scheduled down-time
Submitted by ascii on Thu, 2007-08-30 22:15. Site MaintenanceThere will be a short period of down-time on September 3rd when pinkstuff, the computer which hosts this site and various others, is driven from London down the M4 to Maidenhead.
There may, separately and later, be some more disruption when we switch to a cheaper hosting package, as this will probably involve a change of IP address on the server. Old DNS entries may remain cached for several days: when the server moves, www2.worldofsam.org will point to the new location in case you have temporary difficulty reaching the usual address.
A word to the wise
Submitted by ascii on Thu, 2007-06-07 21:34. Site MaintenanceThis site is not about piracy.
If a file is not approved for download, that’s because we don’t have permission from the appropriate copyright holders yet. If you want to help, the right way is to go and search out their contact details, and ask for permision.
Putting the files on your own webspace and adding a download link from this page? That is the wrong way to help.
Now what you put on your own site is your own business. But what goes on worldofsam is my business, and if pages appear to promote piracy then it puts the whole thing at risk. I have removed the links - please do not do that again.
ISAAC
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Mon, 2007-06-04 19:15. GameStuart Brady, Julian Gollop
2005-
ISAAC is a set of ports of Julian Gollop’s Rebelstar to the SAM Coupé
Currently in development, see the Sam Revival article for more information.
Stuart Brady
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Mon, 2007-06-04 19:11.Coder.
- ISAAC - a port of Julian Gollop’s Rebelstar to SAM Coupé.
- A SAM Coupé to Linux Keyboard/Mouse Relay, which allows you to type on a Linux machine, using a SAM Coupé as your keyboard (and mouse, if you have one).
- Support for the Dvorak keyboard layout for the SAM Coupé, in the form of a BASIC program which sets up the keymap.
- An archive of all of the MOD music from FRED issues 41–82.
- A reader for FRED magazine articles from issues 17 onwards.
- SAM Coupé fonts, converted for use with the Linux console
Sam Revival magazine issue 18 out now...
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Thu, 2007-05-31 09:57. NewsIssue 18 of Sam Revival magazine is now out from Quazar. (Click here for pricing and to order…)
Sam Revival is a printed colour and b/w magazine with an accompanying cover disk of software and aims to be packed full of Sam Coupé news, interesting features, articles and interviews, catering for everything Sam related. The first issue launched in August 2002, and the magazine is now read by Sam users in 17 countries, including of course the UK and most European countries.
Issue 18 of Sam Revival is now out, and it’s a jam packed issue! Let’s kick off with what’s on the disk. First up are the three brand new emulators from Simon Owen which are truly stunning! He’s been busy and has completed his Galaksija and Orao emulators which were announced in the previous issue. The Galaksija is a Z80 based computer from Yugoslavia, while the Orao is a 6502 based Croation system so that’s using Simon’s latest 6502 CPU emulator core. Both are now fully emulated on the Sam and there’s a pile of games on the disk for each system. To finish off his hat trick Simon has also released an Apple I emulator too!
It doesn’t stop there! Also on the coverdisk is the latest version of Chris Pile’s Sam Defender, and also Captain Comic - a classic platformer by Lars Persson which was first released back in 1994 and was a remake of a freeware PC game. Wrapping up the coverdisk there’s also a demo I’ve coded up to copy an old school effect from the Amiga and includes the source code.
Current Projects
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Thu, 2007-05-24 09:42.Please add details of current project to this page DO NOT add them as a comment!
Current Software Projects:
| Project | Author | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam uIP | Adrian Brown | Active | Port of Adam Dunkels’ uIP stack for the Trinity Ethernet Interface |
| SAM2_GB | Johan Koelman & Adrian Brown | Active | GameBoy Emulator |
| Hunchback | Taff | Active | Remake of OCEANS Hunchback |
Current Hardware Projects:
| Project | Author | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Ethernet Interface | Colin Piggot | Complete | Ethernet Interface with extras! |
| Mayhem Accelerator | Colin Piggot | Active | 20Mhz plus accelerator add-on |
| Atom-Lite | Edwin Blink | Complete | Compact Flash ATOM storage device. |
Atom-Lite
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Sun, 2007-05-20 18:26. Peripheral2005-
Posted by Edwin Blink on the Sam Users Mailing List:
I have some good news too. After a long time I finally have made a CF interface for SAM that comes in a light version of the Atom.
Light meaning it is has 8-bit wide databus. CF-card are accessed in 8-bit mode. So no capacity is lost and speed is even faster. It’s designed in such a way that it fits in the right floppy disk drive bay without the need to open up SAM.
It is also compatible with most existing Atom software (some minor changes are needed in some cases though) for example I didn’t need to make any changes for the Atom versions of Prince of Persia & Lemmings.
Media:
RGB Demo
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Sat, 2007-05-12 09:27. DemoLoads of AY music from the Spectrum 128k with multiple scrollies and fast moving occasionally naughty pictures.
Scrollies from Martijn Groen, Robert van der Veeke and Stefan Drissen.
Velesoft
Submitted by VELESOFT on Wed, 2007-04-25 12:28.8 Bit hardware developer.
Products include:
- Data-Gear DMA interface
- New PS/2 Mouse interface
- Replacement Sam Drive
- Sambus (Original + czech version)
- Real Time Clock 72421a (Sambus compatible)
- Replacement One Meg external memory interface
- SAA1099 schematics
- Atom HDD interface utilities
- Samdac/EDDAC schematics
- Sam coupe keyboard interface schematics
- RGB cable schematics
Full details at http://velesoft.speccy.cz/sam-cz.htm
Data-Gear DMA
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Wed, 2007-04-25 12:22. Hardware2005-
8-bit DMA interface for Z80 based machines including the Sam Coupé.
Full details at http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm
Quote:
“DATA-GEAR is DMA interface for 8-bit computers with Z80CPU. DATA-GEAR is connected to socket for Z80CPU, there’s no need any hardware modifications in your computer. DMA chip use direct access to memory or port. Transfer of linear data block (max. 64kB) memory to memory / memory to port / port to memory / port to port. For computers with max. CPU speed 4MHz is used Z80DMA chip, but for faster computers (SAM COUPE=6MHz, ZS SCORPION TURBO=7MHz …) is need use DMA chip at 6-8MHz. DMA chip is programmed via port 11(#0B) = MB02 compatible. On board is extra switch for change programming port to 107(#6B).
Max. speed of data transfer on ZX128+ is 17.3 kB(17727 bytes) / frame = 865.6 kB(886350 bytes) / second”





