SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

Oh wow! I'm not much of a collector myself, but I love seeing what other users have. You must have a very understanding Mrs. NIAD

I wonder what the difference is between the two versions? I'm wondering if the terminal settings in the editor that works are different than the one that doesn't. If the non-working editor can be modified (using TINST, in case you've never done it before) with the same settings as the working one, ...

I'm not sure if you have it yet, but here's the manual: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturReferenceManualCPMVersion3Dec88_6578073 On page 157 they talk about the INLINE command, that's how I used to do it. I actually do have the manual. The inline command is not very practical for mor...

The screen gets corrupted in Tdos. Only works with CP/M 2.2

I'm trying to figure out how to use external assembly language routines with TP3 under CP/M. The manual is extremely sparse on details when it comes to that, particularly as to how the external assembly routine is to be set up. Does anyone have any experience with this? I did find a reference online...

Yes, that last disk works, but with the editor limitations mentioned.

This is Adam specific as it uses the VDP text mode and the Adam keyboard key bindings.

Here's a version that will not hang when editing a file using the TP3 editor, and will compile. However, the editor will corrupt the screen when it gets to the bottom rather than scroll up. Final conclusion: the TP3 editor is simply not usable with the Adam. You will have to use an external editor a...

Should work in theory. Writing that emulator is not for the faint-hearted however

Non-interleaved I think