#Coleco Adam

[commodorez]

Top 5 worse computers from the 80s

While I'm sure someone could come up with a more definitive well-curated list, here's what I came up with on a whim: Sinclair ZX-81 The ZX-80 was a good, inexpensive step forward for the burgeoning UK computer market. Its successor, the ZX-81, tripped and fell rather than do anything beyond streamlining it for mass production. A real pain in the ass to type on, and notoriously flaky to do any serious work on. Localized in the US as the Timex-Sinclair 1000, it was too weak to really compete with the American market. British users seem to like them but I'd chalk up most of that to nostalgia goggles.

Apple III Apple tried and failed to make a business machine, and Jobs got his way a bit too much, and it overheated alot because he mandated that it couldn't have a fan. Ultimately, it confused people and was surpassed by better Apple II's. A weird footnote in Apple failures.

IBM PCjr The answer to a question that nobody asked. Crappy wireless keyboard, intended to be bolted to your home television. Cartridges? On an IBM? WTF is that? The expansion options are hot garbage. Eventually it was upstaged by the Tandy 1000 at its own game. Just get a PC XT. Or a Tandy.

Coleco Adam Likes to erase its own tapes if you leave them in the drive on power-up due to an electrical surge it shoves through the tape mechanism. The main system power supply is integrated into the printer, so you NEED the chonky printer to be plugged in for it to work. Has those weird phone pad + joystick hybrid controllers. Just get a ColecoVision to play your cartridge games.

Commodore Plus/4 I was going to take a stab at the MAX Machine, but Commodore did worse with the whole concept of the Plus/4. This thing was too cheap for its own good, and went in a completely bonkers direction at the behest of Jack Tramiel. It's supposed to be a cheap business machine to eat the ZX Spectrum's lunch. Why go after the little guy from the UK market? Who knows. Lame rubber chiclet keyboard, totally incompatible with existing Commodore software and most peripherals, and having 121 colors can't save it from being a dumb idea. Apparently it was a hit in eastern Europe.

Remember, pretty much every system has its fanclub, regardless of how flawed, underpowered, or limited a platform it is. So while I personally don't care for any of these machines, if you're mad at me for taking a pot shot at your favorite, do keep in mind that my favorite computer of all time is the VIC-20. You know, the one that most Commodore enthusiasts ignore for only having 5K of RAM having only 8 foreground colors, only 22 columns of screen resolution, and just not being a C64.

#zx-81 #apple iii #ibm pcjr #commodore plus/4 #coleco adam

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

#UK1987 #OCEAN #NINTENDO #ACTION #ARCADE #C64 #SPECTRUM #AMSTRAD #IBM #VIC20 #ATARI400/800 #APPLE #TI994A #MSX #COLECO ADAM #NES #ATARI 7800 #ATARI VCS #INTELLIVISION #COLECOVISION #DONKEY KONG

[darth-azrael]

K-Power (February 1984)

#retrocomputing #Coleco #Adam #DOS #Commodore #Commodore 64 #computers #technology

[freakattack]

Do you guys know the coleco adam i love the coleco adam

Train wreck of a computer. I love you you useless bastard

#I had a huge coleco adam phase in like 2019 and then i didnt but im falling back in love again. Timeless really

[capnpen]

Quick Thought – Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Quick Thought – Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Read Numbers 22:21-38 Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?” Numbers 22:28 Reflect Have you ever been so stubborn that something or someone had to make you look utterly foolish to get your attention? It’s happened to most of us. Sadly, by the time we figure out that we’re wrong, we’ve usually done something…

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#Adam #Balaam #Bible #bible study #Christmas #Coleco #computer #devotion #Eddie Murphy #faith #God #God&039;s will #Jesus #listen #Quick Thought #reflection #Shrek #stubborn #stubbornness #study #will

[seat-safety-switch]

If you're like me, then you were born allergic to two things: most tomato-based dishes, and bullshit. Our era's defining characteristic is the latter: we are immersed, nay, assaulted by a fine spray of bovine fecal product at all times, from all possible angles. And now, the folks who once told us that magazines were unprofitable have made a machine that spits out words if you feed it just one rainforest.

Well, folks, we here at Bad Cars Monthly are not going to stand for this kind of thing. Writing well-intentioned but ultimately meaningless hoo-ha in order to pad the word count is our fucking racket, and we're not going to let any glorified Logo turtle play around in our territory. That's why we've decided to go low-tech, as a form of protest. The technology industry demands that we buy the newest and hottest machines, even when we predominantly write about machines made fifty years ago.

