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GRAPHICSby Dean Roades - 463 ADAM - March 92     We have been talking a lot about graphics lately, primarily because I enjoy it.  Yes, we keep saying how we are going to learn more about TDOS and Telecommunications, etc., but I have been spending most of my "free" time playing around with graphics.  It's fun, easy, and you can actually see some results.       Recently, I wanted to make up a blank FAX form for work.  I could have cut and pasted the logo onto some letterhead and typed in the rest of th paper.  This part was done in 5 or 6 sessions, since my eyes failed to focus after a while.  It took about 4 hours, but the results were worth it.  The final print is about 1" X 2".  You may want to note this for future reference: with 1/8" equal to 2 pixels, 4" on the graph paper will yield about 1" printed out.  Of course, with PowerPaint, you can print a cell wider and longer to achive the results you want.     The 'Dot and Plot' method is nothing new.  Ricki Gerlach, Guy Cousineau and others have told create them myself.     I used three different methods to create the graphics I needed, and used just about every design package I own.  I will describe each method separately, but I wanted to mention the software involved:     PowerPaint (of course), PaintAide, SimplePainter, SwiftPrint, Clipper, SpritePower and Personal Calendar Utility.  All of these are by Sol Swift.STAGE ONE - Fire Wagon     The fire wagon logo is extremely detailed.  I enlarged it on the copy machine to about 4" X 8". I layed loaded the sprite file.  I stamped the 4 sprites to make the logo, kind of like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. (Only 4 pieces so it wasn't very tough)      But I had a problem.  The printout was too small.  I could print it out double size, but not at the same as the fire wagon.  SimplePainter to the rescue!  I saved the original logo to a file, booted SimplePainter and enlarged the cell.  After saving the enlarged logo, I loaded it into PowerPaint.  It was just the right size, but another problem croppcture, and leave the rest blank.  When you are finished you will have a rough representation of the picture.  The smaller the squares, the finer the detail.  It is not difficult, but it is very time consuming.     After filling in the squares in what I call "Dot and Plot", I booted PowerPaint and plotted each dot in the "Draw Foreground" mode.  This was the tough part.  I numbered the graph paper with 0 thru 135 across the top, and 0 thru 77 down the side. I plotted a dot on the screen for every dot on thee information I needed to come up with an acceptable form, but I wanted to use my ADAM and make an excellent one.  There were several 'problems' with this approach.  The company I work for, Power Parts Company, uses an intertwined PPC (see graphics) in the letterhead, and since the company slogan is "We give FIRE WAGON SERVICE at all times!", we often use a representation of an old horse drawn fire engine as a logo.  Neither of these are in any ADAM graphic package I have seen.  The only way to do it was to us about it for years.  Few people use it because it is so time consuming.STAGE TWO - COMPANY LOGO     After spending so much time with Dot and Plot, I wanted to create the company logo with a different method.  I enlarged the logo with the copy machine and divided it into 4 sections.  With SpritePower, I created a sprite for each section, mostly with trial and error.      After completing the sprites, I saved them to a file.  (All 32 sprites are saved, but only 4 were used.)  I booted PowerPaint and this under 1/8" graph paper on a light table.  A light table is an translucent panel (like on fluorescent lighting in the ceiling) with a light bulb underneath.  It makes it easy to see the picture through the graph paper.  I went over the entire picture and placed a dot wherever there was picture.  Each square represented a 2x2 pixel grid.  This all sounds more complicated than it is.  Try putting a piece of graph paper with 1/4" squares over a picture.  Fill in the squares in the places you can see the pied up.  Enlarging the graphic caused the curved lines to be very jagged.  Computer graphics can draw straight lines very nicely, but curved lines sometimes look strange.  I went to "Draw Foreground" mode and filled in the jagged lines freehand.  The final result is not as good as I would like, but it would have to do.STAGE THREE - LETTERING     When comparing the font (A font is a set of letters in a particular shape - italics, bold, etc.) of the company name to the fonts in PowerPaint, I found that the the company logo and name, 3 for the fire wagon.     In PCU, I stamped the clips where I wanted them.  I used the built-in fonts to complete the form.  The 'border graphics' font is great for drawing lines.      I printed the form with 4 passes of the print head.  The results were outstanding.     I know what you are thinking. Was the PCU route any less trouble than the SwiftPrint method?  If I was only going to do this once, it would be a toss-up.  The advantage to the PCU method is that if I need to m letters by hand with 'Draw Foreground' to create 'Tall Bold' fonts.  This was pretty easy for the A, O, E and P, but it was a real challenge to do the S, W, N and Y.  The angles and curves are the tough part.  I even used the 'Draw Polygons' function to do some of the angles.     At least I only had to do each letter once.  The are 3 P's in the company name, so after I modified one, I 'Move/Copy'ed it to the other locations.  (After finishing the letters I needed, I went ahead and modified the rest of thek and return postage and I will return it with these graphics.     Before you start a project like this, be sure to have a lot of formatted disks on hand.  Graphics fill up a disk very quickly and you need to save files often in order to load them into other programs.  Be sure to SAVE your work before booting a different program, ADAM will not hold it on the screen while it loads something else.     Remember, there are many, many many graphics available on PD and copyrighted disks, but if you can't find which makes 4 passes for each line of printing.  It makes a very nice printout, but saving 8 or 10 cells and loading them in 2 at a time to print seemed like more trouble than it was worth.     Another way to print with multiple passes is to use Personal Calendar Utlity (PCU).  PCU cannot import PowerPaint cells, but it does have the ability to use clip art.       I put all the graphics I created into a PowerPaint cell in the proper positions.  Using 'Clipper', I clipped everything out into 9 clips, 6 for company letterhead used a font that was taller than it was wide. No problem, I thought.  I looked thru all my graphics packages, but could not find one that was close enough.  Back to the drawing board! (Quite literally)     The closest font I could find was the Double Wide 'Bold' font in PaintAide.  I booted a copy of PowerPaint, modified with this 'Bold' font, and put all the letters on the screen.  With 'Move/Copy', I cut the letters in half and moved the bottom half down one position.  I filled in theodify the form I can load the original, change it, then print it out all at once again.WRAP UP     I really enjoyed this project for several reasons: 1. The final product looks great and it is exactly what I wanted.  2. I used most of my graphics design software and learned more about each of them in the process. 3. I had fun!!     The fire wagon and the 'Tall Bold' fonts are donated to the Public Domain.  They will be available on the ANN disks soon.  If you do not receive the ANN disks, send me a dis alphabet.)PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER     Now I had all the graphics I needed.  I was ready to design the form in PowerPaint and just print it out, RIGHT? ... NOT!     PowerPaint is a wonderful package, but one of the few drawbacks is the quality of the final printout.  'Dark Hardcopy' gives you 'good' results, but I was after 'great'.     One option was to create the form in PowerPaint and save each cell individually. 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FILEMANAGER, which provides another highly effective way of 
laying out the choices available. For most of FILEMANAGER's 
operation, a series of default settings are used and these are 
clearly indicated on each screen. If you do nothing except press 
<RETURN> something will happen, because the program is set up in 
a certain way. 

FILEMANAGER uses the smartkeys, and so will we. To keep it 
simple, we'll just lay out the choices at the bottom. Each key 
indicates one of the program funcTHE LOGO NOTEBOOK

by R.H. Mitchell

We goofed. The last issue of the Notebook contained a listing of 
the opening screen of our LOGO tutorial, and the listing is 
incorrect in a couple of places. (Just wanted to see if you were 
awake???). Make the following changes:

In the procedure KEY6 the first line should read SETX 75 
In the procedure KEY5 the first line should read SETX 35

With these corrections made, run the procedures by typing:

SETUP

You should see a thick black squarecular entry so that you can 
substitute a more useful one. And of course you will certainly 
want to EDIT entries from time to time. You'll want to see what's 
there in order to reVIEW your work and refresh your memory. This 
after all, is what a notebook is for. And for sure you'll need to 
save it and get it back. 

And then, when you're finished using the program, you'll want to 
QUIT.

So these are the basic things we'll be doing. Some of the choices 
will branch to sub-menu's where more choipurpose. After a while the 
centre square gets rather small.

In any case, our purpose here is simply to draw a decorative 
border around the edge of the screen just to sort of mark things 
off.

Then we need a means of indicating what choices are available 
from the opening screen. We could have used a menu or perhaps 
another means of asking the user what he or she wants to do next. 
These choices are part of what makes up the "USER INTERFACE" in 
any given program. Most of you have seen Tony Mtions. We're going to set it up 
so that you can actually write your own LOGO notebook as you go 
along. So the first capability to be provided will be to ADD a 
note or procedure description. This will be the place where you 
enter the things you want to remember about LOGO such as 
primitives, commands and operations, along with a description of 
how they work, the paramaters they require if any and perhaps an 
example or two or the proper syntax to be used.

You might also want to DELete a parti outlining the screen with a 
row of smartkeys across the bottom labeled: ADD DEL EDIT VIEW 
FILE QUIT.

It's a beginning.

Here we have a total of ten separate procedures, or subroutines 
if you will, each of which can be run separately. Try it. Type 

BORDER 12

The 12 indicates how many pixels wide the border is to be. In the 
case of our opening screen, we've used a width of 5, but the way 
this procedure is set up, you could have a border of width of 
anything up to 78, depending on your ces will be displayed. 
We'll work on it, piece by piece. All of the commands and 
operations used in the program so far have been described in 
previous segments of the LOGO Notebook, and we'll learn more as 
we go on. 

To finish off this particular article, let's do a little 
housekeeping. We've done some of this before, but a review is 
useful at this stage, because we have 10 procedures in the 
workspace, and things might be a little confusing.

With the opening screen of our tutorial loadedmyself that this is a 
LOGO file, just in case it gets mixed up on a disk with other 
types of programs.

To finish off, let's go back to the workspace for a moment, the 
workspace being what you have 'alive' in ADAM's memory. To save 
everything that is in the workspace, you simply type the command 
SAVE, as above and a file name which can be whatever you want. 
Everything that is presently in the workspace will be saved as 
part of the file. 

Now. Here's an important point. Unlike SmartBASIC,  primitive. To resume 
the listing, press smartkey V again. 

If you're like me, you might have trouble de-bugging your work on 
screen and will prefer to work from a printout. To activate ADAM 
printer, type:

PRINTER

Simple as that. To turn it off, type:

NOPRINTER

With PRINTER in effect, all the text that LOGO puts on screen 
will also be routed to the printer. And here's an important 
point, so far I do not know of a patch that will permit use of a 
dot-matrix printer with LOGO. Checkeime out.t devices 2 and 3 
are? 

And then we have CATALOG, which does the same thing as it does in 
SmartBASIC, and LOAD and SAVE. Note that the LOAD and SAVE 
commands must be followed by a filename preceeded by a left hand 
quote. (Reminds me of IBM's BASICA, which is similar in this 
respect.)

LOAD "RONFILE

SAVE "TUTOR.LGO

The CP/M type file extension is not necessary. You have up to 10 
characters to name your file, just as you have in SmartBASIC. I'm 
using the .LGO extension just to remind , type:

POTS

Which is short for Print Out Titles. Logo will respond with all 
procedures presently in memory. This gives you a quick idea of 
what you've got in your workspace. Now type:

POALL

Now you're going to see not just the titles, but all of the 
procedure in detail. Whizes by rather quickly, doesn't it. If you 
want to stop the listing process at any point, press smartkey V. 
This key acts as a switch, and will freeze the display at any 
point during the execution of a procedure orLOGO will not 
permit you to use a filename that already exists in the 
directory. It simple comes back with message:

TUTOR.LGO ALREADY EXISTS

At the moment, I know of only two ways around this problem. You 
can use a different filename, or you can delete the existing file 
before saving a new version:

ERF "TUTOR.LGO          (ERF is a primitive...ERASE FILE)

We have a little more work to do on workspace management before 
we carry on with the tutorial, and we'll carry on with that next 
td with Ricki Gerlach on this 
down at ADAMCON 3, and he told me he didn't think one had been 
done so far. We'll have to see about that. To the best of my 
knowledge, nobody has done a disassembly of the LOGO interpreter, 
so we don't know where the print drivers are....YET.

While we're dealing with peripherals, we might want to change 
drives. This is done by typing:

SETDEVICE X

Where X is 0,1,4 or 5. 0 and 1 are tape drives 1 and 2, and 4 and 
5 are disk drives 1 and 2. Does anyone know whaTHE LOGO NOTEBOOK

by Ron Mitchell

There's an aspect of LOGO that we'll have to note before we go 
much further. I can see a problem on the horizon. It has to do 
with memory management, and the way that LOGO uses the workspace. 
Our reference for this installment for the notebook are chapter 
18 of the LOGO manual, Workspace Management, and Appendix D, 
Memory Space. You'd be well advised to give both a good read.

