SAM releases which I've been involved with

Since the end of 1990 (which is when I got my disc drive), I've been highly active on the SAM scene... I would have been earlier, but I couldn't afford the flashy model - all I started off with was a 256k tape-based SAM.

Still, that was then, and now it's 1995, and I've been involved in quite a few major SAM projects along the way.

There's a list of the projects, as well as what I actually did for them, down below. By the way, these are all actual SAM Coupe screenshots... so now you can see what Lemmings looks like on a SAM :)

• Prince of Persia
  
  
  Okay, so I didn't do all that much on Prince Of Persia - but the fader routine is mine! All mine! Bwuhahahahaha! I also did work on a speccy version of the game - I did all the graphics, Chris did all the code. Some screenshots of the Spectrum version are reproduced below. BTW: A Russian release of Prince of Persia for the Speccy was made after we gave up due to licensing problems with Domark. Nice one lads!
  
  
  
  
• Parallax
  Disk copy protection. Used an interesting scheme, in that it wrote sector addresses with a track of 255 instead of the actual current track. Mat of ESI claimed "it kept me up all night".
  
• Exodus
  
  The fast music routine on this one is based on mine, but modified by Chris White to add compression techniques.
  

• Lemmings
  
  Okay... the green font is mine, the fast music player is based on mine, the fader routine (again) is my one... I debugged the colour map on the bottom right (and wrote part of the code for it). I also convinced Chris to use the full width of the screen for the game (after quickly coding up an example of what it'd look like), as the original would have used only half the screen, with the other half showing game information (ie. the Out 16, In 0%, etc). I also designed the password system; whether it was the one eventually used is another matter. The disk format used, and the copy protection were based on some ideas I had after Parallax, and the Parallax protection system source code.
  

• Word Master
  Designed the lookup algorithm for the dictionary. Didn't have time to write the whole thing (sorry Colin), so it was passed on to another programmer to do the implementation.

For want of a better place to put these screens, I'm sticking them here. Here's some screenshots from the never-released, and never-finished conversion of Zub that I was working on. You could jump and walk around, but that was about it at this point. The teleporter worked completely though, as did the main screen :)

�1998 Simon Cooke