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A M Y ' S F I R S T P R I M E R NEW 16-COLOR VERSION 2.2 Six delightful programs will give your child a head start in school, teaching the alphabet numbers shapes colors counting matching pattern recognition and problem solving. Recommended for ages 4-8. Requires an IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or compatible with 256K RAM, color display, IBM color graphics adapter - CGA, EGA, MCGA or VGA compatible. (Hercules Monochrome Graphics Adapters must use HGCIBM program) Authors: Rob, Garth, and John Robinson Copyright 1991, Computing Specialties Orange City, IA 51041 USA AMY'S FIRST PRIMER Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Starting Amy's First Primer. . . . . 1 Stopping Amy's First Primer. . . . . 2 The Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The ABC Song . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Beary Fun Letters. . . . . . . . . . 3 Bunny Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Beary Fun Counting . . . . . . . . . 4 Help the Froggy. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Load the Truck . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Preparing a New Disk . . . . . . . . 6 Putting Amy's Primer on a Hard Disk. 7 Adding Amy's Primer to a Desktop/Menu 8 Color Graphics Displays. . . . . . . 9 VGA Monochrome Graphics Displays . . 10 Hercules Monochrome Graphics Display 11 User Support and Registration. . . . 12 Registration Form. . . . . . . . . . 13 Educational Site Licences. . . . . . 14 AMY'S FIRST PRIMER INTRODUCTION Programs for young children are hard to find. They must be extremely simple to use, very colorful and attractive, and they need to be fun and free of nega- tive rewards. Our own five year old Amy wouldn't spend five minutes with the programs her older brothers enjoyed. She didn't like the idea of destroying things or being destroyed. In addition to being frustrated with the family computer, Amy's birthday came on September 8, forcing her to wait almost a year longer than some of her friends before going to kindergarten. Amy's First Primer was written by her father and brothers to help her work on the things her kinder- garten friends were doing. After much testing and reprogramming, the programs finally met Amy's full approval. We think your child will approve, too. STARTING AMY'S FIRST PRIMER If the disk is brand new, you should make a backup copy of the disk first for your own protection and then use that disk. The section on page 6 of this guide on "Preparing a New Disk" will help you make a backup copy of the disk and place the DOS operating system on it. Steps 1 and 2 below will only work if you have made a new disk with DOS on it. Step 3 below will work even on the original disk. You may use one of the following steps to start Amy's disk: 1. If the computer power is off, just put Amy's disk in drive A and turn the power on. or 2. If the power is already on, put Amy's disk in drive A and press the keys CTRL, ALT, and DEL simultaneously, causing a warm boot. or 3. If you just want to see how the original disk works, Place a DOS disk in drive A and boot the system. Then remove it and place Amy's disk in drive A: and type the commands: A: AMY or 4. If you have a hard disk, please refer to pages 7 and 8 for instructions on both installing and starting Amy's First Primer. Page 1 STOPPING AMY'S FIRST PRIMER To quit playing with Amy's disk, perform one of the following: 1. Take the disk out and turn the computer off. or 2. Press <ESC> to return to menu, then press Q. THE KEYBOARD There are a few important keys to learn for Amy's First Primer: ARROW KEYS - Used for moving objects on the screen. Up, down, right or left. ENTER - or RETURN - used in the menu program to call up the program that the arrow is pointing to. ESC - Used at any time in any of the six programs to quit and return to the menu. Q - Used to exit from the main menu. The behavior of the keys has been modified to suit the expectations that young children have. When an arrow key is pressed, an object will move and continue to move until the key is released, then it will stop immediately. THE MENU The menu displays the six titles for the programs along with pictures that will help your child recognize the programs. Select a program by pressing the up or down arrow keys until the big blue arrow is pointing to the desired program, then press the ENTER key to run the program. The program titles are: ABC Song Beary Fun Counting Beary Fun Letters Help the Froggy Bunny Letters Help the Truck If your child is just beginning to learn the alphabet, we suggest that you start with the ABC Song and move from there to Beary Fun Letters and Bunny Letters. The ABC Song will help to associate the letters with the pictures. Beary