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NOT a good way to start things off.Thursday.....after  Ron  entertained Judy for the morning,  we headed  to  the hotel after a quick lunch.  Funny how friendly they seemed then........must  have had something to do with losing Ron Mitchell.  A few of the delegates were already checked in and in their  rooms, and  more  arrived all afternoon.   WhenÌ1 ×69            Recollections and Ramblings from AC 09 ---------------------------------------------------------------As most of you know by now, ADAMCON 09 is a piece of the American history scene.   A small part, yes, but nevertheless, a part.  We started  this venture without the slightest clue of what to do or how  to  accomplish the feat,  but things have a way  of  working themselves out if we just take one small step at a  time.   Well, after a few missteps,  and more than a few baby steps, we !   By now,  it was a half hour into the 14th of  August,  the first official day of ADAMCON 09.   After retrieving the luggage, or was it a load of rocks.... ..sure was heavy Ron, (you must have have  lots of parts and sup- plies along,  eh?) ;  we took a  short drive  to the hotel to show Ron his new digs.            WRONG!!!   Murphy was working overtime already!   "I'm sorry,  sir.  We rented your room  to someone else because you didn't show up by  6PM."   That was the long and short of the hotel vism Faye Deere arrived  late afternoon,  they  "found" a room quite soon after an  irate  Judy headed to the front desk.....another strange coincidence.  During the course of the afternoon, Ron, myself and Jerry Vranks (hope I didn't  miss some other help) set up the hospitality suite with 9 computer setups of various configurations for use on sessions and just for fun use.The "official" start of ADAMCON 09 occurred that evening with  the reception  in  the hospitality suite and spilling over  into  our connecBart Lynch) took us on a video journey thru the utilities to use when transferring TDOS to EOS (this year it worked!!!) and Gene  Welch  demonstrated and explained the MultiMedia  Utilities that Chris Braymen gave us.Saturday  evening found us glued to the computers once  again  to chat with a few ADAM friends on YAHOO chat on the  internet;  Bob Sebalist  and  Rich  Cassaboon among them.   Later,  we  had  the traditional chat on CompuServe, BUT seems like most everybody was at the convention and we chatteeynote.txt) of  the  day  in which he encouraged us to fight  for  our  ADAM. Frances  Clee  took us through some tricks and tips  on  ADAMCALC first;  then Gene Welch demonstrated the ADAMnet clock and how to build one for yourself as well as discussing how to set up a hard drive on the ADAM without spending a fortune.    Next up; LUNCH!!  After  lunch  Ron Mitchell had us on the Internet with the  ADAM; not a simple project,  but nevertheless easy enough to do IF  you can  find  the right connections intot Sunday noon right then  and  there.  Sunday  afternoon  (on  full stomachs I might add)  we  had  Rich Drushel  show  us  some  of his ADAM trivia  including  his  LEGO university project with the ADAM influence and Dale Wick  showing a new compiler for Basic albeit in the TDOS arena at present.  Sunday  evening  started with a cocktail hour in the  hospitality suite followed by the banquet and accompanying doorprizes, banner passing  ritual,  etc.   Some  of the  doorprizes  included  Jean Stone's afghanget a good HD!  (Don't buy from Zonk!)Friday  evening was a free for all in the hospitality suite  with Dale  showcasing  a new program of his,  an imprompto session  of ADAM BOMB 2 going on, Compuserve and Internet phone checks, etc.  Saturday  morning brought all hungry conventioners  to  breakfast followed  by  Rich  Clee's  address on the  comparison's  of  the "dosbox" and the ADAM.  Saturday morning sessions were devoted  to Powerpaint  by PJ Herrington and Gene Welch.   After  lunch,  the Zonker (ting  hotel  room.   We had a nice sitting area with a  few chairs  and a sofa along with a counter from which flowed  coffee and  some  goodies  while the counter in  the  hospitality  suite offered  soft  drinks,   hard  drinks,  refrigerated  and  cooler "beverages" as well as snacks.   The "family reunion" had begun!  Friday began bright and early with breakfast - most made  it,  we only  lost  3 or 4 people.   Ron Mitchell opened after  breakfast with the address (you will find on this ANN disk as  Kd with ourselves!Sunday brought a quieter morning with a continental breakfast  in the  hospitality  suite  followed by Ron Mitchell  and  the  MIDI interface  for the ADAM.   Sunday brunch......what can I say ..... the experience was mind blowing!   The entire bar, dance- floor and all,  was devoted to food!  Every item on the menu for and entire day  was available,  plus every cute and fancy little desert  you could imagine,  right in front of your eyes to  eat!    Alas,  we should  have  had the banque the internet  world.   Next came  a session with Herman Mason and myself on  Harddrive  setup and  repair..........would have worked a lot better IF the zonker would have left his blankety,  blank HD home!  As it was, we blew the entire session trying to get Zonk's HD moving only to finally give it last rights, which you guessed it, took the time slot for the session.   Oh well,  nobody called us names or  anything,  so they must have liked the socializing.  REALLY!  it is fairly easy to set a HD up, just  (handmade) won by Kathi Vrancks, Gene Welch's demo ADAMNET  clock,  various subscriptions to newsletters,  and  ADAM memorabilia  including autographed copies of instructions for JKL Utilities  and Splat provided by Rich Drushel via the  developers of the utilities .We finally passed the banner to the Herrington's for passage back to   Florida  for  ADAMCON  10  (or  however  you  spell  10   in computerese),  then headed back to the hospitality suite to outdo ourselves  on  the ADAM one last time.   Mr Boasons, but mostly because it was 09. For nine years we've been doing this, and many attending have been to all nine. That's really special!Bob and Judy Slopsema organized ADAMCON 09, and despite being hard at it late Wednesday night when my plane greased on to Grand Rapids Airport, they found time to meet me around midnight. Just as well. The hotel had me registered as inbound earlier in the day, but had trashed my record at 6pm when I didn't show, this despite the conversation that certain of their staffÌ1 ×68ADAMCON 09. - We Just Keep on Going and Going.by Ron MitchellADAMCON 09, now in the books was probably the first where I didn't take detailed notes. Normally I come home with pages and pages. This time I wrote down everything Bob Slopsema said at the ANN meeting, more or less, but otherwise just got plain lazy. So best we get this report down quick like. It's now only a week after the close of our Grand Rapids meet, and already memory is beginning to fade. Combination of age and inertia as usual.ven. The balance of the morning and afternoon were a bit of a blur. There was a lunch at Wendy's somewhere in there, and I think I managed to make myself useful for the balance of the day setting up equipment, retrieving cable, wires, and parts from boxes and making room 157 ready for the onslaught. Somewhere along the way I wondered if Coleco ever had any idea that some of their product would be transported so much, set up so often, or have to spend so much time aboard airplanes. It also occurred to me thasson than an impression really, is that it's worth your life to cross 28th on foot, not at all for the faint of heart. That might just have something to do with the absence of sidewalks. 28th is made for cars and cars rule. There are parking lots, strip malls, eateries galore, and lots of places to shop. Perfect for an ADAMCON.And  so for that reason we gathered at the Best Western Midway hotels on 28th in Kentwood Michigan between August 14 and August 17 for ADAMCON 09. It was special for a variety of reb  Bair  was  quite involved, shall we say, in the ADAM BOMB 2 game; he basically had to  be asked to leave every night.    Finally the night "died" at about 12:30 PM (or AM?) and he headed to bed.Monday morning found many stopping in for last goodbye's for  the year  and plans to meet again in Florida next year  (October???).  We  do  hope  that you can ALL plan to be there.   We  offer SPECIAL THANKS to those who helpeers had with Bob about my projected late arrival. Had it not been for Bob and Judy's kind generosity, Wednesday night might have been a long one out there on 28th. The hotel was full. As it was, I enjoyed the comfort of their spare bedroom for a few hours, and I'm certainly thankful for that. Suitable words were of course said Thursday morning and various hotel officials got the point. All I had to do was stand there and look suitably menacing while Bob Slopsema did the growling. They let me in, thank Hea They say it gets worse.Grand Rapids, and more particularly Kentwood boasts the busiest street in the State of Michigan. 28th (Ave. or Street Bob?) is wall to wall traffic day and night. One impression that jumped out at me right away was the complete absence of sidewalks. Another impression that jumped out at me right away was that the boulevard grass is either exquisitely kept or completely torn up, depending on how close you get to where the sidewalks should be. The final first impression, more of a let this our little orphan is really quite sturdy, and able to stand up to bad packing, crunching against bulkheads, squashing inside suitcases, and a wide variety of other mistreatment. My own equipment made the trip in good order, with one exception.Each year I succeed in busting something. This time it was a left slot MI serial card which emerged from its cardboard cover minus a crystal. The latter, bent almost double, tumbled out onto the floor leaving me wondering how I was going to communicate with th clearly explained to me.Gene Welch demo'd Powerpaint, featuring some of the larger font sets that are part of Patricia Herrington's "Glory B". The session on hard drive setup and repair didn't unfold quite as planned. We were in fact provided with an opportunity (suppose that's one way of putting it) to watch Herman Mason's attempts to resurrect a non-functional hard drive that Bart "Zonker" Lynch had brought with him. I believe that Zonker actually expected the drive to be fixed, although I'm not compd hot tub. It stopped me dead in my tracks, and I was soon joining them in the water.People drifted in all through Thursday night, and by the end of the evening some 34 ADAMites had gathered, sharing stories, enjoying refreshments, and talking eagerly of the few precious days ahead. All too early, we were into day 1.Friday, August 15, 1997Someone named Mitchell gave a keynote speech, and that can be read here as a separate file. As usual, any relationship between what I said there and what was actuallng online with not too much effort. The bad news was that once again, we showed up the disadvantages of the 80 column display in these demo situations. Unfortunately most of the ADAMites gathered were unable to see what was happening on the screen. So while the session went well enough, it lost something in viewability. At least we were able to get on line and use the LYNX web browser with the ADAM.Friday evening featured Rich Drushel and some ADAM trivia that proved most enlightening. Rich has recently bte speech, but once underway, provided a solid start to the day. These two major pieces of ADAM software always generate user questions, and this year was no exception. Frances Clee, describing ADAMcalc, stayed with the basics and managed to embed something in my mind about the proper syntax for adding a column of figures. I concluded long ago that if I knew nothing else about spreadsheets in general, and ADAMcalc in particular, I should really at least know how to add a column of figures. Once again it wase outside world. Fortunately I also had one of GMK/HLM's serial ports with me, and following a little re-configuration, it served my purposes quite well. Nevertheless, there was a lesson there in the proper care and packing of printed circuit boards.By early Thursday evening, there was time for a swim and the Best Western hot tub. Patricia Herrington and her husband Bob had discovered the hot tub first. There was a yell from PJ across the rather vast indoor expanse containing a courtyard, swimming pool anletely sure. One thing is certain however; by the time efforts concluded an hour and a half or so into Friday afternoon, the hard drive wasn't the only thing that was non-functional. At one stage, I wasn't sure who was doing what to whom, but it became clear the hard drive would never work again, not on an ADAM, not on an IBM, not anywhere. You win some, you lose some.The Internet session that followed was another "good news/bad news" affair. The good news was that this year we actually succeeded in gettiy written is pure coincidence.The sessions over Friday, Saturday and Sunday followed in scheduled order, and the schedule is a matter of record so I won't repeat that here. What follows are capsule sketches of the sessions and a few personal impressions. There were one or two pieces of trivia that came to light that I wasn't aware of, and these are the things I'd like to share.The ADAMcalc and PowerPaint sessions scheduled for Friday morning were delayed somewhat by the length of a certain party's keynoeen in touch with Joel Lagerquist, one of the programmers who worked for Laser Micro Systems when ADAM software was being developed. Many ADAMites will recognize Mr. Lagerquist as the author of JKL utilities.Rich received some interesting items from Joel and some information that was probably not common knowledge at the time.Item:         a pair of circuit cards that plug in (one at a time)              to the ADAM game cart slot and boot up CP/M along              with a set of programmer utilities.tal cost, Gene estimated, was around $40.The ANN meeting took place on Saturday afternoon right after lunch. A separate set of minutes will be produced for that, so I'll not deal with it here. Suffice it to say that we're alive and financially well, and Bob Slopsema has agreed to serve another year as your ADAM News Network Editor. That is indeed good news. The group present at the meeting all agreed that the ANN disks are back on track and regularly issued thanks to Bob's hard work.A point worth mentio1 or 2, ADAMCalc or any other project they were involved in for the ADAM. The same applies apparently, to LCSI, Logo Computer Systems Inc. in Montreal. Unfortunate.I see that Richard has provided full detail of his detective work in the latest "This Week With My Coleco ADAM" (97.08.24), so you can read all about it there. Saturday August 16, 1997Rich Clee started the day with his keynote speech describing most everything you could want to know about the transition between the ADAM and DOS worlds, but hat is required to physically equip an ADAM with a hard drive, we believe that the source of supply for these adaptors should be maintained if at all possible. Bob Slopsema will be reporting further. Following the ANN meeting, Bart Lynch took the floor to present a session on conversion of files between TDOS and EOS. Many ADAMites shy away from using CLONE.COM, IMAGE.COM, TRANS.COM and FC.COM. These 4 programs provide the user with tools required to move text files between ADAM's two operating systems, and on the premise that any user who puts just a little work into mastering PowerPaint can produced some impressive graphics work. Gene's description of the ADAMnet clock was based on work done last year by Chris Braymen. Chris produced an article and accompanying circuit diagrams that were published in 463 ADAM in the spring of 1996. Anyone who wants to build this clock will, as Gene Welch explained, require a spare ADAM keyboard and a number of other parts available from most electronics supply