SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

I actually figured it out!
Adam Image Manager does not transfer CP/M files properly for some reason, so the workaround is to transfer the files to an EOS blank disk then use the ADAM CP/M transfer program to get the files to a proper CP/M disk.
A pain in the butt but at least I got it working.

It looks like the Micro Innovations parallel printer patch for SmartBasic only works with version 1.0. Unfortunately that version is buggy.
Is there a non-buggy version of SmartBasic out there that is patched for a parallel printer by any chance?

Hi. I'm trying to transfer a new CP/M editor COM file to the Adam using Image Manager, but it's not working. While the file appears to transfer fine and appears in a directory listing, it does not seem to exist when it comes to running it or doing a STAT on it. Could someone here give it a shot an l...

Here's a brief demo of using the bitmap mode. It's a program that procedurally generates a "fedora" via a mathematical function.

The cart contains a microcontroller doing all the heavy lifting and high speed streaming of the video data with the TI just dumping it onto the video processor for display and managing player input. Could not have been possible otherwise. Still impressive nonetheless.

It's what I relied on for the development of Ace of Aces! It allowed me to fit all the source and support files as well as the compiler and the compiled code all on one disk which was far more efficient. Only issue is that file size reporting is wrong, but it was not a deal breaker.

I have the older VDD's, 2 of them. It's a necessity really for CP/M. Works just fine.

Interactive fiction with still images is totally doable, but animation is very slow unless everything is loaded into memory first or we have a fast storage device like a cart to store the data. Look at what was done on the TI 99/4A with Dragon's Lair as an example here: https://youtu.be/dYcl0ozAjiE

Never had an Adam until 3 years ago or so. I kind of developed a soft spot for it though, and have been programming on it in both assembly and Turbo Pascal under CP/M.

Thanks Milli. I wanted something other than an arcade or puzzle game