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Accordingly, the sample programs illustrating the commands will show a ^D in the print statements to signify the CONTROL-D character.The OPEN command is used to open an existing file or create a new one. IF the file does not exist it is automatically created. This in itself can crEXPLORING SMARTBASIC. READING DATA FILES.BY GUY COUSINEAU.(ADVISA EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is the next chapter in our ongoing series on understanding SmartBASIC. The series was provided by Ron Mitchell of AUFG and is authored by Guy Cousineau of Ottawa, ON.)The next 2 articles will cover the mechanics of data file manipulation in SMARTBASIC. We will also touch on some examples of data file structure and some productivity hints. The first part will only touch on the basic mechanics of data file access. Artist create a DATA file the next thing you want to do is write data to it. The open command only makes the file available for access. You must tell BASIC that you want to write to it.  10 INPUT "File to read ";f$  20 PRINT "^DOPEN ";f$  30 PRINT "^DWRITE ";f$Since you may have more than one file open, the WRITE command must also include the file name. If you try to WRITE to a file that has not been OPENed, BASIC will complain. After the WRITE command has been issued, all PRINT statements will go to the example, when loading or saving a basic program. They can also be used to open and read data files.BASIC automatically assigns one or the other to the file being accessed. You can have 2 files open simultaneously but they must be on the same drive. If you try to open 2 files on 2 different mediums, you will get a NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE error since the directory buffer is currently in use for the first file. This means that you cannot use DATA FILE READ commands to transfer a file from one medium to another  St.Peters MO         63376Richard Drushel     3353 Mayfield Rd.   Cleveland Hts. 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Your controlling program may behave strangely when it discovers that there is no data.  10 PRINT "^DOPEN filename"Alternately, the controlling program may prompt the user for a file name and pass it to the OPEN command:  10 INPUT "File to read ";f$  20 PRINT "^DOPEN ";f$Note that there is a space after OPEN; it is required so BASIC can parse the OPEN command.When you fircle 2 will further refine the strategies.Before examining the commands for accessing data files, a bit about buffers. SMARTBASIC has 3-1K buffers that are used for a variety of purposes. These are located at D400, D800, and DC00. The last one resides just below the start of the EOS which starts at E000. The first buffer is used to read the directory of the medium. Even on directories greater than 1K, this is the only buffer used for directories. The other 2 can be used for file access. They are used, for file; nothing goes to the screen. Thus it is impossible to send informational messages to the screen while the WRITE command is in progress. All PRINT commands will be formatted in the file the same way that they would have appeared on the screen. The conclusion of a PRINT statement send a carriage return to the file to specify the end of the line. Thus, to send more than one STRING to the data file, you must use the ";" or "," characters:  10 INPUT "File to read ";f$  20 PRINT "^DOPEN ";f$  30 PRINT "^SMARTBASIC allows you to partially recover from this problem by letting you issue the CLOSE command without the control-d. When your program aborts, before doing anything else, type the following:CLOSE filename(the file name you used) or PRINT"^DCLOSE ";f$There is disk activity and the file closes. Check the file size and you will see that it is 1K. If you take out your disk editor and consult the catalog, you will see that the catalog entry for bytes-used-in-last-block is close to if not exactly 1024. Note also that the file name must be specified. Now we have a program that will create a data file. Run this program, BOOT SMARTWRITER, and have a look at the file. It should look like:My name is Guy Cousineau This data is being sent to testfile 1 .66666666 5.18 431460Because the print command on line 60 was ALL-IN-ONE-LINE, that is exactly the way it will appear on the screen.DATA files may have lengths up to 128 characters, but if you intend to read them from SMARTWRITER, you should limit line lenwhen the file is the last in entry in the directory, I just have not had the ambition to try it. We can learn one lesson from this. When creating a file which will be updated later, you should blank fill it to a suitable length. Thus when you read in your data, manipulate it, and write it back, there will be sufficient room allocated in the directory.Once a file has been created, how do you get at the information stored on the file? That's when the READ command comes into play. Recreate the data file whicm. There is no fix for this; just be careful in choosing your file names.There is a further complication. Run this program using the same TESTFILE name as before.  10 INPUT "File to read ";f$  20 PRINT "^DOPEN ";f$  30 PRINT "^DWRITE ";f$  40 FOR x=1 TO 100  50 PRINT "This is data line number ";x  60 NEXT x  70 PRINT "^DCLOSE ";f$Two things will happen. The program will abort with an error message, and your file will still be open since the CLOSE command was not executed. The latest revision of DWRITE ";f$  40 PRINT "My name is Guy Cousineau"  50 PRINT "This data is being sent to ";f$  60 PRINT 1, 2/3, 5.18, 564*765Once you are finished writing to a file, you must CLOSE it to record the file on the medium, and to restore normal screen output:  10 INPUT "File to read ";f$  20 PRINT "^DOPEN ";f$  30 PRINT "^DWRITE ";f$  40 PRINT "My name is Guy Cousineau"  50 PRINT "This data is being sent to ";f$  60 PRINT 1, 2/3, 5.18, 564*765  70 PRINT "^DCLOSE ";f$Note again the space after CLOSE.Run the program again using a file name that does not exist on the medium; this time everything goes normally provided you have sufficient room on the medium. You have now created a 3K data file.Why did this happen? When the file was created, it only occupied 1K on the medium. The subsequent write operation tried to go over this 1K boundary and the file entry could not handle the extra size. This will happen even if the file was the last one on the medium. This is a drawback which could probably be fixed gth to 80 characters.Now return to BASIC and run the test program again using the same file name. What do you think will happen? Go back to SMARTWRITER and look at the data file again; it looks just the same as before. That is because the WRITE command always writes to the start of the file. This poses a serious problem. If you supply the wrong name for your data file, and it is a file that already exists, you will erase any previous information on that file....that's a great way to lose a valuable prograh contained your name and some numbers, and run the following program:  10 INPUT "File to read ";f$  20 PRINT "^DOPEN ";f$  30 PRINT "^DREAD ";f$  40 INPUT name$  50 INPUT df$  60 INPUT number$  70 PRINT name$  80 PRINT df$  90 PRINT number$ 100 INPUT "What do I do now ";a$When you run the program, you will see a "?" appear on the screen for each INPUT statement. This is because the READ command has chanelled normal keyboard input to the file and INPUT without a string prints a "?". Before we hsing our word processing program and I take great pleasure in publishing the series for readers to consider when making their choice of future programs. Here is the first part of the series. BDC)"Modern computers are used to perform a myriad of tasks. They are renowned for their engineering and mathematical applications. No modern business could possibly function without the computer to prepare payrolls and process all sorts of records regarding employee's vacations, benefits, performance ratings etc.. Inething is still going wrong! The CLOSE command appeared on the screen and I still get the annoying error message. Now we come back to those annoying question marks.Because they get printed on the screen, the CONTROL-D preceding the CLOSE command did not appear as the first character on the line. So let's get rid of the "?" by using a different INPUT statement.  10 INPUT "File to read ";f$  20 PRINT "^DOPEN ";f$  30 PRINT "^DREAD ";f$  40 INPUT "";name$  50 INPUT "";df$  60 INPUT "";number$  65 PRIt consider the dozens of word processors that are in use around the world. Here, there are half a dozen heavy contenders for first place. Or look at it in another way; millions of people use one word processor or another, in homes and offices across the land. That is not true of spreadsheets or engineering programs like FORTRAN, PASCAL or BASIC. The word processor is indispensable in today's world."Graham Greene died in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday, the third of April. This unprecedented master of En                     PUT IT IN WRITING!.                     BY THOMAS J. KEENE.(ADVISA EDITOR'S NOTE:- Tom Keene, of CP/M For THE ADAM fame, has been authoring a series of articles on VDE266, a CP/M-TDOS word processing program, which he favours. David Sands and I have painstakingly transcribed the series from hard copy in order to make it available to our readers. Tom Keene, who writes as prolifically as his subject author, Graham Greene, recommends we seriously consider the merits of VDE266 when chooandle that problem, what happened at line 100? We got an OUT OF DATA error. That is because we did not close the file and BASIC is still trying to read input from the file.Since it has reached the end of the file, it aborts with an error....so let's close the file:  10 INPUT "File to read ";f$  20 PRINT "^DOPEN ";f$  30 PRINT "^DREAD ";f$  40 INPUT name$  50 INPUT df$  60 INPUT number$  65 PRINT "^DCLOSE ";f$  70 PRINT name$  80 PRINT df$  90 PRINT number$ 100 INPUT "What do I do now ";a$Somventories would be unmanageable were it not for the ubiquitous computer. Planning would be virtually impossible today without the splendid spreadsheet programs that manipulate enormous amounts of data. But, of all the ways that a computer is used, there can be little dispute that the preparation of correspondence and general writing of text is the most extensive. The all-time greatest software seller is said to be LOTUS 1 2 3. But that is probably because it is the best spreadsheet program on the market. BuNT:PRINT "^DCLOSE ";f$:REM make sure close is on a line  70 PRINT name$  80 PRINT df$  90 PRINT number$ 100 INPUT "What do I do now ";a$I have added a null string to each input statement which will cancel the "?". Also, the additional PRINT statement in line 65 makes sure that the ^D will appear at the beginning of a line.In the next article, we will cover some of the other problem with this program and introduce some further refinements.Guy Cousineau1059 Hindley StreetOTTAWA CanadaK2B 5L9Somglish literature was unique in many ways. In today's world he is incredible in that he wrote all of his novels in longhand. He used neither a typewriter nor a word processor. Either the man was a fabulous speller or he relied on an editorial staff at his publishers. Very few of us could survive without a modern spell checker, nor could we create any sort of text without a word processor.When Coleco introduced the ADAM, the major selling point was the integral word processor that was offered. At that time,jor printers in use and they weren't too shabby either!. No matter if you had a Brother daisy wheel or an ADAM, they both produced superb copy which was superior to any dot matrix printer regardless of cost.However, daisy wheel printers had a rigid spacing problem. So did most typewriters of that period. Only the extremely expensive IBM Executive had anything remotely resembling a variable spacing capability, and that was extremely limited. So it was natural that some enterprising hacker came out with a p a poor proof reader of his own material. The problem is that an author knows in his mind what he intended to write and when he proof reads his own material, he see what he intended to write, whether it is there or not. Another person will catch things an author misses even though he may have read it over several times. This is especially true of mistakes in typing. It is amazing how right a text will appear to the one who wrote it, but another person will spot errors and inconsistencies immediately.But hd of the next line and put that word at the end of the line. Or, if the last word on a line was simply too long, it would drop that word down to the next line and then go back and space the other words on the line in a non-rhythmic pattern. Now, with these enhancements, the ADAM writer could produce some very professional looking text with that old SMARTWRITER.We soon began to notice that a lot of other home computers were showing up with some swanky word processors that featured some very professional imhe ADAM was filled with so many mis-spelled words that it was completely useless. Nothing could be more treacherous than a spelling checker filled with spelling errors.But SMARTWRITER wasn't bad in it's time. Many of it's shortcomings were shared by dozens