stores. ToItem:         Documentation for JKL Utilities autographed by the              author.Item:         Documentation for Splat, the EOS debug utility              autographed by the author.Item:         An original wire wound memory expander produced              by Coleco.Rich reported that Laser Micro Systems was bought out some time back, but still produces programming for small control systems. Apparently nobody currently at Laser's successor company can recall anything about SmartBasic, versions ning relative to the ANN meeting deals with appropriate uses for our 'cash on hand'. We've agreed that it would be desirable to investigate the possibility of supporting another run of IDE host adaptors for the ADAM. The availability of these boards from existing sources needs to be confirmed, but if required, we could fund the production of additional quantities, depending on user interest. Given the increasing availability of smaller IDE hard drives (20 and 40 MEG) and given that the host adaptor is all twere afraid to ask. It all rang a few familiar chords with me. Richard's experience of starting a DOS box for the first time, sounds quite familiar indeed. His address will also be on the ANN disks.Saturday morning was devoted to Powerpaint sessions by Patricia Herrington, and a session by Gene Welch on the ADAM keyboard clock. Patricia managed to find a limited quantity of her booklet, "Oh Yes You Can". I was even able to grab one. I remember well the series of articles she produced a few years back based to make sure that the formatting is correct for Smartwriter, Speedywrite, VDE and Wordstar. Once again Bart remembered the contribution made to our world by Guy Cousineau, author of these programs.Bart used an interesting technique during his presentation. He had prepared the actual computer screens for his talk on a video tape, which took the audience step by step through the file conversion process. The 80 column display made it a little difficult to see from the back of the room, but it was nonetheleother via Compuserve. We were able to link up with Dave Cobley from Vancouver Island, Rich Cossaboon in Delaware, and Bob Sebelist in Maine via the Yahoo chat, and with Rob Friedman in Long Island via Compuserve. The balance of the evening was spent doing that, as well as a goodly amount of socializing in the hospitality suite. Gene Welch and I finished the evening (much later) re-acquainting ourselves with Sid Carter's Dynomite Sound Digitizer in preparation for my presentation first up Sunday morning.Suretty creditible job of making sense out a complex topic. We need more people using this stuff, and hopefully Gene's demo will help users to understand just what they can do and how to do it.After supper on Saturday, Dale Wick presented sessions on a Beta version of his newly written TDOS compiler. I want to call this a BASIC compiler, but right at the moment it most certainly is anything but. It involves elements of PASCAL, C, DBASE, and BASIC language syntax, and yet its sheer simplicity makes it quite ayed in public for the first time, I couldn't stand the sound of it. So I let that part of it go, resulting in my being about an hour short of content.You win some, you lose some. Next time hopefully, I'll be better prepared.A presentation by Rich Drushel, following brunch, dealt with the conversion of colour PowerPaint screens into the IBM environment. This work has been the subject of articles recently part of Rich's TWWMCA series. Rich explained the process he uses to convert pictures developed on ADs ADAMCON 09 session, Dale provided two excellent sessions introducing the BETA version of the compiler and leading the group through programming exercises with it. It was interesting stuff. Just as a side note, I also bought from Dale his latest game called PlayUtah. Some sample scenes from this game were included in the compiler exercises, enought to whet my appetite toward purchase of the whole game. Review to follow.Later Saturday evening, there were two online conferences, one via YAHOO chat and the ss an effective tool. Even Bart's hard drive failure was fully documented (intended or not) as part of the presentation.Bart's session was followed by a Gene Welch's presentation on ADAM Multi Media Sound Drivers. We spent some time exploring Chris Braymen's programs for adding visuals and music to BASIC programs. While these drivers make it easy to produce some impressive multi- media effects on the ADAM, they are not easily explained. Despite some difficulties in getting the demo's to work, Gene did a pnday August 17, 1997The last day began with sinful sticky buns and a cold fruit plate. With brunch slated for after 11am, there was a light breakfast followed by my second session on MIDI and sound for the ADAM. In my own humble view, this one did not go well. It was way too short, and somehow I missed the main point of the whole exercise which was to demonstrate the production of MIDI files on the ADAM. I had prepared a disk of songs for presentation at this session, but when I heard the content being plattractive even for the newest of users. The compiler provides an elementary set of tools for writing compiled Z80 code under TDOS, and even in its present format performs much faster than current forms of interpreted basic. Using simple english-like syntax statements, you can actually produce a COM file that ADAM will run under TDOS.Dale says that future incarnations of this product will be for sale commercially, and will offer an implementation of the BASIC language for use with ADAM. For purposes of hiAM into colour GIFs, JPEGs, BMP's or whatever picture format in the IBM world. I will not attempt to re-create those explanations here, except to say that using the process, Rich was able to port the existing PowerPaint screen from the ADAM environment to his IBM where he made changes with his graphics drawing program of choice (CANVASS) and then return them to the ADAM for use with a Server implementation of PowerPaint. If you missed the TWWMCA articles on this topic, you can pick them up along with the col staff did the best they could with the people they had. The food was great and worth waiting for. The prize awards following were conducted in such a way as to ensure that everyone came away with something. My haul included a spare ADAM keyboard, and an updated edition of Jason Brown's Hypercard for the ADAM.It was then time for Gallery of Honour presentations. Our congratulations go to this year's 4 new inductees:Eric Danz Ed Jenkins Bob Slopsema Gene WelchAll of these individuals are deserving of achine code only once. It converts the entire program which is then run. There is no further reference to the original source code. An interpreter, on the other hand, tokenizes the original source code, and runs it one line at a time. The result is slower running time. Dale's compiler ran code 10 to 15 times faster than an interpreted program written to do a similar job. In this case, we simply asked the computer to count to 10,000 and inform us when it was done. There was a noticeable difference in process 09 that perhaps hadn't jumped out at me before.1) The Stones were conspicuous by their absence. Jean has just had a  hip replacement and just couldn't make it.  We know she wanted to be there, and we missed them both.2) The kids are growing up. Case in point, Doug and Mandi Slopsema this year provided invaluable support to their mom and dad. Doug served well as equipment manager for the entire 4 days, and Mandi got to run all over everywhere driving people (me and others) delivering this, picking up thertainly to be hoped that people in attendance bought something from our suppliers. My wallet was somewhat lighter when I left the store, and I managed to pick up a number of items I'd been looking for. It was good to see the ADAM store back again after a year's absence. Hopefully it will once again become a permanent fixture at ADAMCON's.Sunday evening traditionally is banquet time, and a time to wrap it all up. This year there was a good meal, somewhat slowly served, but it's to be assumed that the hotempanion programs on Rich's FTP site. Impressive stuff.Dale Wick's second compiler presentation followed Rich Drushel's session. By then we'd progressed passed the placement of simple character strings on the screen and were playing around with While /Wend constructions and For/Next loops. The results of some timing tests on this compiler highlighted the improvements in processing speed that are possible  with compiled code versus interpreted code. A compiler converts English like program statements into mour recognition. They have each contributed in their own way to the ADAM community. And thanks must also go to Jerry and Kathy Vrancks who did yeoman service in getting the vote in and tabulated.Finally, the banner for next year ended up with Patricia and Bob Herrington for transport to Orlando. And so it is that I get one more chance to attend an ADAMCON in Florida, having blown 2 so far.I don't intend to blow the third.Random impressions:To conclude, there were some things quite evident at ADAMCONing speed.Later Sunday afternoon, it was time for the ADAM store. This year we had MTAG, Howard Pines, GMK/HLM, Gene Welch's L&G enterprises, and Faye Deere (ECAUG) all with goods to sell. Rich Clee's ADAM Services had put out the word in advance of the Convention that goods could be orderd prior to ADAMCON 09 and would be delivered there. All of that was impressive enough, but when Bob Slopsema started putting price tags on all his ADAMCON 09 equipment, it became quite clear we were winding down. It is cat. Our thanks to be sure goes to you guys.3) It was great to see Faye Deere back again. We all know that the last couple of years have been tough ones for Faye. She's come though them, and she's back with us. I know that she enjoyed the conference, and she made quite a contribution by setting to work and producing a detailed attendees' list which will no doubt appear on this ANN disk. It comes complete with snail mail and E- mail addresses for everyone and will be an effective tool as we all try to maint clearly explained to me.Gene Welch demo'd Powerpaint, featuring some of the larger font sets that are part of Patricia Herrington's "Glory B". The session on hard drive setup and repair didn't unfold quite as planned. We were in fact provided with an opportunity (suppose that's one way of putting it) to watch Herman Mason's attempts to resurrect a non-functional hard drive that Bart "Zonker" Lynch had brought with him. I believe that Zonker actually expected the drive to be fixed, although I'm not comp borrowing from various high level languages. Some didn't like the result, but I thought it was cool. I feel like I've had a complete review of high level language syntax as a result. Pascal, C, BASIC, you name it; it's there.This young man has presented ADAMCON sessions before. It's now quite evident that he's had instructional methods training and is putting it to good use. We are going to benefit strongly for as long as Dale is around.5) And then we have the Bair. Robert Bair. Robert serves not only er now. Yet the question remains. I'm not sure I can answer it for any one else. For me, it's a time to see, actually and in the flesh, that the rest of you out there still exist. You all have become more important to me over the years than I care to think. For those who have never been to an Adamcon, there is absolutely no way to explain. (Believe me, we who have been have been TRYING to ever since day one.) And for those of you who have been and continue to come, there is no need. Suffice it to say, it wan. Bob and Judy Slopsema deserve our heartfelt praise. Not only did they give a wandering stranger refuge from one of Kentwood's bumbling hoteliers, they put together an ADAMcon that was well run and memorable. Their status in the ADAM world has gone up to a new level. And I say well done.28th St would have been a terrible place to spend the night. I just know it!Ron Mitchell    ain contact with one another.4) We have people developing expertise that is nothing short of delightful to see.I have to give Dale Wick full credit for actually teaching me something this year. Last year he did too, but this year's handouts were neatly typed, and the compiler session was particularly interesting in that I didn't realize that compiler syntax could be drawn from so many places. No, I'm not being sarcastic. Dale undertook to write a compiler, and he's done it using a rather unique blend ofÌ1 ×72                     What are we, NUTS?!?!?                     A tale of Adamcon Nine   I mean it; what's wrong with us? Here we have a computer that has been D-E-A-D for more than ten years, yet a hard core band of us seem to think nothing of ditching work (and in some cases abandoning families!) to run away to some far off location to meet and greet and otherwise hobnob with our fellow Adam users. Nuts, that's what I call it!   All right, all right....I got that off my chest. I feel much bettto keep the ANN financial scene orderly, but now it seems has assumed another primary role as resident expert for ADAM Bomb 2. During the 4 days of ADAMCON 09, Bob provided all comers with detail about how to survive in Steve Pitman's world of alien invasions. It became quickly obvious that Robert has acquired considerable expertise as a mapper of screens and a survivor of the game.ADAM Bomb 2 got you beat? Who ya gonna call?  The Bair?6) And last but not least, I've said it before, and I'll say it agais wonderful to be back in the bosom of my extended family once again!   Have no doubt, though, that I went to Michigan with my eyes wide open. Beyond question, this wasn't going to be an Adamcon like those of days gone by. There simply aren't that many of us left any more. (I do wish that those who have left would stop in every now and then, just to say a quick howdy.) A "small" 'con would be what I was to expect. But I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that some 35 of us showed up. (I can't wait to rk properly. You may recall, dear reader, that last year I managed to break the tape and had to end up doing it all by hand. I'm proud to say that this year, it actually worked. I've got to say that if one is to do a session, THIS is the way to go. No persnickity Adam takinga nose dive right in the middle of showing folks something. Much easier as you can pause, rewind or fast forward depending on how things go. While that part worked, I'm not sure I got the information across. The session was on IMAGE fileine. And when that food got there! Yummmmm! I especially enjoyed the Sunday Brunch. I don't believe I've ever seen that much food (and that kind of variety!) at any hotel brunch I've ever attended. Well done!   Well now that we have the most important support function of any hotel hosting an Adamcon out of the way, we can now concentrate on other matters. I arrived thinking that other than seeing this motley crew, I probably wouldn't take much away. I DID "know" that I was going to have my hard drive workd use either Adam Serve or DOS software Adam Emulator to carry on with my future Adam activities, saving wear and tear on my poor beleagured Adam. Alas, as near as I could determine from the”ÂfR&V2,€"à‚Aà°$$‰çÀÁÄ'ÀÁÇÁB'É$çÁÇD'ÀÀ'ÀÁD'ÀÁçÀÄçÆD'ÄGgÀÀ'ÀÁÁD gáÏçÀÄàçÃÂD@çÄÇ'ÀÁÇÁB a'ÏÇ'Â@D'ÆdàçÇçÀÁÁ'ÀÁ çÁÇDÀÄ'ÀÄÀ gÈçÀÀ'À'ÂCÂA çÉ'Ä@DçÏÇ'ÌÇÀgÎgÁÇDÀÄ'ÀÄÀ çÆ@çÆdçÀAÄ'ÀÀ'ÀÁÄ'ÉH'ÁÇDçÄÂAD gÉçÆgÀ@Á'ÀAÄ'ÀÀ'ÀÁÄ'ÄÁ'ÄÂAD gáÎ@À çÉn, he couldn't resist teasing me, telling me that it would be "well, kinda cheap". What he came up with was a 40 meg Seagate which was much more than I expected. So I was more than happy to pay him the fifteen bucks. (I want to go on record here as saying that Herman DID get this hooked up to my Adam and running in very quick order!)   So that was ONE of my personal goals taken care of; just had a couple more and all would be well. Next up....I wanted to make sure that the video I had slaved over would wosee the final official figure. Wonder if it's more or less?) This included some wandering sheep who have missed one or two in the past. It was a genuine pleasure to see them again.   