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FILEMGR2H (GLEANJANH 7OAU12931H LOAU12932H OPUBLICDMH R€README1stHX€SPDYWRT6H \€UKASNEWSH c€UKBEGINH  i€UKDB2#2H  p of the  drive,you must unfasten  the drive fromthe console  (2 screws, plus  thegrounding screw at the back).   I suggest  you turn  the powerOFF when working with the fasten-ings.   "Pop" the  drive door  tolet the datapak  come free of thedrive spindles.   The adjustment screw is a tinyslotted  brass screw  (about 1/8"head).  It's easy to see  on top,just behind the front of the datadrive.  If it's on the bottom, itmay be difficult  to see, and maybe partially concealed by a wire.   You d%d Tester,is in  the club  library booklet.   You use it to synchronize yourdata drive speed.   You need a  game controller touse the tester.  Plug it into thefirst h      -DRIVE SPEED TESTER----------------------------------   ECAUG.U29--Drive Speed Tester,is in  the club  library booklet.   You use it to synchronize yourdata drive speed.   You need a  game controller touse the tester.  Plug it into thefirswithin the same limits.   If it is necessary  to correctthe drive speed  on either drive,you must  remove  the lid  on theconsole, and  adjust them  with asmall (1/8") screwdriver.   Thereare  three types  of data drives,and  all look  similar.  One  hasthe adjustment screw  on the top;but the other two types have themon the bottom of the drive.   If you are lucky, and have thescrew on  the top; just turn it avery slight amount  to change thespeed, UP or DOWN.  If the  screwis on  the bottom UKRS232BH {€UKLETTERH WORDPROCSWH†[ASCII-DEFNH‹ûKILOBYTEDFHóPRES--SAYSH’THINGS1293H‘NATIVITYSBA—NativitTXTH›ªBLOCKS LEFTžBLOCKS LEFTžoon't have to refasten thedrive to the console while you'readjusting it; but  when  you  aresatisfied, turn  the system  OFF,and refasten the front screws andthe grounding screw, at the rear.                         -----NJD all look  similar.  One  hasthe adjustment screw  on the top;but the other two types have themon the bottom of the drive.   If you are lucky, and have thescrew on  the top; just turn it avery slight amount  to change thespeed, UP or DOWN.  If the  screwis on  the bottom withthe  Bulletin  Board, follow  theinstructions of the BBS.---------------------------------                         -----NJDR = OnPress VI-(DONE).Press I-(ENTER PHONE NUMBER).   Type in the  phone number thatyou wish to call.Press-(DIAL).   The party answering the  MODEMcall  will  press   III-(ANSWER).When your  telephone rings, pressIV-(ON LINE).   When you are  "ONLINE", you may converse by typingyour message on the keyboard.  Itwill appear on both screens.   When you  have  fini%---------TO CALL PERSON TO PERSON:Put in AdamLINK tape/disk & BOOT.Press IV-(SELECT OPTIONS).Select:   DUPLEX = Half          DATA BITS = 7          STOP BITS = 1---------------------------------      ---THE ADAM MODEM------------------------------------TO CALL PERSON TO PERSON:Put in AdamLINK tape/disk & BOOT.Press IV-(SELECT OPTIONS).Select:   DUPLEX = Half          DATA BITS = 7          STOP BITS ------------TO UPLOAD:(Send Information)   Press the WILD CARD key.  Thiswill  bring up the  SmartKEYS  onyour screen.Press VI-(FILE).   The  SmartKEYS  will change.Press I-(TRANSMT).   You will be told to select thedrive that  holds  the  tape/diskcontaining  the  information  youwish to transmit.   Then you must type in the nameof the file you are sending. Typeit exactly the way it's listed onyour  storage  medium.  (Have thetape/disk ready and insert it.)Press VI-(DONE).Press the WIshed  yourconversation, press II-(HANG UP).---------------------------------TO CALL A BBS (Bulletin Board):Put in AdamLINK Tape/Disk & BOOT.Press IV-(SELECT OPTIONS). Select:   DUPLEX = Full          DATA BITS = 8          STOP BITS = 1          PARITY = None          AUTO LINE FEED = Off          WORD WRAP = On          AUTO REDIAL = Off          CHAR FILTER = OnPress VI-(DONE).Press I-(ENTER PHONE NUMBER).   Type in the BBS phone number.Press VI-(DIAL).   When you come  "ON LINE"   of the  drive,you must unfasten  the drive fromthe console  (2 screws, plus  thegrounding screw at the back).   I suggest  you turn  the powerOFF when working with the fasten-ings.   "Pop" the  drive door  tolet the datapak  come free of thedrive spindles.   The adjustment screw is a tinyslotted  brass screw  (about 1/8"head).  It's easy to see  on top,just behind the front of the datadrive.  If it's on the bottom, itmay be difficult  to see, and maybe partially concealed by a wire.   You d~%---------ADAMLINK II----Upload & Download.   You are "ON LINE" with anotherMODEM, and wish  to send informa-tion  to them; or  they  to  you.---------------------------------------------------------      ---THE ADAM MODEM------------------------------------ADAMLINK II----Upload & Download.   You are "ON LINE" with anotherMODEM, and wish  to send informa-tion  to them; or  they  to  you.---------------------= 1          PARITY = Even          AUTO LINE FEED = On          WORD WRAP = On          AUTO REDIALER = Off          CHAR FILTER = OnPress VI-(DONE).Press I-(ENTER PHONE NUMBER).   Type in the  phone number thatyou wish to call.Press-(DIAL).   The party answering the  MODEMcall  will  press   III-(ANSWER).When your  telephone rings, pressIV-(ON LINE).   When you are  "ONLINE", you may converse by typingyour message on the keyboard.  Itwill appear on both screens.   When you  have  finiLD CARD key.   When you  are ready, press theSTORE/GET key.   The tape/disk should now copy.The  information  will  appear onboth screens (yours & theirs) andbe recorded on their tape/disk.   When you  finish  sending, youwill see  "Transfer Complete"  onyour screen.   Press the WILD CARD key.  Thisputs you  back in  Terminal Mode,so that you can "talk" on screen.   When  you  have  finished yourcommunication, press II (HANG UP)and you are disconnected.-------------------------------------T-DOSand CP/M is a lot different thanworking in the SmartBASIC environ-ment.   For one thing, CP/M seems to meto be a lot more sensitive thanBASIC. I have worked with BASICfor so long, that switching toCP/M was something of a shock tomy system.  T-DOS is not quite asbad, as Tony and Guy have tried tomake it as user friendly as pos-sible, removing some of the morevexing idiosyncracies of the CP/Menvironment.   One of the first questions Iasked Guy, was "can you use allCP/M programs in the T-ILD CARD key.   When you  are done  receiving,press the  UNDO  key.  This  willCLOSE  the  file.  Otherwise, youwill lose it.   Press the WILD CARD key.  Thisputs you  back in  Terminal Mode,so that you can "talk" on screen.   When  you  have  finished yourcommunication, press II-(HANG UP)and you are disconnected.---------------------------------                         -----NJDve  finished yourcommunication, press II (HANG UP)and you are disconnected.-------------------------------------side your keyboard when you be-gin a session in T-DOS.  T-DOS isa compatible substitute for CP/M,but there ARE differences in theoperation of the two.  For instan-ce, I knew that you had to installa "Printer Patch" in Coleco's CP/Mto be able to use my dot matrixprinter with CP/M 2.2. This fileis called PRINTER.COM and to useit, you must BOOT CP/M, then in-sert a disk containing the PRINT-ER.COM file in a drive.  Then typePRINTER, and ADAM will tell youwhen the patch is installed.  Youcan now „'ked with GuyCousineau.  Guy had worked withTony Morehen in the development ofT-DOS, so I figured he was justabout the best person to take mytroubles to.  Working with          T-DOS WORKSHOP   Before I started working withT-DOS this time, I talked with GuyCousineau.  Guy had worked withTony Morehen in the development ofT-DOS, so I figured he was justabout the best person to take mytroubles to.  Working with -----------------------------TO DOWNLOAD:(Receive Information)   Press the WILD CARD key.  Thiswill  bring up the  SmartKEYS  onyour screen.Press VI-(FILE).54-The SmartKEYS will change.Press II-(RECEIVE).   You will be told to select thetape/disk  on which you are goingstore the  information  that  youwill receive.   Then you must type in the nameof the  file  you are  receiving.You can name it anything that youwish.  (Have the  tape/disk readyand insert it.)Press VI-(DONE).Press the WDOS envi-ronment?"   Guy says the only CP/Mprograms that you cannot use withT-DOS (that he knows of, that is)are SYSGEN.COM, ADAM.COM, CPMADAM-.COM, and CONFIG..COM.  These pro-grams have been replaced with T-DOS programsthat do the same things.  If youfind a program that you don't seemto be able to use with T-DOS, sendit to Guy Cousineau, 1059 HindleyStreet, Ottawa, Canada K2B 5L9,(613) 829-6354, and he will see ifhe can make it work with T-DOS foryou.     Be sure you have a T-DOS manualbe-----------------------------TO DOWNLOAD:(Receive Information)   Press the WILD CARD key.  Thiswill  bring up the  SmartKEYS  onyour screen.Press VI-(FILE).54-The SmartKEYS will change.Press II-(RECEIVE).   You will be told to select thetape/disk  on which you are goingstore the  information  that  youwill receive.   Then you must type in the nameof the  file  you are  receiving.You can name it anything that youwish.  (Have the  tape/disk readyand insert it.)Press VI-(DONE).Press the Wprint a document by pre-ssing CONTROL P when you want ahard copy of anything.  When youare done printing, you again pressthe CONTROL P.     If you don't have the T-DOSmanual to tell you how to printout a document, you could driveyourself crazy trying to figure itout.  A printer patch has alreadybeen built into the T-DOS program,and all you do is type LIST <com-plete name of file including fileextension>, and the informationcontained in the file is then sentto your printer.  If you type TYPE<ther.  Happily, he wasvery understanding.   Another plus as far as T-DOS isconcerned, is the fact that T-DOSis geared toward use with a harddrive.  Many ADAM owners are in-stalling a hard drive with theirADAM computers, and T-DOS workswell with a hard drive.  Don'teven think about using CP/M with ahard drive.  CP/M 2.2 came outbefore we even had disk drives ordot matrix printers, and has noidea how to access these peripher-als.  T-DOS seems to be the up andcoming environment of choice.  -Morre beginning touse CP/M or T-DOS, is to make acopy of the disk or files that youare going to be working with. NEVER use the original disk, sinceso many things can happen to it. Also, put a tab over the notch onyour disk BEFORE you begin to makethe backup copy.   I have no idea what I did, butI failed to put a tab over thenotch of a disk when I started tomake a backup copy, and I ended upwith two totally unusable disks. I had to ask the party that hadoriginally sent me the disks tosend me anoper room)  $290.00 for single.) INSTALLMENT PAYMENT PLAN: The $250 registration fee can be paid in two installments  ($125.00 each) or Three installments ($83.33 each) or four installments ($62.50 each).  Make the checks out to ACON 6 and      send to Bob Blair, 361 Eden Drive, Englewood, FL 34223.  Be  within the first 5 who take advantage of the installment plan and  receive an extra benefit - a surprise!  The theme for ADAMCON 6 will be "HANDS-ON LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES." Convention sessions will e next time.                    -Faye B. Deerepy of the disk or files that youare going to be working with. NEVER use the original disk, sinceso many things can happen to it. Also, put a tab over the notch onyour disk BEFORE you begin to makethe backup copy.   I have no idea what I did, butI failed to put a tab over thenotch of a disk when I started tomake a backup copy, and I ended upwith two totally unusable disks. I had to ask the party that hadoriginally sent me the disks tosend me anoname of file>, the informationwill be sent to your screen foryou to read, one screen at a time. This is only one of many usagechanges that have been made to T-DOS, making it easier than CP/M2.2 to use.   The latest version of T-DOS,some of the utilities, and theprinted version of the documenta-tion can be ordered for $10 plus$2 shipping, from our "Book C-CP/M& T-DOS" section of the Public Do-main Library. The volume is listedas #C-78, T-DOS.   Another thing that you shouldbe sure to do, befo‚DÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿNEWS ABOUT THE 6TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ADAM CONVENTION WHEN:  OCTOBER 6-9, 1994 WHERE:  HOLIDAY INN AIRPORT-MARINA, SARASOTA FLORIDA COST:  $250 for full Convention (4 nights lodging, meals,  parties, all sessions and break snacks, two delegates ther.  Happily, he wasvery understanding.   Another plus as far as T-DOS isconcerned, is the fact that T-DOSis geared toward use with a harddrive.  Many ADAM owners are in-stalling a hard drive with theirADAM computers, and T-DOS workswell with a hard drive.  Don'teven think about using CP/M with ahard drive.  CP/M 2.2 came outbefore we even had disk drives ordot matrix printers, and has noidea how to access these peripher-als.  T-DOS seems to be the up andcoming environment of choice.  -Morinclude opportunities  for all attendees to learn how to use the hardware and software  being  demonstrated by having a chance to operate an ADAM computer  with   the assistance of a subject matter expert during the sessions and during non-session periods.  A large number of ADAM    computers will be available for attendee use during this            convention.  In addition, we anticipate the introduction of major hardware and   software advances for our ADAM computer in ADAMCON 6!!!!  WATCH     FOR MOREe Kennesaw GA 30144 Batcher, Ken 530 Kelvedon Mews Mississauga ON L4Z 1G4Beattie, Alan R. Rr #4 Brockville ON K6V 5T4Bice, Danny 534 39th Street West Palm Beach FL33407-4108Blackwood, Clark 466 Hemsworth Road Qualicum Beach BC V9K 1B6 Blair, Bob   36l Eden Dr. Englewood FL 34223-1964Bona, Guy & Jeanene 2331 11th Ave North Riverside IL60546Bouclin, Marcel 6515 Jalobert Montreal QC H1M 1L2Braymen, Chris 45280 S. 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Detroit MI 48021 Gerow,       Clayton 13217 Aurora Dr. ElCajon CA 92101Glasco, Paul 6215 Rockbrair 6067 Jerusalem Dr. Clay NY 1304lKosowsky, Phil 6067 Jerusalem Dr. Cicero NY. 13039Krzyzanowski, John 2374 Palm St. Ottawa ON K1H 6Y8L.O.F. Comm. POBOX 587 York PA 17405Laforest, Guy P.O. Box 548 St. Jacques NB E0L 1K0Laso, Manuel Andres 8735 S.W. 28th Street Miami FL 33165Le May, Hector 2882-4 Sandalwood Ottawa ON K1V 3P4Lefko, Richard 20 Ashley Dr. Milford NH 03055Liardi, Peter Brockville ON K6Linnenkugel, Gerald 108 N. 2nd St., POB 829 Mabank TX 75147Loudon, Robert A. 3175 Curtis Avenue Omapeg MB R3C 2W7Puget Sound Adam 22607 SE 322nd Kent WA 98042R&R Software POBX 208l Hanover MA 02339Ramsey, David F. Jr. 310 E. Rouse Street Lansing MI 48910Reedy Software PO BOX 129 Lowell MI 49331Reid, Brian 78 Caprice CR. London ON N5V-3M2Reynolds, Bill 712 Waverly Place Statesville NC 28677Roades, Dean 8522 Hohman Ave. Munster IN 46321Roadrunner Public. 32l7 Mesilla Hills Dr. Las Cruces NM 88005 Robinson,    Craig N. HHC 98th ASG WRZ Unit 26622 Box 87 APO AE 09244Roginsky Games 4237 Thornhill Pl115Mason, Herman 8912 Blaine Ave. Cleveland OH 44106Mayner, Paul 118-6325 Metral Drive Nanaimo BC V9T 2L9McIntosh, Doug 615 Clarke Ave. Ottawa ON K1K 0Y6Metro Toronto AUG 21 Rondale Blvd. Toronto ON M6A 1H6Micro Innovations 12503 King's Lake Dr. Reston VA 22091Miedzinski, J. 29 Roberta CR. Nepean ON K2J 1G5Miller, Don #806 1275 Richmond Rd. Ottawa ON K2B 8E3Mitchell, Ron #1107 210 Gloucester St Ottawa ON K2P 2K4Mitchell, Ron Sr. 2075 Cooke Ave. Comox BC V9N 4L5Mr.T. Software 6521 E. Camino Santo Sy, James Rt. 1, Box 1918 Chattahoochee FL 32324Sebelist, Bob P.O. Box 85 Waterford ME 04088Shipley, Bruce 330 Olde Post Road Niceville FL 32578Slopsema, Bob 1815 Camille SE Kentwood MI 49546South West Florida AUG 361 Eden Drive Englewood FL 34223SpeedyWrite Software 2017 Inglehart Ave #11 St Paul MN 55104St. Peter, Gerry 6508 34th Street SW Calgary AB T3E 5M2St.Louis AUG 12967 Weatherfield Dr. St.Louis Mo. 63l46Stahl, Ruth M. 4744 East River Road Grand Island NY 14072Stelter, Shirley E. 6758 S.W. 324 F. Elgin Prkwy. Ft Walton Beach FL32548Ostler, Mel 3217 Mesilla Hills Dr. Las Cruces NM 88005Parallel Systems POBOX 772 Turnersville NJ 08012Parker, W.J. #2-9866 Resthaven Drive Sidney BC V8L 3E8Paterson, Doug 592 Eastvale Dr. Gloucester ON K1J 6Z6Patterson, Tony l5708 Belmont Dr. Biloxi MS 39532Pines, Howard 1010 Gloria Avenue Ft Walton Beach FL32548Pitman (Steve) Software 3705 Church St. Cincinnati OH 45244Practical Programs 43l8 Monroe Ave. Kalamazoo MI 49002Princess Auto 535 Panet Rd. Winniha NE 68111-1243Lukach, Nick 16 Matapedia Ave Rouyn Noranda QC J9X 1R1Lynch, Bart 45ll S. 256 St. Kent WA 98032MEI/Micro (disks,mailers) 1100 Steelwood Rd. Columbus OH 43212 MMSG (J.    Marshall) POBX 1112 Broomfield CO 80020MOAUG - Poulin, James 1146 Manatee Dr. Rockledge FL 32955Magnet AUG (Brennan) 888 Templeton Ave. Winnipeg MB R2V 3S6Maine Adam Library POOBX 85 Waterford ME 04088 Major, Steve PO Box 562 - Mason Rd. Champlain NY 129l9-0562Marriott, William 4721 S.W. 72nd Avenue Davie FL 33314-4. Las Vegas NV 89103Ross, Ian 610 Glenhurst CR. Gloucester ON K1J 7B7Roy, Jean-Marc 4 Avenue DE Savoie Gatineau QC J8T 1K5Salvati, Richard A. P. O. Box 2081 Hanover MA 02339Sands, David RR#1, Site 152, Comp #4 Bowser BC V0R 1G0Sanford, Garnet 210 Goulbourn Ave., Ottawa ON K1N 8E4Savini, Sullivan 509 Bluff Street Bridgeville PA 15017Sayles, Gaylord S. 815 N.W. 7th Street Miami FL 33136-3000Scruffy Bear Soft. 50 John Garland #l08 Rexdale ON M9V 1N4Seaman Software 129 E. 8th St. Winona MN 55987Searccottsdale AZ 85254NIAD 8125 W. Catherine St Chicago IL 60656NIAD Joint Porject P.O. Box 1317 Lisle IL 60532Naish, Francis 2064 Hampshire Road Victoria BC V8R 5V1Neeley, Alan 2337 South 600 E. Salt Lake City UT 84106Nicks, Glenn 103 Highland Drive Ft Walton Beach FL32548Notini, Jim (NIAD) 8125 W. Catherine Chicago IL 60656Oasis Pensive Abductors 432 Jarvis St. #502 Toronto ON M4Y 2H3 Ogilvie, R. D. Danny 12 Cleadon Dr. Nepean ON K2H 5P3Omaha AUG 809 W. 33rd Ave. Bellevue NE 68005Oscars Computers 28th Street Miami FL 33155Stevens, David 27-2600 Ferguson Road Saanichton BC V0S 1M0Stewart, Bill 78 Foxbar Road Burlington ON L7L 2Z6Stimmel, Michael 50 Druid Drive Pensacola FL 32507Stone, Jean 3301 Mobile Ave. El Paso TX 79930Strategic Software 424 E. John St. Lindhurst NY 11757Stringer, Gary 3244 Linwood Avenue Victoria BC V8X 1E4Stroud, Robert H. 33-3049 Brittany Drive Victoria BC V9B 5P7Sweitzer, Alex R. R. D. #1, Box 207 Fayette City PA 15438TC Software (Clary) 9015 Ester Dr. Loveland OH 451  unless you create 35 files of exactly 7.3 (and five decimal        places) kilobytes-----is that you aren't likely to really fill a   tape.  