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COLECO ADAM/HARDW Joystick Fire Buttons ' COLECO ADAM -- Joystick Number Pad PRICE The pair of joysticks that £525 (expansion module) come with the Adam are 41!! "..,,, ,. , unusual in having number £625 (including ColecoVision Id , pads built-in , *4, „,, games console) ast es a, at er Birft.f..20 DIMENSIONS ID • iar 7 381x279x102mm (expansion memory unit) 381x355x152mm (printer) 381x152x51 (keyboard) CPU 280A Joysticks Joystick Holder Adam's Two joysticks are supplied as standard with the Adam. One of MEMORY This clips onto the keyboard these doubles as a numeric keypad and slots into a special and provides a space to rest a 80 Kbytes of RAM, of which 16K holder alongside the keyboard. Coleco also markets two joystick 'deluxe' games control systems, at £50 each. The Super Action is used for video display. Controller set comprises a pair of easy-action joysticks with Expandable to 144K with optional numeric pads and rifle-style triggers replacing the normal Fire RAM pack buttons. These are fitted with standard Atari-type 0-connectors, Reset Button and so may be used with other systems. A free Baseball games SCREEN cartridge is included. 36 columns x 20 rows (31 The Roller Controller is an arcade-style games control columns x 24 rows in BASIC) panel. This has two standard Coleco joysticks and a 'trackball' 256 x159 pixels in high resolution controller for fast response and accurate control. Two sets of dual fire buttons allow two-player action, and a mode switch with 16 colours selects either joystick or trackball operation. Supplied with this INTERFACES unit is Slither, a Centipede-style arcade game. SmartWriter printer connector, Adam Net modular phone plug, three expansion slots, ColecoVision expansion interface Games Cartridge i This plugs into a slot in the — games unit. Several dozen LANGUAGES AVAILABLE good, if expensive, cartridges SmartBASIC supplied on are available for the machine cassette; CP/M operating system Expansion Socket KEYBOARD This fits into the back of the expansion module , 75-key, OWERTY layout, sculptured typewriter-style keys. Includes 6 programmable function keys _. DOCUMEN 1/11 ION Three manuals come with Adam: include a spreadsheet, database, revision aid, and 64-page Set-Up manual, a guide a version of the LOGO language. The addition of to the Smart Writer word the promised 144 Kbytes memory expansion processing program, and a SmartBASIC programming should give CP/ M capability of a kind, and even manual. The documentation is disks are planned. generally easy to follow, but a bit But there are drawbacks. The print quality is not wordy and insubstantial. The as good as one might expect from a daisy wheel, BASIC manual is incomprehensible the printer is woefully slow and noisy, there is a Keyboard Cable Socket severe lack of user RAM, and the fact that BASIC A cable (not shown) plugs in here to link the keyboard to must be loaded from tape soon proves annoying. Wide availability and high quality the main unit With the recent drop in daisy wheel printer prices, of ColecoVision games cartridges it should be possible to put together a system that make Adam ideal for games Space For Second Tape Drive out-performs the Adam but costs approximately players. Word processing These are not yet available the same. That said, the Adam would appear to be software is easy to use Digital Data Pack well worth buying if the user already possesses the WI.AKNESSI.S a Not to be confused with ColecoVision console. For those who wish to Slow, noisy printer. Data packs blank tape cassette. The purchase a home computer system with word available only from Coleco. Adam has to use special pre- processing capabilities, the Adam is certainly formatted tapes which cost Limited software available on nearly £5 each, and store 256 worth considering — but there may well be other, data packs Kbytes per tape better alternatives. THE HOME COMPUTER ADVANCED COURSE 391.

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