Every BCM contributor has been assigned one (1) Coleco Adam microcomputer with English-alphabet daisy wheel printer, and they will be mailing their work products and drafts to our offices. Yes, this means that at least one of the articles you are reading right now made at least two trips in an Iron Duke-equipped Grumman LLV. Low compression. Inexpensive. Durable. That's what the marketeers would call "living our values," if we hadn't already fired them to save more money for postage. And running up the odometer means it's just that much closer to being able to grab one at government auction, so we can try to finish Nightmare Ed's special article series, Going Under 17 Seconds In The Quarter-Mile With A Grumman LLV And Only Some Skin Grafts. I love that man. He even pads the title.

All this is to say, if you're a real, live, flesh-and-blood writer, or just someone who would like to have a Coleco Adam in their house and can write convincing enough garbage to trick us into publishing it, send us a self-addressed stamped envelope with said garbage. Please also include photographs of your Plymouths.

[gmlocg]

98.) Zaxxon

Release: January 1982 | GGF: Arcade, Action, Shoot 'Em Up | Developer(s): SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | Publisher(s): SEGA/Gremlin, Coleco Industries, Inc., Datasoft, Inc., Cogito Software Company, CBS Toys, Tandy Corporation, U.S. Gold Ltd., Synapse Software Corporation, Synsoft, Monaco Computer Corporation, Pony Canyon, Inc., Philips Export B.V., Electric Software Limited | Platform(s): Arcade (1982), ColecoVision (1982), Apple II (1983), Atari 8-bit (1983), TRS-80 (1983), TRS-80 CoCo (1983), Atari 5200 (1984), Coleco Adam (1984), Commodore 64 (1984), PC Booter (1984), MSX (1985), SG-1000 (1985), ZX Spectrum (1985), PlayStation 2 (2006), PSP (2006), PlayStation 3 (2009), Wii (2009), Xbox 360 (2009), SEGA Astro City Mini V (2022)

[drgaellon]

I am this old. C64 was my first computer. (Dad wanted a Coleco ADAM, had already bought the Colecovision game console to connect it to, but the project was delayed and delayed, so we got the Commodore 64 instead.)

Tumblr wouldn't let me reblog from @unforth so I had to screenshot.

#commodore 64 #I am internet OLD

[small-basic-programming]

Does anyone know SMALL BASIC?

"In the late 1970's and early 1980's, it seems there were computers everywhere with names like Commodore 64, Texas Instruments 99/4A, Atari 400, Coleco Adam, Timex Sinclair and the IBM PC-Jr. Stores like Sears, JC Penneys and even K. Mart sold computers. One thing these machines had in common was that they were all programmed in some version of Microsoft's BASIC. Each computer had its own fans and own magazines. Users would wait each month for the next issue of magazines with BASIC programs you could type into your computer and try at home."

"This was a fun and exciting time for the beginning programmer, but the fun times ended with the introduction of the IBM-PC in the early 1980's. Bigger and faster computers brought forth bigger languages and bigger development environments. These new languages were expensive to acquire and difficult for the beginning programmer to grasp."

"Which brings us to SMALL BASIC, which I would call a relative of the early, original BASIC language. The development of Small Basic is an attempt to rekindle the exciting days when just about anyone could sit down at a computer and write a simple program using the BASIC language. Those of you who wrote programs on those old "toy" computers will recognize the simplicity of the Small Basic language and the ease of its use. And, you will also notice Small Basic is a great environment for writing and testing code, something missing in the early 1980's. For those of you new to programming, I hope you can feel the excitement we old timers once had. For the old timers, I hope you rekindle your programming skills with these new product." (Conrod & Tylee)

Kennt jemand SMALL BASIC?

"In den späten 1970er und frühen 1980er Jahren gab es anscheinend überall Computer mit Namen wie Commodore 64, Texas Instruments 99/4A, Atari 400, Coleco Adam, Timex Sinclair und IBM PC-Jr. Geschäfte wie Sears, JC Penneys und sogar K. Mart verkauften Computer. Eine Sache, die diese Maschinen gemeinsam hatten, war, dass sie alle in irgendeiner Version von Microsofts BASIC programmiert waren. Jeder Computer hatte seine eigenen Anhänger und Zeitschriften. Die Benutzer warteten jeden Monat auf die nächste Ausgabe von Zeitschriften mit BASIC-Programmen, die Sie in Ihren Computer eingeben und zu Hause ausprobieren konnten."