Fun Counting is used for number recognition and counting. Help the Froggy is a delightful maze for problem solving, and Load the Truck is used for pattern recognition and matching. To quit or exit from the menu, press the letter Q. Page 2 THE ABC SONG The purpose of the ABC Song is to help associate the pictures with the letters. The program will play the song over and over again, until the ESC key is pressed. All other keys are ignored. The ESC key will stop the song, and bring the menu back. After playing five times, the program will return to the menu. Sing along with your child the first few times. Even if your child already knows the ABC Song, she or he will start recognizing the individual letters as they are displayed. I can remember wondering what an "eleminopee" was when I first started singing the ABC song. Since a new picture is displayed with each letter, your child will actually start to realize that l, m, n, o and p are separate letters. BEARY FUN LETTERS Beary Fun Letters is used for learning the keyboard and the printed letters. The program starts by displaying a picture on the screen. It then waits until the proper key is pressed on the keyboard. The proper key will be the first letter of the picture name in all cases. The picture names are: Apple Jug Snail Boat Kite Truck Car Ladder Umbrella Diamond Moon Violin Elephant Number Nine Wagon Fish Owl Xylophone Girl Peanut Yo-yo Hat Queen Zebra Ice cream Ring If the key isn't pressed after four seconds, the program will display both the lower and upper case form of the letter on the screen. It will continue to wait until the key is pressed. When the proper key is pressed, a happy bear face is placed on the border of the screen. When the border is full, the game is over and the ABC song will be played. The game will then be repeated. The ESC key may be pressed at anytime to return to the menu. You can help a lot, the first few times your child plays this game by saying the picture name and the first letter out loud. For example, if a wagon is displayed, say "Wagon - W" and then help find the letter W on the keyboard. Page 3 BUNNY LETTERS Bunny Letters is a matching game. It places four pictures on the left side of the screen and four letters (both lower and upper case) on the right side. The letters are not in the same order as the pictures. A bunny is placed next to the top picture. Use the arrow keys to move the bunny up, down, left or right toward the corresponding letter. When the bunny reaches the proper letter, a blue line is drawn from the picture to the letter and the bunny is placed on the right side of the screen. A new bunny will be placed beside the next picture. When all pictures have been matched with their letters, a special bunny is placed at the top of the screen to indicate that a set of four matches has been completed. The screen is then erased and a new set of four matches are displayed. When five sets of matches are played, the game is over and the ABC song is played. The ESC key may be pressed at anytime to return to the menu. BEARY FUN COUNTING Beary Fun Counting works the same as Beary Fun Letters, except that it displays a set of fruit on the screen for the child to count. It then waits patiently until the child presses the proper number. When the proper key is pressed, a happy bear face is placed on the border of the screen. When the border is full, the game is over and a congratulations message is displayed. The game will then be repeated. The ESC key may be pressed at any time to return to the menu. HELP THE FROGGY This is a hungry frog and she needs help finding her way to the lily pad. Use the arrow keys to guide her through the maze to the lily pad. Once on the lily pad, the frog is ready for dinner. There's usually a fly buzzing close by and frogs love flies. Each maze takes approximately 30 seconds to generate, and since each one is built using a random number generator, there will be a new, unique maze each time. The song "Froggy Went a Courting" will be played while a new maze is being built. Help the Froggy will be repeated until the ESC key is pressed to return to the menu. Page 4 LOAD THE TRUCK Children have always liked playing with trucks and loaders, and Load the Truck is no exception. The top right corner of the screen contains an order for four shapes. Use the arrow keys to guide the loader around the screen. The truck must be loaded so that it shows the same pattern as the order form. Load the Truck is a carefully designed simulation. Just like the other programs, it never scolds the child or even complains about finding the wrong shape. It patiently waits until the loader scoop reaches the bottom of the right shape. It then raises the hoist, picking up the shape. Patience again is the rule until the loader