Couple that with the well-known SmartWRITER failing that    it can't write a new directory entry in the space presently        occupied by a 'deleted' file, and you'll soon discover that you    own an inordinate number of datapacks for the files you have.Looking at a representative catalog printout from a tape I have    35 files on, the file sizes range from one bl J.E. 1439 Wende Road Victoria BC V8P 3T7VISA (D. Cobley) 17-885 Berwick Road Qualicum Beach BC V9K 1N7 Valancius,  Willi 1390 Prairie Ave. Port Coquitlam BC V3B 1T2Vrancks, Jerry 2936 Evelyn St. Portage IN. 46368Vyse, Mark 22 Jubilee Court Sackville NS B4E 1X3WY MAR-REN REFINISHING CO 6618 Georgia Avenue West Palm Beach FL33405-4224 Walker, Robert H. R.R. l, Box 1082-B Ingleside TX 78362Walters Software RD#4 Box 289-A Titusville PA 16354Walters, Bruce RD#2 Box 51 Franklin PA. 16323-9204Wasylko, Bion is found in the utility    program Filemanager, authored by AJM Software and available from   most ADAM dealers.  Filemanager also offers so many other useful   features that its ability to initialize a disk or tape is merely   one of many that you will appreciate.  There are several other     ADAM 'utility' program packets, such as Directory Sorter, also     from AJM Software, which offers tape initialization, and Media-    Helper, by Gary Hoosier and sold by ADAM's House, which includes   some director‚CÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ LARGER DIRECTORIES ON DATAPACKS. BY DAVID SANDS.There are 256 blocks of 1 kilobyte formatted on to every ADAM      digital data drive tape.  But there are only 35 catalog entry      spaces on the standard directory for those tapes.  The result--  40Taylor, Sandy Rt 6, Box 6024 Hermiston OR 97838Telegames USA Box 901 Lancaster TX 75146Thomas Electronics 151 Devonshire Cres. Saskatoon SK S7L 5V6Thornton, Joseph 722 Prospect Avenue Fort Myers FL 33905Thurman, Charles O. 969 East Fir Street Palmyra PA 17078-2808 Tomlinson,   Al & Twila Rt. 2, Box 207 Archie MO 64725Tranovich, Richard 254 Asbury Road Mays Landing NJ 08330Trisyd Video 26 Florence Crescent Toronto ON M6N 4E4UKAS (England AUG) 33 Homer Rd. Croydon Surrey England CRO7SB Underhill,  ock to eight and the  'blocks left' figure shows 124--but the tape is 'full'.  In this   case, all of the files are short important letters, that have      filled a tape, by occupying less than half of it.The problem is clearly the directory size, so what to do about     it?The short answer is to create a larger directory when you 'init'   your tape.  There are several simple ways to do this.  And one     good time to do it:  when you first start to use a new tape.The most elegant and versatile solutill 18 Stroughton CR. Munster Hamlet ON K0A 3P0Watson, Bruce 22 Laurentian St POB 931Deep River ON K0J 1P0Wick, Neil & Dale Bx 165 260 Adelaide St EToronto ON M5A 1N0Wilson, Barry 11600 OLIVE BLVD. St Louis MO 63141-7002Wilson, Barry (founder) 12967 Weatherfield Dr. St.Louis MO 63146 Wizards   Lair 8l25 W. Catherine Chicago IL 60656Wormsbecker, Clint 32535 Brant Ave Mission BC V2V 4Y9Wilson, Barry (founder) 12967 Weatherfield Dr. St.Louis MO 6314y management programs, the much- praised JKL          Utilities, also known as The Wiz Utilities, as well as many        'public domain' directory init, print, and sort, programs.Other options are initializing programs built into non- utility    programs like SpeedyWrite 2.  The lowest cost, most immediately    accessible solution, though, is to modify the INIT program in      your ADAM SmartBASIC.Brief review:  Initializing a tape creates a new and blank         directory on a previously formatted tape, with file sizes in blocks, with a       three line program.  Media-Helper's 'catalog' utility will print out a directory with   the 'file attributes' of each file.  A once well-known utility,    Backup +3, unfortunately won't initialize larger than a one block  directory or handle tapes with larger than one block directories,  nor will it print a directory from a tape with more than one       directory block.  With SmartBASIC, before calling up your catalog, type the          following program:  NEWten, the INIT function creates only a     single block directory.  The cure for this is to load your         SmartBASIC as usual, but before typing in the 'INIT' command,      type 'POKE 25308, 2' for a two block or 70 file directory.  Use 3  for three blocks, etc.  If you know you're going to create a lot   of very small files, use any number up to 127.  The law of         diminishing returns, whose effect you normally see on your         paycheck, begins to take effect here, as well.  Assuming you INIT  im, spend  a pleasant evening typing RUN as you load every tape you own.      You'll thank me eventually.Should you own a dot matrix printer, PR#2 is your printer, and     you must have your 'printer patch' loaded.  The simple way to do   that is to follow the instructions with the patch to modify your   SB.  A SB printout will appear in one column and fits nicely,      when trimmed with scissors, into the cassette holder.  However,    it has one big problem, especially with a larger directory--the    singtape we own? We do,    if we haven't printed out our directory and kept the printout      with the tape or disk.  There are at least three simple methods    of printing out directories.In time management terms, scanning printed directories kept with   your tapes has got to be faster than loading every one into the    ADAM and pressing 'Get File.' Filemanager offers a directory print feature through the           keyboard, SpeedyWrite a slightly more complex one, and SmartBASIC  will print your directory.  The INIT in SmartBASIC  is there for ADAM owners to use with their tapes.  SmartBASIC is   loaded, and the command 'INIT' is typed; the screen prompts take   you through the steps.Formatting, a term generally used with disks, is usually           described as creating the necessary tracks on a disk for the       records.Tapes can't be 'formatted' in your ADAM with SmartBASIC, but       require the use of a separate soft/hardware package commercially   known as a Megacopy.  As it was originally writ <CR> PR#1 <CR>  PRINT CHR$(4); "CATALOG" <CR> PR#0 <CR>  That's it.  It doesn't have to be saved, and you don't have to     type in line numbers.  To use it, after typing it in, type RUN.    Have paper in the printer, and a tape in your #1 drive.If you want to print out the directory from your second drive or   in a disk drive, type "CATALOG D2", or "CATALOG D5" in the         appropriate line above.  If the cassette tapes are identified      with pencilled scrawl, stick-on notes, or any other systen SmartBASIC and use the tape in SmartWRITER, when your first     directory block is filled, the program will begin to fill the      second.  To see the second directory block when you don't find     the file you want on the first, take the wedge or arrow to the     lower right filename on your screen, and then press the down       arrow.  The next directory screen will appear, and you can then    select your file.  What if our file doesn't appear on this tape?   Do we then search through every *!@!#!$!*!  le column gets very long, quite quickly.  For a more compact   directory printout, look for a utility that can print in two       columns.  I know they're out there, I just can't tell you where.FileManager's printout is generated by pressing the Shift and      Print keys at the same time, when in the File Functions mode.      The directory printout will also include the file size in blocks   and the file types.  The FileManager printout is four columns      wide, which is very useful if you use a d-m princreate a tape/disk with all of  the files neatly stacked at the center of the tape, immediately    next to the directory.  The rest of the tape will be available     for storage, and SmartWRITER will store to it.An additional benefit will be an increased speed in file access.   Some of the best advice you ever get when you begin computing is   to save often.  If it takes the ADAM forever to save your work,    you're less likely to do it, and more likely to lose big when the  inevitable happens.A furtherscreen prompts for drive, file specifier (use the *) and then    press the Shift and SmartKEY IV keys at the same time.  Press      Escape, and then use Control D to delete the material above your   first filename and the return symbols below them.  You can edit    this remaining file--your list of filenames--as you wish.  SPW     prints out directories normally in three columns.This digression into directory printouts leads me back to          FileManager's other functions.  If you have a directory on th many-- empty,    but usable tapes that can themselves be INITed to large            directories and commence useful careers in storing the files you   create on your ADAM.  And really get filled up doing it, too.    Bill 712 Waverly Place Statesville NC 28677Roades, Dean 8522 Hohman Ave. Munster IN 46321Roadrunner Public. 32l7 Mesilla Hills Dr. Las Cruces NM 88005 Robinson,    Craig N. HHC 98th ASG WRZ Unit 26622 Box 87 APO AE 09244Roginsky Games 4237 Thornhill Pln't worth the tape it's       printed on, deletion is the obvious remedy.FileManager allows you to identify all the files you want to       delete and zap them all at once.  It also lets you change your     mind, should you need to.  The problem with SmartWRITER's          inability to write new files over deleted oldies remains,          however.  What good is it to delete the thing? Not much unless     you take your file management a step farther.  Using               FileManager's Krunch function will ter with           condensed typeface, such as 17 characters to the inch.When you've expanded your directory, and filled the tape, there    are a lot of files there.  I find it an awkward format with the    ADAM printer and tapes.The SpeedyWrite directory printout lacks file sizes but includes   file types.  It can, however, be edited and formatted within       SpeedyWrite.  If you want two columns, for example, they're        yours.To print a directory in SPW, use the Store/Get key and the         on benefit of a large directory is that it allows you to    store all that precious material you've created on the ADAM and    don't have a particular need for at this precise moment in time,   although you know darn well that if you erase it, you'll just      'have to have it' tomorrow.Therefore, the strategy is to create a large-directory tape, and   having done so, transfer files to it until it is in fact, well     and truly filled, all 256 blocks of it.By then, you will have created several, --perhapse     screen, or a neatly labelled collection of disks and tapes, all    of them with nice clear directory printouts, you'll probably       notice a few filenames whose origins are now a mystery.  Even      with 11 characters to play with when naming a new SmartWRITER or   SpeedyWrite file, it can occasionally be a challenge naming the    file that contains the story of your life, or a letter of          complaint to the UN about the neighbors.  If calling up the        mystery file convinces you that it is‚;ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ                FILEMANAGER VERSION 3.0.                    BY DAVID COBLEY.In the last issue of ADVISA for 1993, I wrote ramblingly   about some of the virtues of Filemanager. After speaking   to David Sands about his article on directories, I wathe there is "No More Room", when you know it   just isn't so. Haven't you just this minute made room by   deleting a whole bunch of files? We'll go deeper into it   in a future article, but for this initial introduction I   would like you to accept it as a statement of fact and I   will continue with our present exercise. OK?So for now, let's insert our Filemanager medium into the   appropriate drive (ddp or disc)  and  "load"  it.  Since   Filemanager is  self  loading  in the later versions, we   simplEOS, I would choose   Filemanager"  I couldn't have said it better myself!!I intend to take the utility  of Filemanager in bite (or   should that be byte?) sized chunks. And, because this is   intended to provide guidance to the unsophisticated ADAM   users, who likely have little or no idea what such terms   as "file management" or "housekeeping" mean, I intend to   digress from the main topic in  order to explain each of   the activities that we will  cover, in terms that can be   understood by those wh                                                V  -  Tape Drive 1                                  Maximum buffer size:        94K         Perhaps I should mention  that, in order for me to write   this article on my own ADAM under TDOS without having to   resort to repeated switching  from EOS to TDOS, and from   VDE (my TDOS word processor)  to Filemanager, I borrowed   my wife Midge's ADAM setup,  complete  with her computer   desk, and wheeled it into my "computer room".             Let's tak, then you decide that you   no longer need that file, I'm  sure that many of you are   convinced that  once  you  delete the file, the space it   occupied is now "free and clear" for you to save another   file.  Not only is that untrue, but neither is the space   in the directory  that  is  presently  occupied  by  the   "deleted" file.  Which means that the directory block of   a medium can be filled with deleted entries and when you   try to save another file you get that dreaded message to   inform you s a   mite apprehensive about overkill if I carried on with my   series on Filemanager.  However, having now read David's   article, I don't think there is an overkill situation. I   will continue with my series based on that assumption.Filemanager  is the finest utility program ever produced   for the ADAM EOS operating system. Let me echo the words   of one of ADAMdom's leading lights, Guy Cousineau,  who,   when commenting on my earlier article wrote "If I had to   choose ONLY ONE disc/file editor for y pull the Computer Reset  button and wait.  Within   two seconds the intro' screen of Filemanager appears and   is closely followed by a screen something like this:                  FILEMANAGER V 3.0                                    Copyright AJM Software                               I  -  File Functions                               II  -  Media Functions                             III  -  Change Default Setup                         IV  -  Use All Expansion Ram                      Source :o may not be fully conversant with   the data manipulations an  ADAM goes through in order to   read, store and catalog files.As David Sands has pointed out, elsewhere in this issue,   one of the limitations of a data storage medium, such as   a datapack or disc, is the finite limit of its directory   space. The EOS (Elementary Operating System) employed by   the ADAM has certain quirks that govern how frugally, or   otherwise, we use this space. For example, if you "save"   a file to a ddp or disc in EOSe a look at the options on the first screen. If   you notice, each of the  options has a Roman numeral for   it's identifier. And these Roman  numerals duplicate the   ones you will see on your ADAM Smartkeys.        What happens when we now press Smartkey I  which is shown  as selecting File Functions.  Immediately after you press  the key,  Filemanager reads the  directory  of the medium  in the drive you have  selected. In this case Tape Drive   1, and provides you with a screen like this:                              III  -  Starts at :         2  BLKS                  IV  -  Length    :         2  BLKS                   V  -  Used      :         1  BLKS                  sV  -    in last :       512  BYTE                  VI  -  Date      :  00/00/00                 Press RETURN When Done                        ESCAPE to Exit.Once again the  Smartkey  designators are shown and they   have different functions from  the previous screen, much   as they do in SmartWriter. It was clever and resource     II  -  Media Functions                               Press RETURN for Tagged C/P/D            The directory I have shown is  one from a long forgotten   datapack of correspondence  I produced in the early days   of VISA(1989). The CPMPATCH is a fast loading program to   permit use of a dot-matrix  printer in place of the ADAM   SmartWriter printer. Note that binary type programs such   as the Patch program use the H filetype designator, like   SmartWriter produced files use. Typical Coleco confusioenu and discuss the other functions of   Filemanager? I must admit I  was  torn between these two   options,  but  common  sense  prevailed and we are going   back to the Main Menu  to continue our overview.        