"Dies war eine lustige und aufregende Zeit für den angehenden Programmierer, aber die lustigen Zeiten endeten mit der Einführung des IBM-PC in den frühen 1980er Jahren. Größere und schnellere Computer brachten größere Sprachen und größere Entwicklungsumgebungen hervor. Diese neuen Sprachen waren teuer in der Anschaffung und für Programmieranfänger schwer zu verstehen."

"Das bringt uns zu SMALL BASIC, das ich als Verwandten der frühen, ursprünglichen BASIC-Sprache bezeichnen würde. Die Entwicklung von Small Basic ist ein Versuch, die aufregenden Tage wieder aufleben zu lassen, als sich fast jeder an einen Computer setzen und ein einfaches Programm in der BASIC-Sprache schreiben konnte. Diejenigen von Ihnen, die Programme auf diesen alten „Spielzeug-Computern“ geschrieben haben, werden die Einfachheit der Small-Basic-Sprache und die Leichtigkeit ihrer Verwendung erkennen. Und Sie werden auch feststellen, dass Small Basic eine großartige Umgebung zum Schreiben und Testen von Code ist, etwas, das in den frühen 1980er Jahren fehlte. Für diejenigen unter Ihnen, die neu in der Programmierung sind, hoffe ich, dass Sie die Aufregung spüren können, die wir alten Hasen einst hatten. Für die alten Hasen hoffe ich, dass sie Ihre Programmierfähigkeiten mit diesem neuen Produkt wiederbeleben." (Conrod & Tylee)

Post #65: Philp Conrod & Lou Tylee, The Developer's Reference Guide to Small Basic, Introduction, Kidware Software Verlag, Washington, 2010.

#small basic #programming #coding #i love small basic #basic programming #education #coding for kids #microsoft #programmieren #basic for ever #every kid can code #coding for fun #i love basic #i love programming #philip conrod #lou tylee #kidware software

[brainmachinebroke]

Had a broken coleco adam controller in my stash, thought I'd try and show how pretty it is on the inside :)

#80s #vintage #80s technology #colecovision #art

[taperwolf]

I was at a thrift store I don't often get to, and could not justify buying a vintage Radio Shack computer keyboard that I'd never seen before, but I dearly wish I'd at least thought to take photos.

I had previously seen two kinds of these DIY keyboards: a very early one that connected to an expansion board — sold as a kit — to create a full ASCII keyboard like the Altair-era hobbyist computers used, and one from circa 1985 that had four large function keys to the right, like a Commodore used. In searching just now, I found a third kind, one with a detached arrow key cluster, that was meant to replace the original keyboard on the Coleco Adam. The latter two — and the first, if you didn't get the expander — were, under the hood, simple key matrices.

But this one at the store, still in the "Archer" branded packaging, had three things I have not seen elsewhere. First, several keys — I believe things like shift and return — were red instead of the black of the rest of them; next, there were arrow keys on either side of the space bar, in a very odd layout. But most intriguingly, it wasn't just a key matrix; it had a chip on the board to multiplex reading it.

I really should have taken pictures! I can't find it despite looking through '70s and '80s catalogs, though admittedly my search hasn't been deep.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

#UK1987 #DIAMOND SOFTWARE #ACTION #PUZZLE #AMIGA #ATARIst #C64 #MSX #TI994A #SHARP X1 #COLECO ADAM #PC 88 #PC 98 #TURBOGRAFX #X68000 #SWOOPER #GAMBLING #THE GAMBLER #DIABLO #BLODIA #EXTENSOR

[archiveosorg]

AdamEm

AdamEm – a portable Coleco ADAM emulator https://archivegame.org/adamem/

#game #emulator #linux #windows

[beachtray8]

Beware The Building Sets With Motors Rip-off

No matter your level of ability or expertise, there are rules laid down by the World Cube Association that participants must abide by at official events. We all know very little else about Moonshot right now (there aren't even any promotional pictures out yet). A little bit something different for the listing of upcoming sci-fi films for 2022 with the sci-fi rom-com, Moonshot, which is set to depict life and love on Mars. Starring teen drama favorites, Cole Sprouse of Riverdale and Lana Condor of To All of the Boys I’ve Loved Before, we look to a future the place Mars has been colonized and now homes the best of one of the best people who once populated Earth. It should seem like you have messed up the whole cube but don't fret, it is going to be all right when all the nook items are oriented. Haunted Hint Tie fun ribbons of many colours to a tambourine to complete the exotic gypsy look. Twirling along with her tambourine, your child will love the gypsy life. Well, Buzz is getting his very personal spin-off film in 2022 that invites viewers to the origin story of Buzz from check pilot to the ultimate Space Ranger that we all know and love.