Enter the NODE. The NODE is a unit of 5 bytes of memory. LOGO 
works withand 
as our tutorial development continues, we'll have to pay close 
attention to how much space we're using. Appendix D gives some 
hints about how to save space, and they're worth checking out. 
Meantime, we should not what is said in Appendix D under the 
heading "How Space is Used".

"Every SmartLOGO word used is stored only once: all occurrences 
of that word are actually pointers to the word. The first time a 
word is used it takes up four nodes, plus one node for every two 
letters in its nlt with the 
latter yet, but for the moment it's sufficient to know the name. 
Let's see what happens when we load our tutorial.

LOAD TUTOR.LGO

Normally, you would start the tutorial by typing SETUP, but don't 
do that just yet. Instead, once again type:

PR NODES

453

Wow!

You mean to say that just loading the opening screen of our 
tutorial took up 2976 NODES, and we only have 453 left?

Yup.

There's more bad news. Now run the program by typing:

SETUP

Now...type:

PR NODES, type:

POTS

Which is short for Print Out Titles. Logo will respond with all 
procedures presently in memory. This gives you a quick idea of 
what you've got in your workspace. Now type:

POALL

Now you're going to see not just the titles, but all of the 
procedure in detail. Whizes by rather quickly, doesn't it. If you 
want to stop the listing process at any point, press smartkey V. 
This key acts as a switch, and will freeze the display at any 
point during the execution of a procedure orbout 1 second. Wonder if it would affect 
the playability of some LOGO game I might write later. We'll have 
to see about that.) At any rate, did RECYCLE do anything?

PR NODES

2300

That's better. Although we've still used up 1129 NODES with the 
introductory screen. Let's try running it again. Type SETUP

The screen clears, and the tutorial program runs again.

PR NODES

2030

Again we used 270 nodes by running the program. 

Obviously we have more to learn about how LOGO uses memory,  ADAM's memory using NODES. In fact there is an 
operation in SmartLOGO which will give you the number of nodes 
available any time you want it.

PR NODES

3429

That is the value that LOGO will give you if you do a PR NODES 
right after bootup. That's 17145 bytes of memory free. For the 
sake of comparison, if you do a PRINT FRE(0) immediately after 
booting SmartBASIC you get 25944.

In your LOGO workspace at any given time, there will be 
procedures, variables and properties. We haven't deaame. Each time a word is used, other than the 
first time, it uses only one node." (Aha!)

Back to Chapter 18 for a moment. There are six other commands 
which enable you to do certain things in the workspace. These are 
ERALL ERASE (or ER) ERN ERNS ERPROPS and ERPS. With these 
commands and the ones which we covered in the last installment of 
the notebook, you have a fair degree of control over what you 
have in your workspace.

183

Hey C'mon! You mean we just used another 270 nodes simply running 
the program?

Yup.

So what's going to happen when we add the rest of our tutorial? 

Not sure yet. There's one promising section in Appendix D that 
says, "When there are no more free nodes, a special part of 
SmartLOGO called the garbage collector looks through all the 
nodes and reclaims any nodes that are not being used."

Well, bless his heart! How do I get a hold of this dude?

