The SAM Coupé

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The SAM Coupé (Pronounced: "Sam Koo-Pay" from its original British English branding) is an 8-bit British home computer that was first released in late 1989. It is commonly considered a clone of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer, since it features a compatible screen mode and emulated compatibility, and it was marketed as a logical upgrade from the Spectrum. It was originally manufactured by Miles Gordon Technology (MGT), based in Swansea in the United Kingdom

The machine is based around a Z80B CPU clocked at 6 MHz, and contains an ASIC that is comparable to the Spectrum's ULA. Memory is accessible within the 64 KB range of the Z80B CPU by slicing it into 16 KB blocks and accessing IO ports to switch which blocks appeared in the 4 slots available to the CPU. The basic model has 256 KB of RAM, upgradable internally to 512 KB and externally with an additional 4 MB (added in 1 MB packs). The computer's primary storage medium is a cassette tape, though one or two 3.5 inch floppy disk drives can be installed internally as well. Six channel, 8 octave stereo sound is provided by a Philips SAA 1099 chip. The ASIC also includes a line triggered interrupt counter, allowing video effects to be synchronised to specific display positions with little effort.

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[zapiy]

Really wanted one of these back in the day.. Never had the chance to bag one since, any owners here i wonder?

[TL]

Really wanted one of these back in the day.. Never had the chance to bag one since, any owners here i wonder?

Me too! I had never even seen one, let alone play on one until I went to Play Expo last year and saw one there with Prince Of Persia running on it! Here is the photo I took:

[thedamnedunited]

There is this one on eBay

http://bit.ly/10nEhCT

It's rather pricy but I have bought 4 systems from this chap and a) When he says its in mint condition, he really means it it and b) he is a very nice chap.

[TL]

Not cheap! Looks amazing though!

[zapiy]

Looks great but £800 is way above my budget for one of these.

[thedamnedunited]

Yep - me too.

Bought a few bargains last week, got an Atari 400 for £50 and a C128 & Plus4 both boxed with disk drives, cassette players and tons of books & games for £107

[AmigaJay]

There is a Sam going for £130 at the moment on ebay with 4 days to go.

I keep an eye on them because I still need to pick up both versions of Lemmings for it grr there hasn't been one since last year!

[TL]

Speaking of . . . . here is Lemmings on the SAM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DfDEU_Ifrw

And here is SAM Prince Of Persia that mentioned earlier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDdAXHGm2d0

[thedamnedunited]

There is a Sam going for £130 at the moment on ebay with 4 days to go.

I keep an eye on them because I still need to pick up both versions of Lemmings for it grr there hasn't been one since last year!

Found it - now "watching it" - cheers !

[TL]

A couple more games for the SAM Coupé:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qEwIfPFl5k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ6GaETicQI

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Over the weekend I finally got to play the SAM Coupé version of Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters. As a massive Atari fan I had wanted to play this for years and wasn't too disappointed, in the most part it was a fantastic conversion. The only real flaw with it was that the presentation screens were all the same as the Spectrum version, colour clash included! In game though it looked terrific, just like an ST game.

http://www.worldofsam.org/node/34

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[align=center:ytt60407]SAM Coupe - SCPDSA Music Demo 1

SAM Coupe - SCPDSA Music Demo 2[/align:ytt60407]

[zapiy]

Love some of those tunes. Perhaps we need to add some to the MP3 player.

[TL]

Love some of those tunes. Perhaps we need to add some to the MP3 player.

When you put it back up