of other computer's word processors. Take formatting, for example. Virtually none of the home personal computers circa 1985 could justify text. At that time the dot matrix printer was just getting off the ground. Daisy wheel printers were by far, the ma this was unheard of. Even the Commodore (UGH!) had to use a separate software program to write text. And the SMARTWRITER of the ADAM was a very good word processor indeed!. There are many ADAM owners that I know personally who use no other system. But a program that merely prepares text is, to my way of thinking, sadly incomplete. Formatting and spell checking are an integral part of the writing process. I am not too bad a spelling, but I am a miserable typist. And, as many people will attest, an author isrogram that enabled the rigid daisy wheel printer to sit up and do tricks. Some of this formatting software was commercial, but one of the best was a public domain program by Ted Chapin called RUN80. It was amazing what this program could do for text writers. Not the least of which was it's ability to justify text using an algorithm that spread the text in such a way that it became almost unnoticeable. It would check the last word on a line for fit, and, if it had room, it would reach down for the first worow many of us have an editor to help us with our personal correspondence or other writing endeavours?. A good spelling checker will go a long way toward minimizing this problem. Remember that the original ADAM had a very limited internal memory and even a moderately comprehensive spell checker may require upwards of 600K of workspace. So Coleco had to forget a spell checker. In fact, they didn't have a separate piece of software for that purpose, either. I recall that the first spell checker available for tprovements. At the time there was absolutely nothing of that kind for the ADAM. But as soon as Coleco released CP/M 2.2, there was a flood tide of great programs, both commercial and public domain, that could be adapted to the ADAM. Coleco itself entered into an agreement with Westico to provide a vast array of CP/M commercial software especially configured for the ADAM. These programs varied from business management (which included, the then top-drawer, dBASE II) through telecommunications, science & engint needs. This is where the public domain program VDE has it over Wordstar. One thing VDE is, --- it's fast!!.VDE has one notable drawback and that is the memory provision for the text you are writing. It can only hold about 45K in internal memory at any one time. It should be noted that Eric Meyer incorporated a compression technique in VDE that enables the program to handle and equivalent text of about 25% more than the actual amount in memory. This is transparent to the user and you are not conscious ofain was a great program called VDO25. It was vastly superior to SMARTWRITER and much easier to use. Most of VDO25's features were readily adapted to the ADAM, though not all.A companion spelling checker made it's appearance in the public domain named SPELLM20. This was, and is, a terrific program that is completely ADAM compatible.Not long after VDO25 was making the rounds of the ADAM users, Eric Meyer of Bloomington Indiana (University of Indiana) brought out his first edition of VDE. This was not confident memory, all of the word processor functions are lightning fast. You can go from the top of the text to the bottom i the blink of an eye. And you can go from the bottom of the text to the top with equal facility. By contrast Wordstar 4.0 takes nearly 30 seconds to go from the top to the bottom of a 45K file. If you are searching for a particular word, it takes more time to speak the word than it does for VDE to locate it!.VDE has been vastly improved over the years with a large number of versions repstar IV was released, MicroPro made a CP/M version which was immediately adapted to the ADAM. I bought a copy of this program and found it was improved quite a bit over the earlier version I had been using but it was extremely large, requiring several discs to hold the complete program. Without a 3.5" or hard drive, Wordstar IV is unthinkable. But even at it's best, Wordstar is extremely awkward and slow, slow, slow. It jumps back and forth to the discs much too frequently to get something or another that ieering, planning & analysis, language processing, development tools and word processing. In the latter category, they offered WordStar, MailMerge and Star Index which was a reference aid for WordStar. These were anything but cheap, WordStar selling for $349. With the advent of some good CP/M telecommunications software, the ADAM community soon discovered a wealth of public domain programs on various bulletin boards, most notably Compuserve and Genie. The first major word processing program in the public dom this aspect, but it substantially mitigates the shortage of memory.I should point out that very few people will ever find this lack of memory to be a handicap. On those rare occasions when you might have a large body of text and it is necessary to modify parts of it, there is an ancillary program that makes this very easy to do. The advantage of limiting the text volume is so overwhelming that I wouldn't want it changed for all the tea in China.Because every bit of the text you are working on is in resigured for any particular computer and especially not the ADAM. I spent a lot of time trying to configure it and finally, after some help from Eric Meyer, I got it to work on an ADAM. There was no doubt at all that VDE was a lot more sophisticated than VDO25. I had also obtained a version of Wordstar for the ADAM. I liked it but I thought that VDE was much easier to use. Unfortunately the command structure of these two programs was quite different, even though they both did about the same things.When Wordlacing earlier versions with some improvement or other. The last revision was 2.66 (VDE266) which was only slightly different from version 2.65. The change was to correct an internal error that rarely occurred. But previous revisions were usually significant.Perhaps the most notable change was made when Eric Meyer changed the operating commands to agree with those of Wordstar. He retained his original command structure for those who had become so accustomed to them that they didn't want to change. So bothte writing system should have a spell checker and formatting capabilities. There is a supporting program that I highly recommend for use with VDE and that is the QUIKKEYS program. I use this program for many other programs, such as a modem program and PRINTMASTER etc.. It is so extremely useful with a word processor that I urge you to get a copy (it is CP/M public domain) and configure it to be a companion for VDE. I will discuss this use a bit later.There is a program that comes with VDE called VINSTALL. any of these adaptations. The reason Eric Meyer ended the revisions of VDE was that there were no further major improvements that he could think of that it lacked. There is one illustrious version of CP/M that was made with Eric Meyer's blessing and that is the screen writers version created by Fred Haines. Almost every version of VDE that came out, was immediately followed by a screen writers version. As I have pointed out in the past, this screen writers version is regarded as the most outstanding piece am may be useful to you in the future when you want to change some of the settings such as User Options. Let's consider those User Options.One user option is the creation of a backup file. Whenever you edit a file (that is, you bring an existing file into memory to make changes in it), do you want the original file to be retained as a backup when you save the edited file?. If you do, then you will have two files of the same document, one with the new changes and one that is just like it was before you ediprocessor nor with the Intel 8080. It can be disassembled (if you have a mind to) with DDTZ but not with the standard ADAM CP/M disassembler. It can write directly to the video RAM but this feature of VDE is not implemented in the ADAM. All editing is done entirely in memory. Although not generally known in the CP/M world, VDE does have an MS-DOS version. I think that the best way to describe VDE is by going through a summary of the commands and explain each what each of them does. I mentioned that a comple systems are in the current version. A major improvement in VDE was in the documentation. The current documentation is outstanding!.Even though VDE has been copyrighted and has been made public domain with no strings of any kind attached, it has been unmercifully hacked by well intentioned people. There was a version adapted to ZCPR (written by Carl Wilson) and another for TDOS. These are mostly adaptations to make it work on these hybrid CP/M systems. For the most part there is little reason to recommendCOM. This is the program used to install the generic VDE to one that is configured for your ADAM. Unless you are intent upon experimentation, my recommendation is that you obtain a preconfigured copy of VDE266 and save yourself the needless pain of doing it yourself. You can get a copy from the IEAUG public domain library. I have posted version on several bulletin boards including Compuserve and Genie and I am aware that other ADAM configurations have also been widely posted. Nevertheless the VINSTALL progrof software of it's kind. And it is in some pretty expensive company. It is almost unbelievable that this fantastic program is available for the ADAM. I have mentioned before, our good friend, Richard Newton, has used VDE266SP with great success in his screen writing.Just how does VDE operate and specifically what are it's features?.To begin with, VDE is written on Z80 assembly language. This is one of the reasons that it is so fast. Unfortunately, it will not work on a computer that uses the 8085 microted it. The backup file will have the same filename but it's file extension will be ".BAK". You may prefer not to have this option so this is something you can change with VINSTALL.There is a status of files that you may create with VDE which is an option at the time you first create the file. It can be designated as a Wordstar type document, an ASCII document or a "non-document". If you don't specify the mode, it defaults to an ASCII document. But for those who prefer that it default to the Wordstar mode. The header will be discussed in more detail a bit later. The "ruler" does not obliterate the header, but is a separate line just below the header.When you start to create a text file you open a file with this command:A>VDE266 {B:} {FILENAM.TYP} <CR>The items in curly brackets {} are optional.If the drive is not designated, the file you are creating will be located on the A: drive. As shown above, the new file will be placed on the B: drive. You may use any drive (including the M: drive) that is avmething else with the VINSTALL User Option section.There is a procedure in word processors called "insert" which enables you to insert a character, word, phrase or paragraph anywhere in an existing text. Most word processors have this capability and it is most useful. However, it is a matter of preference as to whether you want it "ON" all the time, or only "ON" when you so direct. The insert command is Control-V (^V). You place your cursor at the character where you want to insert the word(s) and then hiven save a file and continue editing) you will be prompted for a filename at the top of the screen thus:Name:The correct procedure is to enter a normal filename (and filetype, if appropriate). But if you hit just about any key except a regular letter, you will be hopelessly fouled up. For example, if you hit the Escape key or any control character the screen will blink and prompt you for a name. Only from here on, nothing will be accepted!. The only way out is a COLD BOOT!. And I have encountered a timeose is to guide you in laying out your text. It also displays the letter "T" at each of the preset tab locations. The option may be selected with Control-O followed by the letter T (^O T) and is a toggled option, -- that is, it can be toggled "on" or "off" with the same command. The default setting is "off" but this is another of the User Options that you can set with VINST266.The header at the top of the screen tells you the filename and drive, the line number and the column number, as well as other data, that can be set in the User Option section. You can also set the file mode to a couple of other modes. For example, if you are writing an assembly language document and if should have the file extension".ASM", you may designate it as the default setting. You are allowed to make another such file mode designation according to your preference. This is mostly a convenience for those who are doing a lot of specialized writing. Once you have finished with this need, you can easily change the default back up soailable.The other optional item on the command line is the filename and extension of the new file. It isn't required that you have a filename and type to open a file; later on when you close it, you will be required (by VDE) to name the file. This procedure works well enough, but I advise against opening a new file without naming it on the command line. It is possible to make mistakes when naming the file and it is possible to get hopelessly hung up in the process!. For example, when you exit a file (or et Control-V again and resume normal typing. You may, if you wish, "invert" the use of the Control-V. In this case the insert mode is "ON" unless you hit Control-V to stop inserting. In the default operation, normal typing prevails until you hit Control-V, at which time inserting starts. This default setting is one of the User Options.One optional feature of VDE is the layout at the top of the screen which is called a "ruler". This is a series of dots, each of which represents a character of text. The purp or two when even that won't resolve the problem. It may require that you completely power down. Naturally, anything you may have written will be lost. There is nothing wrong with waiting until you are ready to exit to name the file, but, on the other hand, I can't think of any good reason for not naming the file on the command line. You can always rename it later, or for that matter, rename it while under the control of VDE.                    