SAM Coupé Timeline
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Submitted by ascii on Monday, May 14, 2018 - 00:53.
Description
Information originally from Tim Paveley taken from the SAM Coupé Scrapbook
| Year | Date | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | March | Crash Issue 50 gives a preview of the development machine to Simon Goodwin, courtesy of spectrumcomputing.co.uk |
| 1989 | February | Crash Issue 61 gives an early look at the prototype, courtesy of spectrumcomputing.co.uk |
| March | Your Sinclair Issue 39 has a preview, see Pre-release press | |
| November | Your Sinclair Issue 47 has a preview, see Pre-release press | |
| November 20th | Original launch date as announced on the SAM Coupé Hotline | |
| December | SAM Coupé Released. | |
| 1990 | SAM Software Awards announced | |
| March | Known ROM bugs reported in free handout. | |
| Your Sinclair Issue 51 has first look, see review on SAM Coupé page. | ||
| April | Your Sinclair Issue 52 has a review of the Sam Drive | |
| 11th June | MGT plc goes into receivership. | |
| June | Defenders of the Earth released (first commercial game)! | |
| 6th August | SAM Computers Limited start up. | |
| October | Price cut, Sam with Sam Drive now costs less than UKP200. | |
| October | VoiceBox released, first 3rd party add on. | |
| December | One Meg Upgrade, SamBus (with clock) and MasterDOS released. | |
| 1991 | March | Sam Shop Opens. |
| April | Sound Sampler, Sam MIDI Sequencer released. | |
| May | The Messenger released. | |
| Summer | Some people are working on a WIMP package. Quote - ‘as easy to use as the Macintosh system, as fast as the Archimedes Desktop, as nice to look at as Windows 3, and as customisable and multitaskable as Amiga Workbench 2’ | |
| Prince of Persia planned for July Launch. | ||
| F-16 Combat Pilot planned for July Launch, Never released. | ||
| MasterBASIC released. | ||
| Work is taking place on the Mouse Interface. | ||
| October | Prince of Persia Released. | |
| December | Launch of The Sound Machine, Pro-DOS (cp/m). | |
| 1992 | January | Launch of NewsDisk, SCADS Released. |
| March | Hardware Development Kit released (includes the ill-fated 32768 colour upgrade). | |
| Summer | Release of GameStar model. Release of Games Master. | |
| 15th July | SamCo goes into Liquidation. | |
| August | Parallax, and Spell Master released. | |
| October | The Secretary released. | |
| December | Blue Alpha revived. | |
| 1993 | January | First West Coast Computers Mailshot. |
| February | E-Tracker released. | |
| Summer | West Coast Computers report they are developing a modem, “The Communicator” with Blue Alpha - it never appeared. | |
| October | New SamBUS released Two-up (no clock, LED, 2 slots). | |
| November | First Sam & Spectrum Gloucester Show. DRiVER released. | |
| 1994 | January | Sampaint & Lemmings released. |
| February | Colin Macdonald (of Fred fame) writes a Sam article in Computer Trade Weekly. | |
| April | 2nd Sam & Spectrum Gloucester Show. | |
| October | 3rd Sam & Spectrum Gloucester Show. Oh No! More Lemmings launched. | |
| 1996 | SimCoupe development started. | |
| 1999 | SimCoupe 0.72 forked into WinCoupe by Simon Owen | |
| 2001 | June | SimCoupe development merged with WinCoupe and SimCoupe 0.81a released |
| 2003 | SID Soundchip Interface released | |
| 2005 | December | World of Sam Launched |
| 2006 | April |
SAM featured in Issue 1 of Retro Fusion magazine http://www.retrofusion.co.uk/ |
| 2007 | November | Trinity Ethernet Interface Released |
| 2006 | July | SimCoupe V1.0 released |
| 2014 | July | Updated SID Soundchip Interface released |
| 2014 | October | Cut down version of Trinity Ethernet Interface released for SD storage only. |
| 2015 | April | SimCoupe 1.1 Alpha Released |
| 2018 | June | World of Sam Reboot |
| 2018 | July | SAMazing - 7th July 2018 in Nottingham |
| 2021 | September | RC2014 Bus Interfaces released |
| 2023 | April | VIC-20 Cartridge Interface released Parallel Port Interface released |
| October | Trinity v1.2 Upgrade Module Microcontroller upgrade | |
| 2024 | May | SAMazing 2024 in Leicester 18th May 2024 |
| 2025 | August | ZX Spectrum Next KS3 funded, bringing Sam Coupé core to the new hardware. |
| August | World of Sam 20th Anniversery |