ADAMLINK III+
 
BY TOM CLARY SOFTWARE
 
Reviewed by Al Fitzgerald
  of the St.Louis AUG
 
I'm not the kind of guy who writes reviews of software.  I 
hate writing...and that's a fact.  But I love modeming and 
spend too much time and money on the Boards across the 
country keeping in touch with what's happening and sharing 
it with my Adam group.  I guess that's why I actually 
volunteered to write the review on this new Adam 
communication software. 
BECAUSE IT'S EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED IN A MODEM PROGRAM! IT 
IS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST THING I'VE SEEN FOR THE EOS ORIENTED 
ADAM USER! 
Yes, the CP/M programs will do everything that AdamLINK III+ 
will do, and yes, they do have Libraries and a few Macros. 
But me, I prefer to stay in a simpler, less complicated 
environment, such as the AdamLink software and Tom Clary has 
given us a beautiful working tool.
     What will it do?  It will run either the internal 
AdamLINK modem at 300 baud with xmodem protocal (as does 
AdamLINK III) or it will allow you to use a serial card and 
external modem to run 300, 1200, or 2400!! baud with XMODEM 
file transfers.  It will address either the standard Adam 
monitor or an 80 column adaptation, it will address either 
the Adam printer or whatever graphics printer you have 
installed....and all of these options at the touch of a few 
keys and following the SmartKeys menu prompts.
     Now I have been running Avatex 1200s and a Hayes 
Smartmodem with both Eve and Orphanware serial ports.  Just 
recently I finally moved up to a Avatex 2400 baud modem. You 
ought to see that little sucker whiz the info across the 
screen for me when the ALIII+ is pushing it.  Oh, yes, if 
you use an external modem but haven't the habit of turning 
on your capture buffer right away...better develop a new 
habit or you'll spend all your time stopping the input to 
read it.  You probably have little idea of how cheap it is 
to zip onto a 1200 or 2400 baud board, download new messages 
or files, and jump off. I've phoned Ohio late at night and 
the cost has been 15 cents.  And that was at 1200 baud and 
just looking for personal messages.
     ALIII+ that it operates with the same 
straightforwardness of the previous AdamLINK softwares.  It 
still doesn't access the files on your storage disk as some 
of the later modem programs will.  That would have been 
nice, but many of us live comfortably without it.  If I have 
the most minor of complaints with the program, its just 
this.  AdamLINK III+ has automatically redial for busy 
signals.  That's good.  But my copy would only redial once 
automatically.  I would have preferred it to keep at it 
until I said stop.  I'd recommend this change be made if 
it's as minor a detail as I suspect.  Oh, oh, I can feel my 
brain starting to warm up.  Well, there is just one other 
hope for future revisions (maybe that's why Tom didn't call 
it IV) and that is it would be nice to be able to view the 
buffer or the disk file without switching to other software. 
That would be a very nice cherry to top the cake.
     Perhaps the best news of all, I hear that for those who 
bought the AdamLINK III software that there is only a $5, 
plus shipping, fee for the upgrade.  Now for what you get I 
can't imagine a better deal than that.  Now where did I put 
that %@#$&! saleslip?  Oh, yeah, otherwise, its $25.  From 
NIAD in Evansville,Ill.
 
SHAMAN 
CIS #73657,2161 or PLINKy SHAMAN
 
(Buffer Closed!)

 

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