SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

Because there was a program in one of those magazines (turns out it was in the final issue of KPower) that was written for the Apple that did not have an Adam translation that has been on my "bucket list" for the Adam since I received my copy of the issue back in the day (I was a subscriber since t...

This is a new game for the Adam computer written in Turbo Pascal 3 with the graphic and sound extensions under CP/M 2.2 . It's a tactical airwar game during the WWI era. I strongly recommend reading the manual before playing in order to maximize your enjoyment (or disappointment!) :lol: Please let ...

I use these:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/293155936135

You have to put in a socket but that isn't hard

To tell the truth I’m not sure how - I really don’t understand the parameter blocks. I’m tempted to post all the source code so others ( you? ) can play with it.

I’m glad you’re making use of it

During the development of my current project with Turbo Pascal 3 and the graphic extensions, I encountered an odd bug where the pattern of any defined sprite beyond the 16th sprite was getting corrupted. I poured over my extensions code but could not find any problems there. Then I remembered the V...

The How to Operate The Coleco Adam - Lesson 2 Smart Basic was a book & audio tape combination sold by Tapeware Technologies. The way it work is that you would play the tape and when you heard a tone you would stop the tape, flip it, and play it to take the quiz. In this zip file are multiple files: ...

The How to Operate The Coleco Adam - Lesson 1 Smart Writer was a book & audio tape combination sold by Tapeware Technologies. The way it work is that you would play the tape and when you heard a tone you would stop the tape, flip it, and play it to take the quiz. In this zip file are multiple files:...

Yes thank you for this! Have you done any speed tests? How fast is TP versus ASM versus compiled basic etc?

Setting the baud rate made no difference. This happens no matter whether I have the serial cable connected to the WiModem or nothing at all. I don't have a null modem cable. The even stranger thing is that I still get the stream of D characters even if I don't connect anything to the side port! Thi...