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2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
Rick Adams
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Rick Adams is a CoCo programmer 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."
Programs
| Program Name | Catalog # | Genre | Year | Media Type | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temple of ROM | Game | 1982 | Program Pak | Radio Shack | |
| Shanghai | Game | Program Pak | Tandy |
Articles
Adams often collaborated with Dale Lear with magazine submissions. As he 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 | 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 |
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.