SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

Came across this listing for an original ADAM 5.25 disk drive on ebay. It looks like its in great condition and it powers up although its actual I/O functions are untested and sold as-is. I would eventually like to get a real disk drive for my ADAM but $500 USD comes out to about $670 CAD and that's...

Just uploaded it to the archive.

Milli wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:48 pm

Nice! Upload it to the archive

Thanks, definitely planning to do that! I just wanna have a few people here try it out first before committing it to the archive.

Hi all Attached to this post is the first version of my SmartWriter File Viewer written in SmartBASIC. I created this little program because I often find that disk images containing BASIC programs and utilities include some documentation in SmartWriter format. Rather than resetting my ADAM to use th...

UPDATE: No longer needed.

I didn't end up finding a MIB2 or MIB3 but I do finally have a serial port for my ADAM (side expansion port).

Wmaalouli wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:28 pm

Thanks! Is there a manual out there for it?

Unfortunately I have not been able to find one although I seem to recall there was some documentation on the disk. I could be misremembering that though.

Wmaalouli wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 09, 2020 11:56 pm

Do you happen to have a disk image of it?

I downloaded it from the archive: SpeedyWrite v2.0

I briefly tried SpeedyWrite last week for the first time just to check it out. I came away impressed and will likely use it again.

I got NEWCCP working today on top of my ABP-patched CP/M installation. The NIAD disk that contained NEWCCP also contained a ADAMCCP.HEX file so I actually used that to patch the CCP. Using the already created hex file made the installation easier as I could skip over the assembly and linking part of...

... SB 2.0 just never caught on in the community except for a couple P.D. volumes and a couple commercial released like Sub Raiders. It is very unfortunate... 2.0 is undeniably better but since (almost) all the programs out there target 1.0 that's what I end up using most of the time. One of the ma...