TO BE CONTINUED.إ For example, when you exit a file (or ees. All CP/M files are in binary code, so a better modem program was needed. The most basic such program was the Keith Petersen MBOOT.COM file which I used to get my first CP/M programs in binary code.One of the beautiful things about MBOOT (it has been issued under a number of different names, but they are all basically the same) is that it is an ASCII file that one can download with ADAMLINK II. It is on nearly every bulletin board in the country, and it is an ASM file. That's why it is an ASCII file. ACP/M FOR THE ADAM: CHAPTER FIFTEEN.BY THOMAS J. KEENE.(ADVISA EDITOR'S NOTE:- Here is chapter 15 in our ongoing series on using CP/M with the ADAM, by Tom Keene, the editor emeritus of the Inland Empire ADAM User's Group, (IEAUG) of Orange, CA. Our thanks to Tom for allowing us to reprint these articles which were originally published in the IEAUG newsletter. BDC.)I have been thinking about some of the applications of CP/M that are used more than others. Of course, there are the word processors which better modem programs which are in the public domain. There are two programs that deserve particular attention and they are MDM740 and MEX. I have used both of these programs extensively and I prefer MEX. I like MDM740 and it really is terrific. MEX is considerably more versatile, but for most people it is quite a bit more complicated than MDM740. Both have been configured for use with the ADAM. MDM740, when used with the ADAM, goes by the name MADAM7. Both have very good documentation. MADAM7 used to have you need is a MODEM. And Coleco provided us with a very nice modem called the ADAMLINK. It is a 300 baud device that will support some extremely sophisticated modem software with such splendid features as autodial and autoanswer, but these programs were never provided by Coleco. The now infamous ADAMLINK I software was next to worthless. One couldn't download even the simplest program. That was somewhat rectified by ADAMLINK II. But that was limited to ASCII files and would not permit downloading binary filven save a file and continue editing) you will be prompted for a filename at the top of the screen thus:Name:The correct procedure is to enter a normal filename (and filetype, if appropriate). But if you hit just about any key except a regular letter, you will be hopelessly fouled up. For example, if you hit the Escape key or any control character the screen will blink and prompt you for a name. Only from here on, nothing will be accepted!. The only way out is a COLD BOOT!. And I have encountered a timefter assembling it with your CP/M ASM.COM and then loading it with LOAD.COM, you get a COM file that will download binary files such as CP/M programs.MBOOT is more of academic interest than anything else. It is very limited in features and about the best thing it is good for is to download a really good modem program. And there are several of these. You can, of course, buy modem programs.One of the earliest ADAM specific programs was ASCOM which Westico sold for $240. It was OK but there are many, much we have discussed a number of times. But one of the most useful applications of CP/M is the communication it affords with other non-ADAM computers and with the many bulletin boards such as Compuserve, Genie, and a host of privately operated boards which serve many types of computers. We could never exchange programs with these diverse machines if it were not for CP/M. But for many people, the procedure for getting these programs is somewhat of a mystery.It almost goes without saying, that the first thing a rather confusing documentation until John Moore of Atlanta Ga. recently wrote an excellent documentation for it. Both of these programs have been around for a long time and both have been revised a few times. There was a virtually worthless version of MDM7XX in the old NIAD public domain library, and if any of you tried those early versions and gave up, then try again. The later versions are great.MEX as it comes from Ron Fowler (the author) is not machine specific. That is, it is not for any particularp. But to contact that BBS, all I do is type "CALL NOCCC". There is another MEX command that is similar and that is "DIAL NOCCC". There is a slight difference but that will be covered later. I call the Anaheim Heath Users Group BBS by just typing "CALL ANAHUG".I sometimes exchange programs with a fellow who uses a HEATH H-89 computer.To contact him I just type "Call ERIC". There is no limit to the size of the phone directory and it is easy to add or delete numbers. And as is the case with so many featurnice features that are missing in this older version.Even MEX itself has undergone a number of revisions. Most people today are using the version 1.14. Now when I say version, I am referring to the basic MEX program without any machine specific overlays. And even after you have overlaid MEX with your choice of overlays, you will frequently configure it to do a very particular operation in which case you will clone it with the unique configuration and, in a very real sense, you will have another version ofbuilt in part of MEX. I prefer this method because I can manipulate the directory without affecting the basic MEX program. So I use the start up file to load the phone directory into the program. One of the first functions I have the initializing file do is to change the ID of the MEX prompt. This prevents confusion when I am communicating with another MEX user.Every MEX prompt I send out has my initials on it so that one can tell that I was the source of that statement. Just a little nicety of MEX. MEX a include the Compuserve number or several bulletin boards you use regularly. It could include the telephone numbers of other computer owners with whom you communicate. In the phone directory you place the name of the BBS and the phone number. Then when want to call that BBS you merely type in the name; no need to remember the phone number.For example, I use the bulletin board of the North Orange County Computer Club regularly. Right now I couldn't tell you the phone number of that BBS without looking it u computer. There are a great many overlays that have been published for about every computer in existence. I know of over 90 such overlays. For the ADAM alone, I myself have five overlays. And the funny thing is, that there is not one of them that has all of the features that I want in one overlay. I may just have to write my own.I think that it is significant that the first overlay I got for the ADAM several years ago is still in use and works beautifully. Naturally, some of the later overlays have very es of MEX, there is more than one way of maintaining a phone directory. The preference is yours-- whichever way is easiest for you.Another outstanding feature of MEX is the option of invoking an initializing, or start-up, file. Not everyone uses this feature, but frankly I wouldn't be without it. This file is one that you create yourself to take care of all of the basic tasks you want MEX to take care of every time you use it. For example, my telephone directory is maintained as a separate file and not a  MEX. I have a number of clones. One special MEX program which I use is actually clone level 9. I recommend that you keep a basic version on hand which you can always use to create a new special purpose version of MEX that won't be cluttered with features that were incorporated into another version.Just what are some of the things that MEX will do that make it so great? One feature which I find extremely useful is a phone directory. You can prepare a directory of your most used telephone numbers. It mightllows the use of string statements or commands. These are like MACROs which will let you use special key assignments to represent a large line of text or a command. These strings are maintained in a separate file just as a phone directory. If you want the keystrings to be called up each time, then that instruction would be part of the initializing file. I always want to make a log file of each MEX operation. It's not necessary, but I want a complete record of every thing that was said or done every time I cedial the number if it is busy or doesn't answer within 45 seconds. You can have MEX redial it one, two, three or however many times you wish, even forever or until it gets an answer. This, too, is a very easy command to implement. You can program MEX to call a given number a few times and if there is no answer then try another number a few times and if that too doesn't answer you can have it try other numbers and if you wish you can have it start all over again and repeat the process. All automatically! Orf it was a communication with Compuserve, I usually rename it to CMPSRV.XXX where XXX is a serialized number indicating the number of the Compuserve file. If I had been using the El Toro BBS I may rename the "C" file to ELTORO.XXX and so on. But the start up file will be used to always create this "log file". The command for this is very short. It is just "TERM C".As I mentioned, MEX will autodial your phone number for you. But there is a small problem with the phone company. When MEX goes to work, it seiand off of Compuserve and then disconnected my computer from the phone line, closed all my open files and returned to CP/M. It worked. That's the kind of modem program MEX is.The most frequently used file transfer protocol in use today is the one known as XMODEM. But there are a number of others in use. For example, Compuserve has two special protocols unique to their service. I think they have discontinued their Compuserve A protocol. But MEX is configured to use the Compuserve protocol if you want it. Ie phone line and this is a routine part of my in- itializing file. Then, when the initializing file instructs MEX to place the call, it goes through on the first try. MEX is very obliging. You can have MEX dial PULSE or TONE depending on the modem MEX is working with (and also if your phone company offers free TONE dialing).The ADAMLINK modem is a PULSE only dialer, but later if you upgrade your modem you can use TONE dialing.Not only will MEX automatically dial your call, you can very easily have MEX rommunicate with the modem. That includes everything from the moment the computer or BBS at the other end answers my call. This "log file" in no way precludes me opening another file and downloading programs to another file on my disc. With MEX you can have both files open simultaneously. So in my initializing file I always include the commands to open a log file which I give a short file name (I call it C) which I can rename after I leave MEX. I can name it to something appropriate for that communication. I if you prefer, it will get off the line and hang up.Although I don't find it to be anything more than a stunt, I have initialized MEX to perform the usual chores, then dial Compuserve, log on with my CIS number, then provide my password when requested. Next it was programmed to go to the Computer Club Forum on Compuserve and seek out one of the data libraries and then request a file to be downloaded and then download that file to my disc. When the file was transferred, it signed off of the Computer Club zes the phone line right away and provides the computer tone sound. When it starts to dial, the telephone company interprets the first dial pulse as the second number of the dialing sequence. As a result, not all of your numbers will be used and the call will never be completed. After 45 seconds, MEX will hang up and if you have told MEX to redial it, it will almost always make a connection on the next try (if the line isn't busy). But to preclude this unwanted delay, I always have MEX disconnect me from th doubt if many people use it, but MEX does provide it if you are interested. The advantage of using XMODEM file transfer is its inherently high accuracy of transmission. It uses an error checking transfer procedure that virtually assures an error free transmission. But at some cost. It takes quite a bit longer to send a file as it would without error checking. In binary files that have program instructions, errors can't be tolerated, but simple ASCII text files can tolerate a few glitches that may garble a el 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 bottom front with a hook made from a paper FIDONET FILTERINGS.BY DAVID COBLEY.