It was quite a spread that Judy,Bob and even son Doug put on for us. While Bob seemed to spend a good deal of his time complaining about the hotel staff, I myself didn't have much to gripe about. They certainly treated me right. Except for the propensity to take as long as possible to get the food to the table, all else was fs, a very dry and boring topic. I'm sure I saw quite a few glazed eyes out there!!   The last personal goal for me was rather tied in with that hard drive mentioned above. See, I was paying keen attention back a few years ago when Rich Drushel talked about the impending demise of Adam do to the fact that the main processor is going quite literally die of old age. (I won't go into this here, it has been well published else where.) What I was considering was, up to a point, abandoning Adam. I figured I couled on. Herman Mason was to give a session on how to ressurect a dead hard drive. Unfortunately, the one I brought was deader than dead, if such a thing could be. (Leave it to me to be the exception that proves the rule.) Long story short, Herman, through no fault of his own couldn't breathe new life into it. Sorry about that Herman! (But imagine how I felt!!)   However, all was not lost. Doug Slopsema said he was pretty sure he could lay hands on a substitute hard drive "for cheap". Being his old man's soif anyone reading this spots any of this as wrong, could you PLEASE let me know?)   That's why I went ahead and got that replacement hard drive for my little ol' Adam. An investment of fifteen bucks will keep me going for at least a year or so more and perhaps I can stave off the demise of my machine for that long. At any rate, while I went to the convention thinking I wouldn't get too much out of it, as you can see, it was quite the opposite. All around me, I could see signs that others were learning and he showed some ColecoVision cartridges, and a new super game (talked about later).The authors of the emulator have written a new game called Cosmic Fighters  which is available as both a cartridge game and a super game. Both work great under the emulator. This was also displayed at AdamCon for the first time.  Also at AdamCon,  Gene Welch (who was a Gallery of Honour recipient this year) showed off a new ANN disk-a-zine  which  is an EOS article reader which  includes  the ability  to play music in theing Judy step by step through the screens. Even while sessions were going on, where valuable high level discussions were going on, there sat Bob and Judy, playing that same game over and over again.   See what I mean? We travel thousands of miles, go through long inspections at airports, and we end up "just" playing games. What are we? Nuts?   Yeah.....I guess we are. And I wouldn't have it any other way. File Manager,  and HardDisk 3.9 for use with Adam Serve.AdamBomb 2,  which was introduced at last AdamCon was much talked about,  and Bob Bair (our Games Expert) taught impromptu sessions on  AdamBomb techniques to all of the gamers who were stuck.  The version  of AdamBomb was 1.2 which has some fixes that allow  the White Key to work,  and some other minor problems resolved.  Dale finally got out version 1.0 of his GIF viewer for TDOS. Also Dale has finally finished his AdamCon 05 killer demo.  In it,Ì1 ×67                News from AdamCon09                 By Dale and Neil Wick There is quite a bit of news and new products at AdamCon09. First the new products.  For the first time at an AdamCon a full Coleco Adam  emulator  was  shown running on a PC.  Neil ran it  on  his laptop computer and got several disk images transfered  over.  He was able to run AdamCalc and see the secret screens (see the news section),  and also got SmartBASIC, and TDOS running. Also Smart WRITER is built in. Additionally sharing information as well. Situation normal at Adamcon.   While I take plenty of pictures at these gigs, it seems I don't always capture on film what I see going on there. Each year, I bring back with me a vivid mental image. It's something that sums up each year for me. For some reason, this year, it was the fact that almost every time I turned around, there were Judy Slopsema and Bob Bair, huddled in front of the Adam. Just what was so fascinating? It seems Bob has mapped out Adam Bomb II and was tak background,  and  possibly  include pictures  in the article.  Gene also had a session on how to make an AdamNET clock by converting a regular Adam Keyboard controller chip and buying a few components.  Rich Drushel showed the latest version of AdamServe and demoed it with AdamCalc, PowerPaint, and SmartBASIC 1.0 and 1.X.  With AdamCalc it auto deˆ„OŽÏž	Ž˜Ï„‚Ï‡€ÏŽ‰Ï‡ŽŽˆÏ‡€ÏÃˆ€ÏŽO‡„‚ˆÂAÏŽ‰Ïƒ‚O‚O„‡€O„ˆ	ÏŒ‚OƒˆO‡œO‡ŽŽˆÏ‡€ÏŽ‰Ï„‚Ï‡€ÀÏ“ˆOƒŽOŽ„OŒˆˆ‚OÏ‡ŽŒˆ	Ïng online with not too much effort. The bad news was that once again, we showed up the disadvantages of the 80 column display in these demo situations. Unfortunately most of the ADAMites gathered were unable to see what was happening on the screen. So while the session went well enough, it lost something in viewability. At least we were able to get on line and use the LYNX web browser with the ADAM.Friday evening featured Rich Drushel and some ADAM trivia that proved most enlightening. Rich has recently b  he displays an animation flying through the mountains to the site of AdamCon  in Salt Lake City.  The  player,  called  PLAYUTAH,  was written  in  another  new program called MIC.  MIC is v.77  of  a compiler for a DOS QBASIC- like language. The information about it is on the Web. ANN  is  now publishing their disks on the  Web,  thanks  to  Bob Slopsema (also a Gallery of Honour inductee this year). Now for News.  On the Internet, Alan Neeley (formerly of AdamLink of  Utah) has just shown up on the LEGO blocks' 'They are LEGO blocks.' 'Oh.'The  regular online conference was done two fold this year.  Both the usual CompuServe conference in the CLUB forum CO 18, and one at  chat.yahoo.com on the World Wide Web.  Bob Sebel- ist and  Rich Cossaboon attended remotely on the Web,  and Rob Friedman chatted for  a  while  through  CompuServe.   That's all for now.  --dmwick@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Ask me  about my  Coleco  Adam.  It does tricks Maintainer of the  Coleco  Adam list.  E-Mail:    coladam-adm that was drawn was for the blank seat beside Dale. The next ticket that was drawn was for the blank seat beside Bob Slopsema.  Finally a real winner was drawn and it was Kathy. AdamCon  10  will be hosted by PJ and Bob Herrington  in  Orlando Florida in October of next year.  Although there are a few people on the Fidonet echo, but it is suprising to read about the people who  are  on there.  The Winnipeg group is ever strong holding  a picnic with well over 50 people. We  also discovered in the "Har sharing information as well. Situation normal at Adamcon.   While I take plenty of pictures at these gigs, it seems I don't always capture on film what I see going on there. Each year, I bring back with me a vivid mental image. It's something that sums up each year for me. For some reason, this year, it was the fact that almost every time I turned around, there were Judy Slopsema and Bob Bair, huddled in front of the Adam. Just what was so fascinating? It seems Bob has mapped out Adam Bomb II and was taked in the experimental apparatus setup figure. He gave out autographed copies of the paper. Rich Drushel is teaching Engineering students how to make robots using LEGO. They make robots controled by the latest version of the 6801 chip that is the same as the one found in the keyboard,  disk  drive,  tape drive and SmartWRITER printer. Rich brought one of the robots and demonstrated  it  to the delight of all.  Even  the  housekeeping staff  were impressed.  They said 'The blocks that it is made  of look like the email dis- cussion list.  He has  been working at Dell for the last 3 years as a Tech  Support expert.  He still has an Adam setup and  would like to catch  up on what's happening on the Adam.  Jean Stone has just had her hip replaced,  and so couldn't make it to this AdamCon,  but she made up a beautiful afgan as a raffle prize.  Kathy Vrancks  won  it finally, after buying 30 tickets. Last year, she dearly wanted to win it, but the Slopsema's won it instead. This year, it was close. The first ticketin@csclub.uwaterloo.ca  Adam homepage:   http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/dmwick/adam.htmlcement hard drive for my little ol' Adam. An investment of fifteen bucks will keep me going for at least a year or so more and perhaps I can stave off the demise of my machine for that long. At any rate, while I went to the convention thinking I wouldn't get too much out of it, as you can see, it was quite the opposite. All around me, I could see signs that others were learning andd drive Setup and Repair" session that Herman can break anything. Or at least so it seemed. We  also saw at AdamCon the prominent role that the Coleco Adam has  in  the Slug research world.  In a paper published  by  Rich Drushel, he used a Coleco Adam to time syncronize two videos of a slug  feeding.  These videos needed to have a reg- ular time  flash (1/2  second  on,  1/2 second off),  and the Adam did  the  trick losing  only 1/30 of a second over 15 minutes.  In the  paper,  a Coleco  Adam is includÌ1 ×66To:  DAVE RUFF Subject:  another adam!?!? Folder:  General You Said:   "You said " I don't "run" across any ADAMs ;  how the heck do you??? " I have found two excellent sources, my favorite is the flea markets. I have a wish list preprinted with pictures of the ADAM and accesories. I give this to vendors with a price range that I am willing to pay. That way they can decide before they buy sommething, if it is worth it to them to pick it up. On several occasions they have called me with a lead of a sand fellow keynote player,  Rich Clee,  ended  his address by expressing the hope he would see  us all at ADAMCON 0E. For those of you who don't know it, that's the hex value for 14.  At the time,  I can remember thinking,  yeah - right. Now,  here we are at NINE,  and I'm beginning to believe wœáÄ<„iÂG>1)ÉÕ%‘!2	,Äì¤l-ÄîMÎníììíŒ¤$Ì®ä­îL¤­În®n¬n-Ìä(ˆ)­.Œ®d®m-Ìä¤l-¬¤,ŽÌ-Ìl¬„L--ŽMì,„Œ¬m¤Ííìï$.„íîMl¬„mäì­„íÄMìD-Ì„	N¬$
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This  year's "State of ADAM" address might possibly include  some new  factors  such as the arrival on scene of the ADAM  emulator, which can make a pentium or a 486 perform well beyond Bill GÌ1 ×67This  is  a  transcript of Ron Mitchell's address  on  the  first morning of ADAMCON 09.   In it he brings out some good ideas  AND gives  the entire ADAM community some food for thought,  such as: being a positive force to be heard, communication with others on this  planet  who seem to have a similar  interest  in  "classic" systems.  Read it thor- oughly and give ti some long thoughts! Keynote Speech - Friday, August 15, 1997by Ron MitchellMy good friends:A few years back,  my good buddy ystem that was higher in cost than they could pay to sell to me and still make it worth their time.  My second favorite source is to run an Ad in the KC Star it is big enough and regional in distribution. I simply say, wanted to buy an ADAM computer, or wanted to buy an ADAM Disc Drive, or wanted to buy Colecovision Game Cartridges. This has paid off each and every time. I plan on running a new ad in the next few weeks. I used to get leads from computer repair shops, but very few people come in to get one say that I've never seen anyone look quite so surprised as Bob  when suddenly realized that he'd inherited maximum power in the  ADAM  world.  He certainly deserves credit for the fine  job he's done as ADAMCON organizer and ANN editor.  Let's give him  a hand. Right  off  the top,  I want to add that these conferences  don't just  happen.  They  happen because people like Bob and Judy  are willing to do the work to make them happen.  There are others  in this room who have also done that work in other yFile Manager,  and HardDisk 3.9 for use with Adam Serve.AdamBomb 2,  which was introduced at last AdamCon was much talked about,  and Bob Bair (our Games Expert) taught impromptu sessions on  AdamBomb techniques to all of the gamers who were stuck.  The version  of AdamBomb was 1.2 which has some fixes that allow  the White Key to work,  and some other minor problems resolved.  Dale finally got out version 1.0 of his GIF viewer for TDOS. Also Dale has finally finished his AdamCon 05 killer demo.  In it,ates' wildest dreams.  I suppose we could talk about the perennial lack of  communication between ADAMites and how it continues to  cause us  problems.  We might once again deal with new formats for  the ANN  disk to see if we can come up with something that  might  be more  appealing to ADAMites. That's not to say that we don't now have a good product.  Bob Slopsema,  in his spare time this  past year has succeeded in re-tracking that whole operation and making it credible again. He's done a superb job.Ight my  first modem.  My  current MIDI setup can process 5 times as many tracks as  the  first one I bought from Chris  Braymen.  I  can  process pixels  at  such  a rate that my Windows 95 wall  paper  features pictures of Zonker and Herman Mason. Imagine that.I could go on and on,  but the point is this:  while the0k¤È	ÌxÿrN gâ0€(S¥$ÂF01„’x!°€Ý¡…Ð$´‘½¥¹œÝ¥Ñ …±°Ñ¡¥Ì€€ÍÑÕ™˜œ¡…Ì¹½Ð¸€$…´ÍÑ¥±°°•ÍÍ•¹Ñ¥…±±ä°±•…É¹¥¹œ…‰½ÕÐ½µÁÕÑ¥¹œ¸$…´ÍÑ¥±°°€•ÍÍ•¹Ñ¥…±±ä°€‘½¥¹œÝ¡…Ð$…¸¥¸Í½µ”Íµ‡hrojects aimed at keeping us some- where on the map. There is certainly no shortage of things to talk about.  But  I'd like  to take a few minutes here to go beyond that just a little. Because  right  at  the moment on a  personal  level,  I've  been spending  some time wondering just what the heck I'm  doing  with all  the equipment I've acquired.  I have to answer the  question for  mother  occasionally,  and it's becoming  increasingly  more difficult  for  me to answer it for myself.  Believe it  or emplating the meaning of life,  the universe and everything,  but  also trying to relate it to some areas we as  a community need further work on.  I'm speaking,  of course, from a user's  point of view because in this game I have  no  other.  So from  a user's perspective,  I'd like to ask some questions about where we are going, and then to propose some answers, not necessarily the right answers,  or even serious answers,  but  possible answers.  If  you can stay awake long enough for that,  I'll then fin Works 4.  I've got Quicken 4 and 5 with and without Windows. There's a assorted variety of browsers, some  with  HTML editors,  some without.  I've got  video  cards, mother boards,  serial ports, empty cases, and 50000 unread books ....that's about all of it.I  can  now store 50 times what I could store when  I  bought  my first  hard drive.   My latest processor does it's thing 30 times faster  that ADAM can do.  I can transfer E-mail to you and  surf the  net  112 times faster than I could when I  boun  our  "State of the ADAM" address,  we might also  talk  about issues  of  sustainability and consider whether or not,  for  how long,  and in what manner we are going to carry on with our  ADAM activity.  Some  could quite conceivably argue that,  hey,  we've made it this far,  why stop now. Others might counter with 'quit- while-we're-ahead' arguements in favour of quietly drifting  into the  sunset.  We might deal with some magic way of coming up with some new activity, new software and hardware, new pll way to share what I learn with anyone who will listen, and sometimes a few who don't  care  to.  I am still,  essentially,  using  my  computing equipment  to  maintain contact with some wonderful friends  whom I've known for years.  