RECYCLE

(That operation took aÔ0 Ì0 ×42 Ð67 Ê¯STARTING THEM YOUNG¯By Jerry Vrancks - 463 ADAMRecently my wife and I had the dubious pleasure of watching our oldest son's children, three year old Mike and four year old Ashley, for the weekend.  Don't get me wrong, we love our grandkids dearly, but a whole weekend is a lot different than just having them for a few hours.  Of course the weather was bad and they had to play in the house.  After watching the rented movies two or three times and coloring every page in the coloring books,ell to cell showing her what was there along with using the piece of paper. (By the way I made the name plates by printing them out on colored paper and gluing it between two pieces of plastic.)We then made a simple poster.  She got to a point where she ask me to move the Road Runner from one cell to another because she wanted him next to Snoopy.  This whole time she's setting on my lap and I'm showing her what keys to press.  I've never known four hours to pass so quickly.  I enjoyed myself, Mike and Asht get their interest.I vaguely remembered a program on NIAD's Science and Education called 'PreSchool'.  After some searching, I found the dusty data pack.  Without going into a review, the program draws letters and or numbers on the screen.  The child is to say the letter or number, then find and press the proper key.  After only a few letters were drawn Ashley knew how to run the program.  "Grandpa, let me do it" she would say if I tried to help.  Mike needed some help, but he too, was guessing the lettbe a very large part of our kids and grandkids lives.  They'll need to understand and use them in order to survive in the next century.  The sooner they learn the better off they'll be.My three year old grandson may be a little young to understand, but my four year old granddaughter knows my ADAM is not a toy. You don't drink or eat when using it.  She knows how to load a data pack and disk, she knows how to use the arrow key to get the curser where she wants.  One of my biggest joys was when I was going ook a piece of paper and drew lines so it was in eight sections.  I numbered them 1 through 8.  I explained to her how the computer could only show one part of the picture at a time.  I showed her where to look on the screen to see what part of our picture the computer was showing.  I told her to use her imagination to picture in her mind what the whole picture looked like.  I told her when we printed it out it would print as a complete picture.  Believe it or not she comprehended this after I went from c they soon became bored.  Grandma was having a real rough time keeping them occupied so Grandpa took over for a while.I've encouraged all my grandkids to learn about computers, but I thought it was just a little to much for a three and four year old to grasp.I don't have any 'small children' games for my ADAM, but I still asked them if they wanted to help Grandpa do some work on the computer.  They both said OK, but I knew by their answer I wouldn't be able to keep them occupied for to long if I couldn'ley learned about computers, and Grandma got a deserved break.  I've already been informed that the next time they stay at our house, we have to make more posters.The reason I wrote about this experience was because of a disagreement I had with a co-worker.  He has a home PC and a six year old son.  During our conversation he made the statement that if his son got anywere near his computer, it would be the sorriest day of his son's life.  I'm totally against this kind of thinking.  Computers are going to er or number before it was completed.Next, I asked them if they wanted to learn how to type and print out their names. (Hey Zonker! Even Ashley knows how to use the shift key.)  They were both amazed at what they were doing, so we went to the next step.  I asked them if they wanted to make name plates for their bikes.  I booted PowerPaint and used CHROMANTICS for this.  They didn't really understand what I was doing.  Ashley got a little upset when I changed cells and part of her name disappeared.  So I tback to PowerPaint and she said, "Let me put the thing in and boot it". Holy cow! She was actually listening to what I had been saying!  Kids will be kids, so you can't let them use a computer unsupervised, but at least show them how it works.I've rattled on long enough, but I do want to say, let the little ones, "have at it", you may be suprised. if his son got anywere near his computer, it would be the sorriest day of his son's life.  I'm totally against this kind of thinking.  Computers are going to om some alien race that was planning to attack Earth.  Don did the only logical thing, he turned off his ADAM to chase away all the evil demons.  But after letting ADAM rest and recuperate for a few days, the problem was still there.Don brought a disk with the above file on it to try at the meeting.  I was fearfull that I might infect my ADAM with some CP/M virus, but I loaded the file into SmartWriter and printed the following:Now we were sure that Don's ADAM was lost forever.  We diÔ0 Ì0 ×38 Ð66¯GALLERY of HONOUR¯Just a quick note to remind all ADAMites that time is running out on casting your GALLERY of HONOUR ballot.ÂMay 31st is the cut off date.ÂIf you want to see the most deserving ADAMites inducted, take the time to cast a ballot.  Voting response has been very good, but there are still many ADAMites across the US and Canada that have not voted for their nominees.Remember there will only be five active ADAMites inducted this year and there are many more than five that dell worth your time to attend you local meetings.  It's only once a month, so find the time.  If you donn't have any questions or problems, you can certainly help others.  ¯ATTEND YOUR MEETINGS¯w days, the problem was still there.Don brought a disk with the above file on it to try at the meeting.  I was fearfull that I might infect my ADAM with some CP/M virus, but I loaded the file into SmartWriter and printed the following:Now we were sure that Don's ADAM was lost forever.  We diÔ0 Ì0 ×38 Ð66¯{TOMYRT {TPNLR<S¯Dean Roades - 463 ADAMThe title of this article indicates the problem Don Woolston was having with his ADAM.  He was trying to printout a list of public domain volumes.  Don had worked with TDOS and CP/M earlier and naturally assumed that dabbling in the the 'dark side' of ADAM had trashed his system.  Here is what Don printed:It was obvious that the use of CP/M have turned his ADAM into a Russian language machine, or one that could receive signal frbe a very large part of our kids and grandkids lives.  They'll need to understand and use them in order to survive in the next century.  The sooner they learn the better off they'll be.My three year old grandson may be a little young to understand, but my four year old granddaughter knows my ADAM is not a toy. You don't drink or eat when using it.  She knows how to load a data pack and disk, she knows how to use the arrow key to get the curser where she wants.  One of my biggest joys was when I was going scussed ways to chase the demons away when someone asked to see a daisy wheel.  I managed to find one, and after close inspection, we discovered that each character on Don's printout corresponded to the petal on the wheel NEXT TO the character on my printout!  The daisy wheel had slipped one position!  This really hurt our CP/M demon theory.I found my ADAM printer and we demonstrated how to change daisy wheels and make sure they were properly installed.  An ADAM User Group to the rescue again.  It is weserve this prestigious award. Your vote WILL count.This award is NOT meant to be a popularity or personality contest.  Your nominations should be for someone that you truly believe has helped the ADAM computer survive.    GALLERY of HONOUR COMMITTEE  2936 Evelyn St.  Portage, IN 46368  USAåååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååÔ0 Ì0 ×44 Ð68 Ê¯FILE PROBLEMS¯Dean Roades - ANNA small problem cropped up recently with the ANN disks.  While the solution applys directly only to ANN subscribers, I thought others could learn from what we discovered.The problem was that many files on side two of the April ANN disks could not be loaded into SmartWriter.  A "Cannot Edit This File" message would show on the screen.  This was a little odd, since I had looked at each of these files to write the README file contained on the disk.  In ordeing I found when looking into this problem was that there was no 'garbage'.  My only guess is, when the files were converted for use on the ADAM, the formatting information did not get into the file.  SmartWriter looked for this info, did not find it, and said the file could not be edited.But the question is, how to fix it?  Two ways.  One, use SpeedyWrite to read, edit and print the files.  The first 'problem file on the disk is 'MTAGpr.01'.  When asked for the filename, type  MTAGpr.01(H)  and it will lpeedyWrite uses an 'A'.  The SmartWriter 'H' file uses part of the first block of the file to store margins, tabs and other information.  The 'A' type file does not.  SpeedyWrite normally looks for an 'A' when loading a file, but has the ability to load other types.  All you need to do is type "filename(H)" to load a SmartWriter file.  You get some garbage at the beginning of the file, but it is easy to delete it.I had looked at the files in SpeedyWrite, which is why I saw no problems.  The interesting the your bet and pull the handle.  Watch the cherries, plums, lemons, etc., pop into place.  If you're LUCKY, you  hit the LUCKY 7's and get a 200 to 1 payoff.  You get constant tabulation of your score, AND Bandit is SmartKey operated."BEAT THE BANDIT" comes with 3 Public Domain games included on the disk for even more fun!  All games of chance! DON'T MISS OUT!Now, here's the deal.  This game is ONLY available to ADAM User Groups.  Why?  Well it's like this.  This game will be sold to User Groups in ordoad.  If you do not have SpeedyWrite, you can fix the disk using FileManager or any utility program that allows you to change the file type.  Change the 'H' to an 'A' and the file can be loaded into SmartWriter.Any ANN subscriber who cannot fix their disk in one of these ways, can return the disk and we will send you a fixed version.  et some garbage at the beginning of the file, but it is easy to delete it.I had looked at the files in SpeedyWrite, which is why I saw no problems.  The interesting thr to verify the problem, I tried to load these files into SmartWriter.  No luck.  All of the files received from MTAG, thru VISA, could not be read from SmartWriter even though they were 'H' type files.  How did I read these files when preparing the disks?  I used SpeedyWrite.A short explanation of file types is in order.  If you catalog an ANN disk in BASIC, there will be 3 pieces of information on each file, the file type, size of the file, and filename. SmartWriter saves files under a 'H' file type.  SÔ0 Ì3 ×74 Ð70¯    BEAT THE BANDIT¯ (c) Maine ADAM LibraryÃNEWEST RELEASE FROM THE MAINE ADAM LIBRARY!ÃAnd do I have a DEAL for you!ÃThis is a special offer for ADAM USER GROUPS ONLY!!!The Maine ADAM Library is proud to announce their latest software.  This newest edition is a slot-machine game.  It is set up to respond as a standard slot-machine found in any casino.  ÃTry to "BEAT THE BANDIT".This bandit comes complete with scoring and multiple sounds, and a wide variety of objects to match.  Making I found when looking into this problem was that there was no 'garbage'.  My only guess is, when the files were converted for use on the ADAM, the formatting information did not get into the file.  SmartWriter looked for this info, did not find it, and said the file could not be edited.But the question is, how to fix it?  Two ways.  One, use SpeedyWrite to read, edit and print the files.  The first 'problem file on the disk is 'MTAGpr.01'.  When asked for the filename, type  MTAGpr.01(H)  and it will ler to test for a better method of marketing our products.  And to encourage users to buy our copyrighted software.  For your troubles, I am going to make your group an offer that is hard to beat!  If one officer/editor of the group wil take the orders for this product, I will make a donation to your treasury to help boost needed club funds.The game sells for $8.50.  You will be invoiced at $8.50 per disk, and a donation of the proper size will be credited on the invoice.  The order will be sent to the offz, 1)=" " GOTO 250:REM end of name 220IF MID$(file$, z, 1)="?" THEN  y=y+1: z=z+1:GOTO 210230IF MID$(file$, z, 1)<>CHR$(PEEK(y)) GOTO 280240 y=y+1: z=z+1:GOTO 210250? CHR$(PEEK(x)); " "; 260 x=x+1:IF PEEK(x)<>0 THEN ? CHR$(PEEK(x)); :GOTO 260270?280IF PEEK(x)<>0 THEN  x=x+1:GOTO 280285 x=x+1:GOTO 190290IF q<>4 GOTO 120291 ld=ld+1:IF ld=11 GOTO 120292GOTO 165300?:? "Select Drive ":? "0 Exit":? "1 Disk 1":? "2 Disk 2":? "3 Tape 1":? "4 Hard Disk":GET q310 v=4*(q=1)+5*(q=2)+8*(q=3)+24*(q=4):IF q=0a new means of marketing our products by measuring your response.ÃHELP ME HELP YOU!ÃAnd enjoy some new refreshing fun while you are at it.!!ÃBob Sebelist - Maine ADAM Library, PO Box 85, Waterford ME 04088EDITORS NOTE:Sounds like a great deal!  Bob is returning almost half the purchase price to the club!  If you are interested in this excellent offer, we have set up the one person from each club to collect the orders:MOAUG - Lani Brito, 2307 E. Washington St., Orlando, FL 32803-6057463 ADAM -,19,13,32,245,43,126,237,91,188,117,18,254,65,40,4,254,72,32,12,221,203,12,86,32,6,54,0,35  390DATA 34,188,117,17,26,0,221,25,16,189,193,12,16,163,197,193,42,188,117,54,0,35,54,0,201,136,105400?:? "This program will search a diskor all partitions of your EOS  hard drive for a file."402?:? "Unfortunately, it will not scanTAPE 2 correctly."404?:? "To scan for all files, just    press ? and follow with return."410? "To look for a particular file, enter the first few characters."415? "For example, enterin100LOMEM :35000:GOSUB 340110HOME:? " FIND FILE by Guy Cousineau"120?:INPUT "enter file name or press <CR>  for help: "; file$130IF file$="" GOTO 400140GOSUB 300: ld=0150 file$=file$+"           ":REM make sure string is long enough    160? "Reading Directory "165IF q=4 THEN  a=PEEK(16150):POKE 16150, 255:POKE 58343, ld:POKE 16150, a170CALL 30000:?:?174IF q=4 AND PEEK(58343)<>ld GOTO 120175IF q=4 THEN ? "LOGICAL DRIVE "; ld180 x=31212: f=0190IF PEEK(x)=0 GOTO 290200 y=x+1: z=1210IF MID$(file$, icer responsible for collecting the orders for distribution to club members.  "BEAT THE BANDIT" is available ONLY on disk.  If a member only has data drives, he should buy the disk, and it will be up to the club librarian to assist in putting it on data pack.ÃYou ask; "Why should he do this for us?"Well, I know how hard it is to get extra cash flow for the User Groups' treasuries, and I want to help.  If you take me up on this offer, you will be helping yourselves as well.  Plus, it will help me find  THEN END320POKE 16821, v:RETURN330?:? "Select Logical Drive 0-9":GET q: a=PEEK(16150):POKE 16150, 255:POKE 58343, q:POKE 16150, a:GOTO 170340FOR x=30000 TO 30141:READ y:POKE x, y:NEXT:RETURN350DATA 58,181,65,1,0,0,17,1,0,33,233,117,205,243,252,58,46,118,71,14,1,197,6,35,221,33,55,118,33,236360DATA 121,34,188,117,24,22,197,58,181,65,22,0,89,1,0,0,33,233,117,205,243,252,6,38,221,33,233,117,221370DATA 203,12,70,194,178,117,221,126,24,183,0,0,42,188,117,35,221,229,209,14,12,26,254,3,40,6,119  380DATA 35 Jerry Vrancks, 2936 Evelyn St., Portage, IN 46368The best time to contact these people will be at the next meeting, or you can write to them.  We can't wait forever to get the order in, so the deadline to order will be May 29th.t in putting it on data pack.ÃYou ask; "Why should he do this for us?"Well, I know how hard it is to get extra cash flow for the User Groups' treasuries, and I want to help.  If you take me up on this offer, you will be helping yourselves as well.  Plus, it will help me find g CO will  match CO COPY CORN CONFUSE, etc"420? "It will NOT match copy course  or any other lower case files."430?:? "press a key"; :GET q$435?:? "If you are unsure of the first letter of the file, you can    put in question marks and      follow with a letter."440?:? "e.g. ?A  will match CABLE TABLEFARM FANTASTIC, etc."445?:? "To pause the display press     CONTROL-S.  To abort, press    CONTROL-C followed by RETURN   at the file name prompt."450?:? "Press a key to continue"500GET q$:GOTO 120TA 3512,11;>P;[r,4]/[r,6]@12,12;>W;if ([r,6]=12;[r,5];if ([r,6]=4;[r,5]/3;if([r,6]=2;[r,5]/6;[r,5]/12)))@12,13;>D;@13,1;>W;1995@13,2;>W;01@13,3;>D;10000@13,4;>P;.10@13,5;>W;36@13,6;>W;1@13,7;>D;[r,3]*(1+[r,11])^[r,12]@13,8;>W;[r,1]+int(([r,2]+[r,5])/12)@13,9;>W;[r,2]+[r,5]-12*(int(([r,2]+[r,5])/12))@13,10;>D;if ([r,8]>Year;0;if ([r,8]<Year;[r,7];if ([r,9]<=Month;[r,7];0)))@13,11;>P;[r,4]/[r,6]@13,12;>W;if ([r,6]=12;[r,5];if ([r,6]=4;[r,5]/3;if([r,6]=2;[r,5]/6;[r,5]/12)))@13,13;>D;@14,1;>W;1996@1@1,1;<T;INVEST@1,2;<T;TMEN@1,3;<T;NT REPORT@2,1;<T;FORECA@2,2;<T;AST F@2,3;>T;  for  YEAR:@2,4;>W;1999@3,3;>T;MONTH:@3,4;>W;1@7,1;<T;DEPOSIT@7,2;<T;IT@7,3;>T;AMOUNT OF@7,4;>T;YEARLY@7,5;>T;# of@7,6;>T;COMP.@7,7;<T;   MATURITY@7,8;>T;MATURITY@7,9;>T;ITY@7,10;>T;USABLE@7,11;>T;interest@7,12;>T;# of@8,1;>T;YEAR@8,2;>T;MO@8,3;>T;DEPOSIT@8,4;>T;INT@8,5;>T;MONTHS@8,6;>T;PERIODS@8,7;<T;     VALUE@8,8;>T;  DATE@8,9;<T;E@8,10;>T;CASH@8,11;>T;/period@8,12;>T;compounds@10,1;>W;1992@10/12)@15,9;>W;[r,2]+[r,5]-12*(int(([r,2]+[r,5])/12))@15,10;>D;if ([r,8]>Year;0;if ([r,8]<Year;[r,7];if ([r,9]<=Month;[r,7];0)))@15,11;>P;[r,4]/[r,6]@15,12;>W;if ([r,6]=12;[r,5];if ([r,6]=4;[r,5]/3;if([r,6]=2;[r,5]/6;[r,5]/12)))@15,13;>D;@16,1;>W;1998@16,2;>W;01@16,3;>D;10000@16,4;>P;.07@16,5;>W;36@16,6;>W;12@16,7;>D;[r,3]*(1+[r,11])^[r,12]@16,8;>W;[r,1]+int(([r,2]+[r,5])/12)@16,9;>W;[r,2]+[r,5]-12*(int(([r,2]+[r,5])/12))@16,10;>D;if ([r,8]>Year;0;if ([r,8]<Year;[r,7];if ([r,9]<=Month;[r,7];0))2)@11,9;>W;[r,2]+[r,5]-12*(int(([r,2]+[r,5])/12))@11,10;>D;if ([r,8]>Year;0;if ([r,8]<Year;[r,7];if ([r,9]<=Month;[r,7];0)))@11,11;>P;[r,4]/[r,6]@11,12;>W;if ([r,6]=12;[r,5];if ([r,6]=4;[r,5]/3;if([r,6]=2;[r,5]/6;[r,5]/12)))@11,13;>D;@12,1;>W;1994@12,2;>W;01@12,3;>D;10000@12,4;>P;.10@12,5;>W;36@12,6;>W;2@12,7;>D;[r,3]*(1+[r,11])^[r,12]@12,8;>W;[r,1]+int(([r,2]+[r,5])/12)@12,9;>W;[r,2]+[r,5]-12*(int(([r,2]+[r,5])/12))@12,10;>D;if ([r,8]>Year;0;if ([r,8]<Year;[r,7];if ([r,9]<=Month;[r,7];0)))@ÚÖ•x§
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For 10      percent, enter ".10", that is the  decimal equivalent of the corret   rate.  It will be displayed as a   percent on the screen.Column 5 is used to mark the       number of MONTHS that the bond is  issued for.  For a two-year bond,  enter 24.  It is also very         important to fill this number in   corretcly or your calculations     will be off.Column 6 is the tough one.  Here   you enter the NUMBER OF COMPOUND   PERIODS in the year.  12 is        monthly, 4 is quartex	+ lamb.  Its fleece was white as snow.  Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.  Jack fell down and brLONG TERM INVESTMENT PLANNERThe INVEST A program is a          spreadsheet program for AdamCalc.  It can be used to calculate the    future of multiple fixed rate      bonds or guaranteed investment     certificates. You simply insert    data in the fe on the specified date.Columns 11 and 12 represent the    interest per compound period and   the number of compound periods     applied to the bond.  These are    internal intermediate values and   should not form part of the final  sheet.  Unfortunately AdamCalc     does not have a feature to HIDE    cells.PRINTINGIn order to print out an estimate, just select PRINT RANGE from the   print menu with the cursor on cell [1,1].  Then move to the bottom of column 10 (where the totals are)   and press P matured.  For    example, If today is January 1     1992, I may wish to know how much  money I will have in 1994.  I      would therefore enter 1994 and 1   for the year and month cells.Next, enter the year and month     that a bond is purchased in        columns 1 and 2 (starting at row   10).  The reason for the two       separate entries is to facilitate  the determination of maturity date.In column 3, you enter the face    value of the bond at purchase time.Column 4 is used to record the     ANN5,6;<T;future@25,7;<D;sum([10,c:r-1,c])@25,9;>T;NOW@25,10;<D;sum([10,c:r-1,c])>,M0:81:52:33:124:75:77:128:59:310:1211:912:10Year:2,4Month:3,4sheet:25,102;[r,5];if ([r,6]=4;[r,5]/3;if([r,6]=2;[r,5]/6;[r,5]/12)))@15,13;>D;@16,1;>W;1998¤øx·\Í‰}DE¬ÿhÂŠOT8R•üÅB•lxrÉcJ'i•ØØø(uc_º$M¡hƒhøˆ_HÈ’8H“|™Èbu$G˜µ,èI~Ø¥smCDÅf|h¨cR.DßµTOCoa©Ïãß·^á…?:>Sñ’RBÎ‘‹¸&rIîu¤\„’&U›o·dëÃôù¢ÿÊË™$éhrIX]USrly, 2 is      bi-annual, and 1 is yearly.Now your job is over and it is     time to let AdamCalc do its work.  Press the recalc key (if in manual recalc mode) to fill in the rest   of the values....Column 7 contains the value at     maturity.Column 8 is the maturity year      while column 9 is the maturity     month.If the bond has matured (based on  the date entered at the top of the sheet, the maturity value will be  shown under CASH (column 10) to    indicate that that CASH will be    availablirst 6 columns and    let AdamCalc figure out the rest   for you.The investment calculator can      handle varying compound interest   styles:  Yearly, Bi-annually,      Quarterly, and Monthly.  It is not equipped to handle weekly or daily interest rates.  Interested        parties may tackle that            enhancement if they wish. INSTRUCTIONSThe first thing you should do is   enter the TARGET YEAR and MONTH at the top of the spreadsheet.  This  date will be used to determine if  a bond has indeedRINT RANGE again.  The  first time you do so, the last     column will likely not print.  If  it does not, just ask to print the saem range again and it WILL print correctly.  You can solve this     problem by typing a single cell to a scrap of paper at the beginning  of your AdamCalc session.MODIFICATIONSIf you wish to add more lines, use the COPY ROW function to copy row  10 to another empty row before the TOTALS line.  If you happen to     have SEVERAL ENTRIES, you can MOVE the totals row a bit lowe everything. Norman first bought an ATARI 2600 system before purchasing   two ColecoVision Game Systems.  Because he was a game        player, he purchased every cartridge available for his       Colecovisions as fast as he could.  Then ADAM was            introduced, and he had to choose between the ADAM  and the   ATARI 400 or the 800 model. He went with the ADAM because of the additional game play functions and the use of            SmartWRITER.  