Johan Koelman

Johan Koelman & Adrian Brown

After SAM2_ZX81 Johan is working on a new emulator, named SAM2_GB.

This is a Nintendo Gameboy emulator running on a standard SAM Coupe, without i.e. a Mayhem Accelerator.

The progress can be followed at http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.com/sam2_gb.htm

In July 2007, Adrian Brown started to help Johan out with the coding, and has proceeded to update the CPU core and rewritten the graphics routines.

Issue 17 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.

What’s in the issue? On the coverdisk is the full game T 'n' T by Matt Round. Originally released back in 1994 this was Matt’s only full commercial release and goes to show just what he was able to get out of GamesMaster with this multi-level Bomb Jack style game. There’s also another full game on the coverdisk - Money Bags 1 1/2, which is the third installment of the Money Bags series of games. Typical Jetset Willy style game where you have to collect objects over a large number of rooms. The game has also been updated with a brand new soundtrack by David Suzuki-Sanders to replace the Quazar Surround music that was originally in it when first released on Soundbyte.