Nice one, never actually used a Sam Coupe, but looks like I could soon :)

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Looks cool! Gonna download some games for it and have some fun . Thanks!

I'll reliving my days from the early nineties soon. I wonder if theres an easy way to transfer my old games to cd via my A1200's floppy.

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This looks really good, as an ex-Spectrum 16k (upgraded to 48k) and then a +3 I really wanted a Sam Coupe (the +3 was unreliable and never really got pushed technically).

As it happened the +3 eventually spent so much time at the (Dixons!) repair centre that they gave me my money back... A further twist was my dad offering me £100 if I got an Amiga as he thought I should get one for some reason... I didnt want it as it was a Commodore machine!

Oh how wrong I almost was! (Although getting a Sam Coupe I think would have been quite cool, just not as cool as the Amiga was in the late 90s!)

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Ah, the old Coupé. Must set mine up again.

You can read non-copy-protected SAM disks on a PC so there's no reason at all why an A1200 can't do it... it's just no-one's written the software to. However, if a PC can then it's probably just standard MFM encoding anyway so would probably require very little work.

BTW, Prince of Persia on the SAM is dead good. :)

Great news, I've been having a hard time geting a real sam coupe for my collection as they are selling for stupid prices at the moment. I've used SimCoupe on my pc now I can do so on my AmigaOne.

This is all I remember from the SAM:



It's the Amiga juggler demo! (but on the SAM)

Chris

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I've been following them on Ebay recently hadn't seen any at all until about a month ago. The first one went for £285 and a few people auctioned their since but good examples have gone for as low as £70. I have a feeling that it'll be some time before we see any again though.

@Rob

Yes I've seen the same auctions and lost on one right at the last moment which is usualy the way. I also got sniped on a Memotech in the last 5 seconds, don't think we shall see either again for a while now.


OS4 SimCoupe is excellent, I think the config menu is better than the PC version the only snag I found was I was unable to load files from a disk other than the partition the emulator is on because there is no way to change devices.

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Nice emulator. I've never used the Sam Coupe before, but I always like looking
at the machines of yesteryear through emulation.

Nice job.

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Nice one

I was interested in the Sam in my younger years but getting my parents to fork out for a new machine when there was nothing wrong with my Speccy proved too much.

I'll have a good look at this one.

Thanks, FuZion.

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OS4 SimCoupe is excellent, I think the config menu is better than the PC version the only snag I found was I was unable to load files from a disk other than the partition the emulator is on because there is no way to change devices.

Yes, I know about this problem, hopefully will write a solution (device scanner) in the next versions. You still can insert disks from other devices by pressing F10, go to disk menu and type the path/file directly in the field for example CD0:sam-coupe/games/games1.zip

Next time you press the F1, you will be in the CD0:sam-coupe/games drawer. And can select files from CD0: Not very good solution, but solution nevertheless.

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Great! Too bad I don't have OS4. Any chance for a WarpOS version?

I own a Sam Coupe! (and it's cool)
I haven't got a disk drive though