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  Apologies, not been around for a bit. Real life again. Catching up with a few replies, and some small updates here... First, great to see a #SAA1099P soundchip jukebox put together by Robert (over on BlueSky) with #RC2014 kit and my SAA1099P Interface to play #SAMCoupe tunes! Poptastic #chiptune stuff! 😄 I've got my SAA1099P Interface (for #RC2014 / #RCbus and compatibles) on offer on eBay at the moment. A few pounds off, and a few pounds to charity -> https://www.ebay.co.uk/it...

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  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@quazarsamcoupe/117401448202197743 I've now added the discounted bundles of 3 and 5 PCB badges & keyrings to eBay so you can choose your own selections with a discount there too. (£6 individually / £5 each in the 3 pack / £4 each in the 5 pack.) Pack of 3 - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117455549471 Pack of 5 - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117455549964

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  Ending this evening on eBay are some early #SAMCoupe disks, including Tasword Two (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117455572357) and I've other original disks as Buy It Now. Also on my eBay is a lot of SAM Coupe hardware and magazines I produce myself (a lot of SAM software on the coverdisks!) plus a selection of my hardware for #RC2014 and #ZXSpectrum. https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/quazar-sam-coupe-sales

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  Some eBay offers... ➡️ £20 off bundle of all SAM Revival magazines for the #SAMCoupe https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117438660944 ➡️ £10 off Mechanical Keyboard for the SAM Coupe https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117455616319 ➡️ £10 off SAM Coupe SID Soundchip interface https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117407705367 ➡️ £10 off Trinity Interface bundle for SAM Coupe https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117460246290 ➡️ £5 off SAA1099 Soundchip Interface for #RC2014 / #RCbus / compatibles https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117441443717 ➡️...

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  Listed some surplus components up on eBay... ➡️ 8MHz Z80 CPU 40DIP (CMOS / Z84C0008PEG) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117438813851 ➡️ 8MHz Z80 DMA 44PLCC (CMOS / Z84C1008VEG) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117453586600 ➡️ 100nF (0.1uF) ceramic caps, ideal for decoupling - I use them myself on my retrocomputing hardware. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117463000197 (Full reel of 7500, see other listings for smaller packs)

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  I've some more early #SAMCoupe software on eBay that's ending in the next couple of hours... ➡️ MasterDOS (Rare! Retail Packaged!) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117463159458 ➡️ Merry Christmas from Zodiac https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117463137827 ➡️ ESI Demos https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117463132828 ➡️ SC_DTP https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117463139825 Plus see my other listings for a selection of the hardware I make for #SAMCoupe, #ZXSpectrum, #RC2014 and compatibles. Plus SAM Revival magaz...

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  Last year, musician Commander Supreme asked me if it was possible for the SAA1099P sound chip to work on #RC2014 systems and here is a short video of the first tune he has composed to use the SAA1099P Interface I released. (The SAA1099P Interface in the video is plugged in to a Feersum MicroBeast which has a RC2014/RCbus style expansion slot, along with the 3 slot expansion card and my SID Soundchip Interface for RC2014/compatibles which also has an interrupt generator that's being used...

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  Some #retrocomputing / #retrogaming updates... 🟢🟢🟢 SAM Revival 26 back in stock! The fourth reprint run of SAM REVIVAL issue 26 has arrived! The magazine specifically for the SAM Coupe computer. 72 pages, full colour, brimming with SAM Coupe goodness! Plus 5 games and 2 utilities on the included coverdisk. Buy the back issue here: https://www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117482725744 🔵🔵🔵 ZXTT (ZX True Tone) module - 20% off! 1.7734MHz Add-on for Ed Brindley&#39...

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  Save £5 this weekend on my 8580 SID Adapter (released in 2020) to use the MOS8580 soundchip in computers/circuits designed for the MOS6581. More info / Purchase: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117175215066 After more than 1? Direct US shipping quote rather than eBay postage? Buy direct rather than eBay? Any questions? Send me a private message! 😀 This is also useful if you purchased on my SID Soundchip Interfaces, either the SAM Coupe version (released back in 2003!) or the RC2014 & Com...

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  Just a quick reminder I've some #SAMCoupe offers up at: https://www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm and I've 10% off the interfaces I make for #RC2014 and compatibles at: https://2014.samcoupe.com 😀 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #indiedev #electronics #chiptune

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  🚨 Events! (Short notice!) I'll be at the Retro Computer Museum's "Legendary Gathering" TOMORROW 20th June! (in Leicester, UK. https://www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk) Then at The Centre for Computing History's "Synthesized" on Saturday 27th June! (Cambridge, UK. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk) #samcoupe #retrocomputing #retrogaming #rc2014 #zxspectrum #indiedev #gamedev

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  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@quazarsamcoupe/116775842136285010 Reluctantly with the extreme weather warnings still in place with the train operators I'm going to have to cancel going to Synthesized tomorrow. ☹️

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  New in stock, a blue colour variant of my Flash Memory Cartridge for the #ZXSpectrum with Interface 2 (or comaptible cart interface) Preflashed with two games by Radastan (thanks!) + Arcade Game Designer ROM edition by Jonathan Cauldwell (thanks!). Flash chip can be reprogrammed with an EPROM programmer. http://ebay.co.uk/itm/117277275353 (blue cart) http://zx.samcoupe.com (for all my Spectrum hardware) (A few yellow and green carts are still available too!) #retrogaming #gaming

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  Here's one of the things I would have been showing if I had attended the 'Synthesized' event last Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDK8cCNKiU A Feersum MicroBeast equipped with some of my hardware via its RC2014 style expansion port. First, my new 3 way expansion card specifically for the MicroBeast and two of my soundchip interfaces - SAA1099P (the soundchip from the SAM Coupé) and SID (the famous C64 soundchip). In the video the music is playing through t...

