Coleco has begun shipment of "Address Book Filer" and "Autodialer," a software plus peripheral package for the ADAM Family Computer System. Available in both digital data pack and 5 1/4" floppy disk formats, "Address Book Filer" is the latest title in Coleco's growing library of Home Information Management programs.

The "Address Book Filer" program allows the user to create an electronic address book by making, saving, finding and updating several hundred entries at the touch of a key. Each entry has twelve features for the user to fill in. These include basics such as last name, first name, address, home phone and business phone, as well as three note features, which may be used to create birthdays, favorite colors or other pertinent personal features. Four of these features are searchable as well, allowing the user to access lists of people by first name, last name, city or even by a personal feature such as birthday month.

"Address Book Filer" may be merged with Coleco's recently released "SmartLetters and Forms" software program to print personalized form letters. The user may also create a format with SmartWriter, ADAM's built-in word processing program, and merge it with "Address Book Filer" to create personalized form letters and mailing labels.

The accompanying "Autodialer" hardware is a simply installed peripheral that connects with the user's existing telephone, allowing the user to make local and long-distance telephone calls easily and automatically.

Unknown device proclaimed by seller to be a Developers RS-232

• Usable with 80 Character Monochrome Composite Monitor & SOME High Resolution composite Color Monitors
• Four (4) Expansion slots for standard EVE products (SP-1, SP-1 P, SS-CC)
• Optional Power Supply to replace ADAM printer power supply
• Composite Video Output - Software selectable so you can choose between ADAM's normal video or the 80-Column video under CP/M
• Full emulation of the Heath H19/H89 video display terminal
• Optional VT-100 Emulation/Programmable display parameters
• 80-Column display of MOST CP/M Software (WordStar, DBase2, SuperCalc, etc.)
• 24 Line x 80-Col Display w/25th status line
• Upper & Lower Case with descenders
• Normal & Inverted video display + Line/Block Graphics
• ADAM Printer Jack

Opens the ADAM to the outside world. The SP-1 includes an RS-232C Serial channel, and a (Centronics) Parallel printer channel. The SP-1 allows the use of hundreds of different printers, both high speed dot matrix, and letter quality. With the SP-1 you can now use standard models, and direct connect to other computer systems. The SP-1 comes with software for use with SmartBasic, and CP/M. The SmartBasic programs allow the selective output to either the serial port, the parallel port, or the ADAM printer. A program is also provided to allow 'draft' printout of a Smartwriter file to either the serial or parallel port. The CP/M program allow the 'IOBYTE' in CP/M to be set for the desired output.

Now you can give ADAM a 'VOICE'. The EVE speech unit may be used with your programs to add capabilities to your ADAM that are only limited by your imagination! Also on this interface unit is a 'real time' clock calendar circuit so you, and ADAM will now have a access to the time and date as needed. Software included with the SS-CC: a standard phoneme library, and sample 'Talk' & 'Clock' programs. For use with both SmartBasic and CP/M.

RS-232 OPTION. As of now the COLECO ADAM'S POWER can be fully appreciated. with the RS-232 you may now operate a wide range of other GENERIC ACCESSORIES such as a DOT MATRIX PRINTER or maybe a MODEM or even an EPROM PROGRAMMER. The possibilities are now virtually endless. With a little time investment to develop some software this and much more will run with your ADAM.

Lundy Electronics designed the ADAM I/O Expansion Hub with a professional PCB layout to eliminate crosstalk and provide proper power requirements, ENIG (gold) I/O edge card PCB fingers for durability and oxidation resistance, and high quality 3D-printed housing. The unit also comes with two top expansion port covers to cover any unused top port(s) safely.

Allows the user to quickly connect and leave attached multiple expansion units. Has been tested with the following configurations:

Internal expansions: Lundy Electronics MIB238-WiFi card, Lundy Electronics 1MB RAM expander card

External expansion: Lundy Electronics ADAM Speech module, Lundy Electronics MIDIMITE II MIDI module, OPCODE SGM (Super Game Module) module

When Rich G DiRocco reached out needing help sourcing parts to recreate a kit for an ADAM speech synthesizer kit he built in his childhood, I happily helped. I took it a step further and went ahead and created a PCB and modified the design to make it even better.

