Mike Harris

My real fantasy would be if someone had the file and sound format to Video Tunes so we could use that to compose and retrieve the logic in Assembly. There is a guy on Youtube named Steve Simpson that says he programed Video Tunes and I have reached out to him with zero success.

Oddly enough I found this in my collection of stuff. Onboard-Coleco-Adam-Memory-Expansion.pdf

Here are the three major guides. 1 in C, 1 in Assembly and BIOS Labels. Some people will help you here. Community used to have Yahoo Coleco Programmers which seems to be dead. Most links may be working but nothing seems to be updated. A lot of people in the community seem to be either busy or hold their routines close to the chest but for the most part everyone around here will give you a hand. Tony at Electric Adventures has been running an Assembly Language course on MSX and Coleco programming. It's been going on for about 5 years but is extremely informative. Information is hard to come by that is not already out there. Trust me I looked. Personally I look at as much Assembly Language Z80 Source Code I can get my hands on to get ideas on how things run. Just added five more books. Rodney Zacks Z80 and TI Graphics Chip, SN76489AN sound chip and The Hackers Guide 1 and 2. Coleco Coding Guide.pdf ColecoVision BIOS offcial symbols.pdf cv programming.pdf TMS9918 - Graphics Chip.pdf The Hacker's Guide to ADAM, vol 1.pdf The Hacker's Guide to ADAM, vol 2.pdf SN76489AN.pdf Programming the Z80 3rd ed.pdf

Toy Story 4 was picture quality animation which ruins....never mind.

Picture perfect is great for Skyrim or Fallout only destroys animated cartoons.

I just ordered my chips and I am curious as if there is a picture of the final product.

I know this is an old thread but if anyone out there has the knowledge can you use TMS4164-15NL instead of TMS4164-20NL ram chips. It seems everyone on EBAY is screaming vintage again and overpricing these. And the 15NL's are reasonable.

I know this is an old thread but if anyone out there has the knowledge can you use TMS4164-15NL instead of TMS4164-20NL ram chips. It seems everyone on EBAY is screaming vintage again and overpricing these. And the 15NL's are reasonable.

My friend actually won an Atari 600 from MacDonald's and I got to play with it. It did 100% NOTHING so I never gave the Atari line a second thought. Come to find out that you needed actual software to run the thing. Back then the only experience we had with the Atari was the 2600.

I know...Apple and Oranges but Altirra emulator works great. I say that because you want to play 5200 games and already you aren't using real equipment so.... I don't care what anyone ever says about the 5200. I have had several over the years and I thought it was awesome at the time. I used to wipe out pacman and space dungeon. I used the quirkiness of the controllers to my advantage. It just took some getting used too. What you get now is 20 something youtubers want to crap all over these machines just because WIKI says so and without doing the research.

I just bought another ADAM off Ebay. Maybe you seen it already around $327, in the box, complete and shipping included. It says it may work...That is neither here nor there. I am using it for backup parts. That said. I will now have 3 printer/power supply's sitting around that I will never use. One never used period. That plus the ribbons and the different style daisy fonts. I am putting them on EBay and I wanted your opinion on what a reasonable price I should set. Each or in a bundle. I hate to throw them and I don't want them around taking up space.

Do you have this book? All I need to know does it have easy to follow references that I can translate into z80 assembly and/or formulas and theory to old school games. Such as the tracks I mentioned and such.

I have delved in very basic logic on mixing the sprites with the tile patterns. Until now I have used a small routine just to detect walls. What is really puzzling is how easy it seems when looking at old video games how they have characters following along tracks such as Pepper 2. I was recently looking at Blasto for the TI99 and if you watch the tank it looks like it is on a track to keep it aligned with the mines and such. Can someone elaborate or share a bit of code that explains this? Once again I find myself asking tough, advanced questions that you can't find in a classroom. If there was a manual put out by real game programmers that explained all of this then I would buy it. But it seems that game programmers keep their wining formulas close to the chest. So until it is released then I have to ask.

