Miles Gordon Technology SAM Coupé
English-friendly titles in this collection: 592
Tested with SimCoupe (1.2.13)
File size (uncompressed): 231.2 MB
Format: .sad, .dsk, and .mgt
The SAM Coupé was an 8-bit computer launched in Europe in 1989, a time where 16-bit computers were already on the rise. Even so, it was a powerful machine that rivaled some performance and features of more expensive systems and was intended to be an affordable step between the two generations.
Sadly, slow sales for the system prevented many companies from wanting to make dedicated software or popular ports for it, and it became a commercial failure. There were only a small handful of officially made titles for it released.
However, there was an extremely dedicated, charming-as-hell fanbase that kept the equally charming SAM Coupé alive for years past its discontinuation with high quality independent applications, games, and magazines on disk.
Special items included: Unreleased titles, game demos, independent / homebrew titles up to 10 years after the lifespan of the system, completely ported ZX Spectrum titles, and games not in English that are easy enough to play without being fluent in another language.
Items removed: Non-working dumps, duplicates (when possible - See notes below), prototypes or demos of games that eventually saw a full release, emulated ZX Spectrum games, and titles that require proficiency in another language to play.
Release notes:
Duplicates and total game count: There are (understandably) several duplicates across these disks, but I've worked hard to keep the duplication down as much as possible, and every disk that may have a double of a title is included because it has at least one game not available on any other disk. The total amount of titles counted above is accurate to a list of only singular programs - In other words, even though there are only 284 files included and duplicates are present, there are still 592 completely unique titles included across the entire collection.