So, to return to the Main Menu,  we  simply press RETURN   twice. Once puts us back  to  the initial File Functions   Menu and the second to the Main Menu.Now we'll have a look at option  II,  Media Functions. I   think it would be  prudent  to say a word about the uses   of the words "File"              FILEMANAGER V 3.0                 Copyright AJM Software              Directory Entry   3                   I  -  Name: CPMPATCH       H                  II  -  Attributes                             locked:  N                      write protect:  N                       read protect:  N                          user file:  Y                        system file:  N                            deleted:  N                      exec. protect:  N                        blocks left:  N                   FILEMANAGER V 3.0                 Copyright AJM Software                                  Directory of LETTERS V                              >  CPMPATCH   H   VISAHEAD   H                             LETTERHEAD H   UNDHIL8904 H                             ADMZAP8902 H   NAISH8916  H                             NAISH8917  H   CASLER893a H                             CASLER8903 H   LYONS8903  H                             I  -  Edit Catalog                               ful   of Filemanager's authors to  utilize this very versatile   capability of ADAM.One thing I would like you to note is the fact that ADAM   assigned 2 blocks of data storage  space  to CPMPATCH H,   but it only occupied 1  block. And there was less than 1   kilobyte of data (512 bytes) in that block. Waste!!!Now we've reached a decision  point in our discussion of   Filemanager. Should  we  proceed with File Functions and   go on with our review of this directory? or should we go   back to the Main Mn.As you can see, there are a total of ten  files shown in   the catalog. Their names or filetype designators are not   important at this time. Note that there is an "arrow" on   the left side of the first file CPMPATCH H. This is your   cursor and can be readily manipulated by the arrow keys.Let's take a look at what happens if we press Smartkey I   again (See Edit Catalog) at the bottom of the screen. As   soon as you press that key, the screen changes and shows   something like the following:      and "Media"  as  they are applied in   Filemanager. If the functions (actions) to be undertaken   involve copying, modifying, deleting or redesignating of a single file, or a group of single files, then the term     that applies is File Functions. If, however, the actions   to be undertaken involve  Backing-up, Krunching, Copying   Blocks, Editing Blocks, Formatting or Initializing, then   they are Media Functions. OK? Clear as mud I suppose!!!If we press Smartkey II at  the  Main  Menu,  the screen   cha would load and run  from  the  discdrive.  There   were many other programs that needed similar patching to   run properly and to  access  a dot-matrix printer, etc..Format Media really applies  to  formatting  discs,  not   datapacks. As David Sands said in his article, you can't   format a blank datapack in  your ADAM, except by using a   specialized software/hardware  package  called Megacopy,   designed and sold by Syd Carter of TriSyd Video Games in   Toronto. Once a datapack has  been formatted by Media                               Press ESCAPE to Exit                  I think a short  explanation  of these alternative terms   would be prudent at this point.  Backup  means to make a   copy of all the files  on  a  medium or to make an Image   copy. Krunch means to  eliminate  wasted  space  on  the   medium by deleting unwanted  directory  entries and then   reallocating the available  storage space and moving the   files as close as possible to the start of the medium.Copy Block(s) mean.   Although the  original  data  remains on the medium, the   computer "sees" it as a newly  formatted medium. It does   not examine the contents of each byte before putting the   new data into that byte. It simply assumes that, since a   directory check advises that this byte is  not occupied,   it is permissible for the system  to write new data into   the space. I should point out that the term kilobyte (or   block) can be substituted for the term byte.Now we come to the third  option on the Main Menuy  a word processor to control a printer. Not all the control  codes  you  may  require     will be included in those in your word processor so they   will need to be changed  after the fact. And this is the   function that allows us to modify  a  file or program so   that it will load or run  from a different source drive.   For example, SmartBasic was  originally  written to load   from datadrive  #1,  but  as  the discdrives became more   popular it was necessary to "patch" the Basic program so   that itnges and we see something like this:                                   FILEMANAGER V 3.0                Copyright AJM Software                            MEDIA FUNCTIONS                                           I  -  Backup                                         II  -  Krunch                                        III  -  Copy Block(s)                                  IV  -  Edit Block                                      V  -  Format Media                                   VI  -  Initialize Megacopy   or some other system, you can  reformat  it to "refresh"   each block to the original pristine condition it enjoyed   at initial formatting.  And this permits you to check on   the condition of each block  because Filemanager advises   if it encounters a "bad block".Finally Initialize Media means  to print a new directory   etc., to a medium. Initializing is a simple, fast way to   delete all the existing data  in the directory to permit   ADAM to view the medium as  a  new  or  reformatted ones that instead  of  copying  a file or   files from one  place  on  a  medium to another, or to a   different medium, you copy the  blocks  of  data without   altering the directory.  You'll likely not use this very   often. I rarely do, and  then  only  to  copy  the  Boot   block, block 0 (zero) from one  medium to another, or to   make a copy of  the  TDOS  operating system for a system   setup which differs from mine.Edit Block is a function you  will often use if you have   to modify the codes used b, III -   Change Default Setup.  Perhaps, for the benefit of newer   ADAMites, I should describe what is generally implied by   the term "default" in data processing. Default means the   standard conditions introduced by a program, on loading,   or as it is presently configured. Does that help?It is possible to alter the default settings by changing   the program contents on file. This will create different   default settings on boot-up.  Many programs, Filemanager   included, can  be  changed  "on-the-fln on  the Main Menu provides a   means whereby you  can  select the amount of your memory   expander you use during copy or backup operations. I can   NOT think of a reason not to use ALL of my expansion RAM   for that, but there must be some or the authors wouldn't   have included the option. The  3  alternatives are, "Use   All Expansion Ram,  Ignore  Expansion Ram, or Use 1 Bank   of E-Ram". The choice is yours. More next time.              I  -  Border:          Cyan                              II  -  Normal Char:     Black                            sII  -  Normal Bkgrnd:   White                            III  -  Inverse Char:    Black                           sIII  -  Inverse Bkgrnd:  Cyan                              IV  -  Cursor:          Magen                          Source:                                                       V  -  Disk Drive 1                                       sV  -  Double Sided                   square brackets. Readers who desire more information        should contact their newsletter editor. Opinions not        within quotation marks are those of the author.Gleanings is written for the Vancouver Island Senior        ADAMphiles (VISA) and is distributed by the ADAM News       Network. (Gleanings may be shortened, improved or  updated  by editing irrelevant items.)Who'd a thought it? ADAM's House, Terry Fowler's source     for ADAM hard and software, has run out of new ADAM         printers. fault setting to show   the correct name of the colour you're presently viewing.   Very nifty. Try  this  colourful display to your heart's   content. Until you press RETURN, the  screen is the only   place the changes have any effect. Once you have changed   the settings  to  those  you  find most pleasing, simply   press RETURN and Filemanager  will modify the program on   your medium to reflect  your  choices and ensure that in   future it will boot-up that way.               The fourth and final optioy" either for that   session only, or in future boot-ups.  Option III is your   "window" on the defaults of  Filemanager. Press Smartkey   III and see for  yourself.  The  following  screen  will   appear:                                                                      FILEMANAGER V 3.0                                       Copyright AJM Software                                  DEFAULT SETUP                                             Screen Colors:                                            ‚<ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿBy Dave SandsGleanings is a column of information, quotation and         opinion gathered from exchange newsletters, FidoNet         correspondence and miscellaneous sources. All sources  are  cited and interjections within quoted material are  in                       Target:                                                      VI  -  Tape Drive 1                                      sVI  -                                                 Press RETURN to Save Changes                                    ESCAPE to Exit                      Pressing the appropriate Smartkey  for the item you wish   to modify, will provide  you  with a dazzling display of   colour changes in the section to which you are referring   and at the same time change the  deFowler is offering to buy your used printers  and says there's still a good supply of repair parts and  used  ones. Couple that with his announcement, also in  the       Nov/Dec '93 ADAM International Media,  that there is  now   an ADAM printer ribbon shortage because he has just         purchased the last 270 Original type ADAM printer           cartridges, and there is obvious cause for concern.  Or,    more likely, good reason to send Terry your money for  more supplies.And, to continue with the scarcec-  Jan   '94.This may explain a lot of what happens when you start to    use a computer:"Zymurgy's Law of Evolving System Dynamics: Once you  open  a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to  use a     larger can." That little gem comes from a somewhat          anonymous photocopy, but which credits the University of    New England.Speaking of disc drives--we were, two paragraphs ago--  the ADAM News Network is carrying an article out of the  Inland Empire ADAM User Group (IEAUG) of Orange Couy well off in terms of       hardware and software, especially when we remember it's  a  ten year old orphan computer, but it's also a good  idea to buy what you want when it becomes available.There will continue to be new software and hardware         available for the ADAM; that's a fact, not a prediction.    Have I lied to you before?Take for example, this quote from the Nov '93 AUGER of  the Emerald Coast ADAM User Group in Fort Walton Beach,  FL.:"Pat Herrington of Eyezod Software tells me that sThe conversion article the Gleaner saw appeared in the      October '93 Puget Sound ADAM Network nl, the Newsnet.The Gleaner actually does know who Noah is; he's Noah       Jackson, president of the IEAUG, and he's currently         recovering from surgery for colon cancer. The current nl    carries a tribute to the four-year president of the  group, ADAM owner since 1985, and 30 year US Navy veteran. Considering how important health is to all of  us, I'm sure many will want to send this long-time ADAM  ive is dwarfed by the 320K, 720K and 1.44Meg drives  now  being sold. Hard drives of 40 Meg are available in  several versions as are memory expanders of from 64K to  2Meg.      Parallel and serial interfaces allow you to connect 9 and 24 pin  dot matrix printers, as well as       high-speed modems and 80-column terminals. There are  even  MIDI music and X-10 Home Automation interfaces. If  there   is a need, there's an ADAM expert to design what  is        needed." 463 ADAM flyer, quoted in ECAUG AUGER, Dities, it is now or never    for you to get your one or two megabyte memory expander     card, or a 720K, 3.5" disk drive. The memory cards are      going out of stock and won't likely be replaced because     their cost would be too high, and the 720 drives have  been replaced by 1.4 megabyte drives, Fowler says.All of this news sounds like the normal ebb and flow of     commerce, or maybe the magic workings of the law of  supply and demand, but maybe it's also the sign of things to come. The ADAM is vernty,  CA. with  instructions how to convert your present Coleco  160K drive to a 720K drive. While it's nicely specific about what screws you have to remove, etc., it rather       ignores the difficulty non-IEAUG readers may have with  the advice "Next replace the 160 Eprom with the 720  Eprom (see Noah) on the ADAM control board. This is all that's required for changes on this unit." OKAY,  whoinhell is Noah? Better we should try ADAM's House for  the Eprom   if we can find a 720 drive cheap somewhere. he is     madly working on a new volume of graphics for us. The       volume will be specially designed to enable you to 'blow    up' the graphics files on the volume to quadruple height    and double width to fill one whole page." Faye B.Deere,     the AUGER editor, says Herrington is trying to design       graphics and letters that will minimize the jagged edges    of large graphics.  And, hardware;"The hardware available for the ADAM far exceeds  anything  Coleco had planned. The original 160K disk dr       partisan a get-well card. Noah Jackson is at 22671          Rockford Drive, El Toro, CA., USA 92630.Don't take my word for it, I'm only your mother. Listen  to some complete stranger and take her word for it."To my knowledge, no other 'orphaned' computer holds        annual conventions, fields numerous newsletters and         bulletin board systems, puts out a monthly disk (or TWO)    of information gleaned from all these sources, or  develops new software and hardware on an ongoing basis."  Pat  Richard F. Drushel (rfd@po.CWRU.edu)Submitted by: Raymond Chen (raymond@microsoft.com)I can provide a few examples of 'hidden goodies" from  the  Coleco ADAM world.In the ADAM implementation of Digital Research's CP/M  2.2, there is a key sequence which, if typed while the  system   is booting, displays a graphic of a woman entitled 'Pam's Face.'In the unfinished (at the time of Coleco's demise) but  now public domain version of the 'Jeopardy' game, there  is a   keyboard sequence which results ih her programs,    and depends on those responses to determine where her       future work will go:"All my recent work is DIRECTLY related to customer         feedback!!!!Without that input, I would NOT be working on this  stuff;  in fact I doubt I I'd be working on anything at  ALL.  Why  would I bother? Would YOU?It only takes a few minutes to write a note, and it  makes  all the difference in the world.And because so few people DO bother, your own comments      have more weight than you probably e data is stored on the digital data pack if you look at the absolute blocks.       Viewed this way, there is also the remnants of whatever     real-time debugger the programmers were using--there is  a  screen showing all the Z80 register contents and the        flags. There is also a block devoted to the programmers'    names and how the work was allocated among them.In Coleco's unreleased Graphics Processor cartridge  (used  to create, capture and/or edit high-resolution  graphics    screens) there iss fellows who write the programs  work into  them for their own amusement."..................From: Joe BlenkleTo: AllSubj. Easter EggsI ran across a text file on a local BBS today that had a    list of easter eggs found in various computer's             software...the ADAM was listed! I'll u/l [upload] it  here  when I get a chance to extract the ADAM section out  of it. ................From: Joe BlenkleTo: AllSubj: Easter EggsOK, I got the list...here it goes.Product: Coleco ADAMReported by:       Herrington "RSVP' 463 ADAM nl, Nov. '93.  (capitals  in     original) Ms. Herrington goes on to urge ADAMites           everywhere to support their local user group, BBS sysop,    nl editor, nl column writers--okay, she didn't say that--   because all of us ADAM activists everywhere just thrive  on kind words and recognition.  When it comes to your  use of  the ADAM, some kind words can certainly be effective. Herrington goes on to say that as a software     developer, she sends out survey cards witn all the categories being about the programmers--favorite foods,     hobbies, etc.In the ADAMCalc spreadsheet program, there is a key         sequence which, if followed by the word 'SURFNAZI'          displays a screen listing the programmer's names.In the SmartFILER database program, there is a hidden       database which contains the programmers' favorite  recipes, perhaps left over from the earlier Recipe Filer  program. I have not discovered a way to access this from  the actual   program, but thsuppose. You might  feel that you are powerless to affect the outcome of an          election...that your lone vote is insignificant at the      polls. But believe me, that's not the case in our tiny      community. Your voice is HEARD, LOUD and CLEAR!"  (capitals in original)Doing my bit to make the ADAM community party-line more     effective: more quotes from FidoNet.Thanks to Joe Blenkle for this material. He posted it on    FidoNet.  