Your an amazing resource...thanks

Speaking of Contrast... You say that it is yellow on light green then what are those little trail squares? Regular Green or Dark Green? What classic99 gives me some weird colors compared to mame and what I know is on the Colecovsion which uses a similar GPU. Also, how can you tell if that is yellow yellow or light yellow. What color are the explosions? Light Red, Dark Red or just Red? Classic 99 debug tells very little at least that I can decipher.

Any way to update your program to convert ANY picture to 8x8 tiles and asm code?

I had an argument with with Marat and I was banned from his COLEM thread so some don't share your opinion what constitutes trolling. Back in 1995, COLEM got me fired out of a contract with Tiger??? to develop the first commercial Coleco Emulator for the PC so regardless, we have been going back and forth over the years outside of Atari Age.

I'm sorry I even said anything at this point. If you debate or complain you tend to get banned by a moderator so I'll just leave it at that.

You are also talking REAL hardware prices and in a price controlled environment. Ebay prices are inflated based on what others think they are worth. Put it this way. I'M not going to but it until ADAM is implemented and the cost comes down to reality. I have no doubt that the collectors will get it but that's as far as this product will go. It is a solid product. It is more than I have ever done and the creators should be commended on going farther to realize a dream. That is amazing and mind blowing when they took the step that no one else has the balls to do. However noble that it is...it is not cost effective nor competitive.

Thanks for the break down of costs as if that is the actual price of a digital circuit on an FPGA.

All of it but in pieces.

You are 100% correct but what's new from 5 years ago. Same thing, repackaged. Is the HDMI 60 @ 4K? What is new with the SGM? What new games other than MSX ports.

There is the key statement...SOMETIME in the FUTURE. Until then all you get is a Colecovision that brings nothing new to the table and is not price competitive. I'm not trying to belittle the product, I am amazed but the market determines the facts not me. When the ADAM option is working and bug free then I will buy one because I am a die hard fan. Can you say how many die hard nostalgia fans are out there under 40 and who doesn't run some type of Youtube, old tech review channel.

Sorry, I didn't see it. All I see is the original for $200 or for messily $50 extra you can get it in white with the ADAM label. I did not see the Controller option. Well no, you don't see another FPGA option because no one makes them but emulators are free and the Atari 2600 in the video did not work. I'll wait till the price comes down to reasonable and comes with a set of Coleco controllers.

If I had to offer free advice, build one yourself for around $30. https://github.com/Kalidomra/AdamNet-Drive-Emulator?fbclid=IwAR1Z6pQwLwBW9v2OjTHpPTppQ2SPFwHoxVu2C8_0bRCX7rUcOYLgghk3sfI or buy one from John Lundy The MicroFox is out dated and "Just" does the job. This is MY opinion based on me using it. I have two and an email that I received states that it is not going to be updated. As soon as my personal disk drive project is completed I am selling the two MicroFox boxes. I say buy one from John because it is an improved model. The one from Github works and may be improved in the future who knows. HOWEVER, in this day and age with Arduino and PI with thousands of books out there you should have no issues designing your own. You can even do some minimal studying and design one that doesn't use an Arduino. Heck, you can create an ADAM just using a PI with built in everything then display it in true HD if you want. You really want to go crazy then build an ADAM on an FPGA with extended memory. Put it all in a Colecovision case or 3D print you out your own design. You now live in a world where you can do everything at home if you have a few bucks. BTW...Unless you are a collector you have zero need for a Digital Data Drive or a Disk Drive unless you are backing up your old stuff from 30+ years ago. You can back up your disks on a PC, DDP you have no choice until someone builds an Arduino PC interface. Everything can be transferred to an SD card and run from there. The odds are that 99% of everything ADAM and Coleco have already been backed up and the only thing to recover these days would be your basic program or something from Video Tunes that you personally made.