Fall 2018 Knockout Tourney - Round 1 - Tutankham

[Fall 2018 Knockout Tourney - Round 1 - Tutankham]

94,068

 

 

 

[Mattel Aquarius - Saving & Loading a file with Data Recorder]

Here's a Youtube video I made of saving and loading a document made with Fileform. The file is 1549 bytes (47 lines) and takes 31 seconds to save or load.

 

[Adam Printer Ribbon Cartridge & Paper?]

I've got a Ko-Rec-Type printer ribbon cartridge for the Coleco Adam. This was in an eBay Canada auction several years ago. I've never seen another one like it.

 

 

[Coleco Adam: Error in E.O.S. Programmers Manual]

Good find! I wonder if an error similar to that happened when Atarisoft programmed Defender.

 

Defender only works right on a CV with standard controllers. If you use anything else the controls are messed up. That includes connecting a Roller Controller, Super Action controller, 3rd party controller, or Expansion Module #3 ADAM (or standalone ADAM).

[Can Can Wonderland]

Very specific question, but what specific teams (if any) are depicted on the Stanley Cup Hockey game?

 

Blackhawks and Rangers

[Coleco Adam: 64mb Smart Basic Disk Image]

Great work Milli Vee! I was using the 64mb Smart Basic image over the weekend and I was able to copy 4 Colecovision game files to it and play them using the 'brun' command.

[ColecoVision & ADAM Computer Scans Repository]

Wow! Coleco planned over 170 software titles for the ADAM according to the above posts "Coleco Introduces ADAM Software Lines" press release. I think only about 35 or so titles were ever finished.

[Can Can Wonderland]

Can Can has added some vintage arcade machines. They've had vintage pinball machines since they opened in Jan. 2017 but the arcades are new (Aug. 2018).

 

Sea Wolf (1976 Midway) LeMans (1976 Atari)

 

 

 

 

 

[Colecovision HSC Season 11 Round 16-River Raid-Super Cross Force-Kaboom!]

River Raid (Game 7) - 6,520

Super Cross Force (Game 3 Parallel 2) - 21,500

 

 

 

[Colecovision HSC Season 11 Round 16-River Raid-Super Cross Force-Kaboom!]

Kaboom! (wide) - 2,879

 

Played using the Roller Controller and an Adam.

 

Awesome control using the Roller Controller! I tried first with the standard controller and only had a best of 559. First time playing the CV version.

 

 

[Easter Egg in 2010 The Text Adventure - Coleco Adam]

Here's a PDF of one of the possible solutions for completing the game.

 

2010_Text_Adventure-Solution.PDF

 

 

 

 

[Easter Egg in 2010 The Text Adventure - Coleco Adam]

This game was being discussed on the Coleco Adam public facebook page. I'm not on facebook so I'm posting this here.

 

2010 The Text Adventure comes with a saved game that is only a couple of moves from the ending. There is a "Mission Accomplished" message and an awesome graphics display with music.

 

However, this saved game only works if you are using Tape Drive #1. If you try to retrieve the saved game from Tape Drive #2 or a Disk Drive, they programmed it so it plays the music to the song 'Here we go into the wild blue yonder'.

 

 

 

Easter Egg Ending

 

 

 

Saved game starts at 1:35 of the video. Graphics/music start at 2:09

[Coleco's Arnold Greenberg - Interview 2018]

Here's a video on Youtube of Arnold Greenberg, CEO of Coleco from the 1960s to 1980s.

 

He spends a lot of time talking about the Cabbage Patch Kids.

 

They start talking about the ADAM at 15:20.

 

[Best/worst game with a monkey or ape in it?]

There was Monkey Academy for the Colecovision. (also for MSX and Philips VG 5000).

 

It was a Mario Bros. like platformer where you had to solve various math problems.

[Best/worst game with a monkey or ape in it?]

My vote for best is Evolution for the Colecovision, Apple Ii, C64, and PC booter.

 

In one stage, you get to play as a gorilla throwing coconuts at monkeys to protect your supply of oranges. Can't beat that!

[Colecovision HSC Season 11 - Round 15 - Defender - Frenzy]

Defender - 508,100

 

[Adam Jeopardy Manual]

What was the key combination to unlock the secret questions on the load screen?

 

When asked if you are using a question pack. Press...

 

Control+up arrow

Control+right arrow

Control+down arrow

Control+left arrow

[Burgertime for IBM PC instructions]

Thanks! I've played this game occasionally on my old Tandy 1000 SL.

[Colecovision HSC Season 11 - Round 15 - Defender - Frenzy]

Defender: 29,150

Defender (CV) e 29150.png

 

 

You still had smart bombs left when the game ended. You could have gotten a lot more points.

[Adam Jeopardy Manual]

Ed... Looked on eBay for the completed / sold listing but could not find. Can you supply a link?

 

Here's the link.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/223071558339?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l10137

[Adam Jeopardy Manual]

ADAM Jeopardy Manual

 

Here's a PDF of the Jeopardy manual. In 13 years of collecting, I had never seen this on the internet or anywhere until a few days ago when it showed up in an ebay auction. Jeopardy was finished but never released by Coleco. The software has been in the public domain for 30+ years but not the manual.

 

 

ADAM_Jeopardy_Manual_(PDF).PDF

 

[Colecovision HSC Season 11 - Round 15 - Defender - Frenzy]

Defender - 205,000

Frenzy (Skill 4) - 8,468

 

[Colecovision HSC Season 11 - Round 14 - Space Fury - Frogger]

Frogger (fast) - 11,880

Space Fury (skill 4) - 29.110

 

 

 

 

 

[This is Fake?]

Sounds like you didn't get very far into the video.

 

https://youtu.be/pzNbGa05dfg?t=7m4s

 

https://youtu.be/pzNbGa05dfg?t=8m18s

 

https://youtu.be/pzNbGa05dfg?t=9m12s

 

etc.

 

The sound at 7:04 sounds like it could be PC speaker but at 8:18 and 9:12 it definitely sounds like it's from a sound card.

[This is Fake?]

Here's a video with great PC speaker music I made a few years of Jungle Hunt by Atarisoft (1982)..

 

The video capture in from an original IBM PC (model 5150).

 

For the audio, I removed the PC's cover and set a microphone right next to the speaker.