(ADVISA EDITOR'S NOTE:- Here is the first in what I hope will be an ongoing series of information items screened from FidoNet. Dave Sands will also reference Fido in his Gleanings column, but he suggested we publish this pair of messages in their entirety, on a subject dear to the hearts of true ADAM users (ADAM PRINTER PROBLEMS). BDC.)(691)   Sun 5 Apr 92 11:46pBy: Bob BlairTo: Patricia HerringtonRe: ADAM Printer Problems-----------------------------------------attached and undamaged. The paper slides too easily if there is a problem here.--- Opus-CBCS 1.99.01a *Origin: Crystal Visions 2 Venice Fl USA HST 813-497-7186 (1:137/419.0)@PATH: 137/419 3608/1 123/19 396/1 153/752 2 351/1 621-----------------------------------------------------(699) Mon 6 Apr 92 1:17aBy: Bob BlairTo: Patricia HerringtonRe: ADAM Printer Problems ----------------------------------------------------@EID:a9e6 29dfc364The following is the second of two messages on ADAM printer prdegrees, 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 case, and a soaped, but only damp, towword or two but the general meaning comes through. In that case NO protocol may be the preferred way to send a file.Though few people give it a thought, this terrific modem system is only available to the ADAM user through the aegis of CP/M. In future issues, I propose to delve into the use of these CP/M modem programs in greater detail.Thomas J. KeeneIEAUG.o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-opuserve A protocol. But MEX is configured to use the Compuserve protocol if you want it. Iclip. 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 canister 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 the front of the black printer roller is ------------@EID:22b2 29dfadb2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 Advice 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 if room temperature exceeds 80 oblems. 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, I use neb --- Opus-CBCS 1.99.01a *Origin: Crystal Visions 2 Venice Fl USA HST 813-497-7186 (1:137/419.0)@PATH: 137/419 3608/1 123/19 396/1 153/752 2 351/1 621-----------------------------------------------------EDITOR'S FOOTNOTE.Apart from minor editorial adjustments to suit our newsletter print format, the foregoing messages are exactly as they were received here in Qualicum Beach.We have recently learned that communication with Keith Marner of UKAS, the United Kingdom ADAM Subscribers group, is now pochip (the big one inside the metal box) is usually the culprit. I wedge the old one out of its socket with a tiny screwdriver and put the new one in with my fingers, without taking the printer apart. 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 & tapb --- Opus-CBCS 1.99.01a *Origin: Crystal Visions 2 Venice Fl USA HST 813-497-7186 (1:137/419.0)@PATH: 137/419 3608/1 123/19 396/1 153/752 2 351/1 621-----------------------------------------------------EDITOR'S FOOTNOTE.Apart from minor editorial adjustments to suit our newsletter print format, the foregoing messages are exactly as they were received here in Qualicum Beach.We have recently learned that communication with Keith Marner of UKAS, the United Kingdom ADAM Subscribers group, is now po thumbs, 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. Boedle 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 circuit board, the U2 ssible via Fidonet.More news and views on and from Fidonet'ing as my experience and equipment dictates.BDC.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. Boe back 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 yourGLEANINGS.BY DAVID SANDS.(ADVISA EDITOR'S NOTE:- Gleanings is a column of items collected from the exchange newsletters VISA receives. Square brackets [ ] enclose any additions to quoted passages. Sources are cited with the quotations.)And this issue marks the addition of the Fidonet files to the Gleanings column. Fidonet is an electronic mail system chaining BBS systems together, giving modem communication to like-minded types all over the world. For ADAM-minded communicators, it offers the ADAM Echo <yes it does!>" Rob Friedman to Greg Fuller, Fidonet 'Re: Kermit for the ADAM?' [capitals in original]Fidonet, and ADAM's ability to communicate with the world through it, is just one example of how nothing is really 'obsolete' if it still works. Ron Mitchell, AUFG (Ottawa, ON.) newsletter (nl) editor muses: "It's difficult to quarrel with the capabilities of today's modern computer software such as WordPerfect and Lotus. Everything is done for you, and the job can be produced as professionally as you li fellow correspondents; A: still respect him and his right to his opinion, and B: think he should knock it off."I find all this technical stuff interesting. please feel free to keep us up to date on it. it might go in one ear and out the other, but i'm interested while i read it! :) :)" Bart Lynch to James Young; Fidonet ' Re: fidonet'. [syntax per original]Fidonet will also be a source of more information for all ADAM users: Editor David Cobley has an interesting article on printers this issue. It was ize." Faye B. Deere, 'The President Says', AUGER, May '92. ECAUG., Fort Walton Beach, FL. 32549-4934.ADAM's House has added a FAX machine to its business phone line, (713) 482-5040. The FAX has an automatic detector for night calls.If you have an Expansion Module 3 ADAM, Dr. Christopher E. Matt provides installation instructions for the ADAMouse II in the Apr.'92 ADAM International Media (AIM). Matt developed a system to use the mouse and the game controller together--it does require some soldering on tin PC Paintbrush? Cool. : ) ' Absolutely ! Who says a new dog can't learn old tricks! " Guy Cousineau to Pat Herrington, Fidonet, 'RE: ADAM GRAPHICS'Then again, maybe this old dog isn't cut out to learn new tricks: what for example, does all this mean ? "...Ahh, Kermit. Well...CP4GEN was the GENeric CP/M Kermit program that works on CP/M but not under TDOS (something to do with the way it does BIOS calls) But...have no fear. QTERM does Xmodem, 1K-Xmodem, <sometimes called Ymodem>. True Ymodem, and KERMIT!, now being downloaded by ADVISA's editor, David Cobley. For the Gleaner, it's a chance to pick up more, different and recent items of interest. I can't help describing it as a chance to read other people's mail: Fidonet communications aren't private, although they are between individuals.Everyone using FidoMail knows this, and indeed, many messages are directed to 'all', especially if the writer has a problem. If a writer creates a problem, for example with a 'flaming' comment, he soon discovers that hiske. All is taken care of. That being so, why is the ADAM running VDE266 so much more pleasing and satisfying to use?" Ron Mitchell, 'Editor's Wanderings', AUFG, Mar/Apr. '92.The lights are going out again..."I'm afraid I have bad news for you. The editor of Computer Monthly magazine called me yesterday, and told me that they were dropping the Classic Computer Columns as of July. The last ADAM NEWS column will be in the June magazine. They are completely revamping the magazine, and even changing its page sa message between Fidonet'ers Bob Blair and Pat Herrington, but it's useful for every ADAM owner still using The Printer From Hell.On Fidonet, correspondents often quote back part of the letter to which they're replying. Since it's an electronic medium, everything is on disk and can be manipulated with a word processor. That leads to this kind of exchange: "*** Quoting Patricia Herrington to Guy Cousineau *** 'AMAZING  Guy, You mean a trick you learned on the ADAM turned out to be something you could use he game board. "By performing this hardware modification, one can develop, in a relatively short period of time, precise control over ADAMouse II cursor movements. As an example, Ghost Zapper (Pitman Software) cursor control becomes more precise and faster when utilizing ADAMouse II (it's also a lot more fun)." Matt; AIM, April 1992.New Programs: ADAM's Calculator. From Maine ADAM Library, Box 85, Waterford, ME.,USA 04088. $8.25 (US) including shipping. On-screen calculator with keyboard control. All usuarena. Some of the early software that was available for it was CP/M 2.2. Unfortunately, when working with tape drives, CP/M was at best unfriendly. I had a look at it and said 'what can I do with this?' and shelved it." Guy Cousineau, 'The Development of TDOS' AUFG Mar/Apr '91. Further to this, Rich Clee of Metro Toronto ADAM Group (MTAG) says TDOS is now available on tape (digital data pack) and being used by two members "despite the fact that like CP/M, TDOS is not a friendly system to use from tape." ConD. Another Canadian Guy who's a programmer is Guy-R La Forest. His Software Backup V.1 is Volume 11G in the ADAM's House Public Domain library. Backup is a utility to store many self-booting programs like ADAMCalc on a large disk. It requires the use of other file copying programs as well. Upgrades to SmartFILER version R28D, Recipe FILER version R17, and Address Book FILER version R10D are now available from NIAD at $2.00 US each. The upgrade allows the program to use all of a 320K or 720K disk drive's capading, and saves wear and tear on my disk drives. My disk drives get so much use that this is an important consideration." Faye B. Deere, via ANN, in Puget Sound ADAM Newsnet, Feb. '92."I understand there is a rumor going around that N.I.A.D. is going out of business! I want to state that this is not true. Apparently some people misinterpreted the fact that we are planning to move out of our retail storefront. We will be moving out of our store due to the high price of rent and utilities, but N.I.A.D. wilht the chips from Jenkins, but they were faulty. Since then, Jenkins hasn't returned his calls, and Wormsbecker, who started out as a "patient and understanding person," isn't one anymore. He finally got good chips from ADAM's House. Still hasn't heard from Jenkins. 'Buyer Beware' Clint Wormsbecker, AUFG, Mar/Apr. '92.Unfriendly like a mother grizzly bear: "Several years back (I have no memory for dates), COLECO introduced the ADAM computer. At the time, it was one of the great buys in the home computer al functions and hexadecimal/decimal conversions. AIM, Apr. '92. The INVOICER program from ADAM's House has been upgraded. Version 3.2 has added some features, and is faster. Price remains at $19.95 US. 'Guy's EOS Utilities' collects Disk Doctor, File Indexer and Directory Sorter on one disk or tape. "The entire package of three utilities is in my mind the perfect complement to the best utility program ever developed for the ADAM, File Manager." Jim Notini, NIAD, Mar. '92. $20 US on disk or datapack from NIAtact Clee at A.D.A.M. Services, 21 Rondale Blvd., Toronto,ON., M6A 1H6 or (416) 783-0316If you're contemplating the purchase of a program, you might wonder why it's available on a cartridge. Here are some of the reasons: "I know the cartridge is a little more expensive, but think it is the better buy; especially since the cartridge is almost indestructible, is good for thousands of insertions, and can be left in the cartridge game port all the time for easy access. The cartridge provides almost instant loacity. The standard versions will only store the COLECO drive capacity of 160K. Upgrades of earlier versions of these programs are also available. NIAD, P.O.Box 1317, Lisle, IL., USA 60532.The Return of the Mad as Hell and Won't Take It Anymore Dept.: Clint Wormsbecker of the Ottawa AUFG writes that he has been trying since Feb.'91 to get satisfaction from Ed Jenkins of E & T Software, Garland, TX. Wormsbecker wanted to add some memory chips to his E & T expansion RAM (random access memory) board. He bougl continue--both the mail order as well as the newsletter so rest assured."  