One of the first things he did was to cancel   one of thx	Eoffers a "close-up and personal"     look at various ADAM retailers and developers.  This segment discusses Norman Castro and OAUC.  Rich is a founding member of Delaware The following is the third in a series of articles by        Richard Cossaboon which offers a "close-up and personal"     look at various ADAM retailers and developers.  This segment discusses Norman Castro and OAUC.  Rich is a founding member of Delawauch that I could not think what I did with the time that I had before ADAM and I tied the knot.  My wife,   Lena, was now a computer widow." After waiting impatiently for someone in his area to start   an ADAM Users' Group, Norman started one of his own, the     ADAM USERS CLUB, which first met on July 11, 1984.  On       November 21, 1984, Norman changed the name of the user group to reflect its geographical location.  It has been in        continuous operation ever since under the name "Omaha ADAM   Use years. They have two daughters, Michelle and Rosemarie,   who were born in Maine.   Norman served for over 26 years in the U. S. Air Force, in   the photography field, and has set up a complete photo       darkroom in his basement.   Norman also collects scale model trains and, as I understand it, has over 100 train sets from HO to Standard gauge.  He   has been retired over 3 years and has not "worked" since,    but still finds, like the rest of us, that there are not     enough hours in the day to dor down to make more room.QUESTIONSIf you run into problems, please   refer to your AdamCalc instruction manual.  If you still cannot find  a solution, write to:Guy Cousineau1059 Hindley StreetOTTAWA CanadaK2B 5L9 the final  sheet.  Unfortunate¤øx·\Í‰}DE¬ÿhÂŠOT8R•üÅB•lxrÉcJ'i•ØØø(uc_º$M¡hƒhøˆ_HÈ’8H“|™Èbu$G˜µ,èI~Ø¥smCDÅf|h¨cR.DßµTOCoa©Ïãß·^á…?:>Sñ’RBÎ‘‹¸&rIîu¤\„’&U›o·dëÃôù¢ÿÊË™$éhrIX]USe TV Premium channels to allow for more time to     learn to program the ADAM. Using SmartWRITER, Norman began to organize the paperwork    for everything he was involved in, from his job to inventory control. He developed his own customized forms, which he     calls "SKELTONS". These blank forms/outlines allowed him to  standardize his one-page inventories, using his own format   each time he decided on a new inventory project. "Before I knew it," says Norman, "I was involved with my     ADAM so very mre Valley AUG.  This first appeared in the April,   1992 issue of MOAUG/463 ADAM newsletter under Rich's column  head, "Meet Your Makers".  It runs about two pages at        default SmartWriter settings.===========================================================Norman Castro has long been familiar to members of the ADAM  community for his reduced reproductions of ADAM/COLECOVISION game instructions and of back issues of ADAM newsletters.    Norman is originally from Lewiston, Maine, as is his wife of 33rs Club". OAUC may be the oldest active ADAM Users' Group still in     existence, and has printed a bimonthly newsletter almost     since its inception.  The OAUC newsletter is still being     published regularly. It's available through Norman for $5    per year. On December 1, 1986, Norman Castro began to sell ADAM/Coleco Cartridge Game Instructions for $2.00 each postpaid.  Norman had over 120 cartridges and $2000 invested in just games     when Coleco stopped all production of the ADAM. Today, Norm   Sprites with the Alphabet and Numbers on RR flat carts, PD   programs, etc... all for $10 + $2 S/H on Disk or $12 + $2    S/H on Digital Data Pack.  This program was inspired by his  express desire  to be  able to print out on paper his        Railroad layout, complete with switches and 3 different RR   scale track sizes. Norman Castro is well known throughout the ADAM Community    for the quality of his work.  His reproductions, of both     ADAM Newsletters and Game Instructions, are of superior      ltons" and five "Read Me" files.  To    fully realize the advantages of these forms, you MUST print  out these five documentation files!  The subjects range from his Airdyne, Cable TV, and Alcazar maps to  Coins, Phone     Calls, and Labels, just to mention a few.  A second volume,  "OAUC forms2", has recently become available. Norman also recently released a commercial program called    Norman's Railroad, containing over 150k of files with the    railroad theme, including  forms, Return Address Labels,   projects by Guy Cousineau and Rob Friedman.  The   column first appeared in the April, 1992 issue.===========================================================Information continues to accumulate regarding the use of a   24 pin printer with ADAM.  Joe Peppers, in particular, has   been in contact about his own experiences.  We will be       printing more about this in an upcoming issue, but this part can't wait: Joe has found an excellent buy on a 512k buffer  that works perfectly with or without his Powerquality.  Norman says "Send me ONLY TWO first class postage  stamps for samples.  Include which game system/s that you    are interested in."  NORMAN CASTRO - OAUC809 W 33rd AVE.BELLEVUE NE 68005to  Coins, Phone     Calls, and Labels, just to mention a few.  A second volume,  "OAUC forms2", has recently become available. Norman also recently released a commercial program called    Norman's Railroad, containing over 150k of files with the    railroad theme, including  forms, Return Address Labels,  an supports six different game systems with his   reduced Game Instructions:    -ADAM/COLECO (over 140 games)   -ATARI 2600 (over 60 games)   -INTELLIVISION (over 65 games)   -ODYSSEY 500 Game Unit   -RCA STUDIO II (over 10 games)   -VECTREX (over 25 games + overlays) In addition to his Game Instructions, Norman also sells      reduced-size reprints of several ADAM NEWSLETTERS, and back  issues of OAUC Newsletters. Norman's first PD volume is called "OAUC forms1". It         contains over 35 "ske|	Egular feature of the MOAUG/463 ADAM  newsletter called "Behind The Scenes".  It discusses print   buffers and information from FidoNet and CompuServe,         including prThe following article by Pat Herrington is the April         installment of a semi-regular feature of the MOAUG/463 ADAM  newsletter called "Behind The Scenes".  It discusses print   buffers and information from FidoNet and CompuServe,         including   Sprites with the Alphabet and Numbers on RR flat carts, PD   programs, etc... all for $10 + $2 S/H on Disk or $12 + $2    S/H on Digital Data Pack.  This program was inspired by his  express desire  to be  able to print out on paper his        Railroad layout, complete with switches and 3 different RR   scale track sizes. Norman Castro is well known throughout the ADAM Community    for the quality of his work.  His reproductions, of both     ADAM Newsletters and Game Instructions, are of superior      mate 20 hard   drive.  He bought it from Technologic Systems, and he says   the people there are very good at helping you to figure out  what accessories you need.  For the record, you need an      adapter #36-25, which sells for $5.95, and a cable #CB-36,   which sells for $6.95.  The buffer itself sells for $100     (for 512k!!!!) and shipping is $6, so you can get everything you need for $118.85.  They take VISA, and are advertised in Computer Shopper. The buffer is usable with any dot matrix   printer. am packages and passing them on to all comers,   has come up with a new "GIV" package.  He gathered together  all the PD programs for external modems in one huge          package... and I do mean HUGE, as in 548k... and is offering it to anyone who asks.  More on this later, but if you can't wait, check out the text file named "External.GIV" (in the   club forum library on Compuserve) for details. For another thing, CompuServe has recently instituted a new  Basic Services option that allows unlimited use with       newsletters, Mini-Review disks, and other information        through the years.  Keith will be doing some shopping,       too... because of the European phone system, UKAS members    need Sydmodem- type internal modems, so if you know of one   that's available, please let me know.  If they can get those modems, we may seeing these folks on Fidonet in the near     future! ^The Echo is already international, thanks mostly to the      efforts of Barry Wilson and Bart Lynch. There are at least   twCollege Database; HealthNet; Current Stock        Quotes; Roger Ebert's Movie Reviews; Consumer Reports, and   more.  Online Shopping is now free with the Basic Services   option, and so are several online games, from Hangman to     Trivia Quizzes to Adventure Games.   WHEW!  Well, I have to confess that I have hardly ever used  ANY of those features.  (I used to hang around the Science   Fiction forum, several years ago, and I have used the        excellent PRACTICE forum, but PRACTICE has always been   cker, a "universal   translator" to move text files from any of various word      processors to any of the others, IBM Paintbrush graphics     files of ADAM logos (NOT for use on the ADAM!) and a new EOS Advanced Programming Manual. This latter project is intended for release at ADAMCON IV,   and Guy hopes to be able to keep the price to $10 for pickup at the convention. CompuServe is buzzing with news, too.  For one thing, CP/M   sysop Rob Friedman, who for years has been compiling Public  Domain progrMore about this later; but meanwhile, the phone     number for Technologic is (513) 644-2230. The NATIONAL ADAM ECHO on Fido continues to be an endless    source of information.  Recently, we learned that Keith      Marner of the United Kingdom ADAM Subscribers will be        attending ADAMCON IV.  We now can claim that our conventions are not only international, but INTERCONTINENTAL!  More to   the point, we will finally get to meet Keith, who has always been supportive of the other groups, providing us of many of   its features for one low monthly fee ($7.95.)  The bad news  is that the club forum is NOT included in the free use       category, but the good news is that many services that were  previously charged by the minute ARE included.  For example, there is unlimited online access to some excellent news      services: Associated Press Online; Hourly News Summaries,    Sports, Entertainment, Business News; Accu-Weather Maps and  Reports; US Weather Service Reports; Grolier's Encyclopedia; Peterson's o Canadian boards, one in the MTAG area (with Jack Leamy   online) and one in the AUFG area (Guy Cousineau, Ron         Mitchell.)  There is also a board in the Vancouver area      acting as a relay for David Cobley (VISA) who has not yet    been able to get connected closer to home.  ^More from Fido: Guy Cousineau has completed quite a few new  projects, and has more in progress.  I'm not sure which      falls into which category, but some of his recent works      include: a new version of a spelling che    free.)  The main reason I never used them is that if I am    going to spend money, I'd rather do it in the ADAM area. But now that I have unlimited use of these things, I am likely   to go exploring... just as soon as I can find some TIME!!! Right off the bat, I can think of ways to use those news     services.  I imagine that a steady stream of news could be   really handy during, say, an election... or should another   World Power crumble, or another Berlin Wall come tumbling    down or, heaven forb And that's all it takes, really, to draw your own comic strips!   Elsewhere in this issue, you will find a comic strip I drew myself.  And    yes, I did the whole thing from scratch.  But that's because that's what I     WANTED to do.  You can just as easily pick ANY picture file that you like, and study it until you think up something funny that you could do with it.  Then   you can make whatever little changes are necessary, using the DRAW FOREGROUND  option in PowerPAINT.  You will probably need to putxOril Fool's column.  Last time we met, way   back in December, we discussed the ways you could use ADAM and the DEI program PowerPAINT to make "Find The Twins" puzzles, by The following article by Pat Herrington is the April segment of "JUST FOR FUN  -- the Series Especially For Kids, People Who Have Kids, and People Who Act    Like Kids!"   It first appeared in the April, 1992 issue of the MOAUG/463 ADAM newsletter, and nu, and you will be asked whether you want to    insert "Normal" text or "Special" text.  (There are other options, too, but    just ignore them.)  Choose SPECIAL text.  From the next menu, choose HALF      WIDTH text.  You can now use your keyboard to enter letters anywhere on your   screen, but to keep from being confused, you need to do two things: First, hit the SmartKey that says "Replace Text".  If you don't, then your letters will   just go on top of whatever is already on your screen... and that canINT to make "Find The Twins" puzzles, by copying the same Clip over and over, and making tiny changes.  Well, you can do the same thing with full-size Pics... and make your own comic strip!   April is a fitting time to think about how to use your computer to express  your sense of humor.  Even if you don't think too much of your own "artistic"  ability (and I hope to persuade you that you DO have such ability, one of      these days) you may think of yourself as having a pretty darn clever sense of  humor.id, another crisis in the Gulf.  Or even if a hurricane threatens, or an earthquake occurs in an area where I have family whom I can't contact.  To me, $7.95      monthly seems like a good bargain; for once, 300 baud is no  big handicap!         o Adventure Games.   WHEW!  Well, I have to confess that I have hardly ever used  ANY of those features.  (I used to hang around the Science   Fiction forum, several years ago, and I have used the        excellent PRACTICE forum, but PRACTICE has always been    some kind of wording into the cartoon to make your point, and you can do that with the INSERT key.  If   you are going to use more than two or three words, you will probably want to   use the HALF-WIDTH letters to enter your text.  Here's how:   First, make sure all your background is one color (I like 'cyan', which is  light blue, best) and all your foreground is BLACK, because that's easiest to  see.  Then, from the main menu of PowerPAINT, hit the INSERT key.  This will   take you to the INSERT TEXT mewas accompanied by a number of cartoon graphics which may be   photocopied from the newsletter or, if you prefer, I will supply them to you   on disk upon request.  My address is listed in the body of the article...PJH=============================================================================                                                  Hi gang... and welcome to our April Fool's column.  Last time we met, way   back in December, we discussed the ways you could use ADAM and the DEI program PowerPA be a BIG  PAIN when you make a mistake and want to back up and change it.  The new       letter will be superimposed on top of the old one, and it will look terrible.   The second thing you want to do is hit the SmartKey to CHANGE COLOR.  You   want to use BLACK.  Trust me on this.  Black is by FAR the easiest color to    see on your screen, at least if you are following my advice and using a light  color for background.   And don't forget... there is no problem if you make a mistake and mess up   the pi LONG LIVE ADAM!   by Lani Brito===========================================================March 4, 1992 As I write this, thousands of computer owners across America are preparing for the great Michelangelo virus to strike.    The virus is due to strike this Friday, marking the birth of the great artist.  No one knows where this virus came from,  or who created it, although experts believe that it may have originated in Italy about two years ago. Even if you DO NOT own a computer, this may still affecr.     *   Hint Two: I used the MOVE/COPY key a LOT.   See how much you can figure out for yourself.  And when you run into a snag and need some help, WRITE ME!    Here's my address: Pat Herrington  1003 Oak Lane  Apopka FL 32703 ...and if you write and help me with this column by letting me know what you   want to see here, then I will give you some new PowerPAINT pictures to fiddle  around with.  Like the dog shown below.  FREE, too.  Have fun! no problem if you make a mistake and mess up   the pitry will be crossing their fingers and hoping that their PC was  not infected by the latest high-tech germ warfare.   (SIGH....) Somewhere, there is an antisocial intellect sitting over his computer revelling in the fact that his "work of art" will   destroy millions of files throughout the nation.  This       person will eventually get caught, and get a slap on the     wrist, while others will be mourning over their dead         computer systems. As for me, I'll be sitting at my ADAM playing VIDEOTUNx	Erus.  It first appeared in the       April, 1992 issue of the MOAUG/463 newsletter.===========================================================MICHELANGELO IS DEAD -- LOThe following article by Lani Brito discusses the            Michelangelo computer virus.  It first appeared in the       April, 1992 issue of the MOAUG/463 newsletter.===========================================================MICHELANGELO IS DEAD --cture (as if, for instance, you type letters where you didn't want to,   and erase part of the picture that you wanted to KEEP.)  In this case, all you have to do is hit the UNDO key and you can return to the main menu and start   all over again.   They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I am going to shut up now  and let you go so that you can study the cartoons in this issue. Try to figure out how I did what I did, so you can do it for yourself.     *   Hint: I did NOT draw the pictures in ordet you in one way or another.  In a recent news show, Ted Koppel    stated that many computer networks in banks, universities,   hospitals, and other major institutions may be infected and  don't even know it! Even if the computer does not show any signs of the          Michelangelo virus, be aware that there are more than 1000   breeding viruses currently found.  On March 13, another      virus (called Friday the 13th) is also due to strike.  So    for the next two weeks, computer owners all over the councture (as if, for instance, you type letters where you didn't want to,   and erase part of the picture that you wanted to KEEP.)  In this case, all you have to do is hit the UNDO key and you can return to the main menu and start   all over again.   They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I am going to shut up now  and let you go so that you can study the cartoons in this issue. Try to figure out how I did what I did, so you can do it for yourself.     *   Hint: I did NOT draw the pictures in ordeES, or writing another article.  I'll be losing no sleep.  I won't  have to worry about my backups or copying utilities being    infected, either.  You see, these viruses only affect such   computers as IBMs.  And all my ADAM software is tucked       peacefully away in serene and sanitary surroundings... plain old plastic disk cases! Like it said in our newsletter, we are dedicated to the      proposition that all computers are NOT created equal... and  we LIKE it that way!                        --- Lanååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååx	Eil '92 MOAUG/463 ADAM newsletter.    It's funny and makes a good point.   (See credits at end.)=========================================================== checker tolleThe following short verse was printed as part of the "April  Foolin'" page in the April '92 MOAUG/463 ADAM newsletter.    It's funny and makes a good point.   (See credits at end.)===========================================================          IMPORTANT UPDATE!  subject: ADAM Virus Found!date: April 1,1992  The Center for Research of Orphaned Computers (aka CROC) has just informed us, via coordinator Lani Brito, that there is  a virus currently spreading among ADAM computers.  This      virus is very dangerous and, if infected, your ADAM will     never operate correctly again.  The symptoms are as follows:    -your caps lock key no longer works    -none of your punctuation keys works properly    -words like "the" come up "da", and "you" ååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååååi Brito, MOAUGsing their fingers and hoping that their PC was  not infected by the latest high-tech germ warfare.   (SIGH....) Somewhere, there is an antisocial intellect sitting over his computer revelling in the fact that his "work of art" will   destroy millions of files throughout the nation.  This       person will eventually get caught, and get a slap on the     wrist, while others will be mourning over their dead         computer systems. As for me, I'll be sitting at my ADAM playing VIDEOTUNx	Er Research of Orphaned Computers (aka CROC) has just informed us, via coordinator Lani Brito, that there is  a virus currently spreading among ADAM computers.  This      vBLTThe following short humor item by Lani Brito is a tongue-in- cheek "virus alert".  It first appeared on the "April        Foolin'" page of the April, '92 MOAUG/463 newsletter.        ===========================================================          SPELLBOUND    "I have a Spelling Checker, It came with my PC. It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea.  "I've run this poem threw it, I'm sure your please too no, Its letter perfect in it's weigh, My checker tolled me sew."  Thanks to James Young, Moderator, Adam FidoNet Echo... from  March, 1992 Reader's Digest (quoted by Penneye Harper)  reads "ya"    -a sandwich sprite reveals itself during the middle of     your program and dances across the screen dripping mayoThe technicians at CROC have named this virus (appropriately enough) the BLT (Bart Lynch Typo) virus.If you suspect that your ADAM may be infected, call the CROC hotline immediately at 1-900-BIG-BULL ($1.00 for the first   minute, $25.00 each additional minute.)e of the April, '92 MOAUG/463 newsletter.        ===========================================================  this foolhardy   habit. The subject arises as an indication of the hardiness  of ADAM.      " 'I could tell you tales that would curl your          hair....' said the old man on his rocker as he sent a well   aimed shot at the brass spitoon...'      "The MI 256 expander is not hard to connect.  The       connection would be firmer if it were soldered.  The point   is that with a little thought, temporary alternatives can    be found when needs must.    For those Adamites who have     installed the Syd Carx	E "zonker" Lynch (Sea/Mac BBS), and Guy Cousineau     (Kanata BBS) occurred recently on FidoNet (they did NOT  explore the relationship, if any, between Jar and Herman MasoThe following article, entitled "THE MASON JAR", consists of extracts from several humorous FidoNET messages that were    compiled and reprinted in the April '92 MOAUG/463            newsletter.  NOTE: It is NOT necessary to credit MOAUG/463   if you ch You can then go to a repair outlet and ask them   to put the smoke back into the fried chip to restore it to   its normal working condition.     "Note that if the computer still works after the smoke  has come out, there must still be sufficient smoke left in   the chip to make it operate nominally."    -Guy     "guy, kin you possibly get your hands on one of those    mason jar devices?  sounds like it would come in right       handy.   i assume it is battery operated in case one blows a house fuse?  aain for 24 hours.  It was soaked         through.  I dried it out with towels and hard-to-get toilet  paper.  I am still using it several years later.  I have had disk drives knocked to the (stone) floor and broken open,    repaired with a kitchen knife, scissors and elastic bands.   My printer has worked splendidly after I applied a certain   amount of brute force and ignorance.  Sure, I have stripped  down the CPU and the Drives, because there was no            alternative.  I do not suggest you get into IMPORTANT UPDATE!  subject: ADAM Virus Found!date: April 1,1992  The Center for Research of Orphaned Computers (aka CROC) has just informed us, via coordinator Lani Brito, that there is  a virus currently spreading among ADAM computers.  This      virus is very dangerous and, if infected, your ADAM will     never operate correctly again.  The symptoms are as follows:    -your caps lock key no longer works    -none of your punctuation keys works properly    -words like "the" come up "da", and "you" ter Clock chip deep in the bowels of    the computer, the guts of ADAM hold few terrors."      -Jack      "...dangerous.  I can't get over this mental image I    have of blue sparks, a loud pop and old zonker waking up     across the room!"    -zonker      "As I have seen somewhere before... and by the way      there is a patent application out... you should get yourself one of those Mason Jar devices.  It comes with two attached  hands that scoop all the smoke into the jar and put the lid  on tight. oose to print this column.  ==========================================================        THE MASON JAR  The following exchange among Jack Leamy (Marantha BBS), Bart "zonker" Lynch (Sea/Mac BBS), and Guy Cousineau (Kanata BBS) occurred recently on FidoNet (they did NOT explore the       relationship, if any, between Jar and Herman Mason!)         File this under "REPAIRS"....????                      * * * * * * *       "...in China my Adam, packed in a suitcase, was left    out in the driving rnd do ya have to have one for tdos use and a   separate one for eos?    "....the mind boggle-woggles....."  -zonker      "HARDWARE is often independent of SOFTWARE.. i.e., you  can use the TV screen just as easily with EOS as with TDOS.  You can also use the ADAM printer equally slowly with EOS as with TDOS.     "The Mason Jar smoke catcher (no reflection on Herman)  is a self-sustaining device which does not care if smoke is  blown by EOS or TDOS.  It simply collects all the smoke and  seals it into a!  Three days ago I received a letter from an Ontario woman     who, on a trip through Florida, saw some ADAM component at a flea market.  She inquired about it and was given my         address.  She needed help with a tape drive, and was not     even aware that MTAG (one of the most active groups of all)  was right in her back yard.  I was delighted to be able to   direct her to the Metro Toronto group.   JUST IMAGINE:  A woman from Canada just happens to see       something in Florida, and the person x	Etional ...it would be excellent by ANY standards,    but when you consider that it is their very   first, you can't help but wonder what these   people are going to accompFLA FishinFLORIDA FISHIN':  The following (long) article consists of   the local MOAUG news from March and April, 1992.  It may or  may not be of interest to other ADAM groups, but is included here in case of the emphasis on finding new ADAM owners.  the SF folks had an ADAM.  Guess what?  Yep.  I ran   into a classic computer collector who was fascinated to      learn that there were AUGs (this guy will probably join us,  but you will probably never meet him, because his club meets the second Sunday of each month at 2 PM.  Which is why I     hadn't joined the SF club years ago)! I had been sly enough to bring with me several copies of old newsletters, which I distributed to other folk at the        Exposition who thought they  who knew someone with ato attend MOAUG  meetings.  It's wonderful to be able to refer them to ECAUG  in the panhandle, and now SFAUG in the South of the state! Actually, we get occasional inquiries from people all over   the continent.  That's why it is so important to keep up     with the correct addresses of all active AUGs.  So please do everybody a big favor, and look over the AUG list Dean has   included in this issue. If you have any information to       indicate that an item on the list needs updating, PLEASE     tell us jar for reintegration or recycling.     "If you would like one, send your request on the back   of a GROVER CLEVELAND in triplicate..."  -Guy  "Note that if the computer still works after the smoke  has come out, there must still be sufficient smoke left in   the chip to make it operate nominally."    -Guy     "guy, kin you possibly get your hands on one of those    mason jar devices?  sounds like it would come in right       handy.   i assume it is battery operated in case one blows a house fuse?  ashe talked to just      happened to know a person who just happens to be my ribbon   salesman, who just happens to pass on info about MOAUG...    and we just HAPPEN to know about a group in Canada. Well, this is not strictly chance.  I try to spread the      word.   Two weeks ago I went to a local Science Fiction Club Exposition, for the specific purpose of learning more about  the World SF Convention (MAGICON) to be held here in         September.  But I wore my ADAMCON 03 T-shirt, just in case   one of    (Written by Pat Herrington of MOAUG)===========================================================Bob Blair and SFAUG are actively seeking ADAM hardware for   sale, so that the group can grow. Please contact Bob if you  know of someone who has used items on the market.  (If the   price is right, they will consider items that are not in     perfect working condition.)  We are especially pleased to    have a new neighbor to the South, as we get frequent         inquiries from people who live too far away n ADAM   or someone in the flea market business. The point is, the more lines we throw out, the more likely   we are to catch something.  Rich Clee has suggested leaving  business cards or other "book marks" in copies of any ADAM   books we can find in the library.  (He also suggests that we check them out once in awhile!  As a librarian, he knows     that libraries, when they reorganize their shelves, tend to  discard books nobody's checked out in some time.)  Norman Castro suggests that we donate copiach way, but it turned out to be three hours.  (Now    you know why Bob, even though he belongs to MOAUG, comes to  MOAUG meetings only once or twice a year!) I'm here to tell you, though, it was well worth the trip.    The sight of all those new ADAM folks in one room was        nothing short of inspirational.  Their enthusiasm is a joy   to behold.  And as more of them get modems, you will start   seeing them show up on the Fidonet ADAM Echo.  In the        meantime, you can contact them there anyway, t==========================Southwest Florida AUG is off to a spectacular start.  Their  first newsletter is sensational ...it would be excellent by  ANY standards, but when you consider that it is their very   first, you can't help but wonder what these people are going to accomplish in a year or so!  Most of the members are      brand-new to the ADAM computer; what Bob Blair has done is   to find ADAMs that were gathering dust, and match them with  people who can put them to good use.  A WONDERFUL idea!   way Lani did.  She  placed an ad in the Sentinel... and she had to fight with    the paper to get it in the right section... and has drawn up a flyer which can be altered slightly for the use of all     three of the Florida AUGS.  She also went to the library and did research on all the free ads that are available in local "throwaway" circulars like the Thrifty Nickel, and she has   come up with QUITE A LIST.  She is currently running ads in  the Sun, Times, Osceloa Shopper, Sanford Herald, West Orange Tim matches their interests.  Our policy has ALWAYS been cooperation, not      competition! (Many people, of course, belong to several      groups.  To each his own.  NO PROB, BOB!) Lani Brito called me and asked if I would be interested in   "dropping in" on the first meeting of the Southwest Florida  AUG, just to surprise them and welcome them to the ADAM      community.  Her husband, Dally, agreed to chauffeur us.  I   said, "Why not?"  ...And so we did.  We expected it to be about a two-hour     trip ees of our          newsletters to our local libraries. Lani Brito, who has been visiting pawn shops, found that the proprietors, who know nothing about us, sometimes suggest    that people THROW AWAY their "worthless" computers.  When    she tells them about us, they ask if we have flyers.  (We    used to, but we don't have anything up-to-date.  This had    better become a priority before all the unused ADAMs end up  in the landfill, don't you think???)   --- PJH 3/1/92 =================================hrough Bob.    Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could get more offshoots      going all around Florida, so that nobody had to drive more   than an hour to get to a local AUG meeting? (Today, Florida... Tomorrow The World!?!?) Lani Brito, our own local No-Longer-Newbie, has really been  inspired by Bob's success. At last month's meeting, she      suggested that we draw up flyers, place ads, and so on.  All these ideas have been batted around before, but nobody       really took the ball and ran with it theWe  have tried to do the same thing for years, but we went about it haphazardly.  Bob is SERIOUS. Bob has also picked up a couple of MOAUG members who live    too far away to ever attend a meeting.  He was a bit         concerned, at first, that we would get our feelings hurt if  our members switched groups.  That's not the case, of        course.  We are not in competetion with other groups.  We've always referred people to the AUG closest to their area, or  for isolated people, the one that most closelyes, Osceola Gazette, and Super Shopper.  And she has      twice as many in the works.  All (except Sentinel) FREE! Lani's impatient, and she has been a bit discouraged that    she hasn't reached more people more quickly.  But she        SHOULDN'T be! It takes some time for the seeds you plant     today to bear fruit.  I know, because seeds I planted years  ago and had all but forgotten have suddenly begun to bear    fruit, and I am hearing from people who kept my number all   this time and now want more it's survival, it must be considered "bad". Let us look around the ADAM world and see what it's like out there. A look at that and another at the results of the first  conventions will give us some firm groundwork on answering those questions.      All  in all, there is a lot more involved in holding one  of these  conventions than just getting every interested ADAM  owner together. The bottom line we strive for is UNITY.  If we, as ADAM owners, don't all stick together, we're finished.  We'll soon  go thee       later, as people get around to it, but meanwhile, if we find even ONE lost sheep, it's worth it, ain't it? We'll also probably have Pete Ames at the next meeting.      Pete recently moved into the area.  I knew he was on the     way, but I didn't want to print the news until he actually   got here.  Well, he's here, and the great news is that Pete  expects to set up an ANET BBS as soon as his hard drive      arrives.  (Pete is a sysop of long-standing experience.)     After all these years, Orlandibute misinformation about the item.   Next, you have to get it's supporters to argue and  fight amongst themselves.  If they start to stick together at all, your done from the start.  Next you have to resort to down right  CUT- THROAT tactics of competition. Hang the effects on everyone else.  Just look out for old number one and you'll be a happy person. If something  new comes out for the "enemy", just talk it down; even to  the  point of lying or even preventing it's coverage  in  the press.  This last Ì1 ×68                      THE ADAM CONVENTIONS                    What are they really for?     I've been asked by many people to give them some kind of  an answer to that questions.  Just what DOES a convention  represent and why should we hold them?  Better yet, "Why should I attend an ADAM Convention?" "CONVENTIONS"; are they good? Bad? Needed? I've always figured that anything that helps the ADAM continue to grow and to survive is to be considered "good".  On the other hand, if something hinders information.  And the Sentinel   ad that Lani placed DEFINITELY jogged the memories of some   people we'd lost track of, who called, not Lani, but ME.     Would you believe that the long-lost founder of MOAUG,       Michael Graham, called me after he spotted the ad?  YEP...   if you want to get in touch with Mike, I now have his        address!  He was really happy to hear the news of MOAUG.   And the ad reached at least ONE new person who will probably be at the meeting.  I have no doubt there will be mor  way of the Atari and Commodore computers.   Remember,  those are the guys who gave us all that bad press and tried to keep the ADAM Computer in limbo. Sure they had an ulterior  motive!   THEY wanted to see their OWN systems sell, and they didn't want to see any competition.     For quite a while, these companies were successful in  their attacks.  To kill anything, whether it be a computer, a TV or any other salable item, all that's needed are a few simple things.       First and foremost is to distro will have its own ADAM BBS... at LAST!  Get yourself a modem!      ---PJH 4/92                                                              t ME.     Would you believe that the long-lost founder of MOAUG,       Michael Graham, called me after he spotted the ad?  YEP...   if you want to get in touch with Mike, I now have his        address!  He was really happy to hear the news of MOAUG.   And the ad reached at least ONE new person who will probably be at the meeting.  I have no doubt there will be morwas pretty easy for the original contestors  to ADAM's fame.  Since the primary owner of Atari was Warner Commun- ications  and since they just happened to own and  publish  every major magazine about computers at the time, bad press or no press was a pretty easy thing to arrange.     I had thought we beat all of that nonsense long ago.   Those who did their dead level best to kill the ADAM have all but  died themselves as a business.  How many people do you run into  these days that tell you how proud th     Another individual created and continues to maintain one  of the largest ADAM User's Group's in existence.  This man has  done more to help us than anyone else I know of.  He's stuck by us for year after year, publishing one of the most respected newsletters ever  written.  About a year ago, he began to feel that the  ADAM was nearing the end of it's days.     Still  another  guy I know built hardware for the  ADAM  and prompted some of the most powerful ADAM software ever seen to  be written. I can  to time, though, that nonsense  the other computer groups pushed on us shows up again.   Of all places,  it shows up within  our own community.  There is a fine line between  SUPPORT and GREED that, when crossed, will work to destroy all the effort put  forth to build up a close-knit community.  In the  last  few weeks,  we've seen a sort of mini-war in the ANET BBS segment  of our  ADAM  community.  I won't go into the details, but  what  it boils  down to is that something which began as a way to  furtheendors and underselling them, creating lockout markets that excluded certain vendors, and various  other behind the scenes activities, this individual prompted the  first real "ADAM WAR".       I didn't bring these things up to cast a bad light on  these folks.  I just wanted you to know that the ADAM community can not work  selfishly.  Each member, each owner of an ADAM has to  work as a team.  If you learn something new about this system, you owe it to the rest of us to pass it on.  If we learn somethinome to an ADAM-CON, though, he answered "if  you  can guarantee I'll make as much money there (at the convention) as  I will  sitting right here, then I'll come.  Otherwise,  I'll  stay at home."  He may have a good point as far as he's concerned, but you will never see me buy anything from him.  Sure, he's  helping a portion of the ADAM community by providing the things they  are in need of.  On the broader scale, however, his attitude is  just the same as that of Atari and Commodore all those years ago.ey are to own an Atari 800-XL or a C-64 or C-128?  The result of all their bad press was  their  own demise.  It could well have killed our system as well, but we, as a community, stuck together.  When Coleco dropped it's support, a group of ADAM owners came to the rescue by starting up  companies of their own to produce software and hardware for our fine little  computer system.  These vendors created some of the greatest  and most innovative computer peripherals and supplies ever invented!     From timehonestly tell you that his hardware was second  to none.  Yet, after providing years of support, this fellow came to the belief that the "ADAM was dead".     Yet  another individual operated a very large user's  group, sold hardware and software, printed a newsletter and even made up new hardware to promote the ADAM.  He supported the ADAM in many, many ways for a long time.  For some reason, though, he began  to create problems for the rest of the ADAM vendors.  By duplicating the hardware of respected vr the ADAM has been subverted into a way to grab (or try to grab) a bit  of extra cash.  The issue?  That is not really  something  I should go into.  Suffice it to say that one person wanted to cash in  on  the efforts of a lot of people.  To me, this is  NOT  the kind of thing we want to condone.      Earlier than that, there was an ADAM vendor in Texas who had been a tremendous supporter of the ADAM.  He provided more  soft- ware and hardware than just about anyone else.  When asked if  he he  would  cg, we'll pass  that along to you in return.   Don't live life in a  gilded cage, aloof and alone.  There's always someone willing to help or ask for help.  That attitude is what's kept this system so  ALIVE since Coleco dropped it in the early 1980's.     In  this way, we've seen people never before known come  out of the woodwork, so to speak, with brand new ideas.  As one store closes, another opens to take it's place.  Sometimes with product lines that are bigger and better than what we've just lost!   ADAM news and info? Are there books I can buy to help me understand what is available and how to use it?     Well, there are those newsletters we're so familiar with. If you receive even one of them, you can get some idea about what is going on.  If you don't currently belong to a user's group, where can  you find answers to questions like: "What store carries  the new and old ADAM supplies?"  "Where can I go to find support  for my ADAM?" "Am I all alone in this state... am the ONLY ONE who is an ADAM o own use is for the ADAM, I'm willing to bet that there is someone else who wishes they knew how to do it.  If they know who you are they might even give you a call and ask for help!       Setting ourselves above the rest of the ADAM world will  NOT keep  the ADAM alive.  Remember what greed and arrogance did  for Commodore  and Atari?  Does anyone, no matter HOW important  they think themselves, honestly believe they are immune?  If so, I can tell you that I am not the only one who ONLY buys things from also has articles every month about the ADAM.  Recently, they even added a section in the back for ADAM vendors to advertise items for sale.  Faye Deere writes each month about various topics and it's  worth it for you to subscribe to the magazine just to keep up to date.     Local BBS systems are another way to keep informed.  If  you have  access to CompuServe, be sure to check out the  large  ADAM sections.  There is a section for EOS users and one for CP/M too. There are also the ADAM BBS's I mentione We've all heard rumors of these "spats", no matter if the cause was right or not. The result is always harmful to the ADAM's survival.     So, while the rest of the world's computers were growing up, our own computer just stayed the same, right?  WRONG!  Every year more and more new equipment becomes available.  New programs, new data storage hardware, new operating systems.  There's always the new ADAM product to watch for.  But where do you look to find out about them?  Is there a magazine that carries New user's  groups spring up to replace the old, tired ones who  gave up.   New newsletters are printed to fill the gaps left by  those no longer in publication.  But what is the force behind all  this constant rejuvenation of the ADAM community?     Each of us has a responsibility to the rest.  Some create an array of new hardware.  Some program new software. A few of us do things the easy way and just write articles.  The rest have their own  special or favorite uses for the ADAM.  No matter what  yourwner here?"  How many of us have asked those questions?       As far as I know, there is only ONE store that carries  ADAM supplies on it's shelves.  