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I have started to upload YouTubes of my collection, it will take several videos. Starting with loose, next will be boxed. I have approx 150+ unique boxes all CV, but this includes varieties, eg US vs Canadian bilingual vs CBS French, UK, Multilingual but still represents more than 100 unique titles. My youtube handle is yyzonian.

Pretty sure SmartBASIC 1.0 doesnt. Cant say if other versions added it or not. I know of the existance of SmartBASIC 2, Australian SmartBASIC to name a couple, not sure if they added it or not, not up to speed on the other versions.

You the MAN, cant wait to hear more about this one.

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I will be there for the weekend for sure, perhaps all or part of Friday as well if I can arrange the time off. This will be my 4th ADAMCon. Went to #1, #2 (fast fwd 19 yrs) #21 I will only bring items for sale/trade if an interest is made up front. J-F I do have an ADAM expansion #3 if you dont find one elsewhere. As far as agenda items go, I wouldnt mind hearing about ADAM storage options in some detail, like how to get a hard drive, zip drive, or some kinda flash memory device up and running.

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Hey Daniel thanks for bringing this to our attention. I enjoyed the clip and thought it was kinda cool to have out little console once again brought to others' attention.

There is a on the subject, it provides some good pointers. He talks about cutting the unit open with a dremmel but I have heard (but not tried) rapping it a few times on the sides near the seams with a mallet to open it up without cutting.

They all humm although I usually have to put my ear close to hear. And they all get warm, Id be alarmed if warm turned to hot, and a spare is always a fairly good idea.

I have tried to play this game without any manual and could never fully figure it out. So maybe there are others in the same boat so I am posting the game instructions that I got in the mail today from a European guy, hope this helps someone. Joystick - direction of player movement, goalkeeper movement, and direction of ball to be kicked Keypad - game options, team formation, strengths Action buttons on super action controller: Yellow - kick ball or throw-ins Orange - tackling and gain ball possession Purple - use with Yellow to make stronger kick Blue - use with Yellow to kick in a lower projectory, if not used, ball is kicked higher in the air Yellow and Orange used to transfer control intentionally from one player to another when not in control of the ball (I assume from this that otherwise, AI will select player closest to opposing team's ball carrier) When controlling goalkeeper Yellow - left or right dive Orange - not used Purple - position goalkeeper on the goal line left or right one step Blue - use with Yellow to dive in a lower projectory, if not used, dive higher in the air At beginning of the game, you choose team strength and formation Team strength - keypad 1 avg goalkeeper 2 - strong goalkeeper 3 - star goalkeeper 4 - avg defense 5 - strong defense 6 - star defense 7 - avg offense 8 - strong offense 9 - star offense Formation * - defensive 0 - balanced # - attacking Game duration - 2 x 12 minute halves. During game 0 = pause, * = resume

I'm kinda intrigued by this modification you mention to use a small power supply. The one in the picture looks like it is for the battery eliminator for the driving controller not the Colecovision. And since a Colecovision requires 12V, +5V and -5V, I have never seen a "small" power supply with those specs, regardless of connector type. Do you have more info on this? Apparently this can be done if you replace the DRAM chips inside with similar ones that only require +5V input. Since there were no immediate takers on this one I'm going to crack it open and see if that's actually what is going on inside. I'll PM you the result if you're interested. Ok so I did a little more research on my own and yes, if you switch out the DRAM, you can get by with just the +5V. Only downside I suppose is that this does appear to render the roller controller inoperative since it piggybacks off the regular PSU. Interesting though...

I'm kinda intrigued by this modification you mention to use a small power supply. The one in the picture looks like it is for the battery eliminator for the driving controller not the Colecovision. And since a Colecovision requires 12V, +5V and -5V, I have never seen a "small" power supply with those specs, regardless of connector type. Do you have more info on this?

There might be a heat sink on it but the main clue is the video processor. NTSC machines will have a TMS9928A and a PAL machine I believe will have a TMS9929A

My first job in IT was first level support at an airport. Plug and play was an unknown term at that time. I must have spent 50% of my time day in and day out installing/troubleshooting modems to connect to the mainframe for various applications. Big royal pain in the butt. The least painful were the new US Robotics Sportster 9600 modems but some users inherited these god-awful Gandalf modems that always seemed to drop the line or crap out on the file transfers if you could get them configured in the first place. Everyone had a modem, no LAN to be seen. You had to "talk" to the modem in some terminal program in "AT" language to set them up. Then I went home and played with my ADAMLink. I found I was able to whistle into the phone at the same pitch as a modem carrier. HAH! Most of this went away when they installed a Token Ring network at the airport and then all my time was spent as LAN admin on Banyan Vines or Netware. My favourite story is when a user found a mouse nest in their Olivetti XT clone. So the boss bought a kick-ass vaccuum and instructed us to go around and clean out everyone's PC. My student intern colleague on his first gig went to some high-ranking boss's PC and opened er up and proceeded to vaccuum up all the jumpers off the motherboard and the cards in the slots, rendering the guys PC to a doorstop. Ummm, were gonna have to buy you a new 386 computer...ummm...Sir. Used 1 or 4 meg memory simms were like GOLD. If I advertised selling a few on the BBS's people would literally fight on the lawn to get them first. Wow things have changed since then.