Will we ever have enough of Toy Story? Xavier Roberts was a teenager when he launched his Babyland General Hospital through the 1970s in Cleveland, Georgia, allowing children to undertake a "baby." In 1983, the Coleco toy firm began mass-producing these dolls as Cabbage Patch Kids. Based on a Japanese toy called "Poketto Monstaa," Pokemon had been tiny "pocket monsters" that battled each other when ordered by their "trainer." In 1996, Nintendo tailored the Japanese characters to advertise its portable video game system, Game Boy. Through this coming-of-age animation, a man recounts his childhood as a ten-12 months-previous boy rising up in Houston at the time of the Moon landing. Well, how a couple of tale of a boy who lived through those instances? A tumultuous job at the best of occasions. And if you’re at a unfastened end whilst ready for some of 2022’s large releases, there’s one of the best sci-fi movies of all time to work your approach via too. Not to be confused with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, that is the sequel that follows on from the final teaser scene the place (spoiler alert) Gwen calls out to Miles Morales by means of a portal to a different universe, and Spider-Man 2099, teased at the end.

There’s solely a teaser trailer out for now so we’re not quite positive what to expect but it doesn’t really feel too wild to suggest some Jurassic staples with epic dinosaur fights and breath-taking CGI on this one. And, like many MCU films, there’s hints at more crossover with Michael Keaton aka The Vulture making an look within the teaser trailer. It’s been a long time within the making with Black Adam originally set to look in 2019’s Shazam! It’s a two-parter as Miles continues to hurtle across the Spider-Verse, and according to the official description will “join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain extra powerful than something they've ever encountered.” Our Spidey sense is tingling for this one. rubik's cube web would subsequently be one that achieves a mean of 50505050 successes. Alternatively, possibly it just has not accumulated sufficient data but and the baseline coverage is in the lead because it has an “information advantage” of no less than 10 achieved flips.

And, we think about, some more romance between lead actors Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt. 2022 is slathered with MCU goodness and we’ve obtained extra for you with the next instalment of Doctor Strange’s journey: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. With some more room-time continuum warping and much more analysis into the Time Stone, an unspeakable evil is unleashed on the MCU and we all know that Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff (aka Scarlet Witch) can have an enormous part to play. We’re again in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with the introduction of a new superhero, biochemist Dr. Michael Morbius. 13 years on, we’re getting Avatar 2 with one other incredible finances of 250 million dollars to carry the story again to life on the large screen. This time spherical, we’re heading back 300 years to the Comanche Nation, a local American tribe, and specializing in one member particularly, a skilled female warrior called Naru (Amber Midthunder). The R1T is a formidable feat of engineering and perseverance, one which immediately poses an unavoidable query: In the traditionally brutal world of automotive manufacturing - anyone remember Studebaker?

#3d metal

[ulan-bator]

#adam links golf #coleco adam #golf

[gmlocg]

46.) Donkey Kong

Release: July 9th, 1981 | GGF: Action, Arcade, Platformer | Developer(s): Nintendo R&D1, Nintendo Co., Ltd. | Publisher(s): Nintendo Co., Ltd., Coleco Industries, Inc., Atari Corporation, CBS Electronics, Ocean Software Ltd., Erbe Software, S.A., HAMSTER Corporation | Platform(s): Arcade (1981), Atari 2600 (1982), ColecoVision (1982), Dedicated Handheld (1982), Intellivision (1982), Atari 8-bit (1983), Commodore 64 (1983), NES (1983), PC Booter (1983), TI-99/4A (1983), VIC-20 (1983), Apple II (1984), Coleco Adam (1984), Amstrad CPC (1986), MSX (1986), ZX Spectrum (1986), Atari 7800 (1988), Game Boy Advance (2002), Wii (2006), Nintendo DS (2012), Wii U (2013), Nintendo Switch (2018)