SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

I think the biggest issue will be the timing

Make sure you use 18 guage wire at least - 20 guage or smaller causes issues with the power lines. YOu could also just open the adam and put your switch on the reset wire on the other side of the connector.

No wait I don't think it will drop the connection. I remember back when I was testing things a few years ago connecting the adam to a pc directly via the phone cable you can make the connection with Adamlink, then put in a CP/M tape and hit reset and the connection was still there. I used it so I co...

Yeah good point. What about cutting the reset line in the modem?

That is cool - we should test it.

You may have bad video ram

The 1350 I thought I had is an amiga mouse so I can’t use it

The ADAMouse I is a mouse that was sold for the Coleco Adam. It plugs into the controller port and gives you mouse functionality to a certain extent. Unlink a standard serial mouse the ADAMouse converts mouse directional movement / mouse ball rolling / to a joystick direction, Up, Down, Left and Rig...

In the CP/M boot record you will find PAM's face. Supposedly there is a bitmap of it in there. I am assuming it is a simple binary picture but haven't figured it out