2026-10-09 13:46 UTC
@quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk I've got Tasword Three on Microdrive in the loft for the Speccy. They didn't change the packaging. Looking at the Sam screenshots, it looks pretty much identical.
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@quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk 2026-10-11 13:22
@kianryan@oldbytes.space It looks to be a very quick and dirty port over to the SAM. The main editor of the screen is running in MODE 1 (that's the SAM screen mode that's identical to the ZX Spectrum) so it's 256x192 with attributes and it uses 3 pixel wide characters. There is SAM BASIC under the hood and SAM's ROM is being paged in, so it's not as crude as using a speccy emulator. A "proper" port would have at least used SAM's hi-res MODE 3 - 512x192 - for text. Still, at least Tasman Software took a gamble with the SAM back in 1990.