Easter eggs seem to be little hidden items  that  those marvellou a configuration menu for a prototyped but never released  serial/parallel interface    board (setting baud rates, parity, stop, flow control).     Neatest of all is the SmartKEY which is labelled VAX...The ADAM has a ROM [Read Only Memory] word processor        called SmartWRITER.  While disassembling the code for  this program, I discovered a remarkable subroutine  called right after the powerup routines which bank- switch this ROM and jump to the first byte of               initialization code. Colecwant Help    screens, hit the up arrow and right arrow keys              simultaneously, then type the 'surfnazi', without  quotes.  The trick may take some mastering. A block editor program (FileManager, etc.) will probably be the     tool to get you into the other programs. If there's any     further word on techniques, the Gleaner will bring them  to you. In the meantime, let's thank Joe Blenkle and  Richard  Drushel for some dedicated work.Words to Live By Dept: from a FidoNet message between  Pat  Hps Coleco was planning a        company BBS whereby someone calling in with the ADAMLink    modem could try out game demos by pulling the reset on  the computer at the appropriate moment while on-line!These may qualify more as programmer detritus than  actual  hidden features;The SmartBASIC 1.0 interpreter has an unused message        string 'Hi Cathy'; the SmartBASIC 2.0 interpreter has it    too, but also fills up unused space in the first page of    RAM [Random Access Memory] with 'Hi Jan' over and oage to all <09 Dec 93 17:03> Paul ~Elshoff     GC> wrote:GC> PE> Well, ~Winnipeg is now fully converted over to  GC> PE>the Planet Connect system to keep in touch with  GC>     PE>the rest of the FidoNet world.GC>GC> Good news! I hope this means we'll be hearing more  GC> from you and the ~Winnipeg crowd. your ~gotta get your  GC> $45 worth of TALK in there ;-) GC> Season's GC> Greetings...GuySeason's greets right back at yaz!We had our net meeting earlier this evening and one of  the items was a pre.[And Blenkle finishes up with his own observation;] OK,     maybe this is old news to you who have kept close to  ADAM, but it was mostly all new to me...I still remember  the one time I did something and got the programmer's  initials in  Nova Blast...never could do it again..."It isn't old news to the Gleaner, who can't understand      half of what they were trying to do with all that stuff.    But the trick to finding the ADAMCalc initials screen is    this: load the program and when it asks if you o made a 300-baud internal  modem for the ADAM (ADAMLink); everytime you turn on the          computer the modem is initialized, and then the modem  port is read: if a valid ROM signature AAh 55 is received, then it assumes a cartridge game is being fed  in through the modem! The next 2 bytes are the load  address,  and the next 2 after that the length of the code; it is loaded in, the game operating system ROM        switched in, and it jumps to the start of the game!         Someone suggested that perhaerrington and David Cobley, two active correspondents; "As one of my editors once told me--It's    not what you don't know that causes trouble, but what  you  DO know that is WRONG!"There are a ton of ways to save money out there--           presuming you have it to save, of course. One way is to     cut down on your phone bill:From Paul Elshoff to Guy Cousineau, this message,  complete with double quote backs;..................................***Quoting Guy Cousineau to Paul Elshoff***GC> In a messver.     (It has been suggested that the persistently buggy  quality of Coleco software was due to the programmers  being more   interested in Jan and Cathy than in tasks at hand...) The ADAMLink terminal program (used with the       ADAMLink modem) has whole sets of unimplemented menus to    select smart terminal emulations like VT52 and VT100, a     dialing directory with numbers for Dow Jones and The        Source, and a 1K buffer initialized with nonsensical        quotes from some English grammar booksentation on Planet Connect that  answered a LOT of questions regarding its use. It will cost us $600 Cdn for a year's subscription to the  service  as well as the cost of the satellite dish and  receiver     (approx. $1,000 Cdn). This will bring in all the FidoNet backbone as well as a few other echos. To       reply we still have to rely on Ma Bell, but it seems  that  will still result in about an 80% reduction in our  net's   phone bill, as the system will pay for itself in  about 8   to 10 months and  or churches would probably LOVE to get their hands on a ColecoVision and a few carts. Don't let it  rot, guys, put it to good use and let's get the NEXT  generation of ADAM users started RIGHT! ;-)I'll keep you all posted on our progress. Wish us  luck.."  (capitals in original).One of the first to respond to Elshoff was Guy  Cousineau,  who offered ten cartridge games.The Gleaner thinks this is a great idea, although it'll     probably turn into a media circus before it's had a         chance. Kid is there to do? ;-) (capitals, etc, per original).In another message on the same subject, ADAM echo           moderator Jim Young told Bart Lynch there are about 700     echos on the Fidonet system. All of them get bounced up     and down off the satellite, just like TV.One great idea that will probably run into a lot of         criticism--except from the people it's intended to help--   is in this FidoNet message, also from Elshoff:"The Keystone ADAM Users Group [Winnipeg, MB.] is  looking  into sthe        machine turned out to be full of roaches, most of them      (thankfully) dead from the trip crosscountry. We kept       cleaning up the machine, finding more, killing them,  etc.  Between the roach deposits and the roach damage to  wiring  (they chew on insulation) the machine may not be            repairable, but we will try. We bug-bombed the house  twice to eliminate the imported vermin, and it seems to  have     worked." And author/editor/repairman/roach scourge  David   McGlone also says nicea  room    (or rooms as the case may be) and appropriate  furniture    for the use of these games as well as staff to monitor the equipment's use and security. If such        co-operation is forthcoming, we hope to have the  project   up and running by the summer of '94.I mention this here as I'm willing to bet that most of  the users here have some old Coleco stuff that is just          collecting dust in a closet somewhere that might be put  to a similar use.  Daycare operations run by local  charities after that result in an approximate savings to the local net of about $120 per      month PLUS it will allow us to bring in nearly TRIPLE  the  echoes we were bringing in by phone.Our local net runs a cost sharing program that has been     running us about $10 per month per member, but it looks  as if we'll be able to increase service to the members  while  cutting the expenses to about $3 per month each.   Not too  bad, eh?As for getting us posting more, HEY!  The cold  weather's   here, so what ELSEs in hospitals certainly need all the  diversion they can get, and video games provide that.  The inevitable complaints about violent games will          probably best be answered by showing some ADAM  cartridge   games: Smurfs, QBert, etc.Tell me again about the Curse of King Tut's Tomb,  Daddy:   from The Z-Letter, Nov/Dec '93, this item about  the        dangers of working on old computers:"Another guy, whose name I will omit to spare him           embarrassment, sent a Kaypro 10 to be looked at. Tarting a non-profit foundation to obtain  video      games to be placed in children's wards of hospitals to help make a hospital stay less traumatic  to   the younger patients.A similar operation is running quite successfully in  the   USA and has been for a couple of years now. The  doctors    and hospital staff claim it actually helps speed recovery by improving patient morale.  Successful     implementation of the project will depend heavily on  the   co-operation of the local hospitals in providing  things about yours, mine  and our    favorite newsletter, the VISA ADVISA: "It's probably the easiest ADAM newsletter to read, and the  best organized." The 463 ADAM club of Munster, IL., is having attendance     problems and the current December newsletter carries a      survey. Based on the Gleaner's legal training--careful      watching of Rumpole on PBS TV--I had thought the rule  was  not to ask a question unless you already knew the  answer,  but the 463 club is ready to live dangerously.   Here'sgs that only happen when  things  have to go right, he had a good show. His report  goes on;"The next day I received a phone call, at home, from  one   of our members who had turned up 24 hours late. I  will     spare his blushes by not mentioning his name, but  as he    was calling from outside Stanley Halls, I invited  him over for a mini Open Day and we went over some of the demos we showed the day before." UKAS Journal,  Oct-Nov '93.Marner also reports that he has WordSTAR 4.0 available  for the ADeaders, you saw almost  all   of it here first. Dave Cobley's 'Mirrors and Magic'  on     using VDEJUS.COM, a Guy C. production, is in the Dec  '93   Puget Sound ADAM Network nl the Newsnet, Ron Mitchell's ADAMCon 05 report in the Dec '93 ADAM            International Media, Guy Cousineau on BASIC in the  Emerald Coast ADAM Users Group AUGER, Bob Stroud's ADAMCon 05 report appears in the United Kingdom ADAM        Subscribers nl, and my own self on SpeedyWrite macros in    PSAN's Nov '93 issue."Another faithful readers, I ain't going to excerpt any more of  it  for you. There are other places for it, and there  are good reasons to run articles asking for responses.   However,    it's getting a little tedious.  Therefore, a moratorium--remember moratoriums?--on feedback  requests.   The Gleaner does what he does because he enjoys it, and when he doesn't anymore, he'll stop. If  you enjoy your ADAM, fine. I certainly still enjoy mine. , Dec '93. The Gleaner believes Faye may be  mistaken  about CP/M and disk drives, but on the other hand, she's right about everything else: there is no  way   that CP/M is as user-friendly as TDOS.One seriously nice guy has to be K.A.Marner, of the  United Kingdom ADAM Subscribers. Keith holds an annual  'open day' which is, I think, real English for a trade show, for his members, hiring a room in a big hall for  it, and generally doing it up brown. This year, after           surmounting the usual thin a   sample question:7.How do you use your ADAM?[] Word processing[] Graphics[] BASIC programming[] Data Base (ADAMFiler)[] Spreadsheet (ADAM<Calc)[] Only until I can afford an IBM[] As a door stop[] ____________________Now, what's your answer?Canadians in print; there aren't many of us, but we  write  like rabbits multiply, with enthusiasm. In the  current     crop of nls, northerners Ron Mitchell, Guy Cousineau, Bob Stroud, Dave Cobley and yours truly are      well represented, and ADVISA rAM at 62 English Pounds each. There is no  truth to   the rumours that WordSTAR V.3.0 will be made public domain, the WordSTAR International (UK) office  told him. Marner is at 33 Homer Rd, Croydon, Surrey,  England    CRO7SB.Last Words: The problem of feedback, or response, or        customer satisfaction is a perennial in the ADAM nl         community, which is what the Gleaner usually covers.        There is more  and more appearing that sounds like  crying  in the wilderness, and if you don't mind, plus as far as TDOS is concerned is the fact  that TDOS is geared toward use with a hard drive.  Many  ADAM    owners are installing a hard drive with their ADAM          computers and TDOS works well with a hard drive.  Don't     even think about using CP/M with a hard drive. CP/M 2.2     came out before we even had disk drives or dot matrix       printers, and has no idea how to access these  peripherals. TDOS seems to be the up and coming environment of choice." Faye B. Deere, 'TDOS Workshop'      AUGER‚CÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ OMAHA ADAM USERS CLUB NEWSLETTER DEC/JAN 94 # 57 The oldest active ADAM newsletter in the USA Established 11 July 1984 by Norman R.  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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 opini‚DÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿWhile working with my IBM Clone I have found out that I needed to   get to my sound board often to control the sound volume, BUT it  is in the back of my Mini-Tower and small.  CASTLE COMPUTERS to  the   rescue.  Jim told me about this first item from ons reprintsADAM/COLECOVISION, RCA STUDIO II, ATARI 5200, FAIRCHILD,           INTELLIVISION, ODYSSEY 500 game unit & VECTREX.  Just send TWO     First Class Postage Stamps ONLY for samples of your choice of      system.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 Mao 1/8" mini jack.      The cost is $6.39.  My speakers do NOT have a volume control  built in.  Now I can just reach over and enjoy.The second information is included to set the facts straight  about my ADAM support and my finances.  There was a conflict with  my     medical appointments with my urologist and the ADAM connvention.  Time is more important to me than money, thus I  have not worked since retirement from the Air Force in 1984.  We  are    classified as on the poverty line, according to the  for that to happen yet.  But many programmers have allowed  their works to be treated as if they were copyright expired,       within certain restrictions.  Most insist that their work carry    their name.  Some allow use only provided the program is not       modified in any way; others specifically encourage improvements,   expansions and upgrades.  Almost all state their programs must be  given free and may not be sold.The qualification to this is that those distributing public        domain items mayram  is a        no-nonsense fast paced look at weather in the lower 48  states with actual meteorologists.  You can escape the network weather clowns and get the real story (without commercials) each    morning.To find the station and time in your area write for their free      station listing.  There are over three hundred stations listed      including two in Canada.  The listing includes a chart that gives   a full color guide to weather map symbols and aviation weather      abbreviations.  Send a se products may now  be treated as public domain.  A.D.A.M.  Services has many of       these available.  A list of some of the more notable of these      follows.From NIAD:Baseball Statistician - database to track your team.   Paint       Palette:  lets Powerpaint show 256 screen colours.Snapshots:  clip art for Signshop or NewsmakerADAMwars II:  text game of ADAM community interactions. Clipart:   for use with Powerpaint or compatible.From ADAMagic:Black Dungeon of Mildor:  text adventure game.Docu‚CÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ WHAT IS PUBLIC DOMAIN? BY RICHARD CLEE.In law, what we call "public domain", isn't.  The term refers to   created works which may be freely used because the creators        copyright has expired.  No computer software has been around long  enoughgovernment figures.  I wanted more time to play games and enjoy     myself and help my grandaughter Ashley.  During 1993 I spent $94    on software + several newsletters, full subscription price.  If     every ADAM owner would just spend $40 to $50 each year it would     help the ADAM community.  I've always done my part.This is from MONITORING TIMES Dec 93 issue.  Public Television  has an excellent weather program on every day called A.  M.   WEATHER.  Produced by Maryland Public TV, this 15 minute prog make a nominal charge for their trouble in        obtaining, storing, listing, publicizing and physically copying    the program; thus for example A.D.A.M.  Services has a copy fee    of $3.00.  It is also the responsibility of the recipient to       provide the medium (tape or disc) that is to receive the copy,     packing and postage if applicable, or cash to cover these if       supplied.In the last little while a number of ADAM suppliers have           withdrawn from the market, and stated that theirlf-addressed stamped envelope to:  A.M.    Weather, Maryland Public Television, 11767 Owings Mills  Boulevard, Owings Mills, MD 21117.  They will not respond without  the SASE.   You'll also receive a pitch to donate directly to A.M.   Weather to help ensure it stays on the air.Satellite TV viewers may watch A.M.  Weather on Spacenet 4  channel 6 from 06:45 a.m.  to 09:30 A.M.  in repeated 15 minute  blocks. mentation file for above.Castle Vampira:  text adventure; 64K expander required. Quickload:  converts BASIC files to binary.Address Master:  address book type database.Copy Master:  requires two drives; a copy utility.Boot Shop:  utility allows more bootable programs on tape. Modem   Master:  a telecommunications utility for Coleco modem. AdamBASIC  1.6:  Enhanced version of SmartBASIC.Arcade Games:  as title suggests.Brain Games:  premium on strategy above speed.Education Pack:  elementary level leae Minute Formatter)         graphics helps like DaVinci, Animator, Coleco Graphics Processor   [also titled Project Name by Line] to general utilities            collections allowing some transfers between program formats, to    printer patches and modem controllers.  There are specialties      like educational units, games, tax templates for ADAMcalc,         demonstration procedures for Logo, music for Videotunes, and clip  art for Powerpaint.  Then the public domain TDOS operating system  opens the wholeIDI interface.   MIDI drivers and demos for SmartBASIC:  title describes.  MIDI Utilities:  again, as titled.  MIDI Songs:  twelve separate volumes, from New Age thru' Jazz and  Joplin to Classical, playable on electronickeyboard via MIDI interface.  