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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

Program Name	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

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

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.

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-'''Rick Adams''' is a CoCo programmer who also wrote articles for [[Publications#Newstand|CoCo magazines]].  In ''[[The Rainbow]]'', his blurb bio was "a systems programmer for a company that develops 68000-based systems software."
+'''Rick Adams''' is a programmer (now retired) who also wrote articles for [[Publications#Newstand|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.[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1989-03/page/n49/mode/2up?q=%22Rick+Adams%22][https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1989-09/page/n75/mode/2up]
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+| [[GameTerm]] ||  || Communications || 1989 ||  || DELPHI [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Rainbow,%20The/The%20Rainbow%20Vol.%2008%20No.%2012%20-%20July%201989.pdf]
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