Some are here right now,  and that's  what really makes it  worthwhile.When  you come to the essence of what we're doing here,  it's not the widgets that are important, it's the people.Bearing that in mind,  I'd like to spend a few minutes this morn ing not only con- t not, there  are  nights where I actually hate computers as much  as  I hate deadlines, priorities and golf clubs.Sometimes it's difficult to keep things in perspective,  relating the  computing activity to the meaning of life,  the universe and everything.  There has to be some sense of direction, which  can frequently get lost in the shuffle.Lately, I've been acquiring a lot of software and hardware. Thank heaven's  for tax refunds.  I've got Visual BASIC 5,  I've  Turbo Pascal  6,  I've got Microsoftish  and  be quiet,  leaving you with my own  version  of  the annual  'top ten list',  this year entitled "Wouldn't it be  nice if....".How many of you have logged onto Bob Sebelist's home page? The man is really quite incredible, is he not? The music takes me back  to  ADAMCON  IV,  the graphics are all things that  he  has produced  for our world,  and yet it also appears  quite  obvious that Bob has mastered HTML,  JAVA and everything else it takes to produce a pretty slick looking home page for all log onto  some of the Coleco home pages,  you're going to see some of these  names mentioned,  and mentioned in a way that creates  the impression  they  have taken some sort of lead role  in  tracking Colecovision  games and documentation.  Why do we not  hear  from them with articles for the ANN disks? What  does this have to do with the meaning of life,  the meaning of ADAM life? Only this: given our dwindling numbers, wouldn't it be better if we all worked together?I  don't have much in the way of  there life on other planets?For  the  past year or so during my Internet travels,  I've  been reading  some  material about ADAM provided by  people  who  have never  set  foot near an ADAMCON.  I say that not in  a  critical sense,  but  only  out  of a sense of curios- ity of  a  sort.  I'm talking  about  the  people who are  currently  tracking  classic computer games, including ADAM games. I'm talking also about some of  those who helped to develop the ADAM  Emulator  package.  I'm talking  about a gone from talk about the evil Bill Gates empire to being unwittingly sucked into the evil Bill Gates empire.   Ok,  so let's accept that, but only  with the proviso that some of us retain the right to go  on living  long  after the corpse has been  buried because we  don't know what else to do.Again, I have  no answers, except to say that it's quite possible I've already reached this phase without realizing it.  There seem to  be degrees of death,  and it's only just occured to me  on  a personal  level   running the user groups and producing the newsletters that we are all so familiar with.  It's much  like waking up one morning and reading your own obituary in the newspaper,  knowing full well that rumours of your death  are greatly exaggerated. Writes one gent from Williamsburg VA, "There seems to be a Coleco ADAM cult."I  guess that's one thing you can do after you're dead;  you  can form a cult and get away with it.1a) Sub question:Who  are James Carter,  Joe Huber and Jeff Frohwein?  If you  of us to enjoy. I found one rather telling comment on  Bob's page.  It was from a young person in Alaska,  who said (roughly paraphrased) that he'd think  about coming to ADAMCON if it weren't for the  pesssimists there.  He'd been reading some of the keynote speeches,  and men tioned no names,  but did offer the suggestion that we leave ADAM to  the younger people who are beginning to take a renewed  inte rest in our old computer.  It's an interesting point, which leads me to my first question:1) Isanswers to this first question.About  the only thing I can offer is something of  an  experiment that I've been trying over the past few months. When something is written  for  Compuserve,  I put it up on FIDO,  and Dale  Wick's Waterloo  broadcast address,  and anywhere else I can  stick  it. Some ADAMites don't have access to Compuserve, some don't have an Internet account. Some live only on FIDO, or on Compuserve. 2) Is there life after death?Some would argue that we're already dead. We might have group in Winnipeg who just held their 5th annual picnic  and who still persist in attracting more than 100  people every year.  And believe me,  no offence to Keystone's President, Paul Elshoff, but some would consider Winnipeg as part of another planet! I've been there, I know....What I'd really like to know, is  - why aren't they here?While  some  of these people,  such as Paul,   are aware  of  our presence,  it seems that the vast majority have little  knowledge of the work and effort that went intothat rigor mortis is beginning to  set  in.  For example,  I  recently  decided to reduce the number  of  personal computing  devices set up in my basement bedroom  work- shop/living area  place  (My  mother made me do it.).  As a result 4  living breathing computers have been banished to the adjacent work  room where  things  tend either to get broken if they aren't already, shoved  into storage cupboards,  or packed away in boxes covered with scotch tape. One  of  those computing devices is my  originIn  both cases,  we're  using leading edge technology to provide  internet access to people who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it, and to  non-pofit  organizations.  The  service for  whom  I'm  doing community  news  input boasts 1500 paid up members,  and  yet .... after  three years of operation,  when they canvass the  business community  for  information,  four out of five  people contacted don't  even know about their own Information Network. In my  own area,  only 7% of 40,000 residents know en but perhaps, just perhaps,  by  letting the universe unfold as it should,  we might just get to ADAMCON 0E.  If nothing else, our coming here to this place will result in renewed friendships,  a more common sense of purpose,  and a whole lot of fun that might just be sufficient to keep  momentum going for another 12 months.  Who knows,  PJ  just might  get me to try her home made Salsa,  and that would  indeed add to the meaning of life.Or at least so she says.Actually, it's a private joke... you had. You know, why we're here really isn't a big thing with me any more. I stopped  seeking approval from my IBM friends long ago.  Most  of them have now come to accept that there's a part of my life  that they  don't even ask about any more.  When I have visitors in  my snake  pit,  they pay little attention to the 16 other  computers that are there. Occasionally I'll get the question, does all this stuff work?  And that will be about it. They leave me along, I do the Windows thing when they're there. And  be,  to circulate as much information about ADAM as we can  to wherever it falls in this universe.  You never  know  who might be listening.5)  And  the final philosophical 'meaning of life' type  question is, quite bluntly, Does anyone really care?It is indeed a tough question to answer.  I'm associated now as a volunteer with 2 separate community information services  operat ing in the area where I live.  For one I write news articles, and for  the  other I Secretary of the Board of  Directors.  al  ADAM,  with  an original  Minnie Winnie hard drive..  It now sits there un- touched on a mobile work table while my attentions are drawn  increasing ly, day by day, to Windows 95. Now if this isn't life after death, I don't know what is. 3) Why are we here?Another  philosophical chestnut to be sure,  but this one has  an answer.  We love each others' company,  and from what I see going on  right here,  right now,  I think that's an absolute  in  this universe. At this point, it's pure speculation,ough about the Internet to feel comfortable with any kind of activity there,  and by  any kind  of activity,  I'm talking about turning on a home  computer and  using  a  modem to make contact in some basic way  with  the Information Highway. Most  people  that I know - present company  excepted  - consider computers  to  be an area of human activity intended  for  geeks, adicts, and people with no other life to speak of. Maybe they're right.So much for the meaning of life, the universe and everything to be there.4) Where are we going?This is indeed the ultimate question.  We've been asking it since 1986 or thereabouts.  Like so many ultimate questions, its answer depends on each one of us as individuals.  It's going to depend a lot on our willingness to keep in touch with one another.  Now we have  Rich and Frances Clee on E- mail,  and that was  indeed  the final  frontier,  so  what  we have to do from here on in  in  my humble  estimation is to use the facilities  available,  whatever they mightthat's that.Finally,  the  top  ten list - or my  somewhat  'tongue-in- cheek' perception of the way things really should be in the ADAM World. Entitled - "Wouldn't It be Nice If. "10)     Would it be nice if Rich and Frances Clee really  enjoyed E-Mail,  or better yet,  wouldn't it be nice of Ron Mitchell replied  to  snail  mail within a reasonable  period  following  its arrival  on his doorstep?  It's communications my friends,  and I suppose I'm somewhat typical.  I simply don't reply.  Each timeand fellow keynote player,  Rich Clee,  ended  his address by expressing the hope he would see  us all at ADAMCON 0E. For those of you who don't know it, that's the hex value for 14.  At the time,  I can remember thinking,  yeah - right. Now,  here we are at NINE,  and I'm beginning to believe we might just  make  it.  If  we can hornswoggle a few  more  unsuspecting ADAMites using the same advanced railroad tech- nology that  worked so well on Bob and Judy Slopsema last year, it might just happen. I musthey don't get  answers  to their questions, they don't come back.7)      Wouldn't  it be nice if the computer community at  large recognized that there are still people in the world using 8 bit computers,  and that you can indeed use the Internet with a Coleco ADAM? 6)      Wouldn't  it be nice if ADAMites found  one  channel  of communication and used it?  Seriously folks, we do really need to find an more effective a way of keeping in touch with one another.5)      Wouldn't it be nice if the ADAMALC. According to Rich,  if you boot ADAMCALC and at the screen asking whether  or not you want ADAMCALC's online help file you hit  the <UP  ARROW> and <RIGHT ARROW> together and then type in the  word "surfnazi",  you  get  a  hidden screen showing  the  monogrammed initials of all the ADAMCALC programmers.  Works  for  meNow my next question is,  why did JKL  choose  a bicycle to acc- ompany his initials?I  really  think we ought to do a trivia book to  preserve  these things.  There  could be a booktware? 2)      Wouldn't it be nice if if Jerry Vrancks went on producing 463  ADAM forever.  Alas,  even Jerry is running out of things to print. 1)      And finally, the number 1 "Wouldn't it be Nice". Wouldn't it be nice if we really could make it to ADAMCON 0E?Thank you all.  I wish you a good and productive conference.  May our friendships be renewed and strengthened so that we can continue to be who we are for another 12 months, and longer. I don't reply, communication suffers.9)      Wouldn't it be nice if we could find a workable  way  of supporting the few suppliers we have left? 8)      Wouldn't  it would be nice if those of us who were  left writing things in the ADAM world could focus their output on ADAM products  that some newcomers might not know anything  about?  To elaborate just a little,  there are people online,  not many  but some,   who  have  no idea what's available for  ADAM,  and  who regularly  ask  questions.  If tÌ1 ×70RonsWeek'n'ADAM by Ron Mitchell      August 25, 1997I can't believe I got it to work, the surfnazi thing.At  ADAMCON  09 Rich Drushel re-acquainted us with  a  particular programming  device  often included in the work  of  professional programmers to show beyond reasonable doubt that they were indeed involved in a particular project. The device, known as the Easter Egg,  takes various forms in different programs,  but can be seen if one knows where to look, and how to find.Case in point: ADAMC community recognized that paper  is  a  diminishing resource and made a greater  effort  to survive electronically, online? That's everyone... shy, fearful or otherwise.4)      Wouldn't it be nice if we could find a way of making our activities more relevant to more ADAM users? I'm thinking of our young friends who see more pessemists than optimists in our ranks. How can we bring them on board?3)      Wouldn't  it be nice if we could  get  more  programmers working on our behalf, writing more new sof,  followed by a video game and  a fantastic resurgence in ADAM interest.  Imagine.  Report Goes  to EditorI've just finished my ADAMCON 09 report. Eight pages give or take were  sent to Bob Slopsema by fast pigeon just a few minutes  ago along  with  my notes from the ANN meeting.  Holding as I do  the view  that not everything needs to be read online without  delay, I've  decided that recently posted descriptions produced by  Rich Drushel  (drushel@apk.net) and Dale Wick  (dalew@truespectra.com) will understand and use the compiler    L@G Enterprises Product List - Gene Welch  Oh Yes You Can! - A PowerPaint Primer by Patricia J. Herrington.   This one was distributed in limited quantity, but  it's still around and very much worth reading. -        Rich Clee's ADAM Services Price List     -      The ADAMnet Clock by Chris Braymen              This documentation was printed in the spring of this year in 463 ADAM. But just in case  you missed it, it's here.     -      PowerPaint Pics on Screesonable number of ADAM users out there who might be interested in reading.Our Newest ADAMiteBefore going on with additional ADAMCON business,  I want to talk about  David  Ramsey.  David is a complete  newcomer  to  ADAMCON anything.  He  turned up quite unannounced on Friday afternoon in Grand Rapids,  having read somewhere about ADAMCON 09, and having been situated within driving distance (Lansing Michigan). I think we  were as surprised to find David as he was to find  us.  There are still new peoplee.tue.nl/midi/index.html     -     Introduction to the World Wide Web Using LYNX obtained from the Internet @: http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~acatec/internet/intermediate /lynx.html   This document is 13 pages of speaking notes for a LYNX tutorial.Contains good info on the format for URL's and a number of other basic items. Most of these documents will no doubt appear in 463 ADAM or on the ANN disks over the next few months. One  more  item.  Those who attended ADAMCON 06 will recall  that Chris Braymen made ntation on the multi- media drivers. It was provided as part of Gene  Welch's presentation.     -        Sample SmartBASIC program incorporating the drivers useage as above. Multi Media Utilities and Drivers by Gene Welch               This is Gene's session outline. He provides some  tips based on his  own experience     -      Micro Compiler V0.77 by Dale Wick              Dale explains his newly produced TDOS compiler.               There are useage notes that you pretty well need  in order to  do a more than adequate job of satisfying those who need  to know  everything  NOW.  Hopefully the extra 20-odd K of  verbiage will be worth waiting for.Meanwhile,  I've  come back from Grand Rapids with  some  goodies that  need  to  be written about.  I don't want to get  into  the detail just yet,  because at this point the order of presentation is  still  somewhat in doubt.  Suffice it to say  that  there  is something new to write about, an agreeable suprise in itself, and that  there are still a rean by Gene Welch              This is Gene's session outline containing explanatory notes on how PowerPaint screens  can be converted to HGR format for use with Chris Braymen's multi-media drivers.     -      Introduction into MIDI - obtained from the Internet- http://www.eeb.ele.tue.nl/midi/intro.html             In support of my MIDI presentation.     -      MIDI Home Page - obtained from the Internet             In support of my MIDI presentation and available at:              http://www.eeb.el out there to be reached out to,  and judging from  David's enthusiam for anything we could tell him,  we'd  do best not to forget that. David bought some hardware, asked a pile of questions,  and picked up a few contact addresses.  If  anyone wants to say hello, and welcome, you can reach David at: dramseyjr@aol.com Handouts at the ConThere was some good handout material this year. Here's a list:     -       BASIC 1.0 Multi-Media Drivers and Utility Software              This is Chris Braymen's documea tutorial video on the use of  Sequel.  Some body  was good enough to send me a copy of that video,  and  I've come  to understand through talking to people at ADAMCON 09  that there  may  be  people out there who haven't been able to  get  a copy.  The video explains the process of music composition  using SEquel,  and does so from the point of view of a trained musician and composer,  Chris Braymen. He does a GOOD job. If anyone would like a copy of the video, send me a blank tape and mailing money; I'lldo a more than adequate job of satisfying those who need  to know  everything  NOW.  Hopefully the extra 20-odd K of  verbiage will be worth waiting for.Meanwhile,  I've  come back from Grand Rapids with  some  goodies that  need  to  be written about.  I don't want to get  into  the detail just yet,  because at this point the order of presentation is  still  somewhat in doubt.  Suffice it to say  that  there  is something new to write about, an agreeable suprise in itself, and that  there are still a reaÌ1 ×65              ADAM NEWS NETWORK SEPTEMBER 1997 disk****************************************************************AC09      My views of ADAMCON 09 as I look back a short time.AC09Ron   Rom Mitchell's recollections of ADAMCON.ANN1997   My version of the ANN minutes this year.ANN97RM   Ron Mitchell's official version of the meeting.DaleW     Dale Wick sends his reaction to the convention.DaveR     An idea from Dave Ruff on acquiring lonely ADAM's.Gene.img  this file is only on the TDOSBM PC;  internally,  however,  aside from having an ISA bus  and  the same arrangement of DIP switches  for  setting  the memory  and video configuration,  it's totally different.  I  got this  as  a  freebie from a lab postdoc when I  was  in  graduate school.   Mostly   it  has  been  used  as  an  MFM  hard   drive formatting/testing  system,  and also to house the interface card for  my  EPROM  burner.  But  after  ADAMcon  09,  my  wife  Joan (am335@po.cwru.edu)  decided that she wanted to start lookin Wick gives an insight into "zip" drives for           the ADAM computer ! ? !RichD     Announces that the source code for CPM is released!Richwk#1  Rich Drushel's week with computers on Aug 25thRich#2    Rich Drushel's week with computers on Aug 32nd?AC09zonk  Zonker's rather colorful commentary on ADAMCON!Readme    This here file!  Enjoy!                   ided that recently posted descriptions produced by  Rich Drushel  (drushel@apk.net) and Dale Wick  (dalew@truespectra.com) will  fix you up.Ron Mitchelld further work on.  I'm speaking,  of course, from a user's  point of view because in this game I have  no  other.  So from  a user's perspective,  I'd like to ask some questions about where we are going, and then to propose some answers, not necessarily the right answers,  or even serious answers,  but  possible answers.  If  you can stay awake long enough for that,  I'll then finÌ1 ×72This Week With My Coleco ADAM 9708.31 by Richard F. Drushel (drushel@apk.net). Technology Note. This  week's  TWWMCA  is  being composed using a  rare  (but  not valuable) IBM PC/XT clone from 1983, a TAVA PC (made by TAVA Co., whoever  or  whatever they are or were).  There  must  have  been enough  of  them  around at one time to make  it  worthwhile  for Norton  Utilities version 4.5 to specifically detect them in  the SI  (SYSINFO)  program.  Externally,  it's a dead ringer for  the original I version (EOS version's          have it on side #2 in ready to use form).  This file          will need to be uncrunched, then cloned over to an          EOS disk with at least 120k free space.            The "file" or files, is a disk full of material that          Gene Welch used for ADAMCON and contains a readme          called "FileDescp" explaining all the files!  :-) Keynote   The keynote address of the mighty Mitchell!Mitch#1   Ron's week with the computer world on Aug 25thNeilW     Neilg  at USENET   newsgroups  for  some  60s  rock-n-roll   groups   she's interested  in,  using  the Cleveland Freenet.  I have  ADAMs  in abundance that I could have used,  but this PC system was already set  up,  would  already  do  80x24  screen  and  VT100  terminal emulation.  So,  until  such time as I can make a turnkey  system using an ADAM,  TDOS or CP/M, and my genuine H19 serial terminal, I guess I'll let her use this system. Those who remember the door prize giveaways at the ADAMcon 08 banquet wi ADAM EOS ROMs.  However, the actual version of the operating system is 6, not 5.  This is explained in the following comment from the EOS-6 source code:       EOS_REV         EQU     005H    ;current EOS revision number                                ---NOTE---   this is actually rev;06 but to match the production ROM; it was labeled rev. 05 we fudge; just a bit (two bits actually)   (For the binary-impaired, the joke in the comment is that 5=0101, t 6=0110; two bit positions must be changed to go from 0garding  a topic that was my initial interest in the ADAM,  and which has occupied most of my ADAM programming efforts:  enhanced ADAM operating systems. To review,  the ADAM has currently 4 operating systems for  which user  software  is available:  OS-7 (the ColecoVision video  game operating system), EOS (the Elementary Operating System developed by Coleco),  Digital Research's CP/M  (ControlProgram/Microcompu ter), and an enhanced CP/M clone called TDOS (Tony's Disk Operating System, named after its auttead  of  4-byte disk blocks,  thus limiting disks  to  65,535 blocks  or  64 megabytes,  instead of 4,294,967,296 blocks  or  4 gigabytes.III. Limitations of ADAM Operating Systems. All  4 ADAM operating systems have significant limitations  which have hindered the development of new software (and hardware):OS-7:  The operating system itself is quite well-designed,  being object-oriented and flexible.  The chief hindrance has been  lack of programmer docu- mentation and suitable development tools, espe ADAM operating systems:     operating system        version         date         ========================================================        OS-7                    7PRIME          28 December 1982         EOS                     5*              8 October 1984         EOS                     7**             September 1984         CP/M                    2.2             1984         TDOS                    4.59            1992        Notes:* This is the value found at REV_NUM (FD60 hex) in all existingll remember the Hayes SmartModem  2400 I won from HLM-GMK Co.;  this is the modem  that I'm using now.The  other reason for using this TAVA system is that I still have been  too busy/lazy to unpack my travelling box from ADAMcon  09, which  has my 486 system in it. Right now,  this TAVA PC is  the only computer I have operational in my basement. I. ADAM Operating Systems Most  of what I want to do in this issue of TWWMCA is  think  out loud and hopefully bounce some ideas off of other people's heads, re101 to 0110.)**      EOS-7 was distributed on disk with the Disk Manager software, as well as with the abandoned SmartBASIC 2.0. EOS-7 was a total internal rewrite with several additional functions, including (1) the ability to trap a keypress as a "hotkey" and jump to a user- supplied service routine, and (2)  the  ability to have as many files  open  simultan- eously  as desired,  provided  the user allocated sufficient memory for disk buffers. The major liability of EOS-7 is that it uses only 2-byte inshor,  Tony Morehen). OS-7 and EOS are present in ROM on every ADAM (OS-7 only on ColecoVisions, and EOS only on Expan sion Module #3s). CP/M and TDOS must be run from tape or disk (though former B.A.S.I.C.  member Ron Collins had an ADAM in which the Smart Writer word processor ROMs were replaced with  TDOS,  so this ADAM would boot to TDOS in the absence of an external  disk  or tape;  I saw this system myself  so  it's  not folklore).  Here  is a table summarizing the circulating versions of the different cially  for  creating background graphics screens  and  composing songs and sound effects. I   have   a  20th-generation  photocopy  of   the   ColecoVision Programmer's  Manual (obtained in 1992 from A.N.N.  founder Barry Wilson),  which  I have restored and made several copies  of  for interested parties;  as well as the OS-7PRIME source code listing from  the ADAM Technical Manual set.  To my knowledge,  since the ADAM/ColecoVision were dropped from the market,  no new cartridge games have been written he moving text window hassle. The chief problem with TDOS is that its creator,  Tony Morehen, is no longer  active in the ADAM community and is hence unavailable  to maintain the code. The TDOS source code is an unmanagable mess of uncommented  spaghetti,  full of confusing  conditional  assembly directives, scattered over too many non-modular source files. You must assemble a new version of TDOS from source for every possib le  hardware configuration,  and the source is in  such  disarray that it's no longesent on every ADAM leaves unimplemented  (i.e.,  just a RET instruction) the _POSITION_FILE function, which is supposed to be used to move a read/write pointer  around in  a file,  to provide random access file I/O.  Because of this deficiency,  most existing EOS programs bypass EOS file I/O func- tions  and read/write raw blocks of the  files--ick.  Third-party hardware can only be supported by (1) applications including their own driver code, or (2) direct patches to EOS after it is loaded from ROM to RAse of the economic clout of the users  of that software.This  is also known as "the backward compatibility  problem".  In short, it doesn't matter how nifty a new version of the operating system  is;  if  switching to it means that everyone has  to  get (i.e.,  buy) new versions of their existing application programs, then  very few people will switch.  There are other  contributing factors, but much of the internal disarray of Win3.1 and Win95 is due to this economic pressure to continue to support DOScess the prototype are present, but useless in the absence of the actual hardware.)TDOS:  TDOS is modelled after ZCPR2 (an early CCP replacement for CP/M) and contains built-in support for all available  3rd-party ADAM  hardware (non-ADAMnet devices like serial  cards,  parallel cards, hard drives,  floppy drives larger than 160K,  and memory expanders larger than 64K),  so it's possible to replace the ADAM video  screen with a real 80x24 serial terminal and use all  the existing CP/M soft- ware without texcept for Marcel de Kogel's Cosmo  Fighter, which  appeared  in spring 1997;  this was a  byproduct  of Marcel's ColecoVision and ADAM emulator projects.EOS: The biggest limitation of EOS is the sequential file system, which requires that the blocks of each file be contiguous;  there are  no  EOS  functions to "squeeze" out holes  left  by  deleted files.  There  is  no  direct support for subdirectories  or  for partitioning  large physical media into smaller logical  drives. Finally, the ROM version prer expandable to accommodate new hardware.  (The source is probably not yet freely- distributable,  either; there's been  no recent word from Tony about what he wants to do with it. Binaries are supposed to be  freely- distributable,  however,  and have been.)IV. The Future is the Past. Progress in the realm of ADAM operating systems is limited by the same  issues which retard progress on Wintel and MacOS platforms: namely, the large installed base of existing software which needs to  be supported,  becauM.CP/M:  Pre-existing  CP/M programs run fine under ADAM CP/M  2.2, except  that the CP/M world assumes your screen is 80 columns  by 24  rows;  the  ADAM screen is 32 columns by 23 rows,  so  you're stuck with an annoying,  horizontally-scrolling window as a  poor man's  80 column screen.  While CP/M supports I/O redirection to and from serial devices (like modems and terminals),  the ADAMnet serial/parallel card never left the prototype stage,  so there is no serial/parallel access.  (The routines to ac software from  the  early and mid 1980s--software which did  "bad"  things like  take over all the system resources,  modify its  own  code, take  advantage  of undocumented features (which perforce  become "documented" as the need to retain the existing behavior  becomes paramount).  Win95  makes  few concessions to DOS  programs,  and generally tries to make their continued use unpleasant;  but most Win3.1 programs still run under Win95--with the penalty that they destabilize  the system for the true-bmportant than the  operating system.  The Smart[fill in the blank] applications were designed to completely take over the machine. EOS itself is little  more than a program loader with some minimal system  ser vices.  In the EOS world,  you put in the program disk/ tape, pull the reset switch,  and run the program;  to switch programs, you put in another disk/tape and pull the reset switch  again.  There is no concept of a shell, of programs exchanging information with each other except perhaps through filef compatible  applications,  writing a new and  improved  operating system from scratch is a mere academic exercise.  The result will be interesting,  but nobody will actually use it, because none of the existing applications people have a large investment in (over 10 years of active use in some cases) will run.On  the CP/M side,  there is a lot less to worry about;  CP/M was designed to be portable to many different hardware  architectures (all  using the 8080/Z80 CPUs,  of course),  and there is a greatequire  patching of EOS in order to  fun ction, and the patches are incompatible.V. Escape Through the Universal Application? The guiding design principle in my enhanced SmartBASIC 1.x inter preter  (released  1991)  was that all  available  ADAM  hardware should be supported with high-level commands,  and something sim ple like editing an ASCII text data file should be sufficient  to change  hardware configurations.  Since I included all the driver code  as part of SmartBASIC 1.x and didn't try to patch r a TDOS-compati ble version of my ADAM serve serially-linked device driver program (which  lets  an  ADAM control PC drives and other  hardware  via serial link).  In theory,  it should be simple: replace the BIOS- level I/O routines with the ADAMserve protocol.  Alas,  the  TDOS BIOS is not really a well- encapsulated BIOS module;  it is inline spaghetti  all over the place.  Disentangling it would take  more ADAM time than I have available at present.On the EOS side,  the applications are really more ilue Win95  applications.  A totally-from-scratch Win95 might have been "better" from a computer  science viewpoint (and maybe from a user viewpoint as  well, in that the system would be more stable), but a certain financial disaster in the real world. The backward compatibility problem is acutely worse for an  obsolete system like the ADAM, for which 98% of all the software that will every be written *has* already been written.  Unless someone (or  a  team of someones) is also prepared to provide a suite  os,  and especially of sha ring hard- ware resources.  The worst offense in this regard is  in the  use of expansion memory.  Just about every EOS program  that finds  a memory expander appropriates it for itself.  