Coleco Adam with Retroarch

[MaineBear]

I'm trying to run Coleco Adam roms with RetroArch.  I'm using GearColeco core.  I get the message-- turn off game before inserting cartridge or expansion.   The roms are in .ddp, dsk, bas and .lbr format and unzipped.

ColecoVision roms load fine.

[dragon57]

GearColeco only supports col, cv, bin, and rom extensions. Probably need to find different versions of those roms.

[MaineBear]

I switched to Colem.  Is there a good tutorial that shows how to set it up.  I can get .ddp to load with Launchbox, that's the tapes.  I can't figure how to get it to load .bas, .dsk .lbr.  When I load those through Launchbox it goes to the Adam typing screen.

Thanks for the help!

Edited yesterday at 01:35 PM by MaineBear

[launchretrogirl2562]

probably not the answer u are looking for but I tend to agree with dragon57, u will save yourself a lot of headache by just looking for different versions of roms.
And sticking to retroarch which does support them.

I also do not think that COLem supports bas files right out of the box.
To be able to launch BAS files, I think u first would have to get in the ADAM BASIC and then run the BAS files with a load command.

Like for instance

LOAD "CAS:[insertnameofbasfilehere]"

As for DSK and DDP

they both should work according to the information

* Coleco Adam emulation is now operational, with keyboard, printer, disk, and tape drives. Use -adam command line or "Hardware | Adam" menu to enable. Requires EOS.ROM and WRITER.ROM files.
* Emulator will load .DSK files into disk drive A: and enable Adam mode.
* Emulator will load .DDP files into tape drive A: and enable Adam mode.

Guess would be something like colem -adam -diska [insert name of dsk file]

 

[MaineBear]

18 hours ago, launchretrogirl2562 said:

probably not the answer u are looking for but I tend to agree with dragon57, u will save yourself a lot of headache by just looking for different versions of roms.
And sticking to retroarch which does support them.

I also do not think that COLem supports bas files right out of the box.
To be able to launch BAS files, I think u first would have to get in the ADAM BASIC and then run the BAS files with a load command.

Like for instance

LOAD "CAS:[insertnameofbasfilehere]"

As for DSK and DDP

they both should work according to the information

* Coleco Adam emulation is now operational, with keyboard, printer, disk, and tape drives. Use -adam command line or "Hardware | Adam" menu to enable. Requires EOS.ROM and WRITER.ROM files.
* Emulator will load .DSK files into disk drive A: and enable Adam mode.
* Emulator will load .DDP files into tape drive A: and enable Adam mode.

Guess would be something like colem -adam -diska [insert name of dsk file]

 

When I click on the box art for the ddp they load, when I click on the dsk I just get a black screen and nothing happens.

How would I change the association to the dsk files so they load with the box art?

Thanks!

[launchretrogirl2562]

You can manually assign the same artwork it has for the DDP file to the DSK file.
Right click the game without artwork -> Edit -> Edit Metadata/Media

Go to setting Media : Images

Here you can assign several fields for the different kinds of artwork.

If u open the game which has the artwork, and u follow the same steps...u can also save the images by right clicking each image and then 'save image as' to a temporary directory.
That way u can easily assign them to another game. Just browse through all the images and save them all to a custom folder.

If you have all the artwork, just go to the Media:images screen again and keep adding images and in that screen in the upper right u can designate the correct type to the image u uploaded (screenshot gameplay, front box, 3D box, clear logo,...etc)

But if they are the same game but just have different names or extensions then u are better to combine the games.
You do this by selecting both games, right clicking and choosing the option to combine them :

 

That, or just delete the duplicate game. There is no need to keep both if they are exactly the same.
Just choose the one that launches better, is easier to launch or by extension has the most support for the emulator u are using.