Lyle Marschand, 'From the Editors' Desk', NIAD Feb. '92.Barry Wilson, who often appears in Gleanings, earns his way in again. He is one of SmartWRITER's biggest fans. "I mean I am a fundamentalist and if the Creator had meant for us to use something other than SmartWRITER, He would have given it to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden but He didn't." Combining SW with SmartWRITER HELPER, the Hexace Software SW enhancement program,  computers" Keith D. Liddle, "Genealogy -- The Modern Book of Genesis' Inland Empire ADAM Users Group nl, Apr. '92. Liddle, who is a Library Assistant at a Mormon Family History Library, is writing about an ADAM program; Guy Cousineau's CPM/TDOS Genealogy. Liddle concludes " Guy has included good documentation on the disk with the program, and there are a few suggestions he has added to make it run better. All in all, I much prefer working with this program than I do the Apple or IBM programs." Cousineau isetters, so I can put instructions to the typist if I want, she will have a better idea of what I want and why, but she doesn't have to delete these instructions from the form letter, as the printer ignores them.""I have an address file where I write to various people. Besides their address I can have a REM statement which could say ask about his wife Betty and his dog Rover, etc. This way I can customize my letter to him or at least let him think I really know who his wife is and his dog. (I usually get trite newsletter?. BDC.)If you hear hoofbeats, don't look for zebras. Dean Roades of the 463ADAM club suspected demons, or viruses, or signals from aliens. Club member Don Woolston's machine printed gibberish when he printed out a directory: '352 CLC Ypidab Lc"ear Fcddnbiacr' and on and on, but when the disk that recorded this stuff was run on Dean's machine, it typed '463 ADAM Public Domain Collection.' Every possible cause, including those above, was discussed without conclusion. It wasn't until conversahree personal computers at a cost of $16,500. The federal government has only supplied the local force with outdated manual typewriters." Nanaimo Free Press, "Nanaimo, Ottawa in police standoff" May 6,'92. Shows me why crime is doing so well in Canada--the crooks aren't being run from Ottawa."It is an outstanding program, though I still have not mastered all of the intricacies of the later version of the program, but I have made extensive use of it, and really prefer it to the programs furnished for otherWilson has everything he needs. Now, he says, there's more. Barry calls it a REM statement in your SW files...(Other word processing programs call the feature Hidden Text.) Briefly, a command embedded with Helper in your SW text file will hide notes to yourself, etc. within the file--they won't print out. This feature, which will work only with dot matrix printers, can be added to your Helper program. Barry, always practical in his use of the ADAM, gives this example: "I use my SmartWRITER mainly for form l at GMC Software, 1059 Hindley St., Ottawa, ON. K2B 5L9VISA member Charles Smith's 'The Computer -- Tool or Hobby?' which appeared in Mar/April's ADVISA, has now run in the May 463ADAM nl of Munster, IN. Writing an article for the ADVISA may be your ticket to nation-wide fame as well. And modesty darn well does not forbid me from mentioning that the March '92 NIAD nl ran my Faster SmartWRITER article, which of course first appeared in the ADVISA.(Why not try your hand at writing something for your favouhem confused and suggested he give Betty some Alpo and to kiss Rover for me, BUT NO LONGER will I make this mistake." Barry Wilson, via ANN, in the United Kingdom ADAM Subscribers Journal, Feb/Mar.'92. [capitals in original] Using Barry's words in a column always makes me feel I'm playing Ron Maclean to his Don Cherry.And For This We Pay Taxes: in an news story on city council's problems over its police contract with the RCMP, the Nanaimo Free Press reports; "The city has also bought and loaned the RCMP ttion changed to something else--daisy wheels for the ADAM printer--that the light dawned.  Woolston's daisy wheel had slipped one character, and that was enough to make everything strange. 463ADAM, May '92.ADAMagic Software has declared all of their commercial titles to be Public Domain. The 18 programs, available from NIAD, are mostly adventure games, but also include utilities, modem, database,and an improved version of SmartBASIC. And NIAD appears to have lost patience with Canadian Gary Bowser's promine thing, using a different program can make a real difference in your attitude to the work you are doing.For another, it can make that work much easier. SpeedyWrite 2 (SW2) has within it several features that can simplify even basic word processing tasks. These are the Macro functions, the Pocket Database, the split-screens, the two separate workspaces and SpeedyWrite Spell.To deal with the latter--Spell is not part of the Speedywrite program, it's an additional ($24.95 US) program and is installed aftles. A model for anyone. The EAUG's ADAM's Leaf nl, recently revitalized by the club, has run John Wiley's 11-page ADAM printer repair guide.And Metro Toronto ADAM Group's nl, MTAG Express, has been a lively place lately, thanks to member Ron West. When he criticized the ADAM Survival Guide, he got a response from Barry Wilson. His reply to that, (in part) "Reading your 15 pages of letter to me, I see you and Richard Clee [MTAG president] are cut from the same cloth. Your enthusiasm and zeal for the Adam  And no, there ain't no grammar checker. The Spell program lets you add your own words and create your own dictionaries, and the Thesaurus can be a help when the right word won't come.SpeedyWrite Spell requires a 64K memory expander and, when loaded into memory, eliminates the Help and Pocket DataBase features from the basic program. These can be restored, eliminating the Spell program, from the SW2 Filer menu.SpeedyWrite's Filer menu contains, as a "header window" superimposed on any screen, and with oBEYOND SMARTWRITER: SPEEDYWRITE 2 REVIEW:PART TWO. BY DAVID SANDS.(ADVISA EDITOR'S NOTE:- Here is the continuation of David Sands review of SpeedyWrite 2. Part 1 appeared in our Mar/Apr issue.)If you know how to use SmartWRITER, you have very little left to discover about it, and it has given you all it can. As an entry-level wordprocessor, SW was judged better than most. But, it lacks so much that better programs, like SpeedyWrite, offer, that you owe it to yourself to investigate alternatives. For osed ADAM Image Maker: " you will not see a mention of A.I.M. in this newsletter again unless we have a working unit to review."Catching up: the Edmonton ADAM User Group introduced a Bulletin Board System in November and the Gleaner missed it. Number is (403)457-6579 and hours are 6-12 M-F and 1-12 S-S. Its a 300 Baud only with parameters 8-N-1 and it's run on an ADAM. And sysop Joe Botto has produced one of the best introductions to modeming I've ever seen. Ten pages of step by step instruction with examper you load SpeedyWrite. Spell has a 10,000 word dictionary and a 5,000 word Thesaurus. This isn't large--almost any paperback dictionary offers more, and supplies definitions. But Spell is there in the ADAM, and a misspelling will create a flash on your screen and a beep sound. If perfection in your writing is as important to you as it is to me, you may want to avail yourself of the convenient 'off' feature (Control+Delete), and use the Spell-Checking part of the program after you've done wrote your piece.are more than the average Adamite has for their machine. I know there are probably a few more like you out there, but for the rest of us we are content with our once a month meeting, some BBSing and time spent doing behind closed doors what we like to do with our Adam -- good thing it's not named EVE or this would not sound so good." Ron West 'Hello Out There or Life on the Fringe,' MTAG Mar/Apr.'92. one of the best introductions to modeming I've ever seen. Ten pages of step by step instruction with exampne keypress, (Store/Get), -- Save, Load, Delete, Init, Rename, Catalog, Status, Copy, System and PkDBASE. Here are all the "utilities" you are likely to need when working within a program. The one exception is Format, which SW2 offers, but only in combination with the SmartBASIC program.I'll assume reasonable familiarity on your part with the ones SmartWRITER offers. Init is occasionally useful when you've got a an old, full disk or datapack but no space to store your current opus. Use Init, which clears  and fine tuning is clear, or in following your train of thought clearly from your introduction through to conclusion. SpeedyWrite 2 can't do it all for you, though. Ask me how I know. The two separate workspaces in SpeedyWrite 2 let you jump back and forth between two different files, or make two files out of one. It's a superb feature when you must shorten but don't want simply to delete everything that won't fit. The two workspaces are accessed with a Control-T keypress combination, and I find new uses aon my disk/tape, how big my files are, and change the read and write protection settings. Of them all, the security of knowing how much room you have left on a media needs to be experienced to be believed.One of the drawbacks of a review such as this, based on personal use of a broadly featured program, is that everyone--you, me, Saddam,--will use a program differently. I'll deal with my favourite features, but my priorities just aren't the same as yours. SW2 would be a joy to use with a dot matrix printee didn't; like marshmallow chocolate ice cream.)If you use your ADAM for correspondence, the SW2 Pocket Database feature will add convenience to your life. For example, one of the ten 'screens' can contain addresses for regular letters of complaint: Hydro, Telephone, Revenue Canada, etc. You can access PkDbase files  through the SW2 Filer menu, but even faster is to store it in the expansion memory Ramdisk. It's available then without using the disk drive. As with  other functions, you access it with the ble. It does help SpeedyWrite do one marvellous thing with the ADAM printer, and that is selective reprints. As we all know, printing a single page from a multiple page SmartWRITER file is often a good trick, occasionally a damn bore, and always fussy. With SpeedyWrite you select the page number you want to reprint, or find it in the Preview screens, and Print it. Hallelujah!SW2 offers both split screens and two workspaces. Split screens show two or three parts of the same file. The advantage in rewritingthe directory, and start loading files over top of the old ones. If you've got a media holder stuffed with every disk or tape you've ever filled, and no new ones this side of tomorrow, Init will help. Why this example occurs to me, I'll never know. Rename is also an occasionally useful function, especially in connection with the Copy function. I use Rename rarely, but it's there when I need it.Status is one of my favourite Filer utilities in SW2. With it, I can check on exactly how much space I have left ll the time for them. One that works well is to outline, load that file, and then expand on the other screen, saving the expanded file as you work. Being two keypresses away from a reference, like a transcript, historical document, old file, download, readme, whatever, is again one of those experiences that SmartWRITER users owe to themselves. (Some of us are getting on, and we need some more discoveries like those that enlightened our younger years and showed us what the rest of the world knew about that wr, I'm sure, because it has great built-in features to exploit those printers--but I don't use one. (But, he said, the beautiful job Dave Cobley does in formatting and printing out the ADVISA is all done with SpeedyWrite 2, and that's just a small example of its capabilities.) Similarly, I don't find the Preview feature particularly useful. Preview is part of the Print menu and lets you see how your finished work will look, as you've formatted it. It takes a little getting used to, and I don't find it valuakeyboard, not SmartKEYS. When set up on a RamDisk, the WildCard key brings up the PkDbase, and a Tab + number combination selects your screen. Since databases can contain anything you need as information, you can use them as specific help screens; put in all your most-needed Control codes, your printer codes, your CSIS codes...Integrity demands every reviewer have some reservations about whatever it is he's undertaken to discuss. SpeedyWrite 2 makes that duty difficult. I have some problems with the file  to stop typing everything, I can create and save 100-character phrases and use them with two keystrokes. The amount of work I would have saved just typing "SpeedyWrite", would justify the effort. However, there's a quick and simple Search and Replace that does the job. Faster than the other brand, too!.I encourage anyone, and everyone, to get their own copy of SpeedyWrite 2 and SpeedyWrite Spell.Future articles in this series will deal with CP/M TDOS wordprocessors, and may not come as regularly, as thppreciate little things about SW2, like the Control-X combination keypres which lets me 'untangle' character transpositions, something I'm prone to when transcribing. Type 'hte' for example, put the cursor on the 'e' and type Control-X--you get 'the.' It's convenient. Control-Z jumps the cursor from space to space. It may never be a useful item for you, but I find it handy when reviewing. Disk directories are easy to print from within SpeedyWrite; just Catalog, press Shift and SmartKEY IV, (a SpeedyWrite Ma to stop typing everything, I can create and save 100-character phrases and use them with two keystrokes. The amount of work I would have saved just typing "SpeedyWrite", would justify the effort. However, there's a quick and simple Search and Replace that does the job. Faster than the other brand, too!.I encourage anyone, and everyone, to get their own copy of SpeedyWrite 2 and SpeedyWrite Spell.Future articles in this series will deal with CP/M TDOS wordprocessors, and may not come as regularly, as thn SpeedyWrite types may put off the tentative ones amongst us by our enthusiasm. To drag the analogy out to the legal limit; it's not necessary for your baptism in SpeedyWrite to be a total immersion. Everything you know how to do with Smart, you can do in Speedy, with very simple adaptation. And everything you do now, you can continue to do, and use the much more complete features as you want them. I have yet to write my own Macros, preferring to keyboard a lot of repetitive material, but as soon as I wantaccess setup, and I have had problems with disks and file access. But I can't entirely blame the program for them. I think they more likely have been what the service and repair trades call 'finger problems.' The cursor control in SpeedyWrite, where you use Home+arrow keys to jump from sentence to sentence, is fast, but not always precise. It seems to get hung up in letter-number combinations, or among initials separated by periods.But that's about it. Not much to complain about, and a lot to praise.I ae writer will first need to master TDOS, then the program. But I'm looking forward to VDE: Tom Keene's encyclopedic knowledge of it in his "Put It In Writing" series, will be a great help.immersion. Everything you know how to do with Smart, you can do in Speedy, with very simple adaptation. And everything you do now, you can continue to do, and use the much more complete features as you want them. I have yet to write my own Macros, preferring to keyboard a lot of repetitive material, but as soon as I wantcro) and then Escape. Then print the catalog. Fast and convenient. I may someday have all my disk catalogs printed out and kept with the disks. I may someday win the Lotto-649 too, the chances are about equal.Speedywrite's Pocket Database is a good example of how a complete word processor program will allow you to work with the ADAM, doing everything within a computer environment. It may very well be a problem to you in that it all sounds like it might be too much of a good thing. Too many of us born agaixO\b\w\ The oldest active ADAM newsletter in the USA\\\I\C\ Established  11 July 1984 by Norman R. Castro\i\c\\\r~02,38\\\K\A\Thanks for your confidence and support.  