Granted

From: Edwin Blink
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:11:07 +0200
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

——- Original Message ——-
From: “Andrew Collier”

>Edwin - i would it be okay by you, if I enable the download on WOS as
>well?

Go ahead you have my permission.

Edwin

Dear SAM Fans…

I am very pleased to announce that I now consider the following of my work for the SAM Coupé to be regarded as Public Domain;

Review Disk Magazine (Issues 1 - 5)

MegaDisk #1 (Quix, Quix II, Math!, Le Box & Manic Mazes)

…under the condition that each disk be distributed in its original, unedited format. At the time of release in 1991, the rights to my MegaDisk #1 were signed over to SAMco, but since this company and all of its subsidiaries no longer exist, I now consider my contract with them to be null and void.

I am more than happy for my work for the SAM Coupé to be distributed freely, without charge. I would appreciate being informed when any of my software is distributed.

Many thanks, and enjoy!

Ron Stirling, 24NOV07

Many years ago I wrote a program called SamForth.
As the copyright holder I can now confirm that it is FREEWARE.
I have lost the original source disks, but the program still exists, I believe, on a SAM Supplement CD.
If anyone wants to backwards engineer it for any reason, please feel free to do so.

John Avis

“Assemble source for most of my products and a way to verify I have given full permission can be found separately with SC_Assembler source files for most SC_Software image file on this site.”

I don’t know if I’m the copyright holder of Batz 'n Balls, but I certainly am the author and would like to grant permission to everybody to download this game. Lots of years I deleted about 100Mb of Sam and Spectrum programs (and all my Z80 sources). Still regret that every now and then …

Ah well, happily married and living in South Africa now.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:41:33 +0100
From: Nick Humphries <>
Subject: SAM Juggler demo animated GIF

I’ve created an animated GIF version of tbe famous SAM Juggler demo using a hacked version of SimCoupe to dump an image stream.

http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/samjuggler.gif (124K)

Feel free to pinch and put onto a more appropriate website - can’t guarantee it’ll still be there in years to come.

My name is Jarek Burczynski (BZYK). I’m the SAM ProTracker 2 author.
Here is my permission to release the Protracker to the public.

Best regards,
Jarek

The Sad Snail Collection ….@/ byTim Paveley 1998

Except where otherwise stated the contents of this disk are copyright (C)1998 Tim Paveley.

EGGBuM is (C)1995 Tim Paveley & Steve Phillips.

QDOS is (C)1995 Simon Cooke.

This disk, or images of this disk may be freely copied and distributed as long as the contents are not modified in any form.

Gary Thomas was asked by me (Steve Parry-Thomas) for permission to archive the disk images and manuals as pdfs for GM-Base and GM-Calc.

“Would you be willing to let copies of your software for the Sam to be stored in archives / ftp / web sites as Disk images, and the manuals as pdfs ? ” - 7/07/2005

I have lost reply in my great harddrive crash of 2005, but it went somthing like “…Do what you want with the Software/manuals, we (Gary and Malcolm) had a great time working with SAM …..”

A few days later the GM-Base manual was sent by Gary with some of their adverts for the GM software. - The manual will be pdf sometime this year (2006) - so take it as permission has been granted for this software to be placed in the PD for all.

From Simon Owen:

This archive contains many versions of the SAM Coupé 32K ROM image, released
with kind permission from the ROM author, Dr Andy Wright.

Thanks to Simon N Goodwin for supplying the files, which include two dumped
from pre-production hardware (and which only work with the early hardware!).

Beware - the early ROMs are very buggy, and tend to go mad once BASIC starts
paging. ROM 10 (version 1.0) requires the CALL after F9 or BOOT because the
ROM loads the bootstrap but fails to execute it. The address depends on the
RAM size:

On a 256K SAM:

CALL 229385

Or on a 512K (or larger) machine:

CALL 491529