SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

Here's a complete bitmap package for the Turbo Pascal 3 compiler under CP/M which will allow you to take advantage of the Adam's graphic capabilities using the power of a compiled Pascal environment. I’d like to play around with this on my Adam. Wmaalouli could you please post the source code for t...

If you decide to do it let me know how it goes. My quest to add a serial port to my Adam continues...

Thank you very much for all the recommendations. I will definitely give SpritePower a try. I have the Hackers Guides but just sort of skimmed them so far. Good to know that SmartBASIC 1.0 can do sprites too! I was hoping to stick with 1.0 anyway since most of the example code that has been published...

One limitation of the 9918 VDP is that you can only have 4 sprites on a single row. Additional ones will not be displayed. So when you are programming with sprites, you need to make sure that situation does not occur. Does this mean that more than 4 sprites can't appear at the same y-coordinate reg...

Ah okay, I do remember reading something about a sprite being treated like a layer of sorts. Since a sprite is native to the video processor I’m guessing it would come out way ahead performance-wise too.

SmartBASIC 1.0 apparently didn’t have support for sprites but they are available in version 2.0.

Hi all

Can anyone explain to me what the important differences are between sprites and shapes in SmartBASIC? Are there performance advantages to one over the other or does it simply come down to how they're stored in memory (bitmap vs vector)?

Looks like its a good thing we didn't spend too much time on this. While searching around for some Adam info unrelated to this Easter egg I just happened to come across This Week With My Coleco ADAM 9710.20 . If you scroll down on that page you'll find a section titled "Code Fossil: ADAMlink Modem I...

EOS is the built-In OS for the Adam. So when you turn it on or perform a computer reset, EOS is transferred into RAM from the rom chip on the Adam Logic Board. Then SmartWriter is transferred into RAM unless of course you boot the CP/M or T-DOS OSes... they overwrite EOS. Thank you for the explanat...

Pure genius... that works perfectly. Thank you very much for the solution and the technical explanation!

Yep, I did check with him in fact that's where I'm planning on getting the memory expansion. He has addressor cards but currently none with a serial port. Just hoping to maximize the utility of slot #2.