Th\r~08,78\\B\W\C\ OMAHA ADAM USERS CLUB NEWSLETTER\\        JUN/JUL 92    # 48\\\\\b\w\ The oldest active ADAM newsletter in the USA\\\I\C\ Established  11 July 1984 by Norman R. Castro\i\c\\\r~02,38\\\K\A\Thanks for your confidence and support. ES 2 inserts \\\\\BBACK ISSUES\b:  Back issues of this newsletter are available.  Any 6 issues  (1 years worth) $4.25.  Two years $8.  4 years $15.  SPECIAL sale 6 years  $20 \ PostPaid    Issue #1 was in July 1984.\\\\\BTRADES\b:  OAUC is happy to trade newsletters with any other ADAM            organization:    Address  inquiries  to   Norman R. Castro.\\\\\BOAUC\b is a member of ADAM NEWS NETWORK (\BA.N.N.\b).  For info contact:     Barry Wilson, 12967 Weatherfield, St Louis, MO 63146  $35 year forn of this newsletter.  Neither the OAUC staff, not OAUC, nor any     contributor(s) of any capacity make any warranty either express or implied     with regard to information contained herein, either by interpretation, use, or misuse  Reviews & opinions submitted by the readership at large do not         necessarily reflect the opinions of the editor or staff.  OAUC has no          affiliation with Coleco Industries.  Unless stated otherwise, all              correspondence shall be considered as "open to pES 2 inserts \\\\\BBACK ISSUES\b:  Back issues of this newsletter are available.  Any 6 issues  (1 years worth) $4.25.  Two years $8.  4 years $15.  SPECIAL sale 6 years  $20 \ PostPaid    Issue #1 was in July 1984.\\\\\BTRADES\b:  OAUC is happy to trade newsletters with any other ADAM            organization:    Address  inquiries  to   Norman R. Castro.\\\\\BOAUC\b is a member of ADAM NEWS NETWORK (\BA.N.N.\b).  For info contact:     Barry Wilson, 12967 Weatherfield, St Louis, MO 63146  $35 year forFirst Class Postage Stamps \BONLY\b for samples of your choice of system/s.\\\\I also offer reduced size reprints of the following ADAM newsletters  at   $3   each   PostPaid.\\\\ADAM COMPUTING TODAY  (ACT)\\ADAM-LINK of UTAH issues 1 thru 7  ALL 7 ISSUES $17  Foreign $19\\ADAM  TECHNICAL  JOURNAL   ALL 3 ISSUES for $8    Foreign $10\\ColecoVision EXPERIENCE Mag  ALL THREE ISSUES $8  Foreign $10\\EXPANDABLE  COMPUTER  NEWS     Any  6  issues  for  $14\\GARDEN OF ADAM (The only issue issued) INCLUD The OAUC is a local club with fees of $20 per 6 issues (PKGS w/prgms) received. NOTICE: I will sell to any "Paid Up  to Date" local member any six back issues (1 years worth $20) w/programs (on   your media) for $15.\\\\\BSUBSCRIPTIONS\b:  This newsletter is published 6 times a calendar year.      \B$5\b to any US address; $7 to Canada (Dollars, US currency), and $10 Foreign (in US funds).  Cost per issue $1.50\\\\DISCLAIMER NOTICE:  The editor(s) & publisher have exercised due care in the   preparatio 24 disks    +.\\\\tamps \BONLY\b for samples of your choice of system/s.\\\\I also offer reduced size reprints of the following ADAM newsletters  at   $3   each   PostPaid.\\\\ADAM COMPUTING TODAY  (ACT)\\ADAM-LINK of UTAH issues 1 thru 7  ALL 7 ISSUES $17  Foreign $19\\ADAM  TECHNICAL  JOURNAL   ALL 3 ISSUES for $8    Foreign $10\\ColecoVision EXPERIENCE Mag  ALL THREE ISSUES $8  Foreign $10\\EXPANDABLE  COMPUTER  NEWS     Any  6  issues  for  $14\\GARDEN OF ADAM (The only issue issued) INCLUDublic review".  Attempt        hardware projects and/or repair at your own risk. \\\\If you or anyone wants a \BFREE\b copy of this newsletter just send me \BTWO\b First Class postage stamps \BONLY\b to:  Norman R. Castro, 809W 33rd Avenue,   Bellevue, NE 68005.  \BTell others\b of this offer Thanks\\\\I now support 7 Game Systems with game instructions reprints\\\\ADAM/COLECOVISION, RCA STUDIO II, ATARI 5200, FAIRCHILD,\\INTELLIVISION, ODYSSEY 500 game unit & VECTREX.\b\K\A\  Just send \BTWO\b      xMue as other computer     owners pay much more than our $35 a year.  For this you get two disks every  month that are normally 125k to 150K full of ADAM news, games, graphi\r~42,78\A\K\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\BA.N.N.\b (Adam News Network) is an exceptional value as other computer     owners pay much more than our $35 a year.  For this you get two disks every  month that are normally 125k to 150K full of ADAM news, games, grate a bit.\\\\So he bought an IBM (or compatible, I don't recall) and then he languished.  I talked with him a few days ago just to see how things were going.  He      doesn't belong to any computer club any more.  He rarely uses his modem.  He has few friends to help him master programs the way it was when he had an    ADAM.  So he doesn't download many programs, because he wouldn't know what   to do with them if he had them.  And even if he did, there isn't much fun    running them.  He was in deep malai1, Hanover, MA  02339.  If you send him a stamp or two  I'm sure that he would not mind.  MY biggest expense is POSTAGE and we all   could use the courtesy of return postage for catalogs and newsletter         samples.\\\\This is from \BIEAUG\b, 3141 E. Palmyra Avenue, Orange, CA 92669  $18 a      year. Thomas Keene recently attended a lecture by Professor Kling ... and    when asked what are the reasons that computers haven't changed productivity  as much as might have been expected, he said that that wate a bit.\\\\So he bought an IBM (or compatible, I don't recall) and then he languished.  I talked with him a few days ago just to see how things were going.  He      doesn't belong to any computer club any more.  He rarely uses his modem.  He has few friends to help him master programs the way it was when he had an    ADAM.  So he doesn't download many programs, because he wouldn't know what   to do with them if he had them.  And even if he did, there isn't much fun    running them.  He was in deep malaism about a year ago.  I never really never     understood that move.  I have always thought that he was talked into it. For years he loved his ADAM; I mean that it was the center if his universe. He   really wasn't very gifted as a computer operator; he just putzed around. He  was not much good at writing and this guy was one for whom the spell checker was invented.  He knew zilch about math.  But he was pretty good with games. ... My friend had little need for spread sheets although they interested him quiphic       pictures and a wide variety of subject matter that is much larger than most  newsletters.\\\\I have just started to supply Game Instructions for the \BFAIRCHILD\b game   system.  I only have the following ready for immediate sale:  \\\\\BPINBALL CHALLENGE\b Number 17\\\BSPACE WAR\b Number 5\\\BSPITFIRE\b Number 4\\\\\BR&R SOFTWARE\b is your source for Public Domain software at $3 per disk    plus a smaller shipping fee than most.  Look into it.  Send for his free     catalog at PO Box 208se.\\\\a year ago.  I never really never     understood that move.  I have always thought that he was talked into it. For years he loved his ADAM; I mean that it was the center if his universe. He   really wasn't very gifted as a computer operator; he just putzed around. He  was not much good at writing and this guy was one for whom the spell checker was invented.  He knew zilch about math.  But he was pretty good with games. ... My friend had little need for spread sheets although they interested him quis one of the big    surprises.  About half of capital expenditures today are for computer        equipment.  There is increasing evidence that those expenditures are not     really producing increases in productivity. ... Valus is not coming out in   proportion to the cost going in. ... The net effort is that so much of the   focus of ideas today is on the equipment and not on the effect on work.\\\\Mr. Keene goes on to say that a very good friend of his, who used to have an ADAM, plugged into the IBM chaxM       computers?  And why are the manufacturers of these fabulous PC's having such a struggle in the marketplace?  If any of you doubt that they are in         trouble, y\r~02,38\A\K\\IEAUG (Continued)  What is then with these big powerful, fast, new           computers?  And why are the manufacturers of these fabulous PC's having such a struggle in the marketplace?  If any of you doubt that they are in         troubled that in itself is     worth examining.\\\\This is from \B463 ADAM\b, 8522 Hohman Ave., Munster, IN 46321  (219)        836-8646  $22 year.  Behind the Scenes by Pat Herrington.  Joe Peppers has   found an excellent buy on a 512K buffer that works perfectly with or without his Powermate 20 hard drive.  He bought it from Technologic Systems (513)    644-2230, 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-thematics and word processing. But where is the evidence that any of this is happening.  Frankly there      isn't any.  My friend that fell into this miasma doesn't even know what      \BPI\b is, much less know its value.  He's not the least bit atypical.  If   he was a musician, he might have wanted a \BMIDI\b program to use with his   \BCASIO\b (or whatever).  But \BADAM has a MIDI\b interface whose only       limitation seems to be the deviceused to play back the music.  If one wants  to download music pndard slot-machine found in any casino.  This bandit comes complete with  scoring and multiple sounds, and a wide variety of objects to match.\\\\nd the Scenes by Pat Herrington.  Joe Peppers has   found an excellent buy on a 512K buffer that works perfectly with or without his Powermate 20 hard drive.  He bought it from Technologic Systems (513)    644-2230, 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-thing.  Half of the new "window" software is consumed in the programming  to make it run under Windows.  That's a fact!  About 90% of the program      language is devoted to controlling those magic mouse operations.  They       really don't do much of anything.  But they are making MICROSOFT and others  wealthy from the unwary users of these machines.  I should put that in the   past tense.  They WERE making these software houses wealthy.  Things have    really taken a violent downturn in the past year.  An, you just aren't reading the newspapers.  Most of them are in deep   yoghurt.  How can that be?  It surely isn't the cost.  The way I see it,     many of these new powerhouses are a better bargin that the ADAM was when it  first came out in 1984-85. ... I see these ads all the time.  And for about  twice that, you can get a 486SX with over 2 megs of RAM.  These babies are   fast.\\\\These incredibly versatile and fast microprocessors should provide machines  with a capacity to perform amazing feats of ma25, which sells for $5.95, & a cable #C8-36, $6.95.  The buffer itself   sells for $100 and shipping is $6, so you can get everything you need for    $118.85.  They take VISA, and they are advertised in Computer Shopper.  The  buffer is usable with any dot matrix printer.\\\\\BBEAT THE BANDIT\b is the newest Copyrighted program from the \BMAINE ADAM  LIBRARY (MAL)\b.  This is a special offer for ADAM USERS GROUPS ONLY!!! This newest edition is a slot-machine game.  It is set up to respond as a         starograms from CompuServe (or other databanks) you can grab these programs with, and use them on, an ADAM.  And I can tell you that they won't sound any better if they were MIDId on an IBM.  And as for saving      anytime on downloading, yes 20 MegaHertz is a trifle faster.\\\\Have any of you taken the trouble to look into these incredible programs     that dealers are selling for the IBMs?  