Sam Coupe Emulator!

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From Roman Petrov To All 5 December 1997


Hello! Dear All!

I found Subj on the internet. I looked at it, played around with BASIC and a natural question arose: how can I use disks in it? I even downloaded a program: Samdisk
is called. This is why it is designed to copy real disks into virtual ones. I even downloaded some td0, even wrote it to a real disk, but Samdisk, damn it, doesn’t want to read it. It's a shame, damn it.

PS If there is a desire and permission from the moderator, I can throw it (the emulator) into the echo
(in the archive: Emulator, Samdisk, Surprise demo (by ESI), Utils.td0).
All this is 272 kilos.

With respect, Roman aka Megus of Brain Wave corp.

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From Sergei Novikov To All 6 December 1997


Hiya Roman! Answering a message marked with the following:
From: Roman Petrov (2:5052/7.37); To: All;
Date: Friday, 12/05/97; Time: 14:31; Subj: "Sam Coupe Emulator!"

RP> PS If there is a desire and permission from the moderator, I can throw it (the emulator) into
RP> echo (in the archive: Emulator, Samdisk, Surprise demo (by ESI),
RP> Utils.td0). All this is 272 kilos.

That would be nice.

PS: But ESI was also “dumped” on SAM. Shock calls it the best
eight-bit computer.


With God's blessing, Sergei Novikov AKA Spirit/STEP

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From Vsevolod Potapov To All 7 December 1997

So he is. IMHO of course :) (but speckies are already GOD 8bit :))) also IMHO


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From Vitaly Samoylov To All 7 December 1997


Greetings, Roman! ─────────────────────── ───────────────────
In ancient times (05 Dec 97), Ser Roman wrote on the scroll All,
Bequeathing "Sam Coupe Emulator!", and today (07 Dec 97) I decided intervene:
────────────────────────────────── ──────────────────────── ─────────────────────

RP> I found Subj on the internet. I looked at it, dabbled in BASIC and
RP> a natural question arose: how can I use disks in it? I even downloaded a program:
RP> Samdisk is called. This is why it is designed to copy real disks into
RP> virtual ones. I even downloaded some td0, even wrote it
RP> to a real disk, but Samdisk, damn it, doesn’t want to read it. It's a shame,
RP> damn.

From Roman Petrov To All 7 December 1997

RP>> (emulator) throw in the echo (in the archive: Emulator, Samdisk, Surprise
RP>> demo (by ESI), Utils.td0). All this is 272 kilos.
SN> That would be nice.
SN> PS: But ESI was also “blamed” on SAM. In Shock they call it the best
SN> eight-bit computer.
And not only in Shock, but also in Lyra II.
That’s actually the criterion by which I was looking for a demo for Subj: I remember that ESI
was blamed on Sam and they mentioned a certain Surprise Demo, so I downloaded it.

PS I’m surprised at the stupidity of the PC - Sam’s Teledisk disc was recorded for me (even 2 pieces, although identical - just in case), but Samdisk cannot read them!
The Sdir utility (as I understand it is something like hobets, probably) perfectly reads the
catalog (although sometimes it glitches, but this is almost unimportant ;-) But the biggest joke is that the Spectrum McDonald Copy Sam's disk was copied for me perfectly and without a single glitch. Based on this, MAV
and I tried to create something like Samdisk on Specky, but glitches ;-) Read
reads, but write :-(

PPS And the format of Sam's disks is this: on a track there are 10 sectors of 512 bytes each.
In general, like IS-Dos, but only there are more sectors and they less.

From Max Romanoff To All 8 December 1997


Roman is that you?
...why were you telling Sergei Novikov about Sam Coupe Emulator! ?

RP> PPS A format for Sam's disks is as follows: on a track there are 10 sectors of 512
RP> bytes. In general, like IS-Dos, but only there are more sectors and they are smaller.

It’s interesting how you worded it.... About more and less, respectively..
Less - 400 bytes per sector? :)

Good Luck...


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From Roman Petrov To All 9 December 1997

RP>> 512 bytes. In general, like IS-Dos, but only there are more sectors and they are
RP>> smaller.
MR> It’s interesting how you formulated.... About more and less, respectively..
MR> Less - 400 bytes per sector? :)
Well, everything is correct: IS-Dos has 5 kilobytes per track, and Sam has 5 kilobytes each.
But iS-Dos has 5 sectors of 1 kilobyte each, and Sam has 10 sectors of 512 bytes each.

With respect, Roman aka Megus of Brain Wave corp.