Ironically, the contents of XRAM remain intact across system resets (as  long as you don't turn off the power,  just pull the reset switch), so the  idea of an expansion RAMdisk to share data between  applica tions  is attractive. Unfortunately,  there are several  RAMdisk implementations,  all  r conformance   of  CP/M  applications  to  the  operating   system standards.  The  trick,  then,  is to have a suitably  conforming version of CP/M running on your own hardware; then you will never have to patch applications (except in very precise ways,  such as escape codes for terminal programs).  TDOS with a serial terminal for  display  does this adequately  for  existing  hardware,  but cannot  now easily be altered to accommodate new  hardware.  Many TDOS users have been waiting since ADAMcon 06 fo it  into EOS, I was completely successful. I was literally creating my own independent  programming environment,  from which escape was  not necessary  because  everything you needed to write  anything  you wanted was right there :-) But while I have sold 50-odd copies of SmartBASIC 1.x over the last 6 years, I know of only one program mer besides me who used SmartBASIC 1.x that way, i.e., for every thing. The ultimate  failure  of SmartBASIC 1.x was that it  could  not directly  run  existing SmartBASIC p5,  then optimized away all the junk and spaghetti and waste; the freed-up space was filled with new EOS-8 features.  One  version mapped an Orphanware serial board to the prototype ADAMnet serial device, and a PIA2 printer card to the prototype ADAMnet parallel device;  when ADAMcalc was booted under this EOS,  the icons  for the  prototypes  showed  up on the device  detect  screen--I  was probably  the  first person outside of Lazer Microsystems to  see them actually work--and I had 3 printers to print f  I had come round to this rather pessimistic viewpoint,  I had considered that I could extend EOS in much the same way I had extended SmartBASIC.  Why not make EOS user-configurable?  Design overlay  areas at defined locations in EOS RAM so you could  swap in  the driver for whatever serial card you had,  or hard  drive, etc.;  provide pointers with which you had  the freedom  to  change the internal organization of EOS,  yet  still provide  user access to global data;  protect the video  routines from  rest once,  and would  again  if awakened in the right way. But  the  EOS-8 project could not achieve its  intended  goal  of being a universal,  all-in-one, support-everything-out-of-the-box operating system,  because of one fundamental limitation:  it had to fit into the 8K of EOS RAM beginning at address E000 hex.  EOS provides  no  top-of-memory function (i.e.,  the address  of  the highest  free memory address available to a user program  without colliding with the operating system).  Thus,  all of Colecothers, I did all the work. (No flames intended.)The  EOS-8  project achieved some interesting proofs of  concept. The  ADAMnet emulator idea (with its  logical-to-physical device mapping  table)  was  quite workable,  and it survives  today  in ADAMserve EOS.  Using my own commented disassemblies (from  1988, before  I  knew that there was a broader ADAM community) and  the source listing from the ADAM Technical Manual I bought at ADAMcon 04, I regenerated a commented, assemblable source listing of EOS- rograms which  were  full  of PEEKs,  POKEs,  and  CALLs.  I had provided high-level  functions which  made all those PEEKs,  POKEs,  and CALLs unnecessary;  yet rather than write new programs with the new tools,  people wanted to run their old ones unchanged. Perhaps if I had taken a year to write  a suite of applications in SmartBASIC 1.x...but I  didn't, and so now I imagine that I am the only one still using  SmartBA SIC 1.x for anything (I do still use it for everything).VI. The EOS-8 Project. Beforerom instead of just  the  ADAM printer.  SmartBASIC 2.0 also could talk  to  the serial/parallel  card as IN #3/PR#3 and PR  #4;  under  EOS-8,  I could use a serial terminal in place of keyboard and screen.  Yet another  EOS-8 version had drivers for both the MFM and IDE  hard drives loaded simultaneously; I could read/write both hard drives and copy between them.  These were exciting times for me, because I felt like some kind of software archaeologist,  finding fossils of  things  which  actually did exientrancy during interrupts by building a defer- ral  queue; use the ADAMnet device interface to non-ADAMnet devices by emula tion.  After ADAMcon 04,  I started work on this project, which I called EOS-8 (since the last official version of EOS was  EOS-7). This was  ostensibly to be a group effort  involving  me,  Chris Braymen,  Guy Cousineau, and Bruce Walters, with the programmer's forum  on Mark Gordon's Micro Innovations BBS to be our means  of communication. Other than getting a few comments from the o's EOS software  assumed  that E000 hex was the top of  memory,  because that's where EOS-5 started.  All the extra functionality I wanted to  put into EOS-8,  *working* functionality as  demonstrated  in tests,  could  not fit into that 8K limit,  no matter how much  I squeezed  and  optimized.  If I spilled below E000 hex,  my  code would get clobbered by the applications.  And in practical terms, there was no hope of disassembling every single Coleco program to figure out its memory map and change it (era.com), it is becoming tempting for me to think about porting CP/M 3.0 to the ADAM.  Why 3.0 instead of 2.2?  For starters,  3.0  supports lots of the command  shell  enhancements that  the  TDOS users are accustomed to,  as well as  time/  date stamping  of files.  The biggest attraction for me,  however,  is that CP/M 3.0 was designed to accommodate a bank-switched  opera ting  system.  Some of the crufty optimizations of TDOS (in order to  maximize the Transient Program  Area,  TPA,  effectively  the melready; (2)  handling  interrupts (especially non-maskable)  during  XRAM bank switching; and (3)  determining the current memory configuration (including application XRAM  usage) so that the correct configuration can  be restored at exit.(2) and (3) are especially problematic because the Video  Display Processor  (VDP)  registers and all the memory map control  ports are write-only;  you can't read them back to find out what  their current value is.  Thus, unless the program saves the contents of all  thplications"),   and  the  requirements  of  backward compatibility are too extreme. I would, of course, like to hear other opinions on this topic. My views  are just that, mine,  and not necessarily correct or  the definitive word on the subject. See you next week! *Rich*                       ct-oriented and flexible.  The chief hindrance has been  lack of programmer docu- mentation and suitable development tools, espeswitch to  Marcel de Kogel's ADAM emulator;  I can modify  the  emulator code to save any I/O port data I want, without having to actually build the hardware. But I'm not quite ready to discard the physi cal ADAM in favor of a virtual version.VII. Future Directions for ADAM Operating Systems.I  think that the most promising avenue for ADAM operating system advancement lies in the adaptation of CP/M 3.0.  Now that Caldera are   giving   away  the  source  to  both  CP/M  2.2   and   3.0 (http://www.caldeither by patching--very lucky--or  by wholesale rewriting/reassembly--a huge job with  no source).A  possible  solution to the space problem would be  to write  a bank-switched  EOS;  that is,  use XRAM as additional storage and either swap needed routines in and out of intrinsic RAM,  or else transfer control directly to code located in XRAM.  The difficul ties with this solution include (1) applications (like SmartWriter and File Manager) which  usurp XRAM for their own use, regardless of what's there amory  used by programs) could go away if some of the  operating system  could be moved to XRAM.  I have not yet obtained the CP/M 3.0 source; but I'd like to, soon.   As  for  EOS,  I don't think that much can be  done  beyond  what already  has  been implemented as part of the HARDDISK shell  and its  ADAMserve variant.  There are just too many existing  "must- have"  programs  which are not maintainable/modifiable  in  their current state (such as PowerPaint and all the patches-to- SmartBA SIC-type  "apese write-only registers somewhere for its own  reference, there's  no  way to tell what they are;  and if the bank  of  RAM containing  the copies gets switched out,  there's no way to read it.  The only foolproof way would be to add hardware (latch chips on  every write-only control port) to allow reading back of  cur rent  VDP and memory map status.  Of course,  anything which  re quires new ADAM hardware can never have widespread use; so again, what's the point? This last objection can be overcome if I Ì1 ×70Subject: CP/M 2.2 source code officially releasedCaldera  (the final copyright holder to all the Digital Research software)  have finally authorized the release of the source  and binaries  to the DRI CP/M software,  including CP/M 2.2 and  3.0. Everything which is extant (see below) is available for  download at http://cdl.uta.edu/cpm The  reason  I  say "everything which is extant" is  that  Novell (which originally inherited all the DRI software) managed to lose *all*  of the original source mags been,  "We don't always understand what you're talking  about,  but we like having the articles around to  read; we've  missed them this spring and summer." I can't promise  that you'll  understand them any better,  but I do hope to  have  them around.   Since  tomorrow  begins the first day of classes at Case  Western Reserve University in Cleveland,  Ohio (where I'm teaching 5 days a week this year),  and I'm still trying to get a few last- minute things ready,  this article will be somewhat short. Futuhe TDOS sources (which IMHO are totally  non- maintainable), which would allow me to port CP/M to ADAMserve.*Rich*                                                                                                                           ter how much  I squeezed  and  optimized.  If I spilled below E000 hex,  my  code would get clobbered by the applications.  And in practical terms, there was no hope of disassembling every single Coleco program to figure out its memory map and change it (el  attendance figures at hand, my impresssion is that this was the best showing since ADAMcon 06 in Sarasota,  Florida (October 6-9, 1994). As an aside,  I think it would be nice for someone to collect and  pub lish the complete attendance lists for all the ADAMcons;  then we could put an end to the bickering I've heard between various past ADAMcon chairs about who had what attendance.Until  the end of July,  I wasn't sure whether or not I'd be able to attend ADAMcon 09 at all.  Some emergency travel expeÌ1 ×72This Week With My Coleco ADAM 9708.24 by Richard F. Drushel drushel@apk.net Administrivia.Hello,  everyone!  After  a  long hiatus (since January  1997,  I think), I am finally able to resume writing these weekly articles about what I've been doing with my Coleco ADAM computer. My topic buffer  is fuller than ever;  my personal buffer is  also  fuller than  ever,  but  I'll try to set aside enough time each week  to keep  these  articles coming out.  The general  reaction  to  the TWWMCA  series hatapes which DRI had handed  over to  them!  All that is left is what people had  (surreptitiously) managed to copy over the years.  Caldera has declared an amnesty on this material,  so that collectors could come forward with the stuff without fear that it was a troll to nail them for piracy. I intend to look at the CP/M 2.2 and 3.0 source files. People who have been interested in an ADAMserve version of TDOS will have to hope  that  the CP/M sources are in a better  state  of  internal organization  than tre articles will be longer, I'm sure ADAMcon 09.....by Rich Drushel The Ninth International Coleco ADAM Computer Convention. ADAMcon 09 was held 14-17 August 1997 in Grand Rapids,  Michigan, hosted by Bob and Judy Slopsema, representing the Southern Michi gan  ADAM  Users  Group  (SMAUG),   which  has  no   non-Slopsema membership, I believe :-) I heard Bob conclude that there were 30 official  delegates,  and  a few more walk-ins  and  non-delegate spouses.  Though  I  don't  have rigorous  historicaither by patching--very lucky--or  by wholesale rewriting/reassembly--a huge job with  no source).A  possible  solution to the space problem would be  to write  a bank-switched  EOS;  that is,  use XRAM as additional storage and either swap needed routines in and out of intrinsic RAM,  or else transfer control directly to code located in XRAM.  The difficul ties with this solution include (1) applications (like SmartWriter and File Manager) which  usurp XRAM for their own use, regardless of what's there anses,  as well  as the need to save money for a new car,  were  significant constraints. Fortunately, I was able to do some consul ting  work  in July which provided the  necessary  funds.  As  it turned out,  my going was what enabled 2 other people to go--Jean Davies  and  Pat  Williams from our  Cleveland  B.A.S.I.C.  users group.  Jean and Pat had originally planned on going together  in Jean's  van,  sharing the driving (it's about 5 hours from Cleve land  to Grand Rapids).  Unfortunately,  a few weeksure.  This  is  the first ADAMcon of the ones I've been  to  (04 through  09) that I didn't get any useful programming  done,  and i'm not happy about it.I gave 2 sessions at ADAMcon 09.  The first session was on Friday night, talking about ADAMserve and some of the inside history and artifacts  I had obtained from Randy Hyde (founder and  president of Lazer Microsystems,  the company which wrote SmartBASIC, ADAM calc,  the  the  ADAM part of CP/M 2.2) and  Joel  Lagerquist  ( a programmer  at Lazer Micrnt to check that out to get an  overview of  the convention.  I'm just going to write about a few personal things of the sort that don't make it into the "official"  histo ries.  All  throughout  ADAMCON 09 I was *tired*.  My brain  just wouldn't wake up.  Part of it was the killer work schedule I  had in the weeks before the convention,  but it was aggravated by the weather  and  the  hotel air  conditioning  system.  The  weather outside  was coldish and rainy,  but inside the hotel it was war mish  andemed to be of greatest interest to the audience, since I had  brought with me an actual autonomous LEGO robot  capable  of robust obstacle avoidance, and I demoed it in the hallway outside the session room. The tenuous link of my robot course to the ADAM is that the robot controller board is a 68HC11,  a later relative of  the 6801 microcontrollers used in ADAMnet peripheral devices; and thus, in principle, one could write suitable software for the 68HC11  board  such that it could function as an  ADAMnet  y serious programming.  I had intended to finally put  the user configuration module into the PC-based server  side of  my ADAMserve serially-linked device driver system  (currently the  hardware configuration is static,  compiled-in).  Aside from about  30  minutes  of clear thinking,  in which  I  laid  out  a configuration  datafile  format and put the necessary hooks  into the server code,  I just couldn't concentrate enough to write any code. This was to the great disappointment of several people, I'm s  before  the convention, Pat broke her right foot and was unable to drive; and Jean  felt that 5 hours of driving was too much for her to handle alone.  Since  now  I was able to go,  we all decided  to  travel together  in  my minivan (which we did,  with me  doing  all  the driving).Dale  Wick  (dalew@truespectra.com)  has already written  a  nice objective  summary of all the sessions at ADAMcon 09  (posted  to the  Coleco ADAM Mailing List,  coladam-list@calum.csclub.uwater loo.ca),  so you might waosystems,  who worked on the above three programs). For those of you who remember the TWWMCA articles from Fall 1996,  Randy Hyde is my "mystery man". I still have to write up  the text of our E-mail correspondence;  it should  appear  in TWWMCA this fall.  