I've even been there, and it's a  real nice place; but unless you happen to live near Chicago, it's  not likely you'll be walking in to browse. The alternative is usually to order from a user's group or some of the many ADAM vendors.  A national publication that covers ALL of the major(and once major) computer systems is "COMPUTER MONTHLY", a magazine which the vendors who work FOR the ADAM, not those who work themselves.     As with any computer community (or any group of  like-minded individuals), arguments and just plain disagreements crop up from time  to time no matter how hard we all try to prevent it.  We're all just "human" after all, so mistakes can always be made. Some- times it's because ego's clash.  For some, it's just a matter  of being tired. Still others are because someone let's their private live's problems spill over into their ADAM life. d earlier. They are being run on an ADAM and thus support our system in a special  way.  By supporting  message areas for different topics, you can  learn  a great deal by just calling once in a while.       The  latest big help to us has been a local BBS system  that has ties to the rest of the world by sharing messages on  various topics. These FIDONET BBS's, as they are known, cover most of the computer's and support topics. If you have access to one that has the  ADAM ECHO, you can send and receive meo still have a  chance to find out what they missed by attending future conventions.  We (John  Villilo and myself) traveled by air, fought  with  airport security over our computer monitors (we wanted to keep them  with us on the plane), put up with crowded airports, fought for trans- portation  and finally got a ride to the hotel.... 4 hours  late!  We  checked into the hotel, not in the best of moods.  Still,  we had made it there with every thing intact, and the sessions would be starting early the nexttill need something more.  Something to brighten our perspective and mend the small rifts that can occur.    By way of consideration, let's look at the results of some of the last 3 ADAMCONs.  At ADAMCON 1, many people who had only  met over the telephone or by reading each other's articles were  able to finally meet face to face.  People I had know "of" for so long were  actually there for me to talk to.  How many times have  you used a piece of software or hardware and wondered how to do some- thing wit the "ADAM" logo written in letters about 5 inches high!  John and I walked up and introduced ourselves.  The next thing  I know, people were shaking our hands, pounding our backs and  just making us feel WELCOME!     While  we were talking, I did my best to read the name  tags pinned to these blue shirts.  Names I had heard of or read  about were printed on those tags. Names like Jim Notini, Chris Braymen, Syd Carter and Pat Herrington!   So much  for sleep!   I was wide awake now!  I was with the EXPERTtalking about.  Unless you are fortunate enough to have one of the people who write the software or build the hardware in your group,  it's not  likely that you'll ever get all of your questions  answered.  You will find folks who are learning about various things and are willing  to help any way they can, but not the originators.        ADAMCON  1, held in Orlando, Florida, was to set an  example to the rest of us.  Those who were lucky enough to be able to  go will never forget it.  Those who couldn't gssages to ADAM  owners all over the continent!      All of these thing should point out a few things to you.  We do have problems in our little community, but things always  tend to work themselves out when properly handled.  We are not  totaly isolated either.   Many avenues for keeping in touch are there if we only look for them.  Still, with all the things we see and are party too, there's something missing.  With all of it, we're only surviving day to day.  It's great to hear of new products, but we s day.  So, tired and hungry (and even a bit miffed at missing the bit reception), we moved into our room.     A bit keyed up yet, we decided to look around a bit and  see if anyone was still up and around.  Signs pointed the way down  a hallway to the left.  As we worked our way down that hall, I  was greeted by a table with various leaflets, magazines, etc.  All of the folks around that table were wearing the neatest looking blue t-shirts you've ever seen.  The most eyecatching thing about  the shirt wash it?  Have you ever wished you could just sit down with the designer and ASK HIM/HER?  Sure, you can write a letter,  but then  you  don't have the advantage of watching  someone  who  is really  an expert SHOW you how it's done!  You have to  wait  for their answer to come in the mail.  I usually mail the letter  and then remember something else I was supposed to ask.  To late now!     If you belong to a user's group and attend even on  occasion the monthly meetings, you should have some idea what I'm  S!  I could ask them ANYTHING... and they were all feeling as elated as I was.  They'd tell me all about it if I asked them anything!  It was great!       The next morning we were up early (no choice there if you're planning  to eat breakfast!).  The 7 or 8 people we had met  here last  night were there but so were about 60 or so  others.   More were  still showing up. It was a great breakfast, but I  couldn't wait for it to end.  I wanted to see what the sessions were going to be like!  It's like noting h was sitting ...right there..in the front row!  At any other time, this would have been to much for me to handle.  But all I felt at the time was a wave of friendly support.  These people didn't see how nervous I was.  The were just there as friends... no, more as if  they were part of my family and had come to listen to me.   I guess Coleco knew what it was doing when they named it the Coleco Vision FAMILY Computer System!  I was at home.  Tony and  other's even chipped in to help answer questions that I and features of that program from  the  person who  wrote it!  It's a great lesson in humility, but you'll  soon be over THAT feeling because you, like all the others, are  doing something different. You're learning from the REAL EXPERTS!   The thrill of this is something I'll never forget.       From one class to another, from one meal to another, we  all talked  to each other about what we were seeing.  Group  sessions to cover broader issues.  Single sessions to cover specific topic areas.  Lunches to  after the ADAMCON.  Not as a result of anything we did there.   I think they just couldn't continue to bring strife to a  community that was truly a FAMILY.     As  other conventions were held, we saw changes in the  many people  who attended.  The fellow who thought the ADAM was  about dead ended up changing his speech to talk about how much the ADAM has  grown.  Instead of being "down", this guy became so  excited about  the future that his enthusiasm rapidly spread  around  the room of attentive listeone of his projects (T-DOS), I suddenly find myself with  Tony himself in the audience!  If you don't think THAT will give you a good case of the nerves, just try it sometime (grin).     Most of the people in that room were known only to me by the name on their tags.  I might know who they are, but I didn't know THEM.   It was like giving a speech in front of 30 strangers  and not  really knowing if you were the right one to be  giving  that speech.  In fact, I KNEW that the guy who should give that speecyou've ever imagined!  Just suppose you buy a new piece of software for your ADAM and get pretty good with it.  Suppose you were to be the one other's call to ask  how to use that software.  You'd begin to think you knew about all of the tricks wouldn't you?  Now, suppose you walk into a session to cover that software and find it's AUTHOR running the class!     Suddenly,  there is a REAL expert. Oh, you still may know  a lot more about it than most folks, but now you're going to  learn the  INSIDE tricks couldn't.  It was a real family "get together".       In  this type of an atmosphere, it's really hard  to  spread the kind of gossip that filters around the rest of the time.  The ones who tried it were soon pointed out to the rest and it  ended with that.  Many changes came about from that first ADAMCON.   An array of new hardware and software prototypes were shown that  we now see as commercial products.  Some of the vendors who gave the other's such a hard time were soon out of business... just monthsjust get together and TALK.  The days pass TOO fast!  One of my fondest memories was on my way to give a  lesson on  how to use CP/M and T-DOS.  Down the hallway comes this  tall guy with a beard.  He walks right up to me and says "Hi, I'm Tony Morehen."  You could have knocked me over with a feather!  I  had spoken to Tony numerous times on the phone, and on the Orphanware BBS.  I'd beta tested a lot of his software and really  respected him as a software engineer.  Now, when I was about to give a talk on ners.  The hardware builder who gave up on the  ADAM for similar reasons was astounded by the wealth of  new products and the high level of quality they maintained.     Folks  who decided to "see what this is all about" ended  up getting  involved in the planning of the 1992 convention.   Every person  who owns an ADAM has something to offer the rest.   Being "new" just means you have that high level of enthusiasm the  rest of us need to be around!  The people who have little spats during the  year just coves the  ADAM.  Everyone wants to be your friend and help you with your problems.  It's so hard to leave that kind of a place.       The difference you feel is like day and night. Going back to the regular world is like getting out of a warm bed in the middle of  winter and stepping onto that cold tile floor.  It's so  cold that your toes curl up and all you can think of is climbing  back under those blankets! The feeling of kindness and love is so hard to  leave that you will spend the next several weekstarted.  It's a bit like  "spring fever"  in a way.  You start to remember what that first one  was like.  Then all the good things that you experienced at the other ones.  Funny, but it's hard to remember any of the arguments that you  might have had anymore.  Only the good times and  all  those warm feelings come to mind.     It starts out small, to be sure.  As convention time  nears, though,  it's so intense that you can't think of  anything  else!  It's  like every nerve is keyed to the maximum!  Yohe NEXT ADAM CONVENTION!     If  you haven't yet heard, ADAMCON IV will be held in  Ohio, in the Cleveland suburb of Mentor.  The dates to reserve on  your calendar are July 23 to July 26.  The reception will be July  23, and anyone who can make it will get to greet one another and just get  the feel of the place.  The sessions, which are being  setup as the result of owner surveys, will cover the topics most  often asked for.   If there is something that isn't covered, but you do wish  it were covered, d    The  saddest time of all is the last day of the  convention.  Not  because you have to go home, but because you have  to  leave all the other's behind.  Imagine going to a place where  everyone else owns an ADAM.  I don't know how many times people have asked me what computer I own.  When I proudly tell them I have a Coleco ADAM computer, some laugh, some wink knowingly at their  friends, and  some jump right down your throat.  At a convention,  if  you are  suddenly placed into a world where everyone lan't continue it as convention  time  approaches.  It's not that the reasons for their arguments have changed.  It's not anything anyone else has said or done either.  It's the  date that seems to make the change!       The closer it comes to convention time, the greater the real excitement!   Sometimes, it just gets so intense that you  forget about  your differences.  Since that first convention, I've  felt that  excitement over half of each year.  The two or three months prior to the convention get me s thinking  of it.   You'll wish for the next two or three months that  someone, anyone, would hold another one TODAY!  Sure, it will wear off  in a few months, but you may do what many of us did and join up with a user's group to keep that feeling alive.  Reading the  articles in various newsletters, on the ANN disks, or in Computer  Monthly magazine will keep you fairly well up-to-date on new products and events.   It will also give you information on the one thing  you most want to know.... the date of tu  just  can't WAIT for it to begin!  Arrival is like going to a family reunion.  All  the friends you made at the earlier shows will be  there  to welcome  you.  The names you've heard over the years will  become faces  and voices you can identify them with.   Questions  you've had can finally be answered, and in a way that YOU can understand them!  It's like having a private tutor.  Need help on something?  Just  ASK!  There is always someone there who will be willing  to help in any way that they can. on't worry.  There will be someone  there who will be more than happy to be a tutor.       In  addition to regular class sessions, which will  be  held with  three different topics running concurrently, there will  be various "special" classes and "hands-on" seminars. The ADAM STORE will even be open on a daily basis, at specific hours.   Supplies you might not want to wait until the last day to buy will be sold by participating vendors at the STORE.  Another addition to  this convention is the extra mealcome my bible in fixing printers, written by Monte Jones. The following is the first in a series of messages containing a combination of the things that I have discovered about the ADAM printer through research and/or my own repair attempts:  (Always UNPLUG THE PRINTER FIRST!!!) General Advise first, then more specific: 1) To prevent computer lockup caused by overheating:   a. Keep a small fan directed at the rear of the printer and connected to the same power strip as the rest of the computer, especially nts to cover the balance.   There  will also be day passes offered for a small fee.  This convention  has been put together with reaching as many ADAM OWNERS as  possible.  Like  the other conventions, MONTHS of thought and planning  have been  put into it.  When you attend your first ADAMCON, you  will KNOW, without any shadow of doubt, just why I get so excited over a  "little convention".  I am looking forward to seeing YOU  this year at ADAMCON IV!                                   Ronald Collins  se, and a soaped, but only damp, towel to scrub the rest of the case. 5) Use Sponge feet on the printer to reduce sound level.  MEI/MICRO (1-800-634-3478 and they take credit cards) has a neat Universal Printer Stand with foam pads for $3.49 that does the trick plus enhances use of fan-fold paper (see below). 6) To use Fanfold paper, attach a rubber band to each of the tabs at each end of the small pressure bar over the black roller.  Stretch each rubber band forward over front of printer and affix at bottoÌ1 ×77WRITTEN: Sun, Apr 5, 1992 AT 21:46:34 POSTED: Tue, Apr 7, 1992 AT 18:45:32 REF: 1243053 (Read: 1 times) FROM: Bob Blair                          TO: Patricia Herrington SUBJ: ADAM Printer Problems                               First I am mailing you a copy of an early AWAUG Newsletter which includes two things (at least) of great value: 1) a short basic program to rewrite damaged EOS directories by Peter Hartzler; and, 2) an extensive listing of ADAM printer problem symptoms and causes which has bes.  At previous ADAMCON's,  delegates were  supplied with as many meals as possible, but not all  three meals of the day.  This year, for the $220.00 full delegate  fee, you will have access to breakfast, lunch and supper.  The session time  is covered, the banquet that NOBODY wants to miss and  even your hotel accomodations are included in that fee.     This year, the hosts of ADAMCON IV are accepting payments if you don't have the full amount in one shot.  Just pay as much  as you can and make installmeif room temperature exceeds 80 degrees, or heavy use.   b. Remove the lid of the metal box over the U2 computer chip to allow air to circulate over heat diffuser on top of chip.  (Pop the cover off with a screwdriver) 3) Keep the large black Roller clean with a moist cloth (if extremely bad use a little WD-40 on the cloth) and dryed with a quality paper towel.  Use WD-40 sprayed on a cloth on the chrome bars inside, do not dry. 4) Use a slightly moistened brush to clean the vents and ribs on the printer cathe vendors who work FOR the ADAM, not those who work themselves.     As with any computer community (or any group of  like-minded individuals), arguments and just plain disagreements crop up from time  to time no matter how hard we all try to prevent it.  We're all just "human" after all, so mistakes can always be made. Some- times it's because ego's clash.  For some, it's just a matter  of being tired. Still others are because someone let's their private live's problems spill over into their ADAM life. m front with a hook made from a paper clip.  Or connect the two bands together and attach a third (will make a Y shaped band) that is stretched over the front of the printer to a single paper clip.  Use Poker chip guides in vent ribs to keep paper straight. 7) Reverse the air direction on your cannister vacuum, pop the printer case cover off and blow out dust inside printer.  Tilt printer front down and do not get nozzle too close to insides. 8) Make sure the wide plastic paper guide located directly under k with new board.  The symptoms of bad U2 chips are usually: printing scrambled characters or random geartrain advances or printing stops after a few minutes. 12) If the print driver is not working properly, or you just cannot get the right strike, no matter what you try, you may have to replace the Carriage assembly. The whole assembly (what the ribbon sits in), including the conduit and connectors are easy to get out and replace.  Just spread the front clamps on each side of the assembly case with your ther problems.  Unplug printer before any of these actions. 9) A good ribbon seems to cure most poor printing problems.  (or tightening a loose daisy wheel) 10) On newer printers (with cylindrical print driver head) don't try to adjust print strike without loosening the two tension screws on each side of driver head (after removing ribbon, of course).  The adjusting screw is the plastic one in the oval- shaped hole at the rear of the cylinder.  Tighten tension screws after making adjustments.  On old printers Bob --- Opus-CBCS 1.99.01a  * Origin: Crystal Visions 2 Venice Fl USA HST 813-497-7186 (1:137/419.0) it board, the U2 chip (the big one inside the metal box) is usually the culprit.  I wedge the old one out of its socket bracket with a tiny screwdriver and put the new one in with my fingers.  It can be done without taking the printer case apart.  I Hoard a supply of salvaged (working) printer parts for later use, especially U2 chips and whole logic boards (no I will not part with any).  The whole circuit board can be easily removed (cut the three wires in the back in the middle and twist, solder & tape bacthe front of the black printer roller is attached and undamaged.  The paper slides too easily if thereis a problem here.--- Opus-CBCS 1.99.01a * Origin: Crystal Visions 2 Venice Fl USA HST 813-497-7186 (1:137/419.0)MESSAGE: 172 of 210 on Adam Computer WRITTEN: Sun, Apr 5, 1992 AT 23:17:41 POSTED: Tue, Apr 7, 1992 AT 18:45:34 REF: 1243054 (Read: 1 times) FROM: Bob Blair                          TO: Patricia Herrington SUBJ: ADAM Printer Problems  The following is the second of two messages on ADAM printumbs, very wide, and tilt the daisy wheel up and back, then do the same with the back clamps (may have to use screwdriver to wedge them wide enough to remove housing.  Then remove screw holding the wires and pull the connectors off the Logic Board (write down how they were atttached).  Cut any plastic wire retainers with scissors. 13)  DO NOT MESS WITH THE STRING THAT MOVES THE CARRIAGE ASSEMBLY!!!  I've wasted a lot of time on that darn thing!! That's about it.  Maybe others have tips for us beyond these. , I use a needle nose pliers to bend the driver platform. 11) Most operational problems (at least in my experience) are in the switch on the case on left side of the ribbon (resets the ribbon at beginning of page margin) or in the small circuit (printer logic) board (the one that the small metal box sits on).  a) The switch arm can be bent or broken.  I keep a supply from old printers, but try to rebend original if I can. (This may be the source of your "chattering" problem.)  b) Regarding the small circuÌ1 ×72Read!+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ WHO'S COMMING TO ADAMCON-IV +++ +++  IF  YOU'RE  COMMING  THEN  +++ +++   PLEASE ADD TO THE LIST!   +++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----------------------------------    LAST UPDATE WAS: Apr 06, 1992 ----------------------------------- Herman Mason Jr. (Co-Chair) & Trading Post BBS. George Koczwara (Co-Chair) & ADAM eXchange BBS. Pat Herrington (EYZOD GRAPHICS) Rich & Frances Clee (MTAG) Howard Pines (OSCAR'S COMPUTERS) Chester King (B.A.S.I.Cthe start. Instructions will  then  be 
displayed one screenful at a time. A handy tip, at this point, is 
to  press the [PRINT] key on your keyboard and have  each  screen 
print  out on the ADAM printer. For a dot matrix print  out,  one 
would  have  to use one of the parallel printer patches  such  as 
FAST  PATCH that comes with the parallel interface, load  Mr.  T. 
Yahtsee  from within the patch program then print the screens  as 
above. This may be a little tricky but you will find that  you'Danz (ADAM ZAP SOFTWARE) Guy Cousineau (MTAG) Jean & Edward Davies (B.A.S.I.C.) Jack Leamy (MTAG) Terry Kayser Bob Sebelist & Wife  (MAINE ADAM LIBRARY) Guy Bona III & Wife James Poulin Robert Jones Ron Mitchell Ramen Griffin Tom Ozretich John "BJ" Lingrel & Jane Jim Howard (Oscars Computers) Jim Notini (NIAD) Ronald Griffin Chris Braynan (Bonifide Sftwre) (MIDI) Bob Phillips Jack & Jean Stone  IND
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are  scored  in the two sections above with the  section  on  the 
bottom reserved for poker type hands. This instructions will tell
you how to choose the points scored for each round of 3 rolls  of 
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                     Reviewed by K.A. Marner

