Coleco was never able to recoup the lost sales and, in 1984, it withdrew adam from the market and ended its brief foray into the home computer market. Adam colecovision family computer system marketing promo. Includes 15 coleco games 12 with instruction books, 7 atari games, smart basic program, smart filer program, and 5 data cassettes. It was fully compatible with colecovision cartridges.
I expect payment within 2 business days of purchase unless arrangements are made in advance or ebay system will automatically open a case. Below are a list of coleco adam games compatible with the home computer system or the. The printer included with the adam is a letter quality daisy wheel type. Browsing the collection there are 3 images of cartridges and cassettes for the coleco adam, including games, applications, and operating systems. Coleco is the worlds largest manufacturer of aboveground swimming pools. Adam software demo disk saved on a mmsg copycart disk. Actual system box is nearly mint except for a slight tear in one corner. I write software for me, and if other people find it useful, thats great, but ill program whether anybody else cares about what im doing or not. Although the adam has a highspeed serial bus specifically for adam peripherals. Works as a computer, word processor and plays coleco and atari 2600 games with included adapter. It is slow printing only 10 cps characters per second. The coleco adam was designed and built in the early 80s as a compliment to the colecovision video game system. To browse the collection of software, click this link. It has sound, and runs the majority of coleco games.
Still hurting from this financial hit, coleco turned its attentions back to the toy market. This is a few highlights of two adamss house software demo vhs tapes that were sold in the late 1980s. Adam ware new software for the coleco adam computer system. It bridges to the adamnet protocol to the fat16fat32 file system on the sd card. It was an attempt to follow on the success of the companys colecovision video game console. The colecovision offered a closer experience to more powerful arcade game systems, compared to competitors such as the atari 2600 and atari 5200, along with the means to expand the systems basic hardware. This video shows some of the coleco adam software load screens. Ever wondered how nice it would be to have 100 adam disks of any size in 1 storage media, like stacking music cds in a cd player. Coleco adam donkey kong junior ddp cassette duration. The emulation realm is a rather large archive of emulators, plugins, frontends, rom managers, and more. The goal of the blog is to provide information about the adam as well as the software and hardware that were created for this vintage computer system. Coolcv emulator for mac os x, linux, windows and raspberry. Adam colecovision family computer system computing history. Download the software for the coleco adam rom for colecovision adam.
Adam 2018 is a software package that helps improve your coleco adam experience. Colecos longawaited adam, first promised for delivery early last fall, began appearing on retail shelves in limited quantities by midoctober. Coleco adam sd drive for the adam family computer system. Coleco adam software and hardware coleco adam software. The goal of the blog is to provide information about the adam as well as the software and hardware that were created for this vintage. I spent hours and hours hacking away in that terrible applebasic clone. Would you like to help put together a monthly magazine. The adam was colecos allinone solution to home computing. Below are a list of coleco adam games compatible with the home computer system or the colecovision expansion port 3. This is almost a complete list of what was out for coleco adam. Adams desktop was one of walters best eos software programs he made. You have reached the home page for the coleco adam computer and the adam news network a.
Colecovision adam family home computer system keyboard model 2410kb. June coleco announces the colecovision video game system 1983. Oct 15, 2008 a demonstration of the adam computers word processor and printer and some software games. Virtual colecovision coleco colecovision emulators. The list are from 1987, so if you have updates please contact.
Formerly known as colem97, virtual colecovision is a windows 95 based emulator for the colecovision. It competed with the apple ii plus, atari 800, ibm pc, commodore 64 and ti 994a. Adam the colecovision family computer system plus program book. These expansions include a module to allow atari 2600 games to work on the colecovision, a driving controller for use with destructor, bump n jump and dukes of hazzard, an expansion to allow the system to become a full fledged computer the coleco adam. Or how nice it would be to add or subtract new programs from that storage device easily. Colecovision adam family computer system and documentation the adam family computer system has an interesting backstory. Coleco s longawaited adam, first promised for delivery early last fall, began appearing on retail shelves in limited quantities by midoctober. The adam comes with a copy of smartbasic on a digital data tape. Installing adam 2018 unzip the archive i suggest putting it in c. Available to you is a list of other adam websites to visit, adam product suppliers, the history behind the adam computer,and information on the adam news network and ann monthly disks. While a lot of the stuff came from my personal collection, i had a lot of help and contributions for joe b. Adams desktop came on floppy disk, digital data pack, cartridge, and a eprom that plugged directly into mib3 card. Of the two, most people tend to agree that the synapse version is.