This is the Chatterbox Remake based on the original design by AAL Computing by M. Walters back from 1985. This was a joint project between myself and Rich DiRocco.

The Chatterbox Remake originally had just an external speaker and I modified it to be selectable between amplified external speaker or internal audio by way of the same method as the SGM without needed amplification. Other than that, I had to tweak and add a few parts to the design. I also designed a 3D printed case to safely house the unit.

I realize the external speaker method will not be used much, if at all. It was done for complete nostalgia reasons and Rich can now experience the same effect as he did back in the day.

The Chatterbox Remake will not be a product offered by Lundy Electronics and was just a fun project for myself and Rich. Eric Pearson also recently released his version of a speech synthesizer and is a simplified approach with less components and no external audio and is a better fit for the masses.

The ADAM Speech Synthesizer based on Eric Pearson's original GitHub project is a revised version by Lundy Electronics. This I/O expansion device adds speech to your ADAM using a SP0256A-AL2 speech chip. This professionally-built unit comes complete with housing and is offered in two versions, one with the speech chip and one without. Since the SP0256A-AL2 speech chip is becoming increasingly difficult to find, we provide the option to purchase the complete unit when the speech chip can be found and another option without for those who have their own chip or supplier available.

Coleco ADAM Sound Digitizer � This device is the Lundy Electronics take of the Dynomite II sound digitizer github project created by Eric Pearson. It uses the original software written by Trysid Video Games for their original Dynomite sound digitizer from back in 1990 and allows you to sample and save sounds using the ADAM. Samples can be used by experienced programmers.

Detailed information and software for this device can found on Eric Pearson's github page at:

https://github.com/epearsoe/Dynomite-II

We now have the ability to create new tapes with true digital formatting for the Coleco ADAM! You will no longer have to hunt down and spend a ton of money trying to procure a seemingly impossible to find MEGACOPY III by Trisyd back from 1987.

Note: You need two DDP drives in working order to use this device.

Features:

• Small 1-7/8"x1-7/8" PCB that adheres to the inside wall of the console just to the right of where the DDP connectors go that stays totally hidden from view. The console top cover will need to be removed to access the momentary button switch to ENABLE/DISABLE the device when needed.
• The status LEDs and button are placed at the top for easy access.
• Improved design by using a small 8-pin PIC microcontroller to handle the control logic in place of the discrete logic the original design had.
• Simple, low-cost momentary button enables/disables the device in place of the expensive SPST push (not toggle) switch of the original and also controls both status LEDs.
• Includes the MEGACOPY REDUX interface.

I introduce the Lundy Electronics spin of Eric Pearson's MIDI MITE II github project.

The original untested reverse engineered design currently on Eric's github does not work. With the help of Rich G DiRocco sending me his MIDI MITE original, I was able to get the MIDI MITE II design to work. This spin uses a female socket connection for direct installation to the I/O expansion port. I find that ribbon cables are a bad choice because they can introduce noise in the audio and even the display. I have notified Eric of the changes I made, so the design can be fixed.

My design has the following changes over the original MIDI MITE:

1. Female socket connection
2. Removed direct ground from MIDI in and now uses a capacitor to ground. This eliminates any ground loop noise issues
3. Added decoupling capacitors to all ICs. Obvious choice and not sure why they didn't do that.
4. Changed the opto to a current off-the-shelf part from Mouser
5. Added LED power indicator
6. Improved the crystal circuitry
7. Added power filtering capacitor
8. Dropped the second MIDI OUT connector to make it easier for making my typical enclosure design
9. Changed a couple resistor values

High Speed Data Pack copier and formatter of regular cassettes for the ADAM.

MEGACOPY consists of a hardware interface and driving software. Your interface configures the second tape drive to accept format code being sent to it from the first drive. The accompanying software controls the interface and tape drives to work together and thus produce an excellent quality digitally formatted tape.