The second session was Sunday afternoon, talk ing  about  converting PowerPaint image files to RGB  TIFFs,  the ColecoVision  and ADAM emulators by Marcel de  Kogel  (m.dekogel @student.utwente.nl),  and  my LEGO robotics course at CWRU.  The latter se humid.  The air conditioner kept my room cool  tempera ture-wise,  but  it didn't dehumidify the air,  so it still  felt stuffy  and warmish.  Put 30 people and 12 heat-generating  ADAMs into one session suite and it was really stuporous. This isn't an especial knock at the hotel; I think every hotel air conditioning system  is the same way.  In any case,  I felt myself dozing  off during sessions, much to my embarrassment.   I was also extremely frustrated that I couldn't clear out my head enough to do andevice (meaning  you  could  control  a robot  from  an  ADAM,  a  nifty thought).   The audience seemed appreciative of my sessions, but I personally was quite worried about them,  because (unlike previous  sessions at previous ADAMcons) I had not rigorously prepared the presenta tions  ahead of time.  I sort of just winged it.  Dale Wick  said that  was okay,  that the material lent itself to a more informal presentation (unlike assembly language programming,  which  needs considerable  forethought to maer now. Yet the question remains. I'm not sure I can answer it for any one else. For me, it's a time to see, actually and in the flesh, that the rest of you out there still exist. You all have become more important to me over the years than I care to think. For those who have never been to an Adamcon, there is absolutely no way to explain. (Believe me, we who have been have been TRYING to ever since day one.) And for those of you who have been and continue to come, there is no need. Suffice it to say, it waak  for  ADAMcons 01-03,  but my vote is that 09 had the  best food  of any ADAMcon 04-09.  I also have to mention the fine work done by the de facto  equip ment  manager at ADAMcon 09,  Bob's son Doug.  Doug kept all  the ADAMs  (and some of the PCs,  too) running at peak form,  had any needed  cable or adapter or software ready at  hand,  and  didn't break anything that I saw :-) At the banquet Sunday, I asked that he be recognized with a round of applause for his efforts,  and I repeat that request here.see the final official figure. Wonder if it's more or less?) This included some wandering sheep who have missed one or two in the past. It was a genuine pleasure to see them again.   It was quite a spread that Judy,Bob and even son Doug put on for us. While Bob seemed to spend a good deal of his time complaining about the hotel staff, I myself didn't have much to gripe about. They certainly treated me right. Except for the propensity to take as long as possible to get the food to the table, all else was fÌ1 ×72                     What are we, NUTS?!?!?                     A tale of Adamcon Nine   I mean it; what's wrong with us? Here we have a computer that has been D-E-A-D for more than ten years, yet a hard core band of us seem to think nothing of ditching work (and in some cases abandoning families!) to run away to some far off location to meet and greet and otherwise hobnob with our fellow Adam users. Nuts, that's what I call it!   All right, all right....I got that off my chest. I feel much bettnage the complexity in a  beginner setting).  I,  however,  felt  like a one-legged tightrope walker over Niagara Falls without a net. If the audience never picked up on my anxiety,  though,  it must mean I'm getting to be a  better teacher :-)I  must comment on the food at ADAMcon 09:  it was uniformly out standing,  in  quality and in quantity.  Anybody who went to  bed hungry,  especially after the sumptuous all-you-can-eat  smorgas board for brunch on Sunday,  has only himself to blame.  I  can't spes wonderful to be back in the bosom of my extended family once again!   Have no doubt, though, that I went to Michigan with my eyes wide open. Beyond question, this wasn't going to be an Adamcon like those of days gone by. There simply aren't that many of us left any more. (I do wish that those who have left would stop in every now and then, just to say a quick howdy.) A "small" 'con would be what I was to expect. But I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that some 35 of us showed up. (I can't wait to  Nice job, Doug! Jean, Pat, and I left for Cleveland Monday morning about 7:30 AM. We  made it back safely and in time for me to see my wife  before she had to go to work that afternoon.  My "travelling box" (which has attended every ADAMcon since 05,  the "hard" one to get to in Salt Lake City,  Utah) is still sitting in my basement with ADAMs unpacked. Hopefully this week I'll be able to get my ADAMs set up again (we'll see how busy classes are this week).See you again next week!  Rich Drushel ine. And when that food got there! Yummmmm! I especially enjoyed the Sunday Brunch. I don't believe I've ever seen that much food (and that kind of variety!) at any hotel brunch I've ever attended. Well done!   Well now that we have the most important support function of any hotel hosting an Adamcon out of the way, we can now concentrate on other matters. I arrived thinking that other than seeing this motley crew, I probably wouldn't take much away. I DID "know" that I was going to have my hard drive workd use either Adam Serve or DOS software Adam Emulator to carry on with my future Adam activities, saving wear and tear on my poor beleagured Adam. Alas, as near as I could determine from the questions I asked at the 'con, the limitations I'd have to live with would be far too limiting. (At least, present day limitations.) Adam Serve can't, at this time, handle tdos. Much to my surprise, I found Adam Emulator CAN handle tdos, but can't write to the IBM hard drive. It can only write to the disk drives. (BTW, n, he couldn't resist teasing me, telling me that it would be "well, kinda cheap". What he came up with was a 40 meg Seagate which was much more than I expected. So I was more than happy to pay him the fifteen bucks. (I want to go on record here as saying that Herman DID get this hooked up to my Adam and running in very quick order!)   So that was ONE of my personal goals taken care of; just had a couple more and all would be well. Next up....I wanted to make sure that the video I had slaved over would wo sharing information as well. Situation normal at Adamcon.   While I take plenty of pictures at these gigs, it seems I don't always capture on film what I see going on there. Each year, I bring back with me a vivid mental image. It's something that sums up each year for me. For some reason, this year, it was the fact that almost every time I turned around, there were Judy Slopsema and Bob Bair, huddled in front of the Adam. Just what was so fascinating? It seems Bob has mapped out Adam Bomb II and was taks, a very dry and boring topic. I'm sure I saw quite a few glazed eyes out there!!   The last personal goal for me was rather tied in with that hard drive mentioned above. See, I was paying keen attention back a few years ago when Rich Drushel talked about the impending demise of Adam do to the fact that the main processor is going quite literally die of old age. (I won't go into this here, it has been well published else where.) What I was considering was, up to a point, abandoning Adam. I figured I couled on. Herman Mason was to give a session on how to ressurect a dead hard drive. Unfortunately, the one I brought was deader than dead, if such a thing could be. (Leave it to me to be the exception that proves the rule.) Long story short, Herman, through no fault of his own couldn't breathe new life into it. Sorry about that Herman! (But imagine how I felt!!)   However, all was not lost. Doug Slopsema said he was pretty sure he could lay hands on a substitute hard drive "for cheap". Being his old man's soif anyone reading this spots any of this as wrong, could you PLEASE let me know?)   That's why I went ahead and got that replacement hard drive for my little ol' Adam. An investment of fifteen bucks will keep me going for at least a year or so more and perhaps I can stave off the demise of my machine for that long. At any rate, while I went to the convention thinking I wouldn't get too much out of it, as you can see, it was quite the opposite. All around me, I could see signs that others were learning andrk properly. You may recall, dear reader, that last year I managed to break the tape and had to end up doing it all by hand. I'm proud to say that this year, it actually worked. I've got to say that if one is to do a session, THIS is the way to go. No persnickity Adam takinga nose dive right in the middle of showing folks something. Much easier as you can pause, rewind or fast forward depending on how things go. While that part worked, I'm not sure I got the information across. The session was on IMAGE fileing Judy step by step through the screens. Even while sessions were going on, where valuable high level discussions were going on, there sat Bob and Judy, playing that same game over and over again.   See what I mean? We travel thousands of miles, go through long inspections at airports, and we end up "just" playing games. What are we? Nuts?   Yeah.....I guess we are. And I wouldn't have it any other way. File Manager,  and HardDisk 3.9 for use with Adam Serve.AdamBomb 2,  which was introduced at last AdamCon was much talked about,  and Bob Bair (our Games Expert) taught impromptu sessions on  AdamBomb techniques to all of the gamers who were stuck.  The version  of AdamBomb was 1.2 which has some fixes that allow  the White Key to work,  and some other minor problems resolved.  Dale finally got out version 1.0 of his GIF viewer for TDOS. Also Dale has finally finished his AdamCon 05 killer demo.  In it,Ì1 ×67                News from AdamCon09                 By Dale and Neil Wick There is quite a bit of news and new products at AdamCon09. First the new products.  For the first time at an AdamCon a full Coleco Adam  emulator  was  shown running on a PC.  Neil ran it  on  his laptop computer and got several disk images transfered  over.  He was able to run AdamCalc and see the secret screens (see the news section),  and also got SmartBASIC, and TDOS running. Also Smart WRITER is built in. Additionallye the email dis- cussion list.  He has  been working at Dell for the last 3 years as a Tech  Support expert.  He still has an Adam setup and  would like to catch  up on what's happening on the Adam.  Jean Stone has just had her hip replaced,  and so couldn't make it to this AdamCon,  but she made up a beautiful afgan as a raffle prize.  Kathy Vrancks  won  it finally, after buying 30 tickets. Last year, she dearly wanted to win it, but the Slopsema's won it instead. This year, it was close. The first ticket background,  and  possibly  include pictures  in the article.  Gene also had a session on how to make an AdamNET clock by converting a regular Adam Keyboard controller chip and buying a few components.  Rich Drushel showed the latest version of AdamServe and demoed it with AdamCalc, PowerPaint, and SmartBASIC 1.0 and 1.X.  With AdamCalc it auto detects an AdamNET serial port and parallel port (for a printer), and this is suppo rted by the PC parallel port and serial port. He has also completely  patched   he displays an animation flying through the mountains to the site of AdamCon  in Salt Lake City.  The  player,  called  PLAYUTAH,  was written  in  another  new program called MIC.  MIC is v.77  of  a compiler for a DOS QBASIC- like language. The information about it is on the Web. ANN  is  now publishing their disks on the  Web,  thanks  to  Bob Slopsema (also a Gallery of Honour inductee this year). Now for News.  On the Internet, Alan Neeley (formerly of AdamLink of  Utah) has just shown up on th he showed some ColecoVision cartridges, and a new super game (talked about later).The authors of the emulator have written a new game called Cosmic Fighters  which is available as both a cartridge game and a super game. Both work great under the emulator. This was also displayed at AdamCon for the first time.  Also at AdamCon,  Gene Welch (who was a Gallery of Honour recipient this year) showed off a new ANN disk-a-zine  which  is an EOS article reader which  includes  the ability  to play music in the that was drawn was for the blank seat beside Dale. The next ticket that was drawn was for the blank seat beside Bob Slopsema.  Finally a real winner was drawn and it was Kathy. AdamCon  10  will be hosted by PJ and Bob Herrington  in  Orlando Florida in October of next year.  Although there are a few people on the Fidonet echo, but it is suprising to read about the people who  are  on there.  The Winnipeg group is ever strong holding  a picnic with well over 50 people. We  also discovered in the "Hard about the proper syntax for adding a column of figures. I concluded long ago that if I knew nothing else about spreadsheets in general, and ADAMcalc in particular, I should really at least know how to add a column of figures. Once again it was clearly explained to me.Gene Welch demo'd Powerpaint, featuring some of the larger font sets that are part of Patricia Herrington's "Glory B". The session on hard drive setup and repair didn't unfold quite as planned. We were in fact provided with an opportunityed in the experimental apparatus setup figure. He gave out autographed copies of the paper. Rich Drushel is teaching Engineering students how to make robots using LEGO. They make robots controled by the latest version of the 6801 chip that is the same as the one found in the keyboard,  disk  drive,  tape drive and SmartWRITER printer. Rich brought one of the robots and demonstrated  it  to the delight of all.  Even  the  housekeeping staff  were impressed.  They said 'The blocks that it is made  of look likand fellow keynote player,  Rich Clee,  ended  his address by expressing the hope he would see  us all at ADAMCON 0E. For those of you who don't know it, that's the hex value for 14.  At the time,  I can remember thinking,  yeah - right. Now,  here we are at NINE,  and I'm beginning to believe we might just  make  it.  If  we can hornswoggle a few  more  unsuspecting ADAMites using the same advanced railroad tech- nology that  worked so well on Bob and Judy Slopsema last year, it might just happen. I mustin@csclub.uwaterloo.ca  Adam homepage:   http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/dmwick/adam.htmlc and PowerPaint sessions scheduled for Friday morning were delayed somewhat by the length of a certain party's keynote speech, but once underway, provided a solid start to the day. These two major pieces of ADAM software always generate user questions, and this year was no exception. Frances Clee, describing ADAMcalc, stayed with the basics and managed to embed something in my mind drive Setup and Repair" session that Herman can break anything. Or at least so it seemed. We  also saw at AdamCon the prominent role that the Coleco Adam has  in  the Slug research world.  In a paper published  by  Rich Drushel, he used a Coleco Adam to time syncronize two videos of a slug  feeding.  These videos needed to have a reg- ular time  flash (1/2  second  on,  1/2 second off),  and the Adam did  the  trick losing  only 1/30 of a second over 15 minutes.  In the  paper,  a Coleco  Adam is includÌ1 ×67This  is  a  transcript of Ron Mitchell's address  on  the  first morning of ADAMCON 09.   In it he brings out some good ideas  AND gives  the entire ADAM community some food for thought,  such as: being a positive force to be heard, communication with others on this  planet  who seem to have a similar  interest  in  "classic" systems.  Read it thor- oughly and give ti some long thoughts! Keynote Speech - Friday, August 15, 1997by Ron MitchellMy good friends:A few years back,  my good buddy e LEGO blocks' 'They are LEGO blocks.' 