and stil is) extremely rare.
Tried the second-hand magazines, like Micro Mart?
And then there where those body-painted ladies :)
They were going cheap as well? hopeful
Paul
--
Someday
monitor? I'm not going to change my pictures for your dark monitor, unless
you can prove to me that there aren't an equal number of monitors on which
the picture already looks too bright.
Silly question, but why don't you both just twiddle the brightness knobs?
Failing that, use PNG, which
Have a nice MELISSA-FREE Easter!
Easily, since I don't use Outlook. ;)
Paul
--
Thought for the day:
A penny saved is ridiculous.
Easily, since I don't use Outlook. ;)
'Tis a Word macro virus - just don't open it with macros enabled.
I never open anything anyone emails to me unless I'm expecting it, and even
then it gets scanned five ways to Sunday.
You're correct in that it's a macro virus, btw, but it requires
Any objections to me putting this as part of my Sam pages on the Net?
Yes. If you put the list online, remove my email address beforehand.
Paul
--
Thought for the day:
Bagpipes (n): an octopus wearing a kilt.
your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright
owners permission. Having a backup of a disk thats not used for illegal
purposes , is like have a gun and NEVER thinks of firing it (Pointless)
Yers. My reaction to that, though, is tough. Especially with Sam's
extremely
If soomeone made a protection, he probably wanted us not to copy these
diskettes. I'm affraid about copyright laws.
You're afraid about copyright laws, but you advocated putting Fred issues
online?!
Small hint: the authors of any programs still, as far as I know, own the
copyright to any use
open the box of Windows Nt 4.0 to read the EULA , at which point it tells
you that once you have opened this package you have aggreed to said EULA.
Which was found invalid by at least one court, because you could not read
what you agreed to before (implicitly) agreeing with it. Next? :-)
And if the Copyright owner says DON'T BACKUP/COPY my stuff then don't , else
you have just violated his/her rights , and as a USER you are not the OWNER!
And if the packaging says nothing?
right to protect your purchases , but then we should all be making copies of
our clothes (These do ware
So if a disk has not standard form of information , and anyone but the
copyright owner creates a program to read this they have broken copyright
law?
It depends on what the primary purpose of the program is for. If it's just for
reading protected disks, yes. If it's as an all-purpose copier
Thought for the day:
OffSubject (stolen from someone without there consent OOPS)
I'll sue! I'll sue!
Where do you keep getting these signtures from? And can anyone point me
towards a VAST quantity of them
The TFTD ones came with pegasus mail; the ones which don't start like that
I've
This SAM Users List has recently become unfilterable for some reason (I used
to filer on To: for sam-users). Can there be some sort of change so that,
say, the Subject: field starts with SU: or something?
It's simple enough to filter, I found - try filtering on the
Sender/To/Reply-to:
field
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Wileman)
Um. Darren, is there any way of getting rid of that vcard junk which seems
to be tacked onto your messages at the moment?
If so, please take it. :-)
Paul
--
Where is the human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
-- Henry Ward
Yeah, whatever. At least you've turned the HTML off this time...
Shall we kill him anyway?
Nah. Just chop off a limb or two.
Paul
--
Someday a programmer who ignored compiler warnings without understanding
them will be arrested for negligent homicide. That will be a good day.
-- Szu-Wen Huang
And lastly Games are not MAIN STREAM like MUSIC CD's , take GT for PSX , has
only sold 2 million world wide , which is SMALL
Games *for the playstation* might not be mainstream. There are, however,
billions of pounds spent on games world-wide. It might just be a comment on
the conversion of
lent, hired, copied or exhibited in public without the express written consent
In public. That refers to (for example) showing a video-tape in a branch of
Dixons without permission, it's got nowt to do with lending a CD to a friend.
Paul
Why DO you keep PUSHing this thREAD, when the law DEFines that you are
wrong and I am right?
Why do I get the feeling you're using a programmers editor?