reaches the edge of the trailer. Then the loader slides the shape onto the truck and lowers the hoist, ready for finding a new shape. All that the child has to do is use the arrow keys to guide the loader to the right spots in the proper sequence. When all four shapes are on the truck, the loader must be moved back up the screen, so that it will be out of the way for the tractor. As soon as the loader is out of the way, the tractor will back up and haul the load away. Load the Truck will be repeated until the ESC key is pressed to return to the menu. A new random order is generated for each game. Page 5 PREPARING A NEW DISK Your first job with Amy's disk should be to make a backup copy of the disk. Just follow these steps. The steps assume that your PC has two floppy drives. 1. Put a write protect tab on Amy's disk, so that any mistake in the steps below will not destroy it. 2. Put a DOS system disk in drive A and boot the system. (Turn the power on.) 3. When the "A>" prompt appears, type: FORMAT B:/S 4. The program will ask you to Insert new diskette for drive B: and strike any key when ready Make sure that it's asking you to put the disk in drive B:, then put a new blank disk in drive B: and press any key. 5. After the disk is formatted, it will ask: Format another (Y/N)? Press the letter N to return to the "A>" prompt. 6. Remove the DOS disk from drive A: and place the original disk for Amy's First Primer in drive A:. Now type: COPY A:*.* B: COPY A:AMY.BAT B:AUTOEXEC.BAT 7. When all files are copied, your disk will be ready. It contains both DOS and Amy's First Primer. If you get the message insufficient space when copying the files, you should erase the file B:AMY.DOC from, drive B: and then copy the remaining files one at a time from drive A: to B: 8. To test your new disk, place it in drive A: and reboot the system by pressing the CTRL-ALT-DEL keys simultaneously. The program should display an introductory screen and wait for you to press a key. Then it will go on to the main menu. If it doesn't, try this process again. 9. The new disk you just created can now be used by you or your child whenever you want to use Amy's First Primer. Simply put the disk in drive A: and turn the power on. 10. The original disk should be put in a safe storage place and only used if you want to make a new backup copy. Page 6 PUTTING AMY'S FIRST PRIMER ON A HARD DISK If you want to put Amy's First Primer on a hard disk, you should first create a directory called \AMY and copy all the files on the diskette to the new directory, using the following procedure: 1. Turn the power on to the system and wait for the "C>" prompt to appear. 2. Place the diskette containing Amy's First Primer in drive A: and type the following four commands: C: MD \AMY CD \AMY COPY A:*.* C:\AMY To use Amy's first primer, type C: CD \AMY AMY When you're finished with Amy's First Primer, reset the directory back by typing: CD \ You may want to make a BAT file that contains the above commands, to make it easier for you child to start the programs. For example, the following lines will create a batch file called PLAY.BAT containing the commands necessary to start and exit from Amy's First Primer. Note that <CTRL/Z> means to hold the CTRL key down and press the letter Z and <ENTER> means to press the enter key. You can also substitute any word you want for PLAY. COPY CON C:\PLAY.BAT C: CD \AMY AMY CD \ <CTRL/Z><ENTER> Once this batch file is created, you may type PLAY and press the <ENTER> key to start the program. Page 7 ADDING THE PROGRAM TO A DESKTOP MENU Many systems like TANDY/Radio Shack (TM) computers come with desktop menus. Many others now use Microsoft Windows (TM) 3.0 as a user interface to all the programs that are stored on a hard disk drive. All of these systems require a three-step process to add Amy's First Primer to the desktop. In the explanation below, examples are given for Tandy's DESKMATE and Microsoft's WINDOWS 3.0 Other menuing systems should have similar procedures. Step 1: Create a sub-directory called C:\AMY On TANDY DeskMate use the DIRECTORY pull-down menu at the top of the screen by clicking on it with the mouse or by pressing function key <F3>. Then select CREATE from the pull-down menu by clicking on it with the mouse, or by using the down arrow to highlight it and pressing the <ENTER> key. When the dialog box appears asking for the directory name enter C:\AMY and press the <ENTER> key. On Windows 3.0, click the mouse on the FILE MANAGER icon in the main window. Then Click on the FILE pull-down menu at the top left corner of the screen and click on CREATE DIRECTORY. When the dialog box appears, enter C:\AMY for the directory name and press the <ENTER> key. Step 2: Copy all files from the diskette to the new sub-directory. On TANDY DