Issue 24A

Pyramex

Musician and Coder.

Pyramex of HATE

Did various bits for ISD (Kaboom) & Fred Diskzine as HATE Games.

MGT

I have a original Sam Coupe for sale. It was my first computer, and i love it for many year… i don’t want to throw it away, because i know there are many out there who love Sam like me… tell me if anyone interested (photos by request)

joao.salema@sapo.pt

Portugal

Just realised i put this under the wrong title!

After following the developement of the Mayhem (Hoping to buy one later in the year,skint at the moment) i was wondering what next piece of hardware would the SAM community benefit from.

We have memory expansions, Sound processors, Hard drive and now the Mayhem which is great as it brings our beloved 8bit slightly more up to date but what would people like to see, i would like to see something done on the graphic output with some emphasis on scrolling and hardware sprites although this could be hard for backwards compatibility and possibly expensive but could be great.

I understand that with the Mayhem running at 20mhz scrolling would be fine but were still limited to 16 colours and also with the limitations of the Z80 only allowing us 64k at a time could make this difficult.

What do you think ?

After following the developement of the Mayhem (Hoping to buy one later in the year,skint at the moment) i was wondering what next piece of hardware would the SAM community benefit from.

We have memory expansions, Sound processors, Hard drive and now the Mayhem which is great as it brings our beloved 8bit slightly more up to date but what would people like to see, i would like to see something done on the graphic output with some emphasis on scrolling and hardware sprites although this could be hard for backwards compatibility and possibly expensive but could be great.

I understand that with the Mayhem running at 20mhz scrolling would be fine but were still limited to 16 colours and also with the limitations of the Z80 only allowing us 64k at a time could make this difficult.

What do you think ?

Issue 16 of Sam Revival magazine is now out from Quazar. (Click here for pricing and ordering details…)

Sam Revival is a printed magazine with spot colour and 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.

Inside the magazine you’ll find an interview with Derek discussing the game
as well as his other work on the Sam. Another feature article takes a look
at the work started on the game Chrome by Colin Piggot and delves into what was planned
and the article is accompanied with lots of colour shots. And there are all the other
regular sections including the new combined news section, letters pages and
Sam Snippets.

I was messing about with comet assembler tonight and tried a simple routine to display some data on the screen one worked a treat the other killed my routine but they should have both done exactly the same. The difference was on the first routine i done all the paging etc, then displayed my data then paged out, worked fine ! however when i moved a routine out of the main loop to be called by a CALL statement to display the data this killed it.

I know the above is vague but i didnt want to display both routines here as i feel it may have been too much but i have the routines in question zipped up from a DSK file to be used with COMET if anyone could help

Many thanks in advance

Andy

PD

Martijn Groen

Robert van der Veeke

Stefan Drissen

Demo

STEVES SOFTWARE

S.J.NUTTING

Huge 5 MB Manual for SC_WORD pro.

Huge 5 MB Manual for SC_WORD pro, you will need to read this to work our how to get SC_WORD pro to work.