1989 SAM Coupé Review, Fix and Modern Mods

Join me on this retro journey where we explore the Miles Gordon Technology (MGT) SAM Coupé. We look inside, fix what we need to and showcase some fantastic peripherals, retro games and demos.

00:00 Introduction
00:32 Retro Relix Title
00:44 SAM Coupé rear port review
01:30 Internal SAM Floppy Drive
01:50 Motherboard Reveal
02:00 Motherboard Removal and Review
03:02 Memory Configuration
04:08 Motherboard and Connector Cleaning
04:20 Chassis Cleaning and Rubber Feet
04:44 Keyboard Removal and Clean
05:38 Power Supply and Video SCART
06:16 Power On Keyboard Test
06:36 Keyboard Membrane Montage
07:26 SAM Coupé Mascot
07:38 Start-up Montage
08:08 MGT Disk Interface Utility and Floppy Drive
08:36 Replacement Floppy Drive
09:10 Floppy Drive Test (Manic Miner)
09:30 Trinity Ethernet Interface, Trinity Boot ROM and Memory Upgrade
09:48 ROM replacement
10:00 Memory Upgrade
10:16 Trinity Case 3D Print Installation
10:30 SAMDisk Utility
11:24 Trinity Ethernet Interface Record Management (Splat!)
12:20 Connecting to the Internet (XOR)
12:54 Prince of Persia
13:20 Splat!
13:42 Manic Miner
14:06 Pac-Man Emulator
14:32 Bubble Ghost
14:58 SAM Juggler
15:12 Mnemotech Demo
15:28 ESI - The Lyra 3 Demo
16:06 The End

LINKS
ASIC:
https://www.worldofsam.org/products/asic

Game and Demo Downloads:
https://www.intensity.org.uk/samcoupe...
https://romhustler.org/roms/samcoupe
https://www.worldofsam.org/

Quazar Trinity Hardware:
https://www.samcoupe.com/#latestnews

SAM Emulation:
https://simonowen.com/simcoupe/

SAM Drive - The User's Guide:
https://www.worldofsam.org/system/fil...

SAM Coupé Drive Bay 3D Print Design:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:873336

SAM Coupé Specifications:
https://www.worldofsam.org/products/s...

SAMDisk:
http://simonowen.com/samdisk/

Trinity Case 3D Print Design:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:470...

VLSI Technology:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_...


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MUSIC CREDITS
Digital Voyage and Funky (Sting) by Twin Musicom. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
http://www.twinmusicom.org/

Retro by Wayne Jones.

Press Fuse and Straight Fuse by French Fuse

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