Imagine if you did but it. Sam Coupe sell for well over $1K these days and are quite neat at the same time. Of course like anything else, I find most computers of the time are fun for me.
@@MacSociety For sure I know they go for a lot now. I'm talking purely from the point of view of having lots of good games to play. Progression from a Spectrum to an Amiga made a lot more sense.
yeh the 68000 16/32bit computers much better for sure. I went Atari 800 to Atari ST myself but could have went Miggie too. They are all cool to me. I was just poor young lad so could do the Atari ST. haha
Always wanted a Sam Coupe but was put off because it wouldn’t run Spectrum 128k games straight out of the box and there wasn’t many actual Sam Coupe games written for it. Still always wanted one though 😂
We had a speccy +2 after upgrading from the original rubber key 48k. It had a light gun and was awful. It went back to Woolworths ( one for the UK guys there 😃) and we had the cash burning a hole in our pockets. There was a small stall in the local market that sold speccy games and some hardware and the guy sold us the Sam! I remember those demos well. The graphics were amazing compared to the speccy. Of course my school pals were getting Amigas and Atari STs so were pretty scathing of Sam. I guess I have the last laugh as I still have my original and it’s probably rarer and more collectable 🤣🤣. Keep up the great work TJ
I have a commercial SAM Coupe game on cassette. Five on a treasure island. It takes about 21 minutes to load! SAMs do have a lot of RAM to fill up compared to other 8 bit machines.
Good video! TJ! Interesting system! I don't remember hearing about it! Not a bad looking computer for it's time! Different! I did not know that the Aquarius recorder worked with other computers! Nice!
I always wanted one because I liked the design of it. However, a friend had one and was struggling to do anything with it due to the lack of native software support.
I think Retro Games ltd. Owns the Sam Coupe name now, so fingers crossed we get a Sam Coupe mini and maxi like they did with the C64 and soon to be Amiga mini!
at 11:05 1989, something is wrong with the year, maybe you meant 1979, i had a cassette tape recording hard drive in 1979 from texas instrumenant, in 1989 i had a XP computer, many others had 286 pc by this time and in 1989 you could play the game like prince of persia. in 1990 i had 386 pc with a coprocessor.
typos, XT, instruments.. what would be the reason they had or were selling 1979 technologies in 1989? the computer's OS should have the BASIC language built into it, someday if you have a time to show some of what it can do, it'd be interesting
In 1989 you might have had MSDOS 3.3. Win XP was released in 2001. I had a 286 in 1990. It cost about 5x as much as a Coupe, but came with a 40MB HDD, a 5.25" FDD, and a 3.5" FDD. The OS was DOS 3.3 and it included GW-BASIC. For games, it sucked compared to my Amiga. I wish I'd bought a few SAM Coupe computers back then, because the 286 has long been worthless land-fill, whilst the Coupe is now eBay treasure.
not for £$200 you didn't! PoP was ported to this machine. Not that many were sold, but for those of us who'd spent 9 years with a Speccy with loads of games, apps and peripherals, this made a LOT of sense, for backwards compatibility and modern graphics and sound for newer games whil ebeing more afforable that Atari/Amiga. It did let me continue for some time but ver yfew new games were released for it or ported to it.
It was definitely 1989 the Sam Coupe came out. Which was a problem for MGT, as they was trying to sell an 8-bit computer, competing against Commodore Amiga and Atari ST, as well as the IBM PC clones.
I drooled to have one back in the day. Only 12 000 sold.
Your Sinclair magazine hyped this to high heaven and consequently due to my young age I wanted one. Thank god I matured enough before I had the cash.
Imagine if you did but it. Sam Coupe sell for well over $1K these days and are quite neat at the same time. Of course like anything else, I find most computers of the time are fun for me.
@@MacSociety For sure I know they go for a lot now. I'm talking purely from the point of view of having lots of good games to play. Progression from a Spectrum to an Amiga made a lot more sense.
yeh the 68000 16/32bit computers much better for sure. I went Atari 800 to Atari ST myself but could have went Miggie too. They are all cool to me. I was just poor young lad so could do the Atari ST. haha
Always wanted a Sam Coupe but was put off because it wouldn’t run Spectrum 128k games straight out of the box and there wasn’t many actual Sam Coupe games written for it. Still always wanted one though 😂
That is a nice clear picture!
We had a speccy +2 after upgrading from the original rubber key 48k. It had a light gun and was awful. It went back to Woolworths ( one for the UK guys there 😃) and we had the cash burning a hole in our pockets. There was a small stall in the local market that sold speccy games and some hardware and the guy sold us the Sam! I remember those demos well. The graphics were amazing compared to the speccy. Of course my school pals were getting Amigas and Atari STs so were pretty scathing of Sam. I guess I have the last laugh as I still have my original and it’s probably rarer and more collectable 🤣🤣. Keep up the great work TJ
I have a commercial SAM Coupe game on cassette. Five on a treasure island. It takes about 21 minutes to load! SAMs do have a lot of RAM to fill up compared to other 8 bit machines.
That really is a cool machine. I love the design of it!
Good video! TJ! Interesting system! I don't remember hearing about it! Not a bad looking computer for it's time! Different! I did not know that the Aquarius recorder worked with other computers! Nice!
I always wanted one because I liked the design of it. However, a friend had one and was struggling to do anything with it due to the lack of native software support.
Bummer. Yeh, very neat machine. All signs just too late to the game.
I think Retro Games ltd. Owns the Sam Coupe name now, so fingers crossed we get a Sam Coupe mini and maxi like they did with the C64 and soon to be Amiga mini!
Unsure how I feel about that. I could see that causing issues with ip and supporting folks like samcoupe.com
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at 11:05 1989, something is wrong with the year, maybe you meant 1979, i had a cassette tape recording hard drive in 1979 from texas instrumenant, in 1989 i had a XP computer, many others had 286 pc by this time and in 1989 you could play the game like prince of persia. in 1990 i had 386 pc with a coprocessor.
1989 is when the Sam came out. 😊 That is what I was trying to get across.
typos, XT, instruments.. what would be the reason they had or were selling 1979 technologies in 1989? the computer's OS should have the BASIC language built into it, someday if you have a time to show some of what it can do, it'd be interesting
In 1989 you might have had MSDOS 3.3. Win XP was released in 2001. I had a 286 in 1990. It cost about 5x as much as a Coupe, but came with a 40MB HDD, a 5.25" FDD, and a 3.5" FDD. The OS was DOS 3.3 and it included GW-BASIC. For games, it sucked compared to my Amiga.
I wish I'd bought a few SAM Coupe computers back then, because the 286 has long been worthless land-fill, whilst the Coupe is now eBay treasure.
not for £$200 you didn't! PoP was ported to this machine. Not that many were sold, but for those of us who'd spent 9 years with a Speccy with loads of games, apps and peripherals, this made a LOT of sense, for backwards compatibility and modern graphics and sound for newer games whil ebeing more afforable that Atari/Amiga. It did let me continue for some time but ver yfew new games were released for it or ported to it.
It was definitely 1989 the Sam Coupe came out. Which was a problem for MGT, as they was trying to sell an 8-bit computer, competing against Commodore Amiga and Atari ST, as well as the IBM PC clones.
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