Will the Atari XE light gun work with the Coleco Adam?

[rietveld]

Let's find out!

 

 

 

[youki]

unfortunately, i don't think we can use it for a colecovision Game.

[rietveld]

I guess an Adam only game would need an adapter to supply power to the gun since the coleco does not do that at the hand controller connector like the Atari does

[+mytek]

On 8/30/2022 at 5:19 AM, rietveld said:

I guess an Adam only game would need an adapter to supply power to the gun since the coleco does not do that at the hand controller connector like the Atari does

I still don't think that would even work, since there is no dedicated light gun sensing hardware in the Coleco to handle it that I am aware of. On the Atari XE, as well as their other 8-bit systems, the ANTIC chip has a sensing pin for that function that works off of the trigger inputs and knows where the electron beam of a CRT is at the moment the trigger pulse is received. Normally there is a photocell and lens in the gun that conveys this information to the ANTIC chip.

 

EDIT: The Atari 2600 also had a way to sense a light gun I believe, so perhaps when using the Module#1 adapter it would work.