Pixelboy

You kinda defeat your own argument there, Jess. When did anyone at IBM ever care about gaming?

So the venerable Z80 is retiring. I have to admit I'm surprised it lasted this long. But then again, it's so well-known that a clone of it can always be created commercially, especially via FPGA, if the need arises. There's always a market for cheap little CPUs, to put in toys, appliances, and whatnot.

So the keypad on the bottom right corner of the screen seems to indicate that it's a touch screen? Interesting.

Ah, okay.

Wait, does that mean Boulder Dash has problems running on the ADAM? That'd be news to me...

Well, all I know is that the VBLANK interrupt is a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) on the ColecoVision, but it's maskable on the SG-1000. Also, the joystick ports work differently. Others can probably provide more details.

Bobblevania.

... and those "default" letters and symbols are stored in the Coleco BIOS, by the way.

Yep, that's what I was told earlier today.

I think you're confusing Gateway to Apshai with Temple of Apshai (which to my knowledge was never released).

Too bad they don't accept Paypal, I would have pre-ordered this right away. Oh well, I'll take my chances with eBay once this comes out near the end of 2024. EDIT: I had a look at Limited Games' Amazon.com storefront. They have a section for pre-orders but Shantae is nowhere to be found, even with the pre-order period ending today. I guess they REALLY don't want me to pre-order this game. Alright guys, I won't! EDIT #2: This reminds me, I should look up what's happening with the physical GBA release of GoodBoy Galaxy. It's been available in ROM format since December.

That's going to be difficult, because Albert is the only guy (as far as I know) who can produce new Activision PCBs, or rather, an alternate version of that PCB which is compatible with regular Coleco cartridge shells. At this point, I think Albert should chime in...

Antivirus plug-ins like Norton, perhaps?

Not releasing the ADAM wouldn't really have saved the ColecoVision. The video game crash of 84 was mostly due to retailers looking at Atari going down the drain and losing faith in console gaming as a whole. When Atari went down, it took down the whole industry with it. On the other hand, if Coleco hadn't spent so much money on the ADAM, they could have been in a much better financial position to face the crash of 84. But Coleco would have exited the console gaming market just like Mattel did with the Intellivision, so again, the ColecoVision wouldn't have survived the crash.

Four words: Symphony of the Night.