Paul
--
I find it ironic that many of the people who are misinformed about the
start of the next millennium consistently misspell it.
--
Peopled ARE allowed to make genuine backups. Deal with it.
And those people do themselves a favour if they kept their mouths shut
about it.
Why, if Chris is (apparently) wrong? Surely it's better to correct him? :)
Paul
--
Motto: We'll sleep when we're dead
-- The yearling.com cyberelves
I meant If the station wasn't protected then US versions could be used
legally in this country this may create competition as importers could
import larger quantities as the demand would be greater bringing the cost
down.
Why do you think it's protected? They want to screw people for
Noone does do they , I know of people who have a COPY of white lable £4.99
games , and they would proberly get COPYS of anything regardless of how much
it cost. They have no technical knowledge and would be able to do this is
someone else did not disable the protection.
And this has exactly
Have the recent copyright squabbles killed the list?
I know, how about we just ignore most of that thread and continue with
normal subjects...
Paul
--
I've always thought the Patrician is a party animal. Can you imagine waking up
next day and remembering all those witty things you said and
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Dave Hooper wrote:
the page saying *this is not real* blah blah blah. That wont take any
effort at all on your part (except creating the frame html file thing,
which is a piece of easyness). Then there can't be *any* complaint.
Umm... except for the fact that the site
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Maria Rookyard wrote:
My email's started playing up - when I send and receive, more often than
not it isn't sending things although it's downloading messages o.k.
Generally if I try again straight after, it will send them then (but not
always).
Anything more precise? For
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Stuart Brady wrote:
I've just downloaded e-tracker, but I can't seem to get the image onto a
disk... would anyone have a sad or dsk that they could email to me, so
that I can try using sbk.
Uh .. do you already own a copy of E-Tracker?
Paul
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Justin Skists wrote:
I'm sure I saw somewhere sometime ago that you could download
E-Tracker from someone's web page...
Yeah; just done a Yahoo search and found it on a .pl page (apparently
hosted for ESI). Didn't realise they'd made it free, though. Or that they
could,
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Paul Walker wrote:
hosted for ESI). Didn't realise they'd made it free, though. Or that they
could, for that matter - weren't Fred supposed to be selling it?
Ignore that bit; I've just got around to reading the legals bit. Naughty
Colin.
Paul
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Robert van der Veeke wrote:
That is why i use Opera :) If your page looks good on opera than you can be
quite sure that both Netrape and Exploder will screw things up.
Yes, but using Opera is something akin to self-flagellation.
Paul
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Ian Collier wrote:
Try IE5.
Maybe. When they release a version for Linux.
Coming soon.
Paul
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
Since it is noncommercial product, people doing Win32 version
probably won't have sufficient resources (time, ability, ...) to do anything
with Linux. Sorry.
Yeah, but as soon as the source code comes out (or even before, if a CVS
server is used) any
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, David L wrote:
Switch to Clara Call if you're on BT - cheaper than free!
They pay you to make calls?
Paul
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Stuart Brady wrote:
Please, just *DON'T* make it dependant on DOS/Windows, whatever you do.
I know you don't care much about anything other than DOS/Windows, Aley,
but please be careful not to ruin anything. You don't have to work on
I don't think Aley's actually doing
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
Since Si Owen doesn't want to release his sources (I hate him for this),
Probably just for the same reason I haven't yet released Hurricane source
- it's not ready.
In addition I'd like to ask this: Why Linux users don't make their version
first and
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
everything possible to maintain compatibility with any os.
But - of course - currently I don't work on SimCoupe at all.
True. There's a golden lining to everything.
Paul
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Aley Keprt wrote:
This wouldn't be 100%, but it would be 99% (or 98), especially when most of
the current software is written in DJGPP, which seems to be well designed to
be run under Windows.
Very few apps out there are written using DJGPP; they normally use Borland
or
Woo! I got a 2:1!
Excuse me, but I'm going to be a little incoherent for the rest of the
day...
