SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

Welcome. I am a relative newcomer to the Coleco Adam as well, having gotten my hands on a system only about 3 years ago. I am a big fan of CP/M on it and have been programming for it in Turbo Pascal 3 beefed up with graphics, sound and controller extensions specific to the Adam. A very nice machine ...

When an external serial terminal is connected and standard output is redirected to the serial card, the screen output is not displayed on the terminal as it should likely because the program is not using standard output but rather bitmap mode.

So I tried it out, and I noticed a couple of things: you are changing the color of the text when describing the location, and the display is pretty slow, so I'm assuming you are not using true 40 column mode but rather bitmap mode to simulate 40 columns. It looks and works quite well. Nicely done. W...

This is truly excellent. Thank you!

This looks pretty simple to port to Turbo Pascal based on your Basic example using record structures.
Once I have a Fujinet device for the Adam, I might want to mess with this a bit.
Are these available yet for purchase by the way?

Thanks!
Did you ever end up fixing the incorrect reporting of file sizes with the STAT command by any chance?

Great insight.
This is the kind of info that would not be preserved on the Facebook group. Now I know where to find it if I ever need it.

Go for it!

I don't believe TP allows for relocatable code, but I'll need to double check. The overlays can be incorporated into the main program, but the program will simply not run because of memory constraints in the CP/M environment. I have no clue how I would get everything to run from cartridge space and ...

Since the game makes heavy use of disk overlays, I don't see how this would be possible unfortunately...