From Coleco:SmartBASIC 1.0 or 2.0:  crashed tapes are replaceable;  the        upgrade lacks documentation but adds capabilities.  Final Systems Test:  factory test program, 64K exp.  reqd. Tape    Drive Speedcheck:  helps avert problems with drives.Dis       Herrington "RSVP' 463 ADAM nl, Nov. '93.  (capitals  in     original) Ms. Herrington goes on to urge ADAMites           everywhere to support their local user group, BBS sysop,    nl editor, nl column writers--okay, she didn't say that--   because all of us ADAM activists everywhere just thrive  on kind words and recognition.  When it comes to your  use of  the ADAM, some kind words can certainly be effective. Herrington goes on to say that as a software     developer, she sends out survey cards wit tool.  Abominable Snowman:  text adventure with graphics.  Other:There are thousands of public domain programs for the ADAM,        ranging from Supergames never sold by Coleco (Super Subroc,        Cabbage Patch Kids Adventure in the Park, Jeopardy, Family Feud,   Best of Electronic Arts, Troll's Tale, Super Donkey Kong) to       utilities with important capabilities (JKL Utilities, Coleco's     Disc Manager, Copyfast [for two drives], Quickcopy 1.0 [easy] or   5.0 [harder but more sophisticated], Onrning aids.Games:  three volumes of activity type games.Adventure Pack:  three volumes of text adventure games.From Guy Cousineau:Guy's BASIC games:  emphasize strategic challenges.Photocopied doc file required.  Three volumes available. Guy's     text adventure games.  one volume.  Slideshow:  utility for creating screen graphics.  Shapemaker:  utility for creating sprites.  Guy's Utilities:  collection of useful file management  aids.From Bonafide Systems:Multimedia Utilities:  for use with M world of CP/M.  For further information contact    your local FIDOnet BBS, ADAM user group or A.D.A.M.  Services. for it, I'm only your mother. Listen  to some complete stranger and take her word for it."To my knowledge, no other 'orphaned' computer holds        annual conventions, fields numerous newsletters and         bulletin board systems, puts out a monthly disk (or TWO)    of information gleaned from all these sources, or  develops new software and hardware on an ongoing basis."  Pat c Drive Test:  for Coleco disc drives, shows problems.          Cartridge Copy:  copies cartridges to tape.  ADAMlink 2:  for ADAMlink modem, allows upload/downloads.From Superior Software (James May):Superior BASIC:  adds many new commands.  ADAMlinks:  golf game, later titled Pro Golf Champ.                Linksbuilder:  lets you create extra holes for above.  From Graftex Software (Joe Quinn):SmartBASIC Construction Kit:  lets you program with on-  line      explanation of commands; good learning‚CÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿHAPPY NEW YEAR!We begin our ANN 1994 Publications with some articles and          programs that we hope you will enjoy, as follows:ADAMCON6      An announcement of the location, theme and price              for the Oct 6-9, 1994 ADAM Convention.A us.  The following are from his December, 1993 OAUC newsletter:OAU1293#1 andOAU1293#2       Always interesting and worth having - thanks                 Norm!Keith Marner sends his articles from Surry England to Kent         Washington where they are converted to EOS and sent by Bart  Lynch to the Southwest Florida AUG BBS, and now on to you.  Here  are    some well travelled, and well written, articles from the  United   Kingdom AUG!!!!UKBEGIN         The first in a series on the basic ADAM.       The second part of the review series on               Filemanager.  Written by David Cobley.GLEANJAN      David Sands regular column on exchange newsletters              and other appropriate information sources.PUBLICDM      An article on public domain software by Richard              Clee.Spdywrt6      The sixth and likely the final part of David Sands              series on Speedywrite. From the Dec/Jan edition of the AUGER Newsletter, Faye and Norman  Deere of the Emerald Coast AUG provic Drive Test:  for Coleco disc drives, shows problems.          Cartridge Copy:  copies cartridges to tape.  ADAMlink 2:  for ADAMlink modem, allows upload/downloads.From Superior Software (James May):Superior BASIC:  adds many new commands.  ADAMlinks:  golf game, later titled Pro Golf Champ.                Linksbuilder:  lets you create extra holes for above.  From Graftex Software (Joe Quinn):SmartBASIC Construction Kit:  lets you program with on-  line      explanation of commands; good learnings on things we should know              about.TDOSINFO      Faye is getting into TDOS with the help of Guy              Cousineau and will be continuing to share her              experiences.NATIVITYTXT   A Doc file on the next program by Faye Deere.NATIVITYSB1   A Smart Basic Version 1 program.Some folks might have counted him out when he reported that he     acquired an IBM compatible computer and discontinued User Group    meetings, but I am happy to report that Norman Castro is very much withNNADRES.ABC  An alphabetical listing of names and addresses              for vendors, User Groups and some of the ANN               contributors.  This list is constantly being              updated and additions and corrections are welcome.                Send to Guy Cousineau or Bob Blair (listed therein).David Cobley of VISA's Jan/Feb ADVISA Newsletter provided the      following:DATAPACK      An article on using larger directories on               datapacks.  Written by David Sands.FILEMGR2               by Keith Marner, Pres of UKAUGUKASNEWS        News reprted by KeithUKDB2#2         The second in a series on DB II.UKLETTER        Transcripts of letters sent to Keith.  There                is some sad news in this from Bruce Walters.UKRS232B        The second in a series on the RS232 Components.  Final Systems Test:  factory test program, 64K exp.  reqd. Tape    Drive Speedcheck:  helps avert problems with drives.Disded:DRSPDTST      By Norman Deere on the PD data drive speed prog.WDPROCSW      "    "     "    "  Smartwriter Word Processing.MODEMBBS      "    "     "    "  Linking up with other computers              via ADAMLINK II.MODEMUPDN     Uploading and downloading with ADAMLINK II by               Norman DeereASCII         The definition of the term: ASCII by Norman.KILOBYTE      Definition of Kilobyte also by Norman Deere.PRESSAYS      Faye Deere's Article.THNGS-12      Fay's continuing serie‚CÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿworking with SpeedyWrite part 6By David SandsFaithful readers of the ADVISA, newsletter of the Vancouver        Island Senior ADAMphiles, have soldiered through many hundreds of  words on the uses and virtues of SpeedyWrite to get to this        poi a    few finger tricks, you can divide that same document into three    screens.Only one screen, however, can be active--that is, with the         ability to write, backspace, insert and delete, etc.  The other    is static.Writers often talk about 'voice' when they deal with the craft of  writing.  This kind of stuff is beyond me, but it occurs when      working on a piece that must keep a certain tone; stately or       flippant, for example.  Having a window open on a part that        satisfactorily   feature useful, and the second, curious but not too constructive.The screen switching is accomplished with a Control T keypress,    which, after a tiny but perceptible pause, takes you to a clear    screen.  You can begin to fill this screen, and Control-T back to  the first screen as often as you wish.  Both screens can be saved  to disk or tape with the usual keys, and each screen will have     its own filename.  If you're the careful, deliberate type, you     could use the one screen to rough out youited in  the Text window.Moving on to some things that have been useful; Control- X is the  fumble-finger fixer.  If trying to type quickly results in all     sorts of misspelled words that somehow got all the right letters   but in the wrong order, Control-X is your short cut to restoring   literacy.  For example; Control-X is your shortuct to restornig    litercay.  Place the cursor, (the boxed E symbol) on the 't' in    'shoruct' and press Control-X (or x, it doesn't matter) and Holy   Cwo, Batamn, it'able means not losing the different material, as  well as a feeling of being efficient, which is always pleasant.    Larger word processing programs for modern computers, like         Microsoft Word for example, allow up to eight separate screens     for work, all available on one screen.  The ADAM can't handle      that, but SpeedyWrite's two screens can be a functional feature.However, the SpeedyWrite screen can be divided into two windows,   each showing you a different part of one document.  And, withnt.  One of the features SpeedyWrite offers that is also found  in major, big name word processing programs for the MACs and IBMs  and clones of this world is the ability to use multiple screens    or windows.In SpeedyWrite, you can switch between two screens, and create a   file on each screen, which you can save separately, or you can     divide your screen into two or three portions, displaying          different parts of the same file.In several years use of the program, I have found the first      carries the voice you want, will influence the      work you produce in the active window.  It's unfortunate but true  that SpeedyWrite's multiple window tricks haven't been useful for  me.  That doesn't mean they won't be just the thing for you.       SpeedyWrite also offers a Copy Window and a Text Window through    the use of SmartKEYs V and VI.  The copy window will stay in       place behind the Text window, so that you can refer to it, or it   can be used to transfer parts of files into files being edr work, and use           Move/Copy to fit it into a finished file on the other screen, or   if you're the organized type, you could do an outline on one       screen, and the expanded work on the other, moving back and forth  the make sure the finished product follows the outline, or vice    versa.  Being neither of the above, I use the two screens to       create different files, because often, for me anyway, the process  of writing one thing leads to thoughts about another.  Having the  two screens avails 'shortcut.' Similarly, SpeedyWrite's home plus arrow key combination that      moves you through your writing sentence by sentence, jumping to    the capital letter of each, is a great source of speed in          reviewing.  Actually, it jumps to the next character after every   period, as you can prove for yourself by starting a few sentences  without capitals.  they still get found by the home-arrow keys,    but sentences that start with capitals but that don't follow a     period, exclamation point, suppose. You might  feel that you are powerless to affect the outcome of an          election...that your lone vote is insignificant at the      polls. But believe me, that's not the case in our tiny      community. Your voice is HEARD, LOUD and CLEAR!"  (capitals in original)Doing my bit to make the ADAM community party-line more     effective: more quotes from FidoNet.Thanks to Joe Blenkle for this material. He posted it on    FidoNet.  Easter eggs seem to be little hidden items  that  those marvellouhe 'specifier', which is        usually an *, for all files.  Automate this process by creating a  macro the first time you start a session with SpeedyWrite.         Create a keyboard macro.  That's done by pressing Shift-SmartKEY   VI, then Shift-SmartKEY I to V (your choice) and then going        through the routine to get the directory, and then when your       directory is on the screen, pressing Shift- SmartKEY VI again.     Then use your macro SmartKEY every time you want to get a          directory. u would be     too busy to read it.  Now I have some extra time to fine tune      some of the articles.   I would like to take this opportunity to welcome my DAD as the     latest member of UKAS and hope he will have as much fun using      ADAM as I have had in the past 9 years.  As a testimony to such a  fine system, my printer, albeit only used as a power supply, and   the keyboard are the original parts of the system I bought from    the SILICA SHOP in Sidcup way back in January 1985.  The other     coiguration    files, and the footnoting and dot matrix printing features.  This  word processing program, unlike SmartWRITER, offers you more than  the minimum, and thus, gives you a chance to use your ADAM to      greater advantage than you may have thought possible.ll the difference in the world.And because so few people DO bother, your own comments      have more weight than you probably question mark, don't.  This             characteristic means that the cursor stops at every initial, and   some numbers, etc., in your work.Back to macros for a conclusion.  One of SpeedyWrite's less        thrilling features is it's file access or directory access         routine.  To review, to get your directory, you press Store/Get,   the right arrow key five times to bring highlight block to         Catalog, the return key, then you type in your character A to E    for your drive, and then you type t‚CÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿI hope you all had a merry and safe Christmas and I wish you a     happy and prosperous New Year.  I was busting a gut to get this    newsletter out before Christmas but then I thought, if you did     receive it before christmas, the chances are that yo I also use this routine to create a 'Save' macro.  Go  through the routine required to Save in SpeedyWrite, including     typing in your filename, using the macro recording steps, and      then every time you want to Save, you press only your macro        SmartKEY.  You can't save too often, and this makes it easy.       SpeedyWrite offers a number of features I'll probably never use,   but which you, or someone you know, might find exciting.  These    include French, German and Spanish keyboards, the confmponents of my original system were destroyed through            negligence and experimentation.   These last few months have seen some major changes around here of  which the biggest was my change of employment.  This does not      mean, however, that I will have more time to edit and put          together this newsletter but my new employers did have the good    sense to send me to the USA on a course, Gaithersburg Maryland to  be exact and just a stone's throw away from Mark Gordons Micro     Innovatiot the beauty of ADAM is that it can be loaded  with another operating system called CP/M which is more powerful   than EOS and can run more powerful programs and applications.  T-  DOS is the re-written, re-vamped, made user- friendy version of    CP/M and Ron Collins winds up his series, this issue, on how to    get T-DOS to do all the work for you, giving you more time to      play.   We are getting new members who are not only new to the ADAM        computer but are new to computers period.  Our serieses had been shipped out just prior to my visit.  Terry Fowler  of ADAM's House was the lucky recipient.  I did manage to stake    my claim on some 256k SIPPS for the Megaram Memory Expander, some  text books, floppy disk drive and a hard drive with built-in       floppy disk.  I also grabbed some of Mark's museum pieces, two     wire strapped prototype 256k memory cards in good working order.    THIS ISSUE We have reached volume 15 of the Nibbles and Bits Pics series.     If you have PowerPAINT you willardware tips?   LOGO is the language that is used to introduce children to the     world of computers and programming.  We are very fortunate that    ADAM has one of the best versions of LOGO and UKAS is fortunate    to have a series by Ron Mitchell to teach us how to use it.    NEW STUFF Steve Pitman, as reported by Terry Fowler, is working on a new     game for ADAM called THE LEGEND OF NO-BODY.   NEW BBS  Bart "ZONKER" Lynch has a new Bulletin Board called the Asylum.    Baud rates supported arvanced for those who only use their ADAMs for word    processing.  If you are following Charles Smith's novice           SmartBASIC series you will already know that programming is easy   on the ADAM.   Hope I haven't left anyone behind in the dBASE II database         series.  So far there have been no complaints or comments.  You    will not be disappointed with the menu system you will eventually  end up with.    ADAM's built in operating system is called EOS (Elementary         Operating System) buns organisation.   As reported in the last issue, Micro Innovations is in the middle  of a huge clearance sale and needless to say, I came away with     some bargains.  During my visit I was able to exchange ideas on    adding a monitor/audio port to the UK version of the Expansion     Module 3.  I left Mark copies of various schematic circuit         diagrams in the hope that he might come up with some fresh ideas   for the ADAM.   The clearance sale was doing fine.  All the 720k floppy disk       driv of articles  starting in this issue called Beginning With ADAM will help them   to understand what the ADAM can do and what peripherals are        available.  I am glad this is an ADAM newsletter and not an IBM    as there would be no easy way of introducing it to the newcomer.   We have strung out the NULL MODEM hardware tip long enough and     next issue we will see how we can eliminate the unreliable         battery and add a power supply to the Steering Wheel module.       Does anyone else have any h not want to miss these and all     the other picture volumes to make up a complete library of         graphics that will be ready to hand for you to print out on your   dot- matrix, bubble jet or laser printer.   Dragon, The Chinese Challenge is indeed a challenge but with the   right moves, you will overcome it.  