I  cannot  believe  this is in the public  domain.  The  game  is 
wonderfully  put together as with all the other Mr. T.  offerings 
such as Mr. T. Search. This is a self booting game of YAHTSEE for 
1  to 9 players that greets you with a pleasant song while it  is 
loading. If you don't know the rules of the game, you may request 
instructions  on-screen at .) world's FIRST paid up adamconIV attendee..Bart (Zonker) Lynch! (A.N.N.) Pat Williams (B.A.S.I.C. Sec'y) Sandra Schwering (B.A.S.I.C) ** Richard F. Drushel ** (AC-IV's Sec'y) Bruce & Linda Walters (HEXACE SOFTWARE) George Harpster (B.A.S.I.C's President) Alan Neeley (ADAMLink of UTAH) Gary Hosier (DVAUG) Jim Walters (WALTERS SOFTWARE CO.) Dean Rhodes (A.N.N.'s EDITOR) & 463 Ron Collins (B.A.S.I.C.) &  A.N.N. Bob Blair (SFAUG) Keith Marner (UKAS) ** ENGLAND ** Bob & Judy Slopsema Bob & Virginia Bair Eric ll 
get some sort of hard copy.

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enter a name then he colourful game sceen displays the categories 
for points scored:
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next  round. An invalid choice will turn the screen RED  and  you 
may choose a different score so you do not need to know the rules 
of  Yahtsee to start off. You can pick it up as you go along  and 
learn from the invalid key presses.