MIDI-MITE (as it's been named) interface owners are already aware, the unit comes complete with everything you or I need to get started. The package comes with the interface, two MIDI cables, one 60 conductor ribbon cable to connect it to ADAM, two software programs on digital data pack, and three instruction manuals. All you need to do is to plug the ribbon cable into the side port of your ADAM CPU, then into the side of the MIDI-MITE. Looking at the interface, there are four jacks on the right side for connecting external MIDI devices.

The Coleco ADAM Sound Enhancer plugs into the Expansion Port on the ADAM computer and allows the ADAM to play most SGM (Super Game Module) cartridges.

The Coleco ADAM Sound Enhancer plugs into the Expansion Port on the ADAM computer. This revised board now comes with a case and a 3.5mm line out jack and allows the standalone Coleco ADAM to play most SGM (Super Game Module) cartridges. It contains an AY-3-8910 programmable sound generator chip and 74 series logic chips.

This board works out of the box with RF (TV) output. If you are using the AUX VIDEO port (composite video) then you have two options for hearing audio from the ADAM Sound Enhancer:

• The newly added 3.5mm line-out jack can be hooked up to external powered speakers or stereo system. The single line-out from the sound enhancer is connected to both the left and right channels of the stereo 3.5mm jack.
• The ADAM can be modified to fix a design flaw that causes audio from the expansion port to be low/quiet. The modification requires moving a soldered wire and optionally adding a capacitor. More information is available in this Service Bulletin (PDF).

The Coleco ADAM Sound Enhancer plugs into the Expansion Port on the ADAM computer and allows the ADAM to play most SGM (Super Game Module) cartridges.

The Coleco ADAM Sound Enhancer plugs into the Expansion Port on the ADAM computer. This revised board now comes with a case and a 3.5mm line out jack and allows the standalone Coleco ADAM to play most SGM (Super Game Module) cartridges. It contains an AY-3-8910 programmable sound generator chip and 74 series logic chips.

This board works out of the box with RF (TV) output. If you are using the AUX VIDEO port (composite video) then you have two options for hearing audio from the ADAM Sound Enhancer:

• The newly added 3.5mm line-out jack can be hooked up to external powered speakers or stereo system. The single line-out from the sound enhancer is connected to both the left and right channels of the stereo 3.5mm jack.
• The ADAM can be modified to fix a design flaw that causes audio from the expansion port to be low/quiet. The modification requires moving a soldered wire and optionally adding a capacitor. More information is available in this Service Bulletin (PDF).

The Coleco ADAM Sound Enhancer plugs into the Expansion Port on the ADAM computer. This revised board now comes with a case and a 3.5mm line out jack and allows the ADAM to play most SGM (Super Game Module) cartridges.

The Coleco ADAM Sound Enhancer plugs into the Expansion Port on the ADAM computer. This revised board now comes with a case and a 3.5mm line out jack and allows the standalone Coleco ADAM to play most SGM (Super Game Module) cartridges. It contains an AY-3-8910 programmable sound generator chip and 74 series logic chips.

This board works out of the box with RF (TV) output. If you are using the AUX VIDEO port (composite video) then you have two options for hearing audio from the ADAM Sound Enhancer:

• The newly added 3.5mm line-out jack can be hooked up to external powered speakers or stereo system. The single line-out from the sound enhancer is connected to both the left and right channels of the stereo 3.5mm jack.
• The ADAM can be modified to fix a design flaw that causes audio from the expansion port to be low/quiet. The modification requires moving a soldered wire and optionally adding a capacitor. More information is available in this Service Bulletin (PDF).

The Opcode Super Game Module upgrades our current ColecoVision video game console from its standard 1K RAM, with up to extra 32K (24) RAM. Both SGM1 versions of the Super Game Module has also a more advanced sound chip inside than the one in our ColecoVision. This advanced sound chip was one of the most known out there in the 80's, namely the AY-3-8910A. AY-3-8910A was already a known audio chip, for example in some MSX computers and earlier arcade machines. The Super Game Module 1 is just a simple expander with more RAM and better sound, there is no graphic chip inside.