Hope our review will help.     You may have seen this one on IBM or Apple Mac under the name      Shanghai.    Not many ADAM owners are into programming mainly because it        sounds too ade from 300 up to 2400.  This is a 24hour    BBS, 7 days a week and his number is 0101-206-854-7507  ADAM NEWS NETWORK has organised two technical information points   of contact.   For TDOS and CP/M questions Guy Cousineau 1059 Hindley St.  Ottawa Canada K2B 5L9 Voice Phone 0101-613-829-6354 BBS Same 11pm-5pm Mon-Fri  11pm-8am Weekends  For EOS and other ADAM questions:  Richard Drushel 3353 Mayfield Road Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 Home phone 0101-216-397-0684  After 6pm   UKAS SURVEY  and    hardware support.  Again, the people that run these companies  that supply us with our much needed items, more often than not,  do this for little or no profit.  All they ask is that you support them by buying their products or, at the very least,  write to them telling them how much you appreciate their efforts.   We    must all realise that if these products are not sold, the           companies that produce them will eventually give up support.Everything you purchase nowadays will come with an‚DÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ BEGINNING WITH ADAM Pt 1 The SmartWRITER Word Processor & Printer  By K.A.  MarnerThis article begins a series on the ADAM, from what it can do in    its basic form up to advanced applications with 'hi-tech'           peripherals.First of all, sosupergame, Buck Rogers.  Some of   you would have bought your ADAMs second hand and some of these      manuals might be missing.  If you do not have any of these then     call or write to your user group.  Without them you will be in  the dark.The word processor, that is built into the ADAM on a Read Only      Memory (ROM) chip and is commonly called the SmartWRITER word       processor, has a few quirks that all newcomers either overlook or   put up with.  After switching on the ADAM you will notice that them some      sort of recognition perhaps in the form of a phone call, direct     letter or a short article for your group's newsletter.Make it easy on your user group by paying close attention to  rules such as membership dues.  Without this, our many user  groups       cannot function as efficiently as they should and to chase  up and  remind late payers takes up too much precious time not to  mention  the added expense of reminder letters.The next subject I would like to mention is that of softwareI sent out the survey results to 8 key ADAM companies who have     given us great service in the past.  I also asked them to supply   details of how they got started in the ADAM computer game.  So     far I have received only two replies.  Their letters are           transcribed herein.   That's all for now folks!  use,   but which you, or someone you know, might find exciting.  These    include French, German and Spanish keyboards, the conf instruction      manual and the ADAM is no exception.  However, ADAM is so easy to   use that we all often just hook it up to a TV and try to use it     without reading about what it can do or how easy it is to skirt     around a problem.  Your ADAM is supplied with instructions on how   to connect up the modular components, a system check-out and        trouble-shooting guide, a word processor manual and easy  reference guide, a SmartBASIC manual and instructions for the supplied digital datapack (tape) me ground rules aimed at those who are new to       owning any computer and need a lot of initial support.  Users       Groups and their proprietors will almost always give advice to      members of other groups as well as their own.  Many, if not all,    of these people give up their spare time to do so without asking    for anything in return and it must surely break their will to       carry on when they get no feed-back or if someone lets them down    so please, if someone does you a favour, try to give it   comes up in TYPEWRITER mode.  Pressing any key on the keyboard      will cause the printer to print the letter or symbol on that key    almost immediately.  I say almost because of a curious property  of the SmartWRITER printer.  You see, when the ADAM is switched  off,  you can push the print head up and down its rails quite  freely.    Go ahead and pry up the cover and try it.When you switch on the ADAM, the print head will move all the way   to the left from wherever it is and then come to rest t will notice that is has a  large    black bar at the bottom of the screen.  This is a representation of the typewriter's platten and a full line of  text on paper will appear on the platten as two lines with dots  at the  end of the first line to show that they are connected.   Although   this is a great idea, it does not give you full screen  control.    The cursor, the white underscore mark that shows where  the next    character is about to be typed, cannot easily be moved  from the    bottom of a para again and then move to the   right but this time it has remembered not only that it has to be    ten characters to the right but it also remembers how many          characters you have already typed and positions the next  character correctly.  How does it do this? While you have the cover off the printer, take a look down the left hand side and  you will notice two brass contact strips.  It is very important  that   these should be making contact with each other.  When the  ADAM is  switched on, the prin  using SK I.  Now you have full screen control AND you can see and   read your masterpiece without too much trouble but you must         remember to set the right margin back to 70 prior to printing       saving the finished article.More on saving your work and positioning of text next issue. to Joe Blenkle for this material. He posted it on    FidoNet.  Easter eggs seem to be little hidden items  that  those marvelloutact breaker never reaches them, the print head will go to the   left and its motor will continue to whine on for 30 seconds but  in that time, because it is a special stepper motor, it could be       damaged through not being able to go any further just like a        clockwork or battery driven toy that has just come up against a     wall.  Keep the contacts and print head rails clean and you will    be ok.When you hit the ESC/WP key you will be in word processor mode  and in standard screen format.  Youen           character spaces to the right.  Now try to move the print head by   hand and you will find it firmly stuck in that position ten  spaces to the right.  Hit another key and the ADAM will print the  symbol  on the key right away.  Now here is the funny bit.  If you  wait 30 seconds before hitting another key or wait 30 seconds  after first  switching the ADAM on, the print head is once again free to move.  Press a key after this wait period and the print     head will move all the way to the leftgraph to the top.  It might be easier if  you       switched to moving window format using SmartKEY II (SKII).   Now    you can move through your text with ease.  However, there is  a     price to pay.  You can only see half of the screen, either to  the  left or to the right, at any one time.  I would rather see  text go off the screen to the top or to the bottom so that I could read whole sentences without having to move the screen        around.  To do this you can set the right margin to 45 vice 70    t head will move to the left and a  plastic    lug on the print head will break the brass contacts which  will     signal the ADAM that it should now move ten spaces to the  right.  These contacts are the print head's homing device.  If they do  not make good contact, all sorts of problems may arise.  For  example,  the print head might be fooled into thinking it is in  the correct  position if those contacts are opened prematurely.  If the contacts are out of position so that the print head's        con‚GÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ                          dbASE II TIPS      Pt 2.  Customised Data Entry Screens by K.A. MarnerA series on how to get started in the dBASE language. A <cr> in  this  tutorial  signifies  your  pressing  the RETURN  key.  Where  I  have  mentioned  t  you  start  entering data. We will cure the problem with a  small  command  file  that will do some switching between two databases. To create  a  command file with a filename FILLIN, typeMODI COMM FILLIN<cr>A  brief message NEW FILE will be displayed and then the screen  will  go  blank. You are now inside the command file and now you must  type  in  these  commands  to  do  the  job.  Brief  explanations  are   in  parentheses. Do not type these as part of the program.erase           (Clears the sat a time. If  you  wanted  to  input many records, you could use APPEND on its  own  and  then  type EDIT. The blank record will be displayed and when data  is  entered  in  the last line, a fresh blank record is  displayed  after  saving  the last record. You may continue like this and when you  are  done, just press the <cr> key on the first line of any blank record.We  also  altered the structure of the CUSTFILE database so  that  it  will  accept UK style addresses and increased the length of  some  that will end when it encount-  sele secon       (ers the end of the file)  replace county with p.state,postcode with str(p.zip,5,0)  skip           (Moves on to the next record in the CUSTTEMP file)  sele prim  skip           (Moves on to the next record in the CUSTTEMP file)    enddo            (End of the loop)return           (Returns you to the dot prompt)The  line  that  says  "replace  county  with  p.state,postcode  with  str(p.zip,5,0)"  is  a little complex and will need a  whole  lot  of opied  over  to  the  CUSTTEMP  database  file  except for the fields  which  have  changed  names.  You can varify this by typing USE CUSTTEMP<cr> and then  type  BROWSE<cr>. To exit from BROWSE use <Cont> Q and you will get back to  the  dot prompt without making any changes. If changes were made  and  you  would like to keep them, use <Cont> W. But what if we needed  to  keep  this data that is now missing from the CUSTTEMP file.  This  is  why you should carefully plan the database's requirements beforehe  T-DOS  operating system, I also  mean  the  CP/M  2.2  operating  system. Both operating systems do not care if you type  in  upper  or lower case but I will show all input in upper case.  For  a  more detailed explanation, my recommended reference book is  "WORKING  WITH dBASE II" by M de Pace, ISBN 0-632-02305Last issue we entered data into the CUSTFILE database with the use of  APPEND BLANK to open a blank record and EDIT to edit the record. This  will only allow you to enter details in one record creen)clear           (Closes all files that may be open)use             (Closes all databases that may be open)sele prim       (Prepares dBASE II to accept the first database) use   custfile    (Opens CUSTFILE as the PRIMARY database)go top          (Makes sure you are at the first record)sele secon      (Prepares dBASE II to accept the second database) use  custtemp    (Opens CUSTTEMP as the SECONDARY database)go top          (Makes sure you are at the first record)do while .not. eof (Start a loop of  the fields. Before we could proceed we were warned that data will  be  lost.  What if we had many records already entered? We would have  to  cancel  the  procedings, create a copy of our database and  make  the  alterations  to the copy and then append data from our main file.  To  do this we would have to type:USE CUSTFILE<cr>COPY TO CUSTTEMP<cr>USE CUSTTEMP<cr>MODI STRU<cr>Then proceed to modify the fields. Then type:APPEND FROM CUSTFILE<cr>All  data  from  the CUSTFILE database will be  c explaining.  First  of  all it replaces the contents  of  the   field  called  county  in the SECONDARY database with the  contents  of  the  field  called state in the PRIMARY database. Hence the prefix  p.  (p  followed by a dot). This is separated from the next replacement by  a  comma.  Because the next pair of fields are of a different type,  one  being  N  (numeric) and the other C (character), we must  change  the  number to a string with the STR function.Once  you have typed the above command fil say "POST CODE   " get mpostcode@ 16,10 say "FINANCES"@ 17,11 say "CREDIT = "@ 17,30 get mcredit@ 18,10 say "BALANCE = "@ 18,30 get mbalanceSave it with <Cont>WNote  that this file must not contain anything other than @ (at)  say  or @ GET commands. These stamp your variables at screen co-ordinates.  Taking  the screen as 25 lines down and 80 columns across, the  first  line  stamps  a  heading on the screen 4 lines down  starting  at  30  characters  from  the  left. The variables are  just  the then  delete  CUSTFILE  with  DELETE FILE CUSTFILE<cr>. To get back to  normal,  we  will rename the CUSTTEMP file back to CUSTFILE with the dBASE command  RENAME CUSTTEMP.DBF TO CUSTFILE.DBF<cr>The  renaming if fieldnames while you hold a lot of data is  probably  not a worthwhile excersise considering the performance you have to go  through  to retrieve your data and altering field lengths alone  will  not  cause such problems since copying data from one file to  another  only  requires  the fieldnames you wish but  it  makes  good  programming  sense  to remind yourself what the program is  doing  at  that stage.set talk offerase* Store 8 spaces to the variable called surnamestore "       " to surname@ 04,10 say "ADD A NEW CUSTOMER"* Give yourself a line so you can quit if you change your mind @ 10,10 say "Enter the surname or hit return to quit " get surname * Read what you have entered in as surnameread* Test if anything was entered, if nothing, quitif surname="        "  erase  returnendi details  which  we  will   call   CUSTDET.FMT   by  issuing   the   command   MODI   COMM  CUSTDET.FMT<cr>. We must type the FMT suffix or dBASE will assume  it  is another command file and will give it a suffix of CMD.Here is my example of what the file should contain:@ 04,30 say "CUSTOMER DETAILS"@ 06,10 say "NAME        " get mfname@ 06,40 get mlname@ 08,10 say "STREET      "@ 08,23 get mstnum@ 08,35 get mstname@ 10,10 say "CITY        " get mcity@ 12,10 say "COUNTY      " get mcounty@ 14,10e program, save it  with  a  <Cont> W. You will then get the dot prompt. To run this file,  simply  type DO FILLIN<cr>. dBASE will display what it is doing and then  the  dot  prompt  will appear. If you did not want dBASE to  report  every  move  it  was making, your command file should include the  line  SET  TALK  OFF  (I  wish I could say that to one or  two  people  I  know)  somewhere at the beginning. You now have two files with the same data  in  each.  Varify CUSTTEMP with the BROWSE command  and   fieldnames  prefixed with an m (for memory variable). This reminds us what  field  names they are associated with.Now  we  need  a program file to use this format.  We  will  call  it  CUSTADD  as  it will be used to add data to  the  CUSTFILE.DBF  file.  Start by typing MODI COMM CUSTADD<cr> at the dot prompt and enter the  following. Don't forget to save it with <Cont>W. The lines that start  with  an  asterisk are remarks that I have added to explain  what  is  happening.  You  may leave these out if to be the same but the  above  command  file  is a good example of what dBASE II is capable of when  you  put  your mind to it. If we wanted get to around the problem sloppy  field  names, we could simply create a data fill screen of our own style and  instead of displaying field names, we will enter out own labels. First it will be handy if you have a hard copy list of field names to  refer to. Can you remember how we did this in our last issue? Next we  must  create a screen format for entering customerf* Set up a loop to initialise variables and display blank details do   while T  store surname to mlname  store "        " to mfname,mstname,mpostcode  store 0 to mstnum,mcredit,mbalance  store "       " to mcity  store "                    " to mcounty  store "Y" to msave* Put the blank details up on the screen  set format to custdet.fmt  read  set format to screen* Another way to abort without saving or opening a blank record  @ 22,60 say "SAVE RECORD Y/N? " get msave  read  if msave="n"  ver.     (It has been suggested that the persistently buggy  quality of Coleco software was due to the programmers  being more   interested in Jan and Cathy than in tasks at hand...) The ADAMLink terminal program (used with the       ADAMLink modem) has whole sets of unimplemented menus to    select smart terminal emulations like VT52 and VT100, a     dialing directory with numbers for Dow Jones and The        Source, and a 1K buffer initialized with nonsensical        quotes from some English grammar bookpe DO CUSTADD<cr> at the dot prompt.  The  heading will be displayed and the cursor will be positioned where you  can enter the surname of the customer you wish to add. If you  change  your  mind  just  hit <cr> and you will be whisked back  to  the  dot  prompt  or  if the program was activated by  another  program,  dBASE  remembers this and you will be whisked back to it instead of the  dot  prompt.If  you  enter  a  surname and hit <cr> the  detail  screen  will  be  displayed  with the labels you havhe terminal should, of  course,  be  wired to pin 4 at the modem end and not to pin 8. Please get  out  your  tipp-ex and correct it. So far we have talked mainly  about  pins  2 & 3 being transmit and receive data. Before data  can  be  exchanged  between the terminal and the modem, the terminal  will  give the signal 'data terminal ready' (DTR). The DTR lead is said  to be 'high' which means there is a signal on the DTR lead.  