My second true computer, after the ti994a, was the coleco adam. The colecovision is coleco industries secondgeneration home videogame console that was released in august 1982. Adam desktop program was available in 4 different formats for the adam. Ah, finally, the first, complete, singlepackage family computer that includes all necessary hardware and software, at least in coleco s eyes. It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its massproduced version of cabbage patch kids dolls and its video game consoles, the coleco telstar dedicated consoles and colecovision. The coleco adam sunk its makers chances in the home computer market and took its illustrious video game consoles kicking and screaming with it. Coleco colecovision adam 20120423 internet archive. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. A demonstration of the adam computers word processor and printer and some softwaregames. I remember waiting in line in the snow with my dad to get our hands on one of the first adam computers. No, this is not a computer for that goth family in the tv series.
Adam software hardware database disk listing of over 300 adam compatible software hardware with descriptions. Feb 04, 2008 the coleco adam sunk its makers chances in the home computer market and took its illustrious video game consoles kicking and screaming with it. The adam computer uses a similar internal architecture but adds four slots that are reported to be nearly apple compatible as well as a peripheral network to which everything in the system is attached. Find great deals on ebay for adam coleco and colecovision. The coleco adam smartwriter printer this daisy wheel printer was of high quality, however it was slow and noisy. Another tremendous update with some great pictures thanks. Colecovision adam roms, download best colecovision adam game. The colecovision family computer system page for latest blog posts. Colecovision software that was not built in were mostly on rom cartridges, with adam calculator, personal checkbook, and smart filer. This means no software to install on the adam or the pcmac. Revisit your childhood hobbies with titles like donkey kong and pepper ii. There was an actual cartridge version of this made available to dealers as well as numerous adam users groups with a coleco style label.
It could not be easly replaced or substituted because the printer power supply ran the entire computer system. Some of these games are exclusive only on the coleco adam, while others are released for both the coleco adam and colecovision. The first home conversion of the legendary dragons lair laserdisc arcade game was originally released for the coleco adam home computer in the usa. Paypal is the preferred method of payment however for some situations other methods may be possible but you have to ask in advance of winning the auction. Adam 2018 adam ware new software for the coleco adam. You could buy the complete system, or, if you already owned a colecovision game system, you could buy an addon for it. Sega released the game on cartridge and synapse software released it on disk and cassette. The adam weakened coleco by absorbing much of the money it had made from cabbage patch kids. Oct 15, 2008 coleco adam donkey kong junior ddp cassette duration. Language the coleco adam is a home computer released in 1983 by american toy manufacturer coleco. This blog is dedicated to the very first computer i have ever owned. On this website you will find many programs for the coleco adam computer system. Check out our products for a nostalgic list of games and toys.
Throughout time, colecovision has previously released some of the coolest games and toys. The colecovision family computer system page for latest blog posts, news, history and happenings with the adam computer. Oct 14, 2012 another tremendous update with some great pictures thanks. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Released in october 1983, the adam was available in two versions, as an addon to the very popular colecovision game system, or as a standalone home computer system, as seen above.
Adam colecovision family computer system the coleco adam is a home computer released in 1983 by american toy manufacturer coleco. My personal collection of 18 publishing house books released in 198384 for the coleco adam computer. Software for the coleco adam rom colecovision adam. Coleco vision homevideo game console donkey kong 80s game. This is part one of a tutorial builtin to the smartlogo software for the coleco adam computer. Ukmade ports released by software projects followed two years later. In this case, the coleco adam version may have additional features or use more memory for more advanced graphics.
Coleco claimed that smartbasic is compatible with the applesoftbasic which was written by microsoft. The coleco adam has a total of 45 games, 26 only being playable on the adam, 19 being superior ports of colecovision titles. Has biorhythm, checkbook, decide, loan, milage and questexam. Some of these programs are free to download, some are for sale. The quality of the video isnt great, but i am capturing video from real. The adam was not very successful, partly because of early production problems. Coleco adam is a home computer and expansion device for the colecovision released in 1983 by american toy and video game manufacturer coleco. You will find it under the adam software for sale link. This demo demonstrates some of the adam s software like smartwriter, logo and adamcalc. The adam was not very successful, partly because of early production problems, and was discontinued in. Adam demonstration cartridge this is a 24k file that contains a selfrunning and looping demonstration of some of the adam computers capabilities and planned software. Malaysia, malta, marshall islands, martinique, mayotte, mexico, micronesia, monaco, namibia.