'Oh.'The  regular online conference was done two fold this year.  Both the usual CompuServe conference in the CLUB forum CO 18, and one at  chat.yahoo.com on the World Wide Web.  Bob Sebel- ist and  Rich Cossaboon attended remotely on the Web,  and Rob Friedman chatted for  a  while  through  CompuServe.   That's all for now.  --dmwick@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Ask me  about my  Coleco  Adam.  It does tricks Maintainer of the  Coleco  Adam list.  E-Mail:    coladam-adm say that I've never seen anyone look quite so surprised as Bob  when suddenly realized that he'd inherited maximum power in the  ADAM  world.  He certainly deserves credit for the fine  job he's done as ADAMCON organizer and ANN editor.  Let's give him  a hand. Right  off  the top,  I want to add that these conferences  don't just  happen.  They  happen because people like Bob and Judy  are willing to do the work to make them happen.  There are others  in this room who have also done that work in other y not, there  are  nights where I actually hate computers as much  as  I hate deadlines, priorities and golf clubs.Sometimes it's difficult to keep things in perspective,  relating the  computing activity to the meaning of life,  the universe and everything.  There has to be some sense of direction, which  can frequently get lost in the shuffle.Lately, I've been acquiring a lot of software and hardware. Thank heaven's  for tax refunds.  I've got Visual BASIC 5,  I've  Turbo Pascal  6,  I've got Microsoftates' wildest dreams.  I suppose we could talk about the perennial lack of  communication between ADAMites and how it continues to  cause us  problems.  We might once again deal with new formats for  the ANN  disk to see if we can come up with something that  might  be more  appealing to ADAMites. That's not to say that we don't now have a good product.  Bob Slopsema,  in his spare time this  past year has succeeded in re-tracking that whole operation and making it credible again. He's done a superb job.Ight my  first modem.  My  current MIDI setup can process 5 times as many tracks as  the  first one I bought from Chris  Braymen.  I  can  process pixels  at  such  a rate that my Windows 95 wall  paper  features pictures of Zonker and Herman Mason. Imagine that.I could go on and on,  but the point is this:  while the hardware and software have changed,  what I'm doing with all this  'stuff' has not.  I am still, essentially, learning about computing. I am still,  essentially,  doing what I can in some smarojects aimed at keeping us some- where on the map. There is certainly no shortage of things to talk about.  But  I'd like  to take a few minutes here to go beyond that just a little. Because  right  at  the moment on a  personal  level,  I've  been spending  some time wondering just what the heck I'm  doing  with all  the equipment I've acquired.  I have to answer the  question for  mother  occasionally,  and it's becoming  increasingly  more difficult  for  me to answer it for myself.  Believe it  or ears,  some more than once. We all know who they are. When  Bob asked me to speak to you once more,  I spent some  time wondering what I would speak to you about.  We've already covered the future of ADAM,  the past of ADAM, and a variety of debatable topics about ADAM. So it is indeed difficult to know what to add. This  year's "State of ADAM" address might possibly include  some new  factors  such as the arrival on scene of the ADAM  emulator, which can make a pentium or a 486 perform well beyond Bill G Works 4.  I've got Quicken 4 and 5 with and without Windows. There's a assorted variety of browsers, some  with  HTML editors,  some without.  I've got  video  cards, mother boards,  serial ports, empty cases, and 50000 unread books ....that's about all of it.I  can  now store 50 times what I could store when  I  bought  my first  hard drive.   My latest processor does it's thing 30 times faster  that ADAM can do.  I can transfer E-mail to you and  surf the  net  112 times faster than I could when I  boun  our  "State of the ADAM" address,  we might also  talk  about issues  of  sustainability and consider whether or not,  for  how long,  and in what manner we are going to carry on with our  ADAM activity.  Some  could quite conceivably argue that,  hey,  we've made it this far,  why stop now. Others might counter with 'quit- while-we're-ahead' arguements in favour of quietly drifting  into the  sunset.  We might deal with some magic way of coming up with some new activity, new software and hardware, new pll way to share what I learn with anyone who will listen, and sometimes a few who don't  care  to.  I am still,  essentially,  using  my  computing equipment  to  maintain contact with some wonderful friends  whom I've known for years.  Some are here right now,  and that's  what really makes it  worthwhile.When  you come to the essence of what we're doing here,  it's not the widgets that are important, it's the people.Bearing that in mind,  I'd like to spend a few minutes this morn ing not only con- tgroup in Winnipeg who just held their 5th annual picnic  and who still persist in attracting more than 100  people every year.  And believe me,  no offence to Keystone's President, Paul Elshoff, but some would consider Winnipeg as part of another planet! I've been there, I know....What I'd really like to know, is  - why aren't they here?While  some  of these people,  such as Paul,   are aware  of  our presence,  it seems that the vast majority have little  knowledge of the work and effort that went intoish  and  be quiet,  leaving you with my own  version  of  the annual  'top ten list',  this year entitled "Wouldn't it be  nice if....".How many of you have logged onto Bob Sebelist's home page? The man is really quite incredible, is he not? The music takes me back  to  ADAMCON  IV,  the graphics are all things that  he  has produced  for our world,  and yet it also appears  quite  obvious that Bob has mastered HTML,  JAVA and everything else it takes to produce a pretty slick looking home page for all log onto  some of the Coleco home pages,  you're going to see some of these  names mentioned,  and mentioned in a way that creates  the impression  they  have taken some sort of lead role  in  tracking Colecovision  games and documentation.  Why do we not  hear  from them with articles for the ANN disks? What  does this have to do with the meaning of life,  the meaning of ADAM life? Only this: given our dwindling numbers, wouldn't it be better if we all worked together?I  don't have much in the way of  there life on other planets?For  the  past year or so during my Internet travels,  I've  been reading  some  material about ADAM provided by  people  who  have never  set  foot near an ADAMCON.  I say that not in  a  critical sense,  but  only  out  of a sense of curios- ity of  a  sort.  I'm talking  about  the  people who are  currently  tracking  classic computer games, including ADAM games. I'm talking also about some of  those who helped to develop the ADAM  Emulator  package.  I'm talking  about a emplating the meaning of life,  the universe and everything,  but  also trying to relate it to some areas we as  a community need further work on.  I'm speaking,  of course, from a user's  point of view because in this game I have  no  other.  So from  a user's perspective,  I'd like to ask some questions about where we are going, and then to propose some answers, not necessarily the right answers,  or even serious answers,  but  possible answers.  If  you can stay awake long enough for that,  I'll then fin running the user groups and producing the newsletters that we are all so familiar with.  It's much  like waking up one morning and reading your own obituary in the newspaper,  knowing full well that rumours of your death  are greatly exaggerated. Writes one gent from Williamsburg VA, "There seems to be a Coleco ADAM cult."I  guess that's one thing you can do after you're dead;  you  can form a cult and get away with it.1a) Sub question:Who  are James Carter,  Joe Huber and Jeff Frohwein?  If you  of us to enjoy. I found one rather telling comment on  Bob's page.  It was from a young person in Alaska,  who said (roughly paraphrased) that he'd think  about coming to ADAMCON if it weren't for the  pesssimists there.  He'd been reading some of the keynote speeches,  and men tioned no names,  but did offer the suggestion that we leave ADAM to  the younger people who are beginning to take a renewed  inte rest in our old computer.  It's an interesting point, which leads me to my first question:1) Isanswers to this first question.About  the only thing I can offer is something of  an  experiment that I've been trying over the past few months. When something is written  for  Compuserve,  I put it up on FIDO,  and Dale  Wick's Waterloo  broadcast address,  and anywhere else I can  stick  it. Some ADAMites don't have access to Compuserve, some don't have an Internet account. Some live only on FIDO, or on Compuserve. 2) Is there life after death?Some would argue that we're already dead. We might have  to be there.4) Where are we going?This is indeed the ultimate question.  We've been asking it since 1986 or thereabouts.  Like so many ultimate questions, its answer depends on each one of us as individuals.  It's going to depend a lot on our willingness to keep in touch with one another.  Now we have  Rich and Frances Clee on E- mail,  and that was  indeed  the final  frontier,  so  what  we have to do from here on in  in  my humble  estimation is to use the facilities  available,  whatever they mightthat rigor mortis is beginning to  set  in.  For example,  I  recently  decided to reduce the number  of  personal computing  devices set up in my basement bedroom  work- shop/living area  place  (My  mother made me do it.).  As a result 4  living breathing computers have been banished to the adjacent work  room where  things  tend either to get broken if they aren't already, shoved  into storage cupboards,  or packed away in boxes covered with scotch tape. One  of  those computing devices is my  originIn  both cases,  we're  using leading edge technology to provide  internet access to people who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it, and to  non-pofit  organizations.  The  service for  whom  I'm  doing community  news  input boasts 1500 paid up members,  and  yet .... after  three years of operation,  when they canvass the  business community  for  information,  four out of five  people contacted don't  even know about their own Information Network. In my  own area,  only 7% of 40,000 residents know en but perhaps, just perhaps,  by  letting the universe unfold as it should,  we might just get to ADAMCON 0E.  If nothing else, our coming here to this place will result in renewed friendships,  a more common sense of purpose,  and a whole lot of fun that might just be sufficient to keep  momentum going for another 12 months.  Who knows,  PJ  just might  get me to try her home made Salsa,  and that would  indeed add to the meaning of life.Or at least so she says.Actually, it's a private joke... you hadgone from talk about the evil Bill Gates empire to being unwittingly sucked into the evil Bill Gates empire.   Ok,  so let's accept that, but only  with the proviso that some of us retain the right to go  on living  long  after the corpse has been  buried because we  don't know what else to do.Again, I have  no answers, except to say that it's quite possible I've already reached this phase without realizing it.  There seem to  be degrees of death,  and it's only just occured to me  on  a personal  level   be,  to circulate as much information about ADAM as we can  to wherever it falls in this universe.  You never  know  who might be listening.5)  And  the final philosophical 'meaning of life' type  question is, quite bluntly, Does anyone really care?It is indeed a tough question to answer.  I'm associated now as a volunteer with 2 separate community information services  operat ing in the area where I live.  For one I write news articles, and for  the  other I Secretary of the Board of  Directors.  al  ADAM,  with  an original  Minnie Winnie hard drive..  It now sits there un- touched on a mobile work table while my attentions are drawn  increasing ly, day by day, to Windows 95. Now if this isn't life after death, I don't know what is. 3) Why are we here?Another  philosophical chestnut to be sure,  but this one has  an answer.  We love each others' company,  and from what I see going on  right here,  right now,  I think that's an absolute  in  this universe. At this point, it's pure speculation,ough about the Internet to feel comfortable with any kind of activity there,  and by  any kind  of activity,  I'm talking about turning on a home  computer and  using  a  modem to make contact in some basic way  with  the Information Highway. Most  people  that I know - present company  excepted  - consider computers  to  be an area of human activity intended  for  geeks, adicts, and people with no other life to speak of. Maybe they're right.So much for the meaning of life, the universe and everything community recognized that paper  is  a  diminishing resource and made a greater  effort  to survive electronically, online? That's everyone... shy, fearful or otherwise.4)      Wouldn't it be nice if we could find a way of making our activities more relevant to more ADAM users? I'm thinking of our young friends who see more pessemists than optimists in our ranks. How can we bring them on board?3)      Wouldn't  it be nice if we could  get  more  programmers working on our behalf, writing more new softhat's that.Finally,  the  top  ten list - or my  somewhat  'tongue-in- cheek' perception of the way things really should be in the ADAM World. Entitled - "Wouldn't It be Nice If. "10)     Would it be nice if Rich and Frances Clee really  enjoyed E-Mail,  or better yet,  wouldn't it be nice of Ron Mitchell replied  to  snail  mail within a reasonable  period  following  its arrival  on his doorstep?  It's communications my friends,  and I suppose I'm somewhat typical.  I simply don't reply.  Each timeand fellow keynote player,  Rich Clee,  ended  his address by expressing the hope he would see  us all at ADAMCON 0E. For those of you who don't know it, that's the hex value for 14.  At the time,  I can remember thinking,  yeah - right. Now,  here we are at NINE,  and I'm beginning to believe we might just  make  it.  If  we can hornswoggle a few  more  unsuspecting ADAMites using the same advanced railroad tech- nology that  worked so well on Bob and Judy Slopsema last year, it might just happen. I musthey don't get  answers  to their questions, they don't come back.7)      Wouldn't  it be nice if the computer community at  large recognized that there are still people in the world using 8 bit computers,  and that you can indeed use the Internet with a Coleco ADAM? 6)      Wouldn't  it be nice if ADAMites found  one  channel  of communication and used it?  Seriously folks, we do really need to find an more effective a way of keeping in touch with one another.5)      Wouldn't it be nice if the ADAM. You know, why we're here really isn't a big thing with me any more. I stopped  seeking approval from my IBM friends long ago.  Most  of them have now come to accept that there's a part of my life  that they  don't even ask about any more.  When I have visitors in  my snake  pit,  they pay little attention to the 16 other  computers that are there. Occasionally I'll get the question, does all this stuff work?  And that will be about it. They leave me along, I do the Windows thing when they're there. And tware? 2)      Wouldn't it be nice if if Jerry Vrancks went on producing 463  ADAM forever.  Alas,  even Jerry is running out of things to print. 1)      And finally, the number 1 "Wouldn't it be Nice". Wouldn't it be nice if we really could make it to ADAMCON 0E?Thank you all.  I wish you a good and productive conference.  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