When  the  modem has successfully established a telephone call it  will  put  a>W and <CONT>C.Now we have our first working command file, we should now think about  tidying it up and writing a menu command file to call this one up and  others  we  may need to write. This will be the subject of  our  next  instalment. ctual  hidden features;The SmartBASIC 1.0 interpreter has an unused message        string 'Hi Cathy'; the SmartBASIC 2.0 interpreter has it    too, but also fills up unused space in the first page of    RAM [Random Access Memory] with 'Hi Jan' over and o  erase    return  else* Now you've done  it. You could have quit but you continued  so  now  * the blank record will be opened and the details you entered on  the  * screen will be saved in the blank record.    use custfile    append blank    replace lname with mlname,fname with mfname,stnum with mstnum,;    stname with mstname,city with mcity,county with mcounty,postcode ;     with mpostcode,credit with mcredit,balance with mbalance  endifreturnenddoeraseusereturnTo  run the program, just ty‚CÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ                          HARDWARE TIPS                  THE RS232 INTERFACE STANDARD Pt2Research taken from the October 1993 issue of Computer Shopper.I will start by clearing up a typing error in the wiring  diagram  in  the last issue. Pin 4 at te given it, eg.  POSTCODE,  COUNTY,  BALANCE, etc.The SAVE RECORD Y/N will not be displayed until the last line of  the  CUSTDET.FMT  screen is dealt with but after this, you may use the  UP  arrow  key  to go back up the screen to alter the  details.  This  is  possible because the whole thing is enclosed in the DO WHILE....ENDDO  loop  and  you will not break out of it until the variable  msave  is  read  or altered. A couple of control keys also allow a break out  of  the loop. These are <CONT>Q, <CONT signal on the DSR lead which tells the terminal 'Data  Set  Ready'.  The terminal tells the modem that it is 'Ready To  Send'  (RTS)  and the modem sends back a 'Clear To Send'  (CTS)  signal.  The  modem  may  control the flow of data from  the  terminal  by  turning  the CTS high and low and the terminal can stem the  flow  of data from the modem by lowering and raising RTS.When  the permanently high signal on the DTR lead is  dropped  by  the  terminal, the modem sees this and will hang up the call  aroduce a straight through connector because  the  cross-overs cancel each other out. Here is the full pin-out for a  25  way  null  modem.  You will need two female  25  pin  D  type  connectors  and  to finish off, you can protect  your  wiring  by  purchasing  a back-to-back 25 way D type shell from  most  stores  such as Maplin and Tandy.           Pin-out for the 25-pin null modem connectorCOMPUTER                                           COMPUTER   (DTE)                                                               Pin No.                   Transmit Data                       No.2  O--------------->----------------->-----------------O  2                          CTS                      5  O---------------<-----------------<-----------------O  5                      Received Data3  O---------------<-----------------<-----------------O  3                          RTS4  O--------------->----------------->-----------------O  4                         Ground7  O--------------------------------    5      O--<--------------------/ \---------------------->--O  5  CTS                                                            7      O---------------------------------------------------O  7  GND                                                            6      O--<--.                                       .-->--O  6  DSR         !-----------------\ /-------------------!          8      O--<--                   X                     -->--O  8  DCD                           / \                      construct a  null  modem  that  takes  these flow control signals into account, we will  have  to  get  it  to fool the terminals at both ends  that  the  imaginary  modem  that  they think they are connected to is  ready  all  the  time.  This is achieved by effectively connecting the DTR  output  signal  from one terminal to the DSR input of the other and  vice  versa. Similarly, the RTS and CTS leads need to be crossed.As a rule, you should be able to connect two null modems together  and this should pnd  lower the signal on the DSR lead.The  ring  indicator (RI) is used to tell the terminal  that  the  modem is receiving ringing tone from the telephone line. Once the  call is established and the modem at the other end starts sending  data, this is signaled on the data carrier detect lead (DCD).COMPUTER or                                         VDU TERMINAL                                         MODEM  (DTE)                                              (DCE) Pin                                      (DTE) Pin                                                       Pin No.                                                       No.2  O-->--------------------\ /----------------------<--O  2  TXD                            X                                3     O--<--------------------/ \---------------------->--O  3  RXD                                                             4     O-->--------------------\ /----------------------<--O  4  RTS                            X                           -------------------O  7                          DSR6  O---------------<-----------------<-----------------O  6                          DCD                       8  O---------------<-----------------<-----------------O  8                          DTR20 O--------------->----------------->-----------------O  20                           RI22 O---------------------------------------------------O  22Our  idea  is  to be able to connect  one  computer  directly  to  another  using  a 'null modem'. To         20     O-->------------------/     \--------------------<--O  20  DTR                                                    22 O--<---------------------------------------------<--O  22   RIThe NULL MODEM connector is available, ready made by UKAS as well  as the serial cable. These are useful not only for connecting  an  ADAM  to  an  ADAM but also for connecting  an  ADAM  to  another  computer such as an IBM.Next  issue, adding a power supply socket to the  Steering  Wheel  module to allow it trogram  in basic mostly so that others with some knowledge might be able   to reconfigure my programs to best suit themselves and their own   needs.  Programming too much in machine language tends to confuse  the less literate would-be programmer.  My work is more to make    people think a little, and just maybe, produce some type of        program of their own.  Owning an orphan computer must first        instill into folks that programs and what-have-you will not        always be around.  And if one expec‚CÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÞÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ LETTERSHere are two replies to the recent UKAS survey from purveyors of   ADAM software.  I have edited out any personal greetings or        messages that do not concern the ADAM community.  These are        indicated by a row of periods (.....).Hear Mr.  Marner,I am sorry for neglecting to answer your letter sooner.  I am      selling my ADAM computers and all related ADAM programming and     hardware.  In a years time yours is the only letter of its kind.   I have only received one request for a catalog all year.  My last  program only sold 5 copies.  I sent out two demos at no charge     and two gifts of no charge.  How did you like CLIPS and LABELS? I  haven't heard from anyone about it.  I am getting a new computer   for Christmas.  If anyone esponse, I find the results unusable, information wise.  I don't  deal in standard programs per se, I deal mostly with graphics and  graphic utilities.  You must acquire a love for using graphics     within your correspondence and other writings.....As for your profile series, I use ADAM to relax with.  I spent     many years working with main frames and other computers.  I        program what I NEED to make ADAM work for me.  I like working      with graphics, so I provide my love for others to use.  I po use a battery eliminator.If we wanted get to around the problem sloppy  field  names, we could simply create a data fill screen of our own style and  instead of displaying field names, we will enter out own labels. First it will be handy if you have a hard copy list of field names to  refer to. Can you remember how we did this in our last issue? Next we  must  create a screen format for entering customerts to get the most from what    they have, they may want, at some time, to make that program they  need.  Or possibly make changes to what they already have.Enjoy using your ADAM and most of all HAVE FUN!!BOB SEBELIST.Maine ADAM LibraryP.O.  Box 85Waterford,ME.  04088USA --- oOo ---Bruce Walters, of Hexace, used to partner his brother Jim to form  Walters software.  Since then he has gone on to produce some of    the finest utilities for ADAM.  Here is what he has to say about   his future.Dere is a reply from Bob Sebelist who runs the Maine ADAM Library  and is famous for many public domain software titles and some      fine, well priced commercial titles.  His recent offering,         Publish-It Pix, is probably the largest collection of graphic      pictures ever produced for the ADAM.  These are 43 volumes         containing some 750 pictures.Dear Keith,In response to your letter I must say that your survey is quite    interesting.  Although with such an extremely low return           rfrom your group would like any of my     ADAM items, just make me a request.  I have some disk drives 160-  320-720.  A Hard Drive, two complete ADAM systems, memory          expanders & addressors - EVE VPM3 - over 1000 disks with files &   programs.  I have tapes with original programming.  You name it,   I probably have it.Yours Sincerely,Bruce L.  Walters.RD 2 Box 51Franklin,Pa 16323-9204USAYet another victim of lack of support.  How can we afford to let   these people get away from us.  WE N You just press theESCAPE/WP key  (leftmost key, toprow), and you get the SmartWRITERscreen.   The WP on the key meansWord Processor,  and  SmartWRITERis ADAM's name for its great wordprocessor (and printer).  Now youcan type and  arrange anything onyour screen.   You can  change itanyway you like just by using theINSERT  and  DELETE keys.  If youwant to print out a copy, put thepaper into your printer and pressthe  PRINT key.  Always  READ theSmartKEYS  at the bottom  of yourscreen. They tel love    using their software or hardware.  How about some suggestions for  improvement while we are at it.The bad side of my character says I hope he never gets a buyer     for all his gear so that he will still have them around to remind  him that we still could do with his skills.  My good side says I   hope whoever does buy his gear will put them to good use and       perhaps come out with some fresh ideas. foryou.  It is stored on a  ROM chip(Read Only  Memory)  inside  yourconsole, and  transferred to  RAM(Random Access  Memory) when  youturn ADAM on.   AdamBASIC is made available ontape or  disk, as  is  CP/M 2.2 &Assembler.  These  are  availablefor use with  ADAM.  However, youprobably will mostly use the WordProcessor.   BASIC is a  languageand its principal use is for pro-gramming.  You need to  take timeto gain a little knowledge to useBasic.  CP/M is another OperatingSystem, and it ta%he Electric Type-writer Mode.  It works  just likeany  electric typewriter, but no-body, uses it  because your  ADAMword processor is better and mucheasier to use. Yo---------WORD PROCESSING---------   When you turn your ADAM systemon, you are in the Electric Type-writer Mode.  It works  just likeany  electric typewriter, but no-body, uses it  because your  ADAMword processor is better and mucheasier to use.EED TO SUPPORT THEM NOW.  As   he implied in his letter, just some kind of correspondence is all  it would have taken to encourage him to stick it out with his      programming skills.If you are using a piece of software regularly, why not thumb      through the manual, dig out the name and address of the author     and write him or her.  As I have said before, we all have built-   in word processors, why don't we process some words together and   keep these people interested and let them know how much wel you what to do.Now press  key V to print all thework-space, then  press  V, again(print), and the printer will nowprint the work-space.  And if youjust want to print what is on thescreen, press the PRINT key, thenIV,  (print screen), and  then  V(print), and  it  will print justwhat is on the screen.   ADAM's  Operating  System (OS)is EOS, which stands for Extended(or Elementary) Operating System.EOS contains your  word processorinformation, as well as what elseADAM needs to know to operate    5      O--<--------------------/ \---------------------->--O  5  CTS                                                            7      O---------------------------------------------------O  7  GND                                                            6      O--<--.                                       .-->--O  6  DSR         !-----------------\ /-------------------!          8      O--<--                   X                     -->--O  8  DCD                           / \                      kes  a good dealmore experience.  AdamBASIC comeswith your ADAM computer, since itis ADAM's BASIC language.  CP/M &Assembler is a Coleco program andhas not become public domain yet.   Have you  ever made  a list ofsomething, and when  you got doneyou found that you had left some-thing out? You can easily correctit with your ADAM word processor.   If it is  just a line  or two,it may be quicker to go up to theline below, and  INSERT  whateveryou had  forgotten.  Or if a nameor whatever is outave an item SAVED thatyou wish to  GET,  then just  GETyour directory, and tell  ADAM toGET it.  It then  appears on yourscreen. If you have more than oneitem that you would  like to haveon the screen  at the  same time,or you want to merge two columns;bring the  first one up, then runit UP on the screen (with the ar-row keys) until you  get the lastrow on the screen.  Then GET yourdirectory again and GET the otherfile that you want.  It will comeup on your screen right under thefirst one. Yo can move a whole screen ata time this way.  Don't be afraidto try, as ADAM can correct it.   Did you  ever wonder  how manylines  of  (columnized) text  youcould  get on your  ADAM  screen?You can get eighteen lines, countthem. Ever wonder "why 18 lines".Well, 3 times 18 is 54, right! Sothree screens will fill a page of8 1/2 by 11 paper, when  you haveyour margins  at the default set-ting (vertically) of  6  and  60.The 6 & 60 setting  gives you  54lines of text, so there you are.   If you h check the accuracyof transmission.  Eight bits makea byte, right!     These  seven bits  provide 128possible  combinations of 0's and1's (0-127); or 2 to the 7th pow-er.  The first  32  are  reservedfor codes  like "carriage return"or "backspace", that  are used tocontrol screen displays and prin-ters.  The remaining  96  are the"printable codes", since  all butthe  first (space), and the  last(delete), produce characters thatare visible on the screen.   Certain bits  signal one pieceor infu now have two filesmerged on the screen at one time.                         -----NJDt.   Did you  ever wonder  how manylines  of  (columnized) text  youcould  get on your  ADAM  screen?You can get eighteen lines, countthem. Ever wonder "why 18 lines".Well, 3 times 18 is 54, right! Sothree screens will fill a page of8 1/2 by 11 paper, when  you haveyour margins  at the default set-ting (vertically) of  6  and  60.The 6 & 60 setting  gives you  54lines of text, so there you are.   If you h of place (likealphabetically), go and INSERT itand then drop down and DELETE theincorrect line.   But if it is several lines, ora paragraph, that is out of placein your text, you can  MOVE it towherever you want it to be.  Justpress the MOVE/COPY key (top row,third from right), and follow theSmartKEY instructions.  You  justHI-LITE the  first and last char-acters of the text you want movedand then move the CURSOR to whereyou  WANT it to be.   Press  MOVEand it's there.  Simple, right!   You~%every  upper-caseand lower-case  letter in the al-phabet, to  the  numerals, and tothe punctuation marks and controlsymbols. The eighth bit is ignor-ed, or used to ch-----------A.S.C.I.I.------------   ASCII assigns a string of sev-en 0's & 1's to every  upper-caseand lower-case  letter in the al-phabet, to  the  numerals, and tothe punctuation marks and controlsymbols. The eighth bit is ignor-ed, or used toave an item SAVED thatyou wish to  GET,  then just  GETyour directory, and tell  ADAM toGET it.  It then  appears on yourscreen. If you have more than oneitem that you would  like to haveon the screen  at the  same time,or you want to merge two columns;bring the  first one up, then runit UP on the screen (with the ar-row keys) until you  get the lastrow on the screen.  Then GET yourdirectory again and GET the otherfile that you want.  It will comeup on your screen right under thefirst one. Yoormation, like  a  "capitalletter", or a "numeral". The resttell which letter, or numeral.   ASCII is an acronym for "Amer-ican Standard  Code for  Informa-tion Interchange".                           -----NJD---------------------------------ed to ch-----------A.S.C.I.I.------------   ASCII assigns a string of sev-en 0's & 1's to every  upper-caseand lower-case  letter in the al-phabet, to  the  numerals, and tothe punctuation marks and controlsymbols. The eighth bit is ignor-ed, or used toh  Adam is one.Some computers can process largerunits. They are 16-bit and 32-bitcomputers.                         -----NJD---------------------------------------------KILOBYTES------------   A  Kilobyte (or one K) is 1024Bytes  (2 to the 10th power).  