Paul
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Nick Humphries wrote:
PCs don't have gzip by default. What's wrong with writing a custom compression
routine which is portable between the various platforms?
Why reinvent the wheel *again*? WinZip can handle gzip, and most windows
machines have winzip. If they don't, I can
a palette (also storing line interrupt info). A BMP is a horizontally
mirrored 1, 2, or 4-bit bitmap, with a palette. It shouldn't be too much
Vertically, last time I looked.
That is, it's stored upside down. Never did work out why.
Paul
--
I kinda like You my, honourable friend, are a liar
Everybody write reply-mails, nobody help.
I suspect that nobody apart from you actually wants or has a use for the
program, which would explain this. I could be wrong, but..
Paul
--
My second preferred option would be to have a highly-trained warrior
caste who roam silently and
Hell.. Why not use a tar + gzip combination? :)
And why use it, when there is ZIP?
'cause tar+gzip compresses better, as a general rule.
Paul
--
God loves kids, cuz he can't fool (mature) adults ...
-- Gabe Carlson on alt.atheism
I don't think the long filename should be a problem - how many people
still use DOS outside of Windows95/98/NT any more?
How many people still use the old machine known as a SAM Coupe?
Paul
--
Luck is my middle name, said Rincewind, indistinctly. Mind you, my first
name is Bad.
-- Terry
I don't think the long filename should be a problem - how many people
still use DOS outside of Windows95/98/NT any more?
How many people still use the old machine known as a SAM Coupe?
And just as soon as somebody compiles SimCoupe for the Sam Coupe, that
question might become relevant.
RAR, of course, has the same benefits. The reason tar + gzip compresses
better is because ZIP treats separate files as individual compression
Yeees. I am aware of this, oddly enough, having looked at compression
schemes in the past grin There's other solid archivers around now, but I
still
Not releasing the source code when developing is something that simply
isn't done with OSS. Until now, anyway.
I don't think you are right. Rare it might be, but I bet it still happens.
I *know* it still happens, because I'm doing it (currently) with Hurricane.
The fact that no-one's asked
Aley -- what's wrong with you? I admit that I might have been a bit
trollish before (which I have apologised for, before you say anything),
but stupid -- even _I'm_ not that bad...
Bad translation, maybe. Aley's English is better than our Czech, so I'm not
sure we can complain if it turns out
The last version of WINGUIDE can be found on:
http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/falcon/183;
Umm .. and this is useful to us why, exactly? :-)
Paul
--
Next up: Jesus tells the meek they've got no chance and should take
up thai kickboxing.
-- Iain Rowan in soc.culture.welsh
Probably because it's used to read the documentation to understand his
speccy emulator which runs on his CPM emulator which runs on our SAMs
Ah. I see.
Why would someone use that instead of a native SAM spectrum emulator? :-
)
Paul
--
Next up: Jesus tells the meek they've got no chance
Changed address to, er, this one. :-)
Not according to majordomo :-)
Oh, that minor thing...
Spooky, since the black-sun.d.c.u isn't in the list returned from a
'who
sam-users' - redirections at Warwick?
Hm. Yeah, the dcs one is sort of redirected here, but I changed the
subscription to
standard subscription fee covers their costs, and BT earns something like £100
clear profit a second anyway. I just think BT is forced to cut their losses
It's a figure that's often thrown about, but it isn't 100quid in clear profit
per
second. It is (or was) more like 60 quid, and that's
Maybe Edwin Blink could email you a copy of the text file (oops, you
wouldn't want to be breaking copyright on leading edge technology
though would you!)
That's okay, he wouldn't be ;)
Paul
--
Just because the guy is a fuckwit there's no reason to insult him
like that. Insult him like
Interesting, is this another newsgroup thatspeeks in single words?
Nope, although it is one that prefers not to have stuff sent in MIME/HTML (or
quoted-printable for that matter) :) Have a poke around your mail client,
there should be a send plain text option somewhere.
Paul
--
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