SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

A simple spelling error that has laid dormant in the CP/M Bios on the Adam

Sure you can but the way CPM cartridges worked is that they are a simple 32k Copy of a RAM disk. You could have Microsoft Basic on the cartridge, boot cpm and then run MBASIC with M:mbasic at the A> prompt since it was copied to the ramdisk at boot up.

Has anyone tried this?

http://adamarchive.org/archive/Adam/Tec ... ansion.pdf

Anyone ever have or make a CP/M Cartridge? If you haven't heard of this CP/M has the ability of loading a 32k RAM disk from cartridge to external RAM when you boot it. According to the meager docs I found http://adamarchive.org/archive/Adam/Technical/CPM%20Boot%20Loader%20for%20Coleco%20Adam.pdf (Pa...

https://github.com/skiphansen/pano_z80

You could code in an Adam emulator

Wmaalouli wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 08, 2020 10:09 pm

Hi. Any recommendations on a good word processor for the Adam? I tried the integrated one and it's actually not bad, but has limitations.

I used to use VDE http://adamarchive.org/archive/Adam/CPM ... /Unsorted/

Awesome!

Hah! It might be an interesting challenge, but I have way too much on my plate currently to even consider it. That said, if there is a way to embed machine language in CBASIC, then it should be relatively trivial to add the extensions since the routines already exist with my TP3 extensions. Can CBA...

Nice. I have never really messed with compiled Basic under CP/M since I had Turbo Pascal at may disposal. I would be cool to see if you can get it to access the graphic and sound resources of the Adam. My main beef with the Adam SmartBasic and variants is that it relies heavily on pokes and peeks t...

I'm actually using CB80 which was an upgraded version of CBasic. I have upload a zip file with the compiler, linker and the manuals to the archive at: http://adamarchive.org/archive/CPM/CB80.zip I have yet to determine how to add assembly language routines to it but so far I really like the way it w...