SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

I tried the Version 1 disk you posted on the archive and it's a similar issue. Very odd...

This is one aspect of the ADAM which I find annoying: No standard serial or parallel port. How about using the Adamnet network? Any documents on how to access and decode the signals?

Yes, there is a lot more in there that is Adam-specific than just the standard CP/M fare. Essential reading for anyone interested in programming under the CP/M environment.

Nice! Any disk image available?

Ah thank you! I'll have to look at this closely.
Is this your own code and is it taken from some other source?

So I managed to get a simple Hello World test program working with the INLINE function: program test; var Hello : String[255]; begin Hello := 'Hello World!$'; inline ($0E/9/ {mvi c,9} $11/Hello/ {lxi d,Hello} $CD/5/0/ {call 5} $C3/0/0); {jmp 0} end. This test verifies that TP3 does indeed support 80...

As time goes on, the number of people with the knowledge or interest to run these legacy systems will be declining, and I wonder what the market will be for them say a decade from now. My guess is that prices will drop sharply because the demand will simply not be there while the supply will increas...

Correct, but it's likely slower than direct access, which is why I rolled my own with ADAMED. That said, they may he perfectly serviceable depending on the application.

If I am going to use the INLINE feature, I suppose I could just copy the HEX object code generated by ASM and add the / separator between each byte as required by TP3. A pain to say the least, but doable, at least for short routines. I'll run some tests over the next few days and see how it goes. Th...

So a few months ago I bought an MIB2 serial card, primarily as a way to potentially interface th Adam to the real world. However, it turns out that the documentation that comes with it does not discuss low-level access from assembly so that the parallel or serial ports could be interfaced to things ...