Sam Prime 1

Blitz Issue 2

Menu by Stefan Drissen with superb graphics and font by Steven Pick

Blitz Issue 1

Hardware designer.

Owner of Blue Alpha Electrionics. Also worked for MGT & SamCo.

Persona

Blitz magazine was a replacement for SAM Prime (from Phoenix Software Systems) and was launched when the rights to the Phoenix titles had been obtained by Malcolm Mackenzie.

It was originally edited by Steven Pick, although from issue 2 onwards, it was edited by David Ledbury.

Phoenix Software Systems / David Ledbury

SAM Prime was launched by David Ledbury after the demise of the SAM Newsdisk which David edited with Alan Miles.

It was intended to be in a similar vein to the Newsdisk, and managed to gain content from several Newsdisk authors - including Adrian Parker and Dr Andy Wright. One of the intentions was to work with Bruce Gordon who’s company SAMTek was still trading, to keep support going. This sadly did not happen.

SAM Prime was a disk based magazine for the first 5 issues, although the last 2 issues appeared on Paper.

Edwin Blink

Edwin Blink

Edwin’s parallel port sample player, a Stereo 8-bit DAC that plugs into the parallel port on the SAM élite, Comms Interface, External Drive Interface or the SPI.

The main application to utilise the EDDAC is the SAM MOD Player

The design was produced into a consumer model called the SAMdac by ByteDelight.

Public Domain

NoName

Converted demo from the PC in MODE 3

Featuring sampled speech, music and FX.

Public Domain

NoName

Platform arcade conversion from the PC game.

Featuring converted music and sampled speech.

Information from Wikipedia:

The game opens with this screen of text:

EPISODE I: PLANET OF DEATH

Entering orbit around the planet
Tambi, Captain Comic, galactic
hero, prepares for his impossible
mission: To recover the treasures
stolen from the planet Omsoc.

Armed with only his courage, he
enters the teleport chamber…

The player, as Comic, arrives by teleporting in front of a castle on the planet Tambi, where the quest begins. Comic must find the following three artifacts:

• The Mystical Gems of Lascorbanos
  
• The Thousand Coins of Tenure
  
• The Crown of the Ages

To find them, he must travel through many varied environments, including:

• The forest
  
• The lakeside
  
• A nearby moon (with low-gravity)
  
• A space station on the moon
  
• A dark cave
  
• A gray building
  
• The inside of a huge computer
  
• The inside of the castle

The game ends when Comic is in possession of the three treasures.

NoName

Coder.

Produced a number of games and demos converted from the PC that featured sampled speech, FX and music.