Sam in a Can
Submitted by Quazar on Tue, 2006-05-02 07:51. PeripheralA project from Colin Piggot to fit the guts of a Sam Coupé into a new case, allowing as many peripherals as required to be fitted within the same case.
To date, the most jam-packed Sam In A Can has consisted of: Sam Coupé motherboard, Disk Drive interface, Atom IDE interface, Compact Flash Interface, Quazar Surround soundcard, Quazar Surround Sampler Module, SID Interface and a PC Keyboard interface.
See the Quazar Site for details.
Howard Price
Submitted by Tobermory on Mon, 2006-05-01 17:27.
Golden ASICs
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Mon, 2006-05-01 15:55. Other
1989
The Gold ASIC’s are the 40 prototype units from VLSI given to MGT, 20 of them have been mounted and signed by Bruce Gordon as memorabilia.
They have been awarded, presented to luminaries of the Sam scene at the Gloucester Shows and even sold on eBay.
Known recipients at the time:
- Chris White - Is in use in his Coupé
- Colin Piggot
- James R Curry
- Nev Young - also in active service
- Simon Cooke
- Stefan Drissen
- Steve Taylor
- Tim Paveley
Known recipients subsequently :
- Calvin Allett
- Stefan Schomburg via Ebay
From Colin Piggot on the Sam Users Mailing List:
[Golden ASICS] are the batch of 40 test pieces from VLSI. If I remember correctly the prices going around was £50,000 for the 40 prototype pieces. Typical procedure was to pay a very high price initially to pay for all the masks etc required for the manufacture of the silicon and get a few test pieces before commencing with a full batch of chips.
They get their ‘gold’ name for being in ceramic packaging with gold plated contacts and lid, with the mass produced batch in the more normal plastic packaging.
Colin Jordan
Submitted by Quazar on Mon, 2006-05-01 13:10.Axxent
Coder.
An interview with Colin Jordan featured in Sam Revival issue 6.
Sam Adventure System
Submitted by Stefan Drissen on Mon, 2006-05-01 13:09. Utility1992
SAS - the Sam Adventure system a GAC/PAW for the Coupé.
Andy Monk
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Mon, 2006-05-01 12:50.XSD
Musician, Coder
AKA Xtreme Software Development (XSD)
Quazar Surround
Submitted by Dan Dooré on Mon, 2006-05-01 09:52. Peripheral
1995
The first piece of Sam hardware designed by Colin Piggot in 1995 and demoed at the Gloucester Show in April.
The Quazar Surround gives the Sam Coupé multichannel digital sound, up to a quality of 16 bits, and in full surround.
Backed by a large catalogue of software, including games from various companies and Soundbyte - a regular disk produced with games, utilities and demos for the soundcard, of which there has been 76 issues to date.
The Quazar Surround is still produced, see the Quazar Site for details.