Byadding  a  64K expander  board toyour ADAM, you have  64 times 1K,or 65,536 bytes  of memory.   With a  256K expander, you get262,144 bytes of memory.   Don't forget, you have  64K ofmemory  (RAM)  built  into  ADAM.ADAM has  80K of built~%ry Code is a BIT.It is short for BInary DigIT.   Eight  Bits  make a  BYTE, andmany computers process Bytes as asingle unit.  These are eight-bitcomputers, of which  ----------BITS & BYTES-----------   The smallest  unit of informa-tion in the Binary Code is a BIT.It is short for BInary DigIT.   Eight  Bits  make a  BYTE, andmany computers process Bytes as asingle unit.  These are eight-bitcomputers, of whicwould still bein existence as such a cohesivegroup.   Had Coleco hung in there withthe ADAM computer, they mightstill be in business.  Perhapsthey would have needed some compa-ny restructuring, but the ADAM wasa good, user friendly computer. Once the company recovered fromthe Christmas shopping frenzy andworked out the bugs which they hadbeen in too big a hurry to worryabout, the ADAM turned into one ofthe best computers on the marketat the time.  It also sported thelowest price, and offered-in memory,but 16K is reserved for graphics.   With ADAM's 64K, plus the add-itional  64K from your 64K memoryexpander board, you have  a totalof 128K of RAM available.                         -----NJD---------------------------------ters, of which  ----------BITS & BYTES-----------   The smallest  unit of informa-tion in the Binary Code is a BIT.It is short for BInary DigIT.   Eight  Bits  make a  BYTE, andmany computers process Bytes as asingle unit.  These are eight-bitcomputers, of whic check the accuracyof transmission.  Eight bits makea byte, right!     These  seven bits  provide 128possible  combinations of 0's and1's (0-127); or 2 to the 7th pow-er.  The first  32  are  reservedfor codes  like "carriage return"or "backspace", that  are used tocontrol screen displays and prin-ters.  The remaining  96  are the"printable codes", since  all butthe  first (space), and the  last(delete), produce characters thatare visible on the screen.   Certain bits  signal one pieceor inf„'.  It was in-troduced to the public during the1983 Christmas shopping season.  Iam sure that Coleco had no idea,when they abandoned the ADAM, thatADAM computer users          THE PRESIDENT SAYS   This marks the tenth birthdayof the ADAM computer.  It was in-troduced to the public during the1983 Christmas shopping season.  Iam sure that Coleco had no idea,when they abandoned the ADAM, thatADAM computer users h  Adam is one.Some computers can process largerunits. They are 16-bit and 32-bitcomputers.                         -----NJD---------------------------------------------KILOBYTES------------   A  Kilobyte (or one K) is 1024Bytes  (2 to the 10th power).  Byadding  a  64K expander  board toyour ADAM, you have  64 times 1K,or 65,536 bytes  of memory.   With a  256K expander, you get262,144 bytes of memory.   Don't forget, you have  64K ofmemory  (RAM)  built  into  ADAM.ADAM has  80K of built the mostfor the money.   If Coleco had followed the nor-mal, computer upgrade road, theADAM could very well have evolvedinto a viable product, rivalingthose being produced by the big-gest of today's many computer man-ufacturers.  As it is, ADAM's sup-porters have done an excellent jobof bringing ADAM into the ninties. It can now be equipped with diskdrives, hard drives, dot matrix orlaser printers, external modemsand commercial quality software.   The next time you sit down atyour ADAM to pnd out whatversion you have by turning onyour ADAM, then pressing the CON-TROL key and the "R" key at thesame time.  Next to ADAM'S ELEC-TRONIC TYPEWRITER, in the IV Smar-tKey space, the version of Smar-tWRITER will appear.   Most ADAMs are R80, but therewere two other versions of SmartW-RITER produced after that one. R81 corrected problems withfreeze-ups and sound, while R84provided other additions and cor-rections.  NIAD tells us they aretrying to find out as much as theycan about these tw„''S HOUSE, Rt.2, Box 2756, 1829-1 County Road130, Pearland, TX 77581, lists anew Fax number - (713) 997-6907. The business number is still (713)482-5040 and new office         THINGS I THOUGHT      YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW   Terry Fowler, ADAM'S HOUSE, Rt.2, Box 2756, 1829-1 County Road130, Pearland, TX 77581, lists anew Fax number - (713) 997-6907. The business number is still (713)482-5040 and new office hourpset and two digital data drives. It's only function is to formatdigital data packs.  To use, plugin the power cord (no monitor orkeyboard required), place a tapein Data Drive #1 (Right Directory)or #2 (Center Directory).  Thedrive then begins formatting thetape.  When completed, an ADAMDigital Data Pack will have beencreated from an audio cassette.   Want an AutoDialer?  Get intouch with NIAD. This hardware,released by Coleco, plugs into theexternal expansion bus on theright side of the Memin-dulge in creative programming us-ing the previous version, he hasprovided a Public Domain versionof the 1992 program that we nowoffer through our ADAM PROGRAMLIBRARY as Volume 9U.  It isfilled with many good insightsinto programming, and if you arewilling, it can be adapted to do-ing your 1993 taxes. Get in touchwith Terry, if interested.   Norman Castro, Omaha ADAM UsersClub, says in the Oct/Nov 93 news-letter, that most of us have anR80 version of SmartWRITER builtinto our ADAM.  You fiower up, give it atip of the hat, and wish it a hap-py birthday.   Merry Christmas and a Happy NewYear!                    -Faye B. Deeresthey would have needed some compa-ny restructuring, but the ADAM wasa good, user friendly computer. Once the company recovered fromthe Christmas shopping frenzy andworked out the bugs which they hadbeen in too big a hurry to worryabout, the ADAM turned into one ofthe best computers on the marketat the time.  It also sported thelowest price, and offeredo versions.  Ifyou are interested in possiblypurchasing one or both of thesechip sets, please let Jim Notiniof NIAD, 8125 West Catherine, Chi-cago, IL 60656, (312) 775-0409know either by phone or by mail. If there is not enough interest,they won't bother with furthertesting.   NIAD is also looking for some-one who may be interested in re-producing a converted ExpansionModule #3 Tape Formatter.  Thisunit is a specially convertedModule that houses it's own switc-hing power supply, a custom chis arefrom 9 AM till 8 PM (CentralTime).   Terry says that all ADAM/Cole-coVision inventory is stored in aclimate controlled atmosphere,safe from decomposition and clima-tic exposure. To avoid problems,everything is removed from it'spacking and tested prior to ship-ping.      The following paragraph is fromthe AIM Oct. 1993 issue:   Gary Hoosier was challenged be-yond the call of duty with recentchanges in tax laws, and will NOTbe producing a 1993 version of TAXHELPER.  For those wishing to ory Consoleand is packaged with the AddressBook Filer software program.  Theyalso have System diagnostics carts(FinalTEST Cartridge) availablethru the PD Library (ADAM utili-ties) on disk or data pack.   David Sands, Gleanings, ADVISA,Sept/Oct 93, says another ADAM us-ers group in Winnipeg, ManitobaCanada, has been in existence forsome time.  They were unaware ofthe group until Paul Elshoff ofKeystone ADAM Users Group loggedonto the ADAM Fido Echo and theCP/M Technical Echo. Paul says hisgro-Star.   I tried the VDE266 program, br-iefly, and find I like it.  How-ever, I've not had time to experi-ment at length.  I DID hear that anew program is available for VDE-266, called TWOCOL.COM.  This pro-gram was prepared for David Cob-ley, editor of ADVISA newsletter,by Guy Cousineau.   Guy just sent me two volumes offiles that I have not had a chanceto look at yet.  If TWOCOL.COM isnot there, I will ask Guy to sendit down.  This program allows youto write a two column page that adot maut I believe it to be about twen-ty times before the cartridgebegins to get cranky about hangingup."   Ebonize Ink Spray is $14.95plus $2 shipping from EAP Co.,P.O. Box 14, Keller, TX 76248,(817) 498-4242.  They take Visaand Mastercard.   If you've ever used CP/M, youprobably tried the WordStar wordprocessing program.  More recent-ly, VDE266, a CP/M-TDOS word pro-cessing program has become avail-able, and is gaining popularitybecause it is much easier to use;and offers more options than WordFOR x = 0 TO 19 STEP .07  110 y = SIN(x)*2+150  120 HCOLOR  = 9: HPLOT x*13, 159  TO x*13, y  130 HCOLOR  = 9: HPLOT x*13, 159  TO x*13, y: NEXT x  140 HCOLOR  = 0: FOR x = 75 TO    255 STEP 3: HPLOT x, 150 TO x, 148  150 HCOLOR  = 7: DRAW 1 AT 10,    150  160 FOR stars = 1 TO 500  170 HCOLOR  = 15: x =             INT(RND(1)*255): y =                INT(RND(1)*135): HPLOT x, y: NEXT   stars  180 HCOLOR  = 15: DRAW 2 AT 183,  29  190 REM * DRAW MAGI  200 FOR magi = 200 TO 55 STEP -2  210 y = SIN(trix prints out in a singlepass across the page.  Sounds likejust the thing for newsletters andsuch.                    -Faye B. Deere2 shipping from EAP Co.,P.O. Box 14, Keller, TX 76248,(817) 498-4242.  They take Visaand Mastercard.   If you've ever used CP/M, youprobably tried the WordStar wordprocessing program.  More recent-ly, VDE266, a CP/M-TDOS word pro-cessing program has become avail-able, and is gaining popularitybecause it is much easier to use;and offers more options than Wordup is preparing a series of in-structional videos on various ADAMtopics.  He'll make them availablewhen completed.   Also from Gleanings - Economyis big with ADAM users, and EdPruitt, July '93 Puget Sound ADAMNewsnet newsletter says EBONIZEInk Spray is what we need.  "Theribbons I use on my Diablo daisywheel printer normally cost about$5.95-6.95 each.  With a can ofEBONIZE Ink Spray, I can re-usethe same ribbon several times. Ihave not kept up with the actualre-use I get from one cartridge,b    1 REM * Taken from 'EXPENDABLE  C OMPUTER NEWS' Issue 5, 1984 by    Robert C. Purrenhage    4 REM * Modified by Faye Deere, 11/93    5 HIMEM :41000    8 ONERR  GOTO 320   10 POKE 25471, 17   20 TEXT: HTAB (13): VTAB (8):    FLASH: PRINT " N O E L": NORMAL   30 PRINT: PRINT: PRINT: PRINT    TAB(15); "by"   40 PRINT: PRINT TAB(6); "Robert  C. Purrenhage"   50 PRINT: PRINT TAB(14); "1984"   60 FOR t = 1 TO 3500: NEXT t   70 HGR: SCALE  = 1: ROT  = 0   80 GOSUB 330   90 REM * DRAW HORIZON  100 -Star.   I tried the VDE266 program, br-iefly, and find I like it.  How-ever, I've not had time to experi-ment at length.  I DID hear that anew program is available for VDE-266, called TWOCOL.COM.  This pro-gram was prepared for David Cob-ley, editor of ADVISA newsletter,by Guy Cousineau.   Guy just sent me two volumes offiles that I have not had a chanceto look at yet.  If TWOCOL.COM isnot there, I will ask Guy to sendit down.  This program allows youto write a two column page that adot mamagi)*1+148: HCOLOR   = 10  220 DRAW 3 AT magi, y: DRAW 3 AT  magi+15, y: DRAW 3 AT magi+30, y  230 XDRAW 3 AT magi, y: XDRAW 3   AT magi+15, y: XDRAW 3 AT magi+30,  y: NEXT magi  240 DRAW 3 AT magi, y: DRAW 3 AT  magi+15, y: DRAW 3 AT magi+30, y  250 REM * RAYS FROM STAR  260 HCOLOR  = 10: x = 185: y =    30: HPLOT x, y TO 35, 140: HPLOT x, y TO 30, 135  270 HPLOT x, y TO 25, 131: HPLOT  x, y TO 15, 132: HPLOT x, y TO 5,   133  280 REM * MESSAGE  290 SPEED  = 25: PRINT: PRINT     TAB(4); "GLORIA IN183,146,146,82,73  540 DATA                          73,33,36,37,53,54,14,44,14,36,36  550 DATA 53,53,54,0  560 REM * STAR SHAPE TABLE  570 DATA                          9,45,45,63,36,45,63,63,45,62,46  580 DATA 38,37,60,52,6,0  590 REM * CAMEL & RIDER SHAPE     TABLE  600 DATA                          73,33,36,37,53,182,9,36,44,44,54  610 DATA                          6,128,128,128,37,60,60,36,63,44,54  620 DATA                          119,57,62,60,62,39,60,55,53,46,53   630 DATA 45,45,0   640 450 RETURN  460 REM * STABLE SHAPE TABLE  470 DATA                          9,36,36,36,36,36,45,45,53,54,54   480 DATA                          54,54,62,63,63,36,36,36,37,37,37  490 DATA                          37,45,45,45,36,36,52,54,54,45,45   500 DATA                          45,45,45,54,54,54,54,54,63,63,39  510 DATA                          36,36,36,36,44,46,46,46,46,36,76   520 DATA                          60,39,63,60,39,63,60,39,63,63,62  530 DATA                          55,63,62,55,63,62,ABLE  COMPUTER NEWS' Issue 5, 1984 by  Robert C. Purrenhage4 REM * Modified by Faye Deere,  11/935 HIMEM:410008 ONERR GOTO 32010 POKE 25471,1720 TEXT:HTAB(13):VTAB(8):FLASH:   PRINT " N O E L": NORMAL30 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT TAB   (15);"by"40 PRINT:PRINT TAB(6);"Robert C.   Purrenhage"50 PRINT:PRINT TAB(14);"1984"60 FOR t=1 TO 3500:NEXT t70 HGR:SCALE=1:ROT=080 GOSUB 33090 REM * DRAW HORIZON100 FOR x=0 TO 19 STEP .07110 y=SIN(x)*2+150120 HCOLOR=9:HPLOT x*13,159 TO    x*13,y130 HCOLORPRINTRN  460 REM * STABLE SHAPE TABLE  470 DATA                          9,36,36,36,36,36,45,45,53,54,54   480 DATA                          54,54,62,63,63,36,36,36,37,37,37  490 DATA                          37,45,45,45,36,36,52,54,54,45,45   500 DATA                          45,45,45,54,54,54,54,54,63,63,39  510 DATA                          36,36,36,36,44,46,46,46,46,36,76   520 DATA                          60,39,63,60,39,63,60,39,63,63,62  530 DATA                          55,63,62,55,63,62, EXCELSIS, DEO":  SPEED  = 255  300 FOR t = 1 TO 5000: NEXT t  310 PRINT: PRINT "    Press any   key to end!": GET k$  320 TEXT: END  330 qs = 3: pt = 16766: tl =      41000  340 of = qs*2+3  350 by = tl: GOSUB 440  360 POKE pt, lo: POKE pt+1, hi  370 POKE tl, qs: FOR n = 1 TO qs  380 by = of: GOSUB 440  390 POKE tl+n*2, lo: POKE         tl+n*2+1, hi  400 READ a: POKE tl+of, a: of =   of+1  410 IF a <> 0 THEN 400  420 NEXT n: RESTORE  430 RETURN  440 hi = INT(by/256): lo =        by-hi*256  „'s ago by Pat Herrington ofEYEZOD Graphics.  It is not yet inour PD Graphics Library, but willadded shortly. -   Editor.    1 REM * Taken from 'EXPENDAABLE  COMPUTER              NATIVITY   This is a very well done Xmasgraphic that was sent to us sever-al years ago by Pat Herrington ofEYEZOD Graphics.  It is not yet inour PD Graphics Library, but willadded shortly. -   Editor.    1 REM * Taken from 'EXPENDA183,146,146,82,73  540 DATA                          73,33,36,37,53,54,14,44,14,36,36  550 DATA 53,53,54,0  560 REM * STAR SHAPE TABLE  570 DATA                          9,45,45,63,36,45,63,63,45,62,46  580 DATA 38,37,60,52,6,0  590 REM * CAMEL & RIDER SHAPE     TABLE  600 DATA                          73,33,36,37,53,182,9,36,44,44,54  610 DATA                          6,128,128,128,37,60,60,36,63,44,54  620 DATA                          119,57,62,60,62,39,60,55,53,46,53   630 DATA 45,45,0   640 =9:HPLOT x*13,159 TO    x*13,y:NEXT x140 HCOLOR=0:FOR x=75 TO 255 STEP    3:HPLOT x,150 TO x,148150 HCOLOR=7:DRAW 1 AT 10,150160 FOR stars=1 TO 500170 HCOLOR=15:x=INT(RND(1)*255):    y=INT(RND(1)*135):HPLOT x,y:    NEXT stars180 HCOLOR=15:DRAW 2 AT 183,29190 REM * DRAW MAGI200 FOR magi=200 TO 55 STEP -2210 y=SIN(magi)*1+150:HCOLOR=10220 DRAW 3 AT magi,y:DRAW 3 AT    magi+15,y:DRAW 3 AT magi+30,y230 XDRAW 3 AT magi,y:XDRAW 3 AT    magi+15,y:XDRAW 3 AT magi+    30,y:NEXT magi240 DRAW 3 AT maure with":? " GOSUB 65100."; 230VTAB 22:HTAB 1:GET go$65000END65100POKE 65525, 32:CALL 6552065110VTAB 22:HTAB 1:? CHR$(4); "bsave #1,A29696,L2560"65120POKE 65525, 42:CALL 6552065130VTAB 22:HTAB 1:? CHR$(4); "bsave #2,A29696,L2560"65140POKE 65525, 0:CALL 6552065150VTAB 22:HTAB 1:? CHR$(4); "bsave #3,A29696,L2560"65160POKE 65525, 10:CALL 6552065170VTAB 22:HTAB 1:? CHR$(4); "bsave #4,A29696,L2560"65180? CHR$(4); "rename #1, "; pn$+".HRP"65190? CHR$(4); "rename #2, "; pn$+".HR2"65200? CHR$(4); "ren=1 TO qs380 by=of:GOSUB 440390 POKE tl+n*2,lo:POKE tl+n*2+    1,hi400 READ a:POKE tl+of,a:of=of+1410 IF a <> 0 THEN 400420 NEXT n:RESTORE430 RETURN440 hi=INT(by/256):lo=by-hi*256450 RETURN460 REM * STABLE SHAPE TABLE470 DATA 9,36,36,36,36,36,45,45,    53,54,54480 DATA 54,54,62,63,63,36,36,    36,37,37,37490 DATA 37,45,45,45,36,36,52,    54,54,45,45500 DATA 45,45,45,54,54,54,54,    54,63,63,39510 DATA 36,36,36,36,44,46,46,    46,46,36,76520 DATA 60,39,63,60,39,63,60,    39,63,63,62530 ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ame #3, "; pn$+".HR3"65210? CHR$(4); "rename #4, "; pn$+".HR4":RETURNOMEM :33000:POKE 16149, 255:POKE 16150, 255110DATA 1,0,10,17,0,32,33,0,116,205,29,253,201120FOR x=65520 TO 65532:READ ml:POKE x, ml:NEXT130REM insert your program between line numbers 130 and 64999140REM set pn$ to equal the base file name, then150REM gosub 65100 to save the file160REM for example, 2000 pn$="-name-":   :gosub 65100200HGR:? " enter program lines containing"; 210? " hplots, shapes, etc.  Then,"220? " save the pictgi,y:DRAW 3 AT    magi+15,y:DRAW 3 AT magi+30,y250 REM * RAYS FROM STAR260 HCOLOR=10:x=185:y=30:HPLOT x,y    TO 35,140:HPLOT x,y TO 30,135270 HPLOT x,y TO 25,131:HPLOT x,y    TO 15,132:HPLOT x,y TO 5,133280 REM * MESSAGE290 SPEED=25:PRINT:PRINT TAB(4);    "GLORIA IN EXCELSIS, DEO":    SPEED=255300 FOR t = 1 TO 5000:NEXT t310 PRINT:PRINT "    Press any key    to End!":GET k$320 TEXT:END330 qs=3:pt=16766:tl=41000340 of=qs*2+3350 by=tl:GOSUB 440360 POKE pt,lo:POKE pt+1,hi370 POKE tl,qs:FOR n@@@pÀ0À  €à@ÿ à`€€0ÀgÁ„À`p<pÁ€@0à @ @€p`€€@@@@@       @@@À0     <OX     §þ€€€€€€@@†˜†XF?¬¬¬ÿø   @@€DATA 55,63,62,55,63,62,183,    146,146,82,73540 DATA 73,33,36,37,53,54,14,    44,14,36,36550 DATA 53,53,54,0560 REM * STAR SHAPE TABLE570 DATA 9,45,45,63,36,45,63,63,    45,62,46580 DATA 38,37,60,52,6,0590 REM * CAMEL & RIDER SHAPE    TABLE600 DATA 73,33,36,37,53,182,9,36,    44,44,54610 DATA 6,128,128,128,37,60,60,    36,63,44,54620 DATA 119,57,62,60,62,39,60,    55,53,46,6,53630 DATA 45,45,0640 PRINT000340 of=qs*2+3350 by=tl:GOSUB 440360 POKE pt,lo:POKE pt+1,hi370 POKE tl,qs:FOR n