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7 hours ago, timepilot said:
Thank you. I have an update: I had left my old MicroFox IDE drive in slot 1 and the associated IDE boot card in slot 2. Removing the IDE boot card from slot 2 resolved the issues with both Super Buck Rogers and Super Zaxxon. I have no idea why the IDE boot card produces that conflict.
In watching a video that user "rietveld" posted, however, I noticed that his boot of Super Zaxxon from an ADE (at 1:07 on the video timer) appears to be silent as well, notwithstanding that the other software has sound intact. I wonder whether he is also using an IDE boot card in slot 2:
Yes, that is the "problem" When ADAM boots, the eprom looks to see if disk drive 1, drive 2, data pack 1, or data pack 2 is in use. If not, then it boots the rom to activate the ide device. This harkens back to when the ide card was first implemented back in the 1990's. I am not sure just what is the problem, but it may have to do with booting programs after ddd 2 is locked into position by the ide card. We have observed the same problems with all ide cards available, some may or may not hamper operations of other software. When the ide card and other newer hardware were invented, they "stole" what was thought of as unused memory addresses and such, but now we find that they were not unused after all; thereby causing conflicts.
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15 minutes ago, rietveld said:
Looks like the IDE BOOT ROM in slot 2 is the problem.
Yes, that is the "problem" When ADAM boots, the eprom looks to see if disk drive 1, drive 2, data pack 1, or data pack 2 is in use. If not, then it boots the rom to activate the ide device. This harkens back to when the ide card was first implemented back in the 1990's. I am not sure just what is the problem, but it may have to do with booting programs after ddd 2 is locked into position by the ide card. We have observed the same problems with all ide cards available, some may or may not hamper operations of other software. When the ide card and other newer hardware were invented, they "stole" what was thought of as unused memory addresses and such, but now we find that they were not unused after all; thereby causing conflicts.
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12 minutes ago, rietveld said:
I went on ebay looking for a Buck Rogers tape to use for a Dragon's Lair copy and ended up getting 19 copies of the same tape. What other DDP game uses the same centre directory format as Buck Rogers? Will any DDP image copy over to these DDP tapes?
Super games like Buck Rogers are on right directory tapes and most any other tape can be copied to them by using Filemanager to block copy. This would put a directory block on the right directory tape and then puts the program or data onto the right directory tape.
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2 hours ago, rietveld said:
i dont have a stand alone PSU. all i have are 3 printers to use.
i have a meter . what pin on the printer do i check for plus 5v?
Center pin #3 in the 5 pin power connector is +5
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1 hour ago, rietveld said:
i already have a stand alone Adam and a Expansion 3 Adam but this means the most because my wife got it for me for Christmas. We were looking at old photos of our Christmas's as a kid and i commented on how I asked for the Adam back in 1984. but i knew it was too expensive and did not complain when i never got one that year. i guess she wanted my Christmas wish to come through even if it was 36 years later.
and you didn't think the wife would let you have it!! Great Christmas for you!!!!
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1 hour ago, SHaMROCK 73 said:
Thank you, and Merry Christmas to one and all!!! I honestly look forward to these ROMs every year as much (or more) then my actual gifts... You guys rock!
I echo SHaMROCK...........................THANKS Luc and a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS SEASON TO ALL! 2021 will be better
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On 12/19/2020 at 4:43 PM, Itchy Scratchy said:
As far as this book.
Just curious. 837.67 kB · 0 downloads
I have had this giant book since 1985 and have not seen any other revisions. 837.67 kB · 0 downloads
Apparently if I have v3 then there are at least 3.
Anyone...Anyone...
Bueller...Bueller
Anyone...
I've got 2 copies and I couldn't find a revision # on them. They are both preliminary release, as is yours. Dated 1994 which I thought kind of odd as the ADAM came out late 1983, albeit a bunch of bad ones.
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5 hours ago, rietveld said:
ok looks like ZMODEM does VT52
Well I am glad you found out what you needed. All this is beyond my wheelhouse. I am a "user" not programmer or designer. "-)
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9 hours ago, NIAD said:
Yes, Coleco shrinkwrapped all data pack cases for individual software titles and blank DDPs. I do not recall if the 3 data packs included in the ADAM Computer package were shrinkwrapped... but something tells me they were.
They all were shrinkwrapped
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Ebay item number 114481115816 CV plus Atari add on and Steering wheel add on - all in original boxes. Bid @ $26 with less than a day to go. A STEAL for sure.
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27 minutes ago, Sixthview said:
I have a Microfox SD so I will dl it and give it a try.
I plugged it into my backup system and nothing blew up so here's hoping it fully works!
There is a Filemanager program on the VDD. When it runs it will tell how how much ram you have.
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24 minutes ago, Sixthview said:
Assuming they are all the same, I think they are 104s. Specifically marked 104Z (T) - The t is in a circle below the 104Z.
I know I have 104s. Can I replace with modern caps whether Ceramic or Metal Film or should I search out some old stock?
Sounds fair to me, BUT it depends on the difference on the Z or s designation. If not interchangeable, you could smoke something. I am not qualified to know the difference and I have been looking and not seeing what the difference is.
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7 minutes ago, Sixthview said:
First post on here... Coleco nut in my youth but nostalgia kicked in and I have been messing with my ADAM for about a year now.
So in a box at my mother's house, I found my old memory expander. But it has seen better days.
I am wondering what others think...
- Should I try it out before I do anything? (worried about messing the ADAM up permanently)
- Should I put new caps on first? (I am an amateur at soldering, but I think I can get through it if I know what caps I need)
- Just throw it out?
Definately don't plug it in without replacing the caps. I don't know the value off hand but it should be marked ?????
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40 minutes ago, rietveld said:
I like it!!!!! When you get just the right equipment, it works!! HAVE FUN!!
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6 hours ago, rietveld said:
Say WHAAAAAAT? thingy to hook to parallel card and do the impossible?
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26 minutes ago, rietveld said:
just waiting for the zip drive to make its way up here.
Ok thinking....................OUCH, that hurt. The original software for IDE from Micro Innovations only allows 10 EOS and 4 TDOS partitions, while I think if you "copied" the cf IDE setup you got 20 EOS and 5 TDOS, correct? If so, the original will not be the best bet here..............
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2 minutes ago, rietveld said:
yes you can
that is how i made my 2 physical IDE hard drives. I used a usb to IDE adapter to connect a physical IDE drive to my laptop then used windows disk manager to format it. I then ran your CF card software writer and selected the IDE hard drive instead of CF card as the destination.
Since this worked I decided to try this with a zip drive that is in an old Win xp computer and sure enough it wrote the image to the zip
Then it should work, the only software I used was the same as for making a physical IDE hard drive
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4 hours ago, rietveld said:
The disk images would be helpful
i have an older win xp system with a zip 100 so i can easily make the zip disks once i ha ve the proper format disks
I may be off the curve here ...... but, I also wonder if you can just do a block copy of the cf drive #1 onto a zip disk.....................................seems like that would work, although I am not tech support or the programming brain
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20 minutes ago, rietveld said:
i just bought this
Tekman found this on ebay for me
huge thanks to him
i am running a MI dual IDE hard drive using your ide card. My plan is to replace the slave ide with the Zip100
Looks good mon..............I can email you the format disks, etc unless you want to give it a whirl your ownself. I looked at Ebay US & CA and they both had some available too.
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12 hours ago, rietveld said:
i am not sure how to even tell the difference between them; the IDE connector looks the same
The label says simply IDE Zip 100, the ATAPI is labeled also. It's all in the sticker
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2 minutes ago, rietveld said:
non atatpi zips are very hard to find
Exactly, that is the fun part. Remember, all this hardware dates back to the 80's
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6 hours ago, rietveld said:
I saw RFDiRocco's zip setup. I would like to install a zip using my IDE card. can i use any zip drive? or does it need to be ATAPI? Non ATAPI? 100?250?
thanks in advance for the help
Original ZIP 100mb drive only, ATAPI will not work, no way, nope
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6 hours ago, Zak said:
Hi! I would like to share with you the "Kenia" model, imported and distributed in Argentina by the local company "Kenia Fueguina" in the 80's. It is a European Coleco with Revision D board, adapted to the PAL-N standard. The game included was "Donkey Kong".
CLONE GAME > ORIGINAL
Aventura > Venture
Androides > Frenzy
Jungla II > Pitfall 2
Dragón > Dragonfire
Tuberías > Zenji
Pimienta > Pepper2
Delta Competición > Omega Race
Croac I > Frogger 1
COOL, it is always kind of nice to see what companies did to further sales. Changed the name to appeal to the projected audience.
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1 hour ago, Ikrananka said:
How easy/difficult is it to re-purpose an original CV cart, replacing the original PROMs with EPROMS containing a different game/program?
if socketed, very easy, if not you need to unsolder the eprom and socked a new one.
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GOOD question; some years ago I bought a pair from somewhere and only 1 of the pair worked. So not a good buy for me at that time.