Sam Coupé Timeline
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Thu, 2006-04-20 10:24.
Information originally from Tim Paveley taken from the Sam Coupé Scrapbook
| Year | Date | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | March | Crash Issue 50 gives a preview of the prototype to Simon Goodwin, courtesy of worldofspectrum.org |
| 1989 | February | Crash Issue 61 gives an early look at a Sam prototype, courtesy of worldofspectrum.org |
| March | Your Sinclair Issue 39 has a preview, courtesy of The YS Rock ‘n’ Roll Years. | |
| November | Your Sinclair Issue 47 has a preview, courtesy of The YS Rock ‘n’ Roll Years. | |
| November 20th | Original launch date as announced on the Sam Coupe Hotline | |
| December | Sam Coupé Released. | |
| 1990 | March | Known ROM bugs reported in free handout. |
| Your Sinclair Issue 51 review, courtesy of The YS Rock ‘n’ Roll Years. | ||
| April | Your Sinclair Issue 52 has a review of the Sam Drive, courtesy of The YS Rock ‘n’ Roll Years. | |
| 11th June | MGT plc goes into receivership. | |
| June | Defenders of the Earth released (first commercial game)! | |
| 6th August | Sam Computers Ltd start up. | |
| October | Price cut, Sam with Sam Drive now costs less than UKP200. | |
| October | VoiceBox released, first 3rd party add on. | |
| December | One Meg Upgrade, SamBus (with clock) and MasterDOS released. | |
| 1991 | March | Sam Shop Opens. |
| April | Sound Sampler, Sam MIDI Sequencer released. | |
| May | The Messenger released. | |
| Summer | Some people are working on a WIMP package. Quote - ‘as easy to use as the Macintosh system, as fast as the Archimedes Desktop, as nice to look at as Windows 3, and as customisable and multitaskable as Amiga Workbench 2’ | |
| Prince of Persia planned for July Launch. | ||
| F16 - Combat Fighter planned for July Launch, Never released. | ||
| MasterBASIC released. | ||
| Work is taking place on the Mouse Interface. | ||
| October | Prince of Persia Released. | |
| December | Launch of The Sound Machine, Pro-DOS (cp/m). | |
| 1992 | January | Launch of NewsDisk, SCADS Released. |
| March | Hardware Development Kit released (includes the ill-fated 32768 colour upgrade). | |
| Summer | Release of GameStar model. Release of GamesMaster. | |
| 15th July | SamCo goes into Liquidation. | |
| August | Parallax, and Spell Master released. | |
| October | The Secretary released. | |
| December | Blue Alpha revived. | |
| 1993 | January | First West Coast Computers Mailshot. |
| February | E-Tracker released. | |
| Summer | West Coast Computers report they are developing a modem, “The Communicator” with Blue Alpha - it never appeared. | |
| October | New SamBUS released Two-up (no clock, LED, 2 slots). | |
| November | First Sam & Spectrum Gloucester Show. DRiVER released. | |
| 1994 | January | Sampaint & Lemmings released. |
| February | Colin Macdonald (of Fred fame) writes a Sam article in Computer Trade Weekly. | |
| April | 2nd Sam & Spectrum Gloucester Show. | |
| October | 3rd Sam & Spectrum Gloucester Show. Oh No! More Lemmings launched. | |
| 1995 | ||
| 1996 | Sim Coupe development started. |