Why are they so inbelievably huge    and require such enormus amounts of memory?  They sure don't do much of      anyxM 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. \r~42,78\A\K\\Make 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   operate$10 and that price INCLUDES shipping and handling.  Checks or money orders should be made payable to Guy          Cousineau.  The program is sent on disk.  If you prefer datapack, then you   should mail a good quality blank datapack along with your order.  "Datapacks are getting hard to find up here," Guy explains.  Guy Cousineau, 1005        Hindley Street, Ottawa, CANADA  K28   SL9.  Mention OAUC\\\\This is from \BNIAD\b, PO Box 1317, Lisle, IL  60532  (708)  961-3529.       \BSIMPLEPAINTER WITH SIMPLE 1003 Oak Lane, Apopka, FL       32703.  \BEOS DIRECTORY SORTER\b (DS) is a new program by Guy Cousineau, who with Tony Morehen, brought us everyone's favorite file-handling utility,     \BFILEMANAGER\b.  And like FM, DS is professionally done in both appearance  and function.\\\\There are several directory sorting programs available.  Most such programs  read the directory, alphabetize the entries, and then write a new            alphabetized directory to the medium from which it was read.  But DS is     68005\b (402)  291-4405\\\\hipping and handling.  Checks or money orders should be made payable to Guy          Cousineau.  The program is sent on disk.  If you prefer datapack, then you   should mail a good quality blank datapack along with your order.  "Datapacks are getting hard to find up here," Guy explains.  Guy Cousineau, 1005        Hindley Street, Ottawa, CANADA  K28   SL9.  Mention OAUC\\\\This is from \BNIAD\b, PO Box 1317, Lisle, IL  60532  (708)  961-3529.       \BSIMPLEPAINTER WITH SIMPLE aPack tape,        Initalize a Disk or Tape with a directory of from 1 to 8 blocks.  You can    also exclude deleted files or exclude both deleted and backup files when     making your new sorted copy,  Move all your files to the front of your       medium as does a "squeeze" program and Clear the directory on your target    medium or leave it intact and add files from the source to it.\\\\As of this writing, EOS Directory Sorter is not yet available from dealers   but you can order directly from Guy for d.  "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!\\\\The games sells for $8.50  "BEAT THE BANDIT" is available ONLY on disk.  If  a member only has a data drive, he should buy the disk, and it will be up to the club librarian to assist in putting it on data pack.  OAUC members can   contact me (Norman) for this transfer to ddp.  Contact your nearest ADAM     CLUB NOW!!!\\\\This is from \BMETRO\b, Patricia Herrington, F/X\b, reviewed by Tony Patterson/Digital        Adventures (Reprinted from the August 91 MOAUG Newsletter).  ... Maybe you   would like to flip a picture for a mirror image of it.  How about the        ability to move the graphic left, right, up or down on the screen?  I know,  PowerPAINT does this with the pull screen options, but how about doing it a  few pixels at a time?  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to convert daVINCI     files to SmartPAINT format?\\\\\BNorman Castro, 809W 33rd Ave, Bellevue, NE  different.  The program reads from your original source medium, but does not alter it.  Instead it builds you a new medium in which not only is the       directory alphabetized, but the files are also.  Your source medium is left  intact and you can keep it as a backup if you desire.  So you don't have to  worry about your files getting scrambled or destroyed as I've experienced    when trying to use certain directory sort or squeeze programs.\\\\You can also Format a disk or two at once, Blank out a DatxM\A\K\\(NIAD continued).  What about those graphics that you captured from your     Super Games with the Coleco Graphics processor (also called Project name/By  Line).  Ho\r~02,38\A\K\B\C\\OMAHA ADAM USERS CLUB NEWSLETTER   JUN/JUL 92   #48\b\c\\\r~02,38\A\K\\(NIAD continued).  What about those graphics that you captured from your     Super Games with the Coleco Graphics processor (also called Project name/By  Line). s from me (Norman).  Special for all 3 of these printed instructions   from me $5 PostPaid.  I have over 140 printed game instructions for          ADAM/Coleco usage.\\\\\BADAM MAP:  STATE VOLUME #2\b has been released by Carl Harrison of         Harrison Productivity.  The second state volume for use only with ADAM MAP:  U.S. ATLAS is a collection of five states:  Montana, Idaho, Oregon,          Washington and Wyoming.  $6.95 from NIAD.\\\\\BADAM MAP:  STATE VOLUME #3\b has been released by Carl Harriand save the        postage costs.\\\\NEW PD \BN&B PIX VOL #30\b from NIAD.  NOTE:  This volume originally was     commercially released as PowerPRINTS VOL 1 by Wizard's Lair Software in      1988.  This package contains 15 full cell PowerPAINT compatible picture      files.  Place these high quality, high resolution pictures anywhere in your  document or even better yet, use them as backdrops for your own SmartBASIC   V1.0 programs!  These picture files can only be loaded by PowerPAINT or      SimplePAINs from me (Norman).  Special for all 3 of these printed instructions   from me $5 PostPaid.  I have over 140 printed game instructions for          ADAM/Coleco usage.\\\\\BADAM MAP:  STATE VOLUME #2\b has been released by Carl Harrison of         Harrison Productivity.  The second state volume for use only with ADAM MAP:  U.S. ATLAS is a collection of five states:  Montana, Idaho, Oregon,          Washington and Wyoming.  $6.95 from NIAD.\\\\\BADAM MAP:  STATE VOLUME #3\b has been released by Carl Harrisprite file sets for use     with SpritePOWER and PowerPAINT by DEI and SmartBASIC V1.0 or V2.0 etc.\\\\\BCLASSIC UNRELEASED CARTS VOL #2\b.  NOTE:  The following unreleased        cartridge games were previously available on separate volumes but now have   been combined into one collection.  A collection of 3 cartridges:  \BCabbage Patch Kids:  Adventures in the Park\b (enhanced version) by Coleco, \BYoke's on You\b by Fox Games and \BMath Wiz\b by Sierra, which were never           released.\\\\This i How about converting these to SmartPAINT so that you can get them    into PowerPAINT and see how they did them, or maybe just use them for        yourself!  If you wanted to do any of these things you might find yourself   reaching for your checkbook.  I bet you are wondering "just what is this     handy new program going to cost me".  Well, it's name is SimplePAINTER with  Simple F/X, and are you ready for this... IT'S the cost of Public Domain $4  on disk from NIAD + S/H $5, or from your LOCAL ADAM CLUB son of         Harrison Productivity.  The third state volume for use only with ADAM MAP:   U.S. ATLAS is a collection of five states:  Arizona, California, Colorado,   Nevada and Utah.  $6.95 from NIAD.\\\\ously available on separate volumes but now have   been combined into one collection.  A collection of 3 cartridges:  \BCabbage Patch Kids:  Adventures in the Park\b (enhanced version) by Coleco, \BYoke's on You\b by Fox Games and \BMath Wiz\b by Sierra, which were never           released.\\\\This iTER by Digital Express.\\\\\BPaintMATES VOL #14\b.  NOTE:  This volume originally was commercially      released as Clip-ART VOL I & II by Wizard's Lair Software in 1988.  This     package contains 96 clip-art files for use with PowerPAINT and Clipper by    Digital Express and other commercial titles.\\\\\BPaintMATES VOL #15\b.  NOTE:  This volume was contributed by Wayne         Blackmer and Michael Miller.  This package contains 106 clip-art files for   use with the programs listed above as well as 7 xMers       something special for ADAMites with the 5-1/4"  160K Disk Drive  \BFLIPPY    DISKS IN OVER 18 COLORS!\b  A flippy disk allows for the storage of          program\\\r~42,78\A\K\\\BDISK & LABELS TO GO\b is a computer supplies distributor that offers       something special for ADAMites with the 5-1/4"  160K Disk Drive  \BFLIPPY    DISKS IN OVER 18 COLORS!\b  A flippy disk allows for the storage of          progh member, each owner of an     ADAM has to work as a \BTEAM\b.  If you learn something new about this       system, you owe it to the rest of us to pass it on.  If we learn something,  we'll pass that along to you in return.  Don't live 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      early 1980's.  In this way, we've seen people never before come out of the   woodwork, so to spe ADAMites have already registered to       attend!  To receive further information write to:  Herman Mason, 8912 Blaine Avenue, Cleveland, OH  44106.\\\\\BCOMPUTER MONTHLY has recently made it known to the ADAM Community that     they will be dropping the \BClassic Computer columns\b, which ADAM is a part of, as of July.  The last ADAM News column will be in the June issue.  They  are completely revamping the magazine, and even changing it's page size. For those of you who have subscriptions or buy Computh member, each owner of an     ADAM has to work as a \BTEAM\b.  If you learn something new about this       system, you owe it to the rest of us to pass it on.  If we learn something,  we'll pass that along to you in return.  Don't live 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      early 1980's.  In this way, we've seen people never before come out of the   woodwork, so to speDITOR, Computer Monthly, PO Box 55886, BIRMINGHAM, AL  35255\\\\NIAD (continued).  \BTHE ADAM CONVENTIONS\b What Are They Really For? by Ron Collins.  .... 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!\\\\The ADAM community cannot work selfishly.  Eacrams, files, etc., on each side of the disk (160K on each side - no hole punching and notching - Norman).  Prices vary depending on quantity ordered  (I.E.  100 disks would cost .41@, 200 disks wouyld cost .33@.  Their address is:  DISKS & LABELS TO GO, RT. 206 E. HAMPTON BUSINESS PARK, MT. HOLLY, NJ   08060 or give them a call at 1-800-426-3303.  Ask for Lisa and tell her your an ADAM owner.\\\\\BADAMCON 04\b is fast approaching, July 23rd to 26th in Cleveland, Ohio.    Early reports have it that over 50ak, 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!  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.\\\\em.  These vendors created some of the greatest and most innovative computer peripherals and supplies ever      invented!\\\\The ADAM community cannot work selfishly.  Eacer Monthly at the           newsstands, N.I.A.D. strongly recommends that you sit down and write a       letter of complaint to the editor concerning their decision.  ADAM cannot    afford to lose any of the small national media attention that it currently   has.\\\\This is from me.  I plan to also ask for a full refund on the undelivered    issues that are due me if they drop that column because not only are ADAM    owners hurt but also:  \BCOMMODORE,  SANYO 55X,  TI-99ers,  TRS-80 and       T/S\b\\\\ExM       291918, Kettering, OH  45429, Phone 1-800-423-1331.  Another free service to Bearcat Radio Club menbers!  \BBULLETIN BOARD SERVICE\b 513-298-3663.  One   night, a m\r~02,38\A\K\\This is from \BNATIONAL SCANNING REPORT\b, Bearcat Radio Club, PO Box        291918, Kettering, OH  45429, Phone 1-800-423-1331.  Another free service to Bearcat Radio Club menbers!  \BBULLETIN BOARD SERVICE\b 513-298-3663.  One   night, ner    and cannot identify it, you can call up the specific frequency by state and  see all the licensees that are using it.  You can also check on the number   of frequencies held by a particular licensee.  If you want, design           additional county printouts for nearby areas - all at no additional charge   to you.\\\\\BMode of Operation\b.  The Bearcat Radio Club's NCR BBS operates after      regular business hours when the phone rates are lower.  You can call in      Monday through Fridays from 5Pit's now   open!  Best of all, \Byou don't have to be a member\b of the Bearcat Radio   Club (BRC) to participate.  Everyone has access to some level of the system  so c'mon & join the fun!\\\\A non-member can call up the system and read stories from previous issues of NSR and leave comments for others.  He can even join the club by computer if he/she has a Mastercard or Visa!  Associate members can leave and receive    electronic mail (E-mail) and even read stories from upcoming issues of NSR   before thner    and cannot identify it, you can call up the specific frequency by state and  see all the licensees that are using it.  You can also check on the number   of frequencies held by a particular licensee.  If you want, design           additional county printouts for nearby areas - all at no additional charge   to you.\\\\\BMode of Operation\b.  The Bearcat Radio Club's NCR BBS operates after      regular business hours when the phone rates are lower.  You can call in      Monday through Fridays from 5Prequency database plus other unpublished frequencies.  No more expensive and clumsy computer programs to buy.  For the first time      ever, a scanner listner will be able to use his/her computer to do frequency research from the comfort of their own home - at no additional charge.\\\\\BDo-It-Yourself Custom Frequency Research\b.  