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Rick Adams
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Rick Adams is a programmer (now retired) who also wrote articles for CoCo magazines. In The Rainbow, his blurb bio was "a systems programmer for a company that develops 68000-based systems software."
He founded Color Central Software.
Adams was the keynote speaker for Chicago RAINBOWfest 1989's traditional Community Breakfast.[1][2]
Programs
[edit | edit source]| Program Name | Catalog # | Genre | Year | Media Type | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temple of ROM | Game | 1982 | Program Pak | Radio Shack | |
| Rickeyterm | Communications | 1987 | Disk | Spectrum Projects | |
| Shanghai | Game | Program Pak | Activision, Tandy | ||
| GameTerm | Communications | 1989 | DELPHI [3] | ||
| DELPHIterm | Communications | DELPHI |
Articles
[edit | edit source]Adams often collaborated with Dale Lear with magazine submissions. As Adams explained in an interview, Lear would most often write the program (if it were one), and Adams would revise and fix it, then write the article.
| Article | Program | Topic/Program Genre | Co-Author | Magazine | Month | Year | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Power of the Palette: Graphics on the Color Computer 3 | Rainbow Tunnel and Wagon Wheel | CoCo 3 Demos | Dale Lear | The Rainbow | October | 1986 | 37 |
| Coming to 'Terms' with the CoCo 3 | Term 3 | Terminal | Dale Lear | The Rainbow | November | 1986 | 93 |
| Color Chart for the CoCo 3 | Color Computer 3 Color Chart | CoCo 3 Demo | Dale Lear | The Rainbow | January | 1987 | 20 |
| Exploring Level II's New Features From BASIC09 | Multi-Vue pointer icons | The Rainbow | June | 1987 | 155 | ||
| GIME Power | The GIME chip | The Rainbow | March | 1989 | 14 |
External Links
[edit | edit source]- Rick Adams official YouTube channel
- At the 2024 Tandy Assembly, Adams told various stories, including the story of developing Temple of Rom.
- Rick Adams interview on the The Original Gamer Stevie Strow's YouTube channel.
