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Title: PC In A Coleco ADAM
Post by: dskillz1 on March 29, 2005, 06:35:38 pm

All this talk about PC's in consoles as got me excited.  I want to take my ADAM Computer and put a PC in it but I need suggestions as to what Motherboard I should use.  And I need to know if any motherboards come with built in SVIDEO support.  I would like to avoid putting in a Video card if I could help it for Space reasons.  Any suggestions would be most appreciated!  Thanks 

Title: Re: PC In A Coleco ADAM
Post by: pointdablame on March 29, 2005, 06:42:49 pm

you could always get a mobo with onboard video and sound... no need for a video or sound card then.  I DO think some mobos have an SVideo port, but I'm not positive.

Title: Re: PC In A Coleco ADAM
Post by: RoboG2 on March 29, 2005, 10:15:20 pm

Maybe you could use something like this:
http://www.meritec.com/Pages/products/agp/agpconnector.html

Title: Re: PC In A Coleco ADAM
Post by: dskillz1 on March 29, 2005, 10:19:58 pm

Looks interesting, thanks for the tip!

Title: Re: PC In A Coleco ADAM
Post by: paigeoliver on March 30, 2005, 03:57:07 am

You might also scan ebay to see if you can pick up an s-video equipped laptop with a busted screen.

Title: Re: PC In A Coleco ADAM
Post by: Bloinkxp on April 01, 2005, 11:14:08 am

I remember playing Dragon's Lair on my ADAM  :)
I thought that cassette tape was so cool.

Look for a Shuttle SFF mobo.  They are almost as small as the mini-itx form factor, but they support P4/Athlon/A64s and some have integrated video.

-d

Title: Re: PC In A Coleco ADAM
Post by: dskillz1 on April 02, 2005, 07:12:16 pm

Thanks Im on it!