SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

I thought this might be useful for anyone trying to understand how the VDP is organized and how to use it. It's an excerpt for the TI 99/4A computer Editor/Assembler manual, and it goes into great detail not otherwise easily available for the Adam.

Nice graphics! Never too late to finish it I've had a Scifi wargame in the works for the last 10 years on the TI 99/4A computer that I have yet to finish . Too many distractions...

Excellent!

Any updates on this?
Also, what is the maximum file attachment size? I tried attaching an 8.6MB zipped PDF and the board would not take it.

But it sounds like the editor worked well for you. I would love to get a copy of your version at some point...
What game did you write for the PC?

Copying from pc to Adam.

This project is a result of my experimentation with accessing the VDP and embedded assembly language using Turbo Pascal 3 under CP/M 2.2. It's a slide show program which takes a series of bitmap images and displays them in a continuous loop on the screen. It was programmed entirely on the Adam compu...

It seems that the AIM insists on converting pure binary files into .com files regardless of the original file's extension. It also seems to be adding a 128 byte "header" to the converted files.
Is this an expected behavior?

This is a repost of Milli's excellent breakdown of the VDP memory organization table for those interested in accessing graphics via assembly language (form the AtariAge forum). I thought it would be easier to find and more relevant here. I just clarified the titles of each section based on the TI no...

I don't have a floppy drive on mine, so I can't recreate. I don't remember having an issue with the DDP that Milli made me. Maybe if you had a DDP version of TP3, copy the (working) files onto the disk? I don't know...just thinking out loud. Did you fully use the TP3 editor for programming by any c...