SmartBASIC - A Coleco Adam Forum

Miscellaneous • Fujinet questions

2022-05-09T08:31:50-04:00

I've been playing with my Fujinet device and it's really great overall. I do have a few questions:

- What are the plans for the 2 leftward buttons?
- How do I know which firmware version I have?
- There is an OUT Adamnet port on the device, but when I connect a Virtual Disk Drive to it, it locks up and refuses to boot
- I have a Micro Innovations disk with TDOS set up to use the serial port for output which I use to display CP/M on an external terminal. This does not seem to work when I boot the disk from Fujinet.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Statistics: Posted by Wmaalouli — Mon May 09, 2022 8:31 am

Miscellaneous • Re: Greetings from Spain

2022-03-30T07:20:16-04:00

Welcome.
I am a relative newcomer to the Coleco Adam as well, having gotten my hands on a system only about 3 years ago.
I am a big fan of CP/M on it and have been programming for it in Turbo Pascal 3 beefed up with graphics, sound and controller extensions specific to the Adam.
A very nice machine hobbled by poor quality controls initially which torpedoed customer confidence in the system.

Statistics: Posted by Wmaalouli — Wed Mar 30, 2022 7:20 am

Miscellaneous • Greetings from Spain

2022-03-26T06:30:03-04:00

Greetings Coleco mates,

I am Masteries, a new user of Coleco Adam computer.

Currently, the Coleco Adam in use is a shared one,
due to there are few of these computers in Spain.

Despite this, its very surprisingly that a 1983 released computer
has 80 KB RAM and MSX mode 2 video capabilities.

I hope we continue to see each other on this forum,
learning programming and related things for Coleco.

Statistics: Posted by masteries — Sat Mar 26, 2022 6:30 am

Miscellaneous • #FujiNet Feature for Developers - Appkeys

2022-02-01T17:15:36-04:00

I am still writing the test program, but wanted to let developers know of a useful FujiNet feature: AppKeys.

These are small 64-byte strings that can be used to hold anything that should remain on the FujiNet and requested by the application, such as credentials or program preferences. These are stored on the FujiNet SD card, and thus can go with you, if you place the SD card in another FujiNet.

We use this on e.g. the Atari FujiNet to store user credentials, and in the weather program to store geographic location and theme preferences.

As stated before, each app key is 64 bytes in length, and are categorized by Creator and application ID. The Creator ID is 16 bits wide, allowing for 65,535 creator IDs, and the app ID is 8 bits (allowing for 256 applications per creator type), and each app can have up to 256 keys assigned to it, at 64 bytes each. This should be sufficient to store any configuration information outside of a program.

This feature is implemented using the open, read, and write appkey commands that can be sent to the Fuji device ID at any time.

-Thom

Statistics: Posted by tschak909 — Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:15 pm

Miscellaneous • Re: What Do You Use Your Adam For?

2021-05-14T11:16:44-04:00

I really use my ADAM for fun. Not just games though... I love exploring all the old ADAM software!

Back in the late 80s when I got my ADAM (the one I still use today) I mainly used SmartBASIC and (once I got a modem) ADAMLink for some good old 300-baud BBSing. Of course I also used SmartWriter to type up all my school reports too!

Nowadays I still spend the majority of my ADAM time hacking around in BASIC but I also love playing with CP/M and SmartLOGO. If I'm short on time or just want to have some fun I'll fire up a game and play for a bit. No shortage of awesome games for ADAM!

Statistics: Posted by joltguy — Fri May 14, 2021 11:16 am

Miscellaneous • Re: What Do You Use Your Adam For?

2021-05-13T13:07:41-04:00

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.

Statistics: Posted by Wmaalouli — Thu May 13, 2021 1:07 pm

Miscellaneous • Re: What Do You Use Your Adam For?

2021-05-13T10:33:12-04:00

WOW!

That was amazing! I had no idea a ti99 could even REMOTELY do something like that!

Statistics: Posted by clindholm — Thu May 13, 2021 10:33 am

Miscellaneous • Re: What Do You Use Your Adam For?

2021-05-13T09:38:55-04:00

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

Statistics: Posted by Wmaalouli — Thu May 13, 2021 9:38 am

Miscellaneous • Re: What Do You Use Your Adam For?

2021-05-12T22:33:24-04:00

Cool! I've seen your Ace of Aces. Very impressive stuff. I never thought CP/M could do graphics. You ever thought about doing some sort of "Under a killing Moon" type game on the Adam?

Statistics: Posted by clindholm — Wed May 12, 2021 10:33 pm

Miscellaneous • Re: What Do You Use Your Adam For?

2021-05-12T21:36:43-04:00

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.

Statistics: Posted by Wmaalouli — Wed May 12, 2021 9:36 pm

Miscellaneous • What Do You Use Your Adam For?

2021-05-12T21:24:30-04:00

Back when I was in high school, I found my Adam in a thrift store. I used it alot for reports and essays.

Now, I'm 49 and still have it. I have always been curious as to whether the Adam (or any 8bit machine) was actually used as a productivity tool way back when. I have always wanted to spend a month or so using my Adam exclusively in my day to day use (other than work of course).

How did you.... Or do you use your Adam? Games only? Programming for a reason? Programming for the hell of it? Or are you a full time Admite!?

Statistics: Posted by clindholm — Wed May 12, 2021 9:24 pm

Miscellaneous • Re: Blank disk image

2020-10-27T19:34:35-04:00

Much obliged.

Statistics: Posted by Wmaalouli — Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:34 pm

Miscellaneous • Re: Blank disk image

2020-10-27T10:29:08-04:00

Here is a 160kb blank image

BLANK.zip

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:29 am

Miscellaneous • Re: Blank disk image

2020-10-26T21:44:19-04:00

I'm unable to erase the files. I get a BDOS error...
I would greatly appreciate an empty disk image if you have one.

Statistics: Posted by Wmaalouli — Mon Oct 26, 2020 9:44 pm

Miscellaneous • Re: Blank disk image

2020-10-26T20:10:14-04:00

I’ve never had problems with them - I never use format in the emulator in cpm - it always crashes. Just erase all the files. I can post a clean one here in the morning

Statistics: Posted by Milli — Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:10 pm