SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

I'm going to send mixed messages... I like 3.5" DSHD floppies as they hold 1.44MB. Formatted, that's typically 1.2MB. They're quick, and not expensive. I'm looking to implement a few items off the ADE stack. Floppy is where I want to start, because it's the most harmless exercise and will; have low ...

Looking to borrow a 3.5" floppy, for cloning.

An 80 column card would be quite economical. $30? I think if they were made, they would be quite... "prevalent"

Looking to buy a 3.5” floppy drive, for cloning. Any out there?

I have made some progress here. However, using the ‘2681 proved very unsatisfactory because of the basically non-existent FIFOs. It would stall out after a single character, making it very hard for external devices to lock onto the bit rate. Above 19200, match up was basically impossible and the Ada...

Which means you can also use a 9v DC supply and the polarity will be corrected by the bridge rectifier. Boom!

Would it be possible to replace SmartWriter with BASIC?

Would you be interested in converting this to use an 80 column card?

Mid to late March?