You can search for            frequencies in a specific city and state combination.  You can even look for specific services within that city.  If you hear something on you scana member of a major metropolitan SWAT team was answering questions    about counter terrorism measures.  On another night, two members from Los    Angeles, were trading frequencies.  You can check out the latest specials    from \INational Scanning Report\i (NSR)advertisers or browse through a       selection of used equipment offered for sale by other members.\\\\\BAn Electronic Scanning Convention\b.  If it sounds like the world's best   scanning convention, you're close,  It's the NSR computer BBS and M Eastern Time to 7AM the following morning.   On Saturdays and Sundays, the system is operational 24 hours a day.  If you  have a computer and modem, be sure to try out the system.  It will support   300, 1200 and 2400 baud modems.  The system's phone number is (513)          298-3663.  Come and join the fun.  Look up new frequencies.  Meet other club members.  Sign on the Bearcat Radio Club's \INational Scanning Report\i      bulletin board today!\\\\ within that city.  If you hear something on you scaney become available to the general public.  Both associate and full members can join the exclusive Editor's Club and have the opportinity to add their own experiences, observations, comments and corrections to NatScan     stories before they go into print.\\\\\BA National Frequency Database On-Line\b.  Full members have the most       advantages of course.  Not only do they have all of the rights and           privileges of an associate member, but they also have access to the entire   \BBetty Bearcat\b fxM$15    year.  \BSmartFILER\b Maximize Field Size and Number of records by Mario de  Sousa.  One rap on FILER has been that to create 1000 records, or near that  number req\r~42,78\A\K\\This is from \BALBANY AUG\b, 3 Robinhood Road, Albany, NY  12203-5113 $15    year.  \BSmartFILER\b Maximize Field Size and Number of records by Mario de  Sousa.  One rap on FILER has been that to create 1000 records, or near that  number atabase.  Although Text fields place small burden on the Total Record space by using up only 2 characters of the 255 allocated THEY DO attach a large    overhead to the overall database.  Creation of various form structures       revealed that the greatest number of Total Records available when using the  Text fild will be considerably reduced & probably be somewhere between 200   and 300.  Enter a few records to test your form before entering full body of data.\\\\\BNorman Castro, 809W 33rd Ave, Bellevueulted in a      database of 918 records, a very workable number!\\\\Here are some Forms structured to create a maximim number of records with    enough fields of sufficient size to provide good functionality.\\\\Example #1:\\\  FIELD NAME   TYPE LGTH SEARCH\\\  Application   C    24   S\\\  Features      C    24   S\\\  PrgmName.ZIP  C    24   N\\\  Vol#/Dsk(s)   N    10   S\\\  Graphics      C    12   S\\\  Description   C    72   N\\\\This resulted in a file of 1000 records with 166 Chrs. eacatabase.  Although Text fields place small burden on the Total Record space by using up only 2 characters of the 255 allocated THEY DO attach a large    overhead to the overall database.  Creation of various form structures       revealed that the greatest number of Total Records available when using the  Text fild will be considerably reduced & probably be somewhere between 200   and 300.  Enter a few records to test your form before entering full body of data.\\\\\BNorman Castro, 809W 33rd Ave, Bellevuewhat happens when      making small changes to the smallest field.  Adding 2 chrs. to the Vol#      field reduces the Record total to 882.  Removing 2 chrs. increases the       Record Total to 895.\\\\Example #4  The one Type of Field not enlarged upon previously is the TEXT   field.  As explained in the manual, it will become the last field listed on  the Form; automatically tagged as non-searchable and with a pre-determined   lenght of 2 typewritten pages.  There can be only one Text Field per         drequired minimal field size - 24 characters or less and mini-sized    field names as well.  An example of this resulted in a database of 4 fields  with 48 characters per record - usable perhaps, but very confining.\\\\My approach was to first investigate what the sample in the program manual   would yield.  This is a BOOK LIBRARY database with 8 fields, 4 searchable, 2 unnamed for future use, and a total record size of 166 chrs. with field      names ranging from 5 to 11 chrs. in length.  I found this res, NE 68005\b (402)  291-4405\\\\l changes to the smallest field.  Adding 2 chrs. to the Vol#      field reduces the Record total to 882.  Removing 2 chrs. increases the       Record Total to 895.\\\\Example #4  The one Type of Field not enlarged upon previously is the TEXT   field.  As explained in the manual, it will become the last field listed on  the Form; automatically tagged as non-searchable and with a pre-determined   lenght of 2 typewritten pages.  There can be only one Text Field per         dh.  Next vary the  length of the Description field assuming the others to be adequate.  A field LENGTH of 72 is viewed OnScreen as three 24 chr. lines on the FORM. Try      lengths of 96 & 120 chrs. i.e. 4 or 5 lines.\\\\Example #2          Total    Chrs.\\\  Length   Lines    Records  PerRecord\\\   96        4        885      190\\\  120        5        756      214\\\\Example #3  The previous example demonstrated what happens making large      changes to the largest of the fields.  This one shows xOesigned by me and as long as you give me credit are Public Domain.Norman R. Castro,  809W  33rd Avenue,  Bellevue, NE  68005    (402)  291-4405     S Mtimes01:  Helps This is a continuation of my OAUCforms#2 Skelton Read Me files.  All Skeltons  were designed by me and as long as you give me credit are Public Domain.Norman R. Castro,  809W  33rd Avenue,  Bellevue, NE  68005    (402)  291-4405     S Mtimes01:  Hel that correct HTAB and VTAB in Basic.  Just enter any text that you  want on the screen on this work sheet and see how easy it is to use the proper HTAB for a neat screen.  This has been modified to help you locate the 10th    and 20th character.  It was as SHORTcutA8 on my OAUCforms01.     S TROLLS T:  This is my master TROLL'S TALE MAP.  This version has 5      boxes across the page.  See my S 6 ACROSS.     S TT-LISTb:  I sell TROLL'S TALE overview with Maps for $3 and this is is my checklist for all a postcard is valuable FEEDBACK from the user.  Thanks.     S PpaintM4:  Thanks to Maine ADAM Library, PO Box 85, Waterford, ME 04088 and his new IBM Clip Art for ADAM I can now use PowerPaint with over 6000      additional graphic art.  This contains 20 categories so that you can at a      glance spot any volume that has any Circus or Buildings or Flags etc.          Excellent short cut tool to help you find your favorite graphic picture type.     S PRINT M1:  This PRINTMASTER form can be used to ident that correct HTAB and VTAB in Basic.  Just enter any text that you  want on the screen on this work sheet and see how easy it is to use the proper HTAB for a neat screen.  This has been modified to help you locate the 10th    and 20th character.  It was as SHORTcutA8 on my OAUCforms01.     S TROLLS T:  This is my master TROLL'S TALE MAP.  This version has 5      boxes across the page.  See my S 6 ACROSS.     S TT-LISTb:  I sell TROLL'S TALE overview with Maps for $3 and this is is my checklist for all :  Read the fine print.  You DO need receipts for your software purchases for an insurance claim.  This will help you to identify your check # or receipt for your valuable software and hardware purchases.     S REFILLS1:  We have to phone in all of our Air Force prescription        refills.  This completed form can be taken with you as a checklist as well as  your phone call time spent too.  A must have tool for me.     shortCUTa8:  This full size page is a Character Line Count that will help you locateps me to keep track of all of my Monitoring Times maga-zine issues.  At a glance I can tell which issues that I still need.  It has   12 months and has space for the issue number.     S PICprnt3:  This is an up-date of my S-PICprint in 2 columns.  It now    has 3 columns for CPM, PP (PowerPaint), and SS (SignShop).  All of my Graphic  disks are listed on these forms.  I can tell at a glance which ones that I     still have to print out.  Excellent.  If YOU liked this one OR any other let   me know, even 16 treasures by name.  I left room for you to print WHERE they are found along with the PREVIOUS SCREEN.  Have fun... I did,Well that completes this volume.  Let me have feedback from my efforts.Sincerely,Norman R. Castroave to phone in all of our Air Force prescription        refills.  This completed form can be taken with you as a checklist as well as  your phone call time spent too.  A must have tool for me.     shortCUTa8:  This full size page is a Character Line Count that will help you locateify any one up to  26 pictures that you want to make a comment about.     S PRINT M2:  This skelton/form was featured in my OAUC newsletter# 44     OCT/NOV 91 issue.  I used this with my PRINTMASTER as I was printing my own    book of over 5000 pictures (2 books) and this is used to name the pictures in  each separate volume.  Some volumes used 3 to 5 of these pages.  I just wrote  in pen the picture names etc.     S PRINT M4:  This similar to PpaintM4 except that it is for PrintMaster.     S RECEIPTSxL                             |- - - - -|You are invited to solve a mystery.  A murder to be exact.  You have been summoned to the house of Mr. Victim.  The suspects and                               |- - - - -|                              | MYSTERY |                              |- - - - -|You are invited to solve a mystery.  A murder to be exact.  You have been summoned to the house of Mr. Victim.  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You   must decide WHO killed Mr. Victim, WHERE it happened, and WHAT Weapon was used.  The Killer is very crafty.  You must use all of your skills and    luck to find all the answers.  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It deals with Data Files and is 1678 words long.WRITING430 A This file is Part One of a series by Tom Keene, IEAUG, dealing with VDE266. The series was transcribed from hard copy by VISA editorial staff and is some 3351 words long. Subsequent articles will follow in due course.CPMADAM150 A Here is Chapter 15 in Tom Keene's continuing series "CP/M For The ADAM". It is 2227 words long.FILTERS430 A He.Newsletter Editor,Vancouver Island Senior ADAMphiles.=====================================From Norman Castro, of OAUC.Norman's usual fine mix of ADAM news and information. (In ShowOff II format)OAUC_JUN92 H   OAUC_JUNp2 H   OAUC_JUNp3 H OAUC_JUNp4 HOAUC_JUNp5 H OAUC_JUNp6 H OAUC_JUNp7 HOAUC_JUNp8 H READ_ME_3  H   The doc file from last month's skeltons plus a couple of new ones.S_MYSTERY  HS_RECEIPTS H CHESSleft      PowerPaint Graphic for Joe Alford's "BOOKMARK" article on disk 1. (Lef9207ANN-2ANNADD592  A   ANN Address file. Updated by Barry Wilson=====================================VANCOUVER ISLAND SENIOR ADAMPHILES.INPUT TO THE ADAM NEWS NETWORK FOR MAY/JUNE 1992.In preparing this submission to ANN, we have followed the lead set by Pat Herrington of MOAUG in selecting the simplest format, (SmartWRITER), for our files. This was done to permit access by all ADAM users. Although the files carry an "A" filetype designation, they should all be accessible to SmartWRITER.The filesre is an article produced by transcribing messages, by Bob Blair, from FIDONET. The article discusses Printer Problems and is 1073 words long.GLEANINGS  A Here is another of David Sands columns on items of interest gleaned from ADAM newsletters etc.. It is 2441 words long.SW2REVU430 A Another article in David Sands series "BEYOND SMARTWRITER". It is the second part of his review of SpeedyWrite 2 and is 1619 words long. The first part was published in the Mar/Apr '92 issue of the ADVISA.B. David Cobleyt cell)CHESSright     Right cellcribing messages, by Bob Blair, from FIDONET. The article discusses Printer Problems and is 1073 words long.GLEANINGS  A Here is another of David Sands columns on items of interest gleaned from ADAM newsletters etc.. It is 2441 words long.SW2REVU430 A Another article in David Sands series "BEYOND SMARTWRITER". It is the second part of his review of SpeedyWrite 2 and is 1619 words long. The first part was published in the Mar/Apr '92 issue of the ADVISA.B. David Cobleyهههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه.Newsletter Editor,Vancouver Island Senior ADAMphiles.=====================================From Norman Castro, of OAUC.Norman's usual fine mix of ADAM news and information. (In ShowOff II format)OAUC_JUN92 H   OAUC_JUNp2 H   OAUC_JUNp3 H OAUC_JUNp4 HOAUC_JUNp5 H OAUC_JUNp6 H OAUC_JUNp7 HOAUC_JUNp8 H READ_ME_3  H   The doc file from last month's skeltons plus a couple of new ones.S_MYSTERY  HS_RECEIPTS H CHESSleft      PowerPaint Graphic for Joe Alford's "BOOKMARK" article on disk 1. 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