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  📌 #Introduction Developer of 33 years for #SAMCoupe #computer - #hardware, #software and magazines. Plus #Retrocomputing hardware for #RC2014, #ZXSpectrum, #MicroBeast, #Soundchip, #Electronics. Formerly an award winning industrial embedded designer. ➡️ SAM Coupe 🌐 https://www.samcoupe.com ⭐ Quazar Surround Soundcard - new editions. ⭐ VIC-20 Cartridge Interface (new batch available) ⭐ SAM Revival 9 revamp (with Manic Miner!) 🔹 SAM Revival 11 revamp 🔹 SAM Revival issue 26 🔹 Mechanical Keyboa...

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  TL;DR eBaying books and games... I've listed some SAM Coupe games on eBay as 1 day auctions, duplicates from my own collection that I don't really need. https://ebay.co.uk/usr/quazar-sam-coupe-sales - Momentum - Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters (re-release) - Defenders of the Earth (re-release) Also some computer related books - Twilight Inventory, by Gareth Pitchford - Commodork : Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie, by Rob O'Hara I've never been muc...

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  New eBay listing - Grab a discounted bundle of the early issues (1 to 8) of 'SAM Revival' magazine for the SAM Coupe. News, Reviews, Interviews, Previews, Cheats, Coding + much more... www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117127543870 #samcoupe #supportprintmedia #retrogames #gaming #retrocomputing #z80

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  Half Price Offer - SAM Revival issue 11 - The issue that focuses on sound on the #SAMCoupe computer. Full colour, professionally printed magazine (Originally released 2004, updated 2024). Includes 19 track audio CD. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117127555134 #demoscene #demoparty #synth #chiptune #indiedev #z80 #retrocomputing

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  The first part of my 'Money Bags' trilogy for the #SAMCoupe is re-released on the coverdisk with issue 9 of SAM Revival magazine. Often overshadowed on the coverdisk by the re-release of the massive SAM Coupe version of Manic Miner, Money Bags was my own trilogy of platformer games in the style of Jet Set Willy. Originally written back in 1996 it was designed and coded over one week when I should have been studying for university finals! Money Bags 1 1.5, the middle installment but the...

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  A bit of a longshot, but I'll throw this question out here! Anyone remember what sort of 6502 dev board was used for the Scottish Higher Technological Studies around 1991/2? I remember it had keypad for entering your code as hex, 7 segment displays and digital inputs/outputs for switches, lights, stepper motors... I remember there was a reference guide for it (folded sheet of A4) with 6502 op codes etc that could be used in the exam too. I binned school stuff many decades ago but curi...

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  The expanding range of #computer PCB Pin Badges and PCB Keyrings I make. Buy individually at www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm with UK postage included. For combined shipping for a bundle or international shipping please send a message via the site. #samcoupe #zxspectrum #commodore #c64 #dragon32 #retrogaming #retrocomputing

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  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@quazarsamcoupe/116317742055453783 They're also on my eBay store at https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/quazar-sam-coupe-sales along with a selection of my hardware, software and magazines for #samcoupe, plus hardware for #zxspectrum and #rc2014 & compatibles.

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  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@quazarsamcoupe/116000989572146071 Two left from the yellow batch. Time to order another colour of PCB for the cartridge... I've not done blue yet! zx.samcoupe.com www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117117782734 #zxspectrum #samcoupe #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming

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  (🧵1/2) As we all sit down to enjoy the two #DoctorWho #Dalek missing episodes today (or rather 'no longer' missing episodes!) I earlier went on the hunt to track down a book I repeatedly borrowed from the library back in the very early 1980's about robots, which had really annoyed me all those years ago! While I was only a very young kid at the time, fresh from watching Resurrection of the Daleks and Earthshock, this "Robots" book (Mark Lambert, 1981) h...

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  @UKFilmNerd@mastodon.me.uk There was a power loader thing on the same page as the truck. I'll take a quick look in the later two books, but they were both colour too. (I guess cheaper b/w paperback could have been issued too?)

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  @UKFilmNerd@mastodon.me.uk Heavy dollups of "artistic license" with their drawing of the walking truck, compared to the real thing from 1965...

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  @UKFilmNerd@mastodon.me.uk Yes, it had that walking car! The book is on archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/robots0000lamb/

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  (2/2) I also found the same material was reused and updated for two further books by the author. The next was in 1983 - "Fifty Facts About Robots". While the Daleks are still called robots, the Cybermen have been updated with a drawing of two 'Revenge of the Cybermen' style! (Although the left hand Cyberman does look a bit iffy!) And in 1985, "Just Look At... Robotics" the entry about Daleks being robots has gone! (Hurrah!) And for the Cybermen there's a photo fr...

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  I had hoped to pop into the Centre of Computing History this weekend as they've a Dragon 32 event and say 'hello' but despite being up and down to Cambridgeshire every week at the moment I'm not able to make things coincide to be there. But, I have designed another PCB Badge to add my growing range, this time it is of the Dragon 32! https://www.samcoupe.com/quickshop.htm https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/117105786267 All helps add a few pounds to the development fun...

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  🚨 Use code DONTBEAFOOL to save 15% on the hardware on my Tindie store today! https://www.tindie.com/stores/quazar/ Peripherals for #RC2014 and compatibles... - SID Sound Chip Interface - SAA1099P Sound Chip Interface - Graphic OLED Interface - #ZXSpectrum RC Bus Adapter - ZX True Tone (ZXTT) - 8580 SID Adapter #hardware #electronics #retrocomputing #soundchip #chiptune #retrogaming #C64