This topic has been touched upon a few times here over the last couple months. I can say from direct experience that the answer is definitely NO. Not all hardware and carts labelled CBS is PAL. And from what I gather this is because excess cartridges and consoles were used in both United States and Canada to produce "regular" NTSC product, probably late in the market. I purchased a CBS Colecovision console from a US seller and opened it up and verified this myself. I remember back in the 80's seeing CBS Colecovision carts on store shelves here in Toronto. Oh and perhaps it was true however that the Victory cart you speak of was PAL, if so likely on the box it would have indicated mfg in somewhere like England or France ?

I had a look and I dont see it on Ebay. If it is still active, can you provide a link, please. Best of luck.

Oh yeah and I also used the modem to gather submissions from other folks for the MTAG Newsletter when I was the Editor for about a year or two, late 80's timeframe. I'd setup times with others to download files from various sources, then again use the modem to transfer those files to my Mac+ using 2 modems then pretty it up and print out on an Imagewriter printer for distribution. We had 100+ subscribers in our heyday. And although I didnt do any major hacking, it was a hoot to connect to various businesses, sometimes you could guess at their modem phone number (eg voice line was 416-555-1111) so you'd try on the modem 555-1112, 1113, etc and invariably hit it. The wargames dialler as talked about earlier automated this find-and-seek process. Then you could poke around at will or if a login name and password was required, it was fun to try and get in.

As everyone found when they purchased the ADAMLink modem, the first version of the software did not support binary file transfer, only text. So someone hacked the Modem7 program (and called it...what else....Madam7) and running under CP/M, you could use Xmodem protocol to transfer binary files. I was on the BBS's all the time. Best one in Canada was CRS - Canada Remote Systems, where they had a great Coleco forum and lots of files to download as well as msg forums as well. It was a subscription service but very reasonable at the time. Fidonet had ADAM forums as well as a download section. Mostly the BBS's were used for online games on the ADAM - very simplistic ones - and chatting. Another good one on Fido was FCAUG-IBM_Net (or something like that). I was run by a crusty old guy here in Toronto and he had no interest in associating with our ADAM users group (MTAG) but supported the ADAM for years. I bought one of Syd Carter's 1200 baud modems (dont forget ADAMLink was 300 baud - o n e c h a r a c t e r (pause) a t a (more pause) t i m e o n t h e s c r e e n (long pause) I was so happy until I tried it and because the ADAMNEt couldnt handle such a fast stream of bits, it would drop a lot of characters. Sigh.... Syd did a mod and then I was OK. Or some BBS's you could enable NULL's which would slow the data down at the server end. Awesome times way before Internet.

Yeah, Telegames was especially notorious for that. Before I knew better years ago, I purchased from Telegames UK a boxed Dance Fantasy. It was in one of their green clamshell plastic cases, photocopied instructions, and the cart was some other game totally with a typewritten stupid address sized label badly stuck on top. Crap. Following a related thread in the Intellivision forum, I read where a former employee was saying that he used to churn out the carts near the end making labels from whatever was handy at the time.

Not quite that sweet but close. There was a CV console, Roller controller, 2 SA controllers, driving module and 25 games, 19 of them boxed. In every case, the carts themselves look like they were never used. Filled in a lot of missing boxed versions in my collection because I collect box variations, there was a mix of US, Canadian bilingual boxes, CBS Coleco multi-lingual, and of course those 2 oddities.All overlays and manuals included again looked like they were never used. Oh and I'v changed the thread a little from box variations to "Look what I got!" but while I'm boasting, I may as well for those who are interested say that I have again been busy on Ebay and finally got one of these after looking like forever.

Those odd ones werent the highlight of the C'list lot. These however were....

I politely informed this lady that her "Atari" gameswere Intellivision games. She replied that I was nuts, they looked NOTHING like Intellivision games they were Atari games according to the person who sold them to her so that is what they must be... Oh except Pitfall was for the "Activision" game system... Sigh.

And then there's the ahem....movie http://www.movieline.com/2010/04/pac-man-trailer-should-ignite-a-fever-for-arcade-adaptations.php

Picked these two up in a recent Craigslist deal. Venture box is normal in every way including the usual cartridge holder inside the box, size, etc is normal except it is generic white with a cheap ass label on it. Never seen one like this. Then Decathlon is not the usual CV box, it is the Atari box with a sticker over top. Never seen this one either. I know some games come in generic boxes eg Spinnaker, Fisher Price titles with stickers on them for CV, but have not seen this one before.

Looks like an Odyssey 500 pong type machine. Released in '76 I dont see anything in the ad implying it was built in to the TV.