In conclusion, this is a great game for those who like to play on 
their own as well as offering great entertainment for a group  of 
players  and there is a HALL OF FAME for your high scores. To  my 
mind, this is the greatest asset for d developers. This segment discusses Norman Castro and OAUC. Rich is a founding member of Delaware Valley AUG. This first appeared in the April, 1992 issue of MOAUG/463 ADAM newsletter under Rich's column head, "Meet Your Makers". It runs about two pages at default SmartWriter settings.Scenes_492 H   The following article by Pat Herrington is the April installment of a semi-regular feature of the MOAUG/463 ADAM newsletter called "Behind The Scenes". It discusses print buffers and information from FidoNet 9205ANN-2ANNfiles   A   Dean Roades - ANN Editor      How to fix the ANN files last month that could not be loaded in SmartWriterGRAPHICSdr A   Dean Roades - 463 ADAM   Details creating graphics from several approaches.FIREWG.HRP,2,3,4 H  Graphic of an old fashioned horse drawn firewagon.TALLft.HRP,2,3,4 H  'Tall Bold' font modified from font in PaintAide.LOGO12     A   Ron Mitchell  Part 12 of Ron's LOGO series.LOGO13     A   Part 13JVyoung    A   Jerry Vrancks - 463 ADAM      Get ADAMites infurther information under "PICTURE FILES" listing below. Lani_VIRUS H   The following article by Lani Brito discusses the Michelangelo computer virus. It first appeared in the April, 1992 issue of the MOAUG/463 newsletter.SPELLBOUND H   The following short verse was printed as part of the "April Foolin'" page in the April '92 MOAUG/463 ADAM newsletter. It's funny and makes a good point. (See credits at end.)BLT        H   The following short humor item by Lani Brito is a tongue-in- cheek "virus alert"ogram to calculate future value of guaranteed investment certificates.  ADAMCALC spreadsheet. (NOTE: ADAMCALC required to access this file)investDOC  H   Short DOC file to explain the use of the ADAMCALC investment future value calculator.+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +From MOAUG - Pat Herrington, Editor. (Thanks Pat, for the readme file.)Makers_492 H   The following is the third in a series of articles by Richard Cossaboon which offers a "close-up and personal" look at various ADAM retailers anany 'points-scoring' game.         SM STRAIGHT
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You  will have 13 rounds of 3 rolls of the disc each. The  points 
are  scored  in the two sections above with the  section  on  the 
bottom reserved for poker type hands. This instructions will tell
you how to choose the points scored for each round of 3 rolls  of 
the  dice. Each category chosen is elimiand CompuServe, including projects by Guy Cousineau and Rob Friedman. The column first appeared in the April, 1992 issue.FUN_4_92   H   The following article by Pat Herrington is the April segment of "JUST FOR FUN -- the Series Especially For Kids, People Who Have Kids, and People Who Act Like Kids!" It first appeared in the April, 1992 issue of the MOAUG/463 ADAM newsletter, and was accompanied by a number of cartoon graphics which may be photocopied from the newsletter, or, if you prefer disk copy, see volved at an early age.GoH        A   Latest report on Gallery of Honour.PRINTER    A   ADAM printer problems recently experienced.MAINE      A   A hot new offer for User Groups from the Maine ADAM Library+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +From Guy Cousineau.  (Thanks Guy, for the reasme file.)FINDFILE   A   SmartBasic utility to search a disk for a file. 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