SAM Coupé

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SAM Coupé
SAM Coupé from the side
Original packaging of the SAM Coupé

The SAM Coupé is an 8-bit - home computers of the British manufacturer Miles Gordon Technology (MGT), which was available to 1992 of the 1989th It has a screen mode that is compatible with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and can emulate its 48 kB version . It is not a clone in the strict sense of the word, as its hardware and software are otherwise very different from the ZX Spectrum.

hardware

The main processor of the SAM Coupé is a Z80B with a clock rate of 6 MHz (ZX Spectrum: Z80A with 3.5 MHz). In addition, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is used that is compatible with the ULA from Sinclair . The computer has 256 kB of RAM (ZX Spectrum: 16–128 kB), which can be expanded internally up to 512 KB and externally up to 4 MB.

As with the ZX Spectrum, the mass storage device is usually a cassette recorder , although you could also connect up to two 3.5-inch floppy disk drives to the device. Noises and music from the computer are generated with the 6-voice Philips SAA 1099 sound chip .

As was usually the case at the time, the computer was delivered with a BASIC integrated in the ROM , which was called SAM BASIC .

software

Due to the identical ASIC, software of the ZX Spectrum up to 48 KB can be used on the Sam Coupe.

price

At the time of its release, the Sam Coupé was being offered for £ 199.99 in the version with 512 KB of RAM and a 780 KB floppy drive . The range of peripherals was quite extensive and corresponded to the standard for home computers at the time.

distribution

Due to its software compatibility with the ZX Spectrum, he was among other things. a. quite common in Eastern Europe.

Magazines

SAM Revival , a printed magazine that comes with a 3½ inch floppy disk, has been published since 2002 . This shows and describes the current developments around the Sam Coupé.

Web links

Commons : SAM Coupé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Price list for Sam Coupé products
  2. ↑ Jaroslav Švelch, Gaming the iron curtain , MIT Press, 2018 ISBN 9780262038843
  3. ↑ Czech fan page
  4. ^ SAM Revival