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It's going too far, although I find it fascinating. I doubt too many people would want to mod their Adam like that, even if it gave them cool new powers. But I do like that you think outside the box (gawd I hate that term and now I hate myself for using it LOL)

Yes, please do! Thanks to you guys we hopefully soon will be able to program graphics, sound and joystick controls in CP/M (and even better, Turbo Pascal), in 80 columns. I think that will usher in a new wave of CV games, and Adam software too.

Did I say something disrespectful, or are you agreeing with me?

Honest question here... have you ever played a game for fun, or is it only about beating it with a perfect score? Games are supposed to be enjoyed, not obsessed over.

Autism comes in a lot of different styles.

Looks too real! You need to have something near it to give a sense of scale, like a quarter for instance.

Hmmm... He must have set that up after I got mine from him. I think mine was preset for a Hazeltine terminal (or something like that). I just remember having to trial and error it a fair bit (never did get it 100%).

Ask Milli what the terminal settings are in TP, he helped me out with mine and it worked pretty great. I'm unable to look up those settings at the moment myself, sorry.

After seeing what the TurboGrafix-16 (aka PC Engine) could do with a good video chip and an 8-bit processor, I'm wondering what the fuss is. Dual Z80 chips should be good for almost all 80's arcade games. Even 68000 games like Marble Madness had decent 8-bit ports, it seems like it comes down to the skill of the programmer and the VDP.

Well, for a similar but somewhat different question: why can't the ST use bank-switching to increase memory? I always find it strange when an older design has more flexibility than something newer (ie. how the Atari 2600 has more colours available than say, the ColecoVision, when the TI chipset in the Coleco came out after the Atari came out)?

Don't worry, Joe... I agree with you. I was just trying to sort out a few questions, and the OP answered all of them. I love the old physical computers. Been thinking of adding a 5.25" drive to my TRS-80 Model 1, just 'cause I miss the sound the drives made. There are many superior replacements available but the old way is foremost on my mind.

No, not at all. I was really trying to find out what the OP's reasoning for this was, and what some of the hardware choices are. I still have my physical Adam, with quite a few add-ons as well. Having said that, I use emulation 2/3rds of the time because of ease-of-use. Where will I be in 5 years? Hard to say, depends on my options. This is one more option that I'm actually quite interested in.

Strapping a Pi to the Adam certainly opens up a lot of possibilities, and it also adds a lot of philosophical questions about what makes an Adam an Adam. So instead of all of that, I'm just wondering why you want a MicroSD card as part of your card... why not use the one built into the Pi? Why have a modem port when the Pi can add WiFi to the Adam? For that matter, why keep the Adam at all? If someone made a keyboard/joystick interface, and a cartridge slot card for a Pi, and made it work with the Adam emulator, would I need to keep my aging hardware at all? Or even keep the cartridge slot, for that matter, considering every cartridge except for some homebrews have been dumped to image files. Just wondering out loud.

Yes, it had an interesting run. At the beginning, there was a sister publication aimed at kids, called K-Power. Some interesting computer stuff in there, too... but by issue 17 of Family Computing, K-Power magazine had been shut down and became a section inside Family Computing. Then by issue 50, it became Family and Home Office Computing (the K-Power section had been eliminated entirely by then), and finally on issue 60 it was just called Home Office Computing. It died about six issues after that... like most magazines that could never figure out what they wanted to be. The whole thing was run by the Scholastic Company. In North America (not sure about the rest of the world) Scholastic is known as the company that sells overpriced books to schoolkids through a paper catalog given out by the schools... the schools get free books for their libraries in return.

If you are looking for type-in Mac programs, you should check out Family Computing magazine (see archive.org). They had a section called The Programmer where you would find two or three programs per month, with each program converted to several different computers (ie. Apple //, C64, Coleco ADAM, IBM PC, Amiga, etc., and of course, Macintosh) Have fun with that!

That is so sweet! Is it playing games slower than a normal NTSC Colecovision, though? Q*Bert seemed sluggish to me.

Well, if it plays anything like the original, here's Tombstone City for the TI-99/4A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhwiCKzgGI

I always wondered if it were possible to bypass the TI chips normal output and get closer to the bare metal. After all, the TI chip has to work with the standard NTSC signal to build up it's output, right? Theoretically it should be possible to get graphics similar to the Atari. Keep in mind I'm only theorizing here.

I seem to remember Empire worked great on mono. Also played Shanghai quite a bit back in the day, too.

Well, unless Champ Games releases their Atari 2600 version first (which by the way, may be the most amazing 2600 game to date, and that's saying a lot since Champ's Mappy and Scramble ports were unbelievably good!) I think that the SGM version would be incredible though... close to arcade perfect. Just sold my Vectrex... it's been a lousy year financially.

Pretty damn cool! Although I've gotta say, I'm hoping someone looks at this project, and adapts it to the Raspberry Pi...hooking up the AdamNet wire to the GPIO pins and just writing a program to select your image. I'd be 900% more likely to build one then! But yes, this is very, very cool!

I don't understand enough about how FPGA chips work... I guess you set them up so that they not only have a CPU core, but also have sub-cores for various support chips. Like if it was an Atari 8-bit, you would have the 6502, plus Antic chip, etc. Or a C64 would be the 6510, plus a VIC-II and SID sub-core. So the ADAM would need to be a Z80, plus the 6801 sub-cores (because you already have video and sound chips on the board already)... or would you even need to simulate the 6801 chips? I can't seem to wrap my mind around how it would work (but I'm sleep deprived, so that's that). Would the Phoenix hook up to a USB inkjet/laser printer to simulate the daisywheel, or would you not bother with printing? Also, I hope someone produces a ADAM keyboard interface box so we can use the ol' keyboard on the Phoenix... that would be so sweet! Sorry, actually falling asleep while typing this out. Going to bed now. Sorry if it doesn't make sense.

Donkey Kong Jr. Frogger Zaxxon Jungle King Why not all of them, eventually?

Welcome to the group! I'm too tired to comment on the rest, its 2am and I was literally just about to go to bed. But I also noticed that no one greeted you, so there ya go!

I don't have time to look, how much more does the Spectre GCR fetch? That's the desirable one!