Utility

Revelation

A N Stevens

Word Processor

GlenCo

Sam Coupe Arcade Development System (SCADS)

Worked by extending Sam Basic with special tokens to add functionality.

Suffered from speed problems due to the interpreted nature of the code running under the ‘supervisor’ run-time componant but a compiler was supposed to be forthcoming to solve these issues.

YS review, courtesy of The YS Rock ‘n’ Roll Years.

Public Domain

David Gommeren

Screen Compressor

Fred Publishing

Darren Clarke

Brian McConnell

Word Processor with spell checker and anagram solver.

Simon Cooke

Simon Cooke

Utility to convert COMET assembler files to ASCII text.

Will convert to:

• Sam Text
  
• Outwrite
  
• Unix
  
• MSDOS

PCG

B M Parkinson Paul Sneesby

The celebrated DTP package for the ZX Spectrum ‘converted’ to run on the Coupé.

Consists of three packages:

WordMaster

The Word Processor element, ran in pseudo-64 column mode in MODE1

Headliner

The Graphical Editor and headline creator.

Typeliner

The typesetting componant.

SAMCo, Tim Humphries, Persona

Tim Humphries

MIDI sequencer software to use the SAMs MIDI / Lightpen port.

Tasman Software Limited

Tasword Two for the ZX Spectrum is probably the most famed word processor for that platform and this is the ‘conversion’ for the Coupé.

As can bee seen the screen uses a pseudo-64 column mode with a cut down character set in MODE 1, similar to WordMaster in the PGC DTP Pack.

PDF manual scan at http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk

Null

Null

PDF manual scan at http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk

Persona

BZYK

Steven Pick

The demo songs that were released were copied from Amiga demo called Impact (I was facinated by Amiga music at the time of writing the Protracker for SAM)

Music creation software. Similar to E-Tracker in many ways, but prettier and easier to use. It was capable of handling more patterns, more instruments, and (most importantly) more effects which are applied to notes - such as tremolo and portamento.

It appeared on the market relatively late, several years after E-Tracker had gained a virtual monopoly, and never seemed to become heavily used. It also shipped without a compiler, although ProTracker 2 compiler was written by another programmer a few months later and released on Persona’s Blitz disk magazine.

(Note that the following is written from the perspective of the Sam, so in SimCoupe for F0-F9 read number pad keys 0-9, for SYMBOL read left-control, for CNTRL read right-control or left-alt, for EDIT read right-alt)

Glossary

Music is arranged in patterns of (up to) 64 notes. Patterns can be played in any order, the order is defined by the song list. Each note is played using a sample (actually chip music, but defines the variation of volume and pitch over time) and optionally an ornament (extra effects overlaid on the sample, which alter pitch a whole number of semitones). Each row can also contain an effect, which make various changes to the note, or other control such as song position etc.

The Sam soundchip has six channels, you can choose MODE 3 or 6 to change how many are visible at one time (in mode 6 you can see a note’s ornament or its effect but not both).

There are five bookmark positions, associated with F7, F8, F9, F4, F5 which initially are set to 0, 16, 32, 48, 63 respectively.

A frame lasts one fiftieth of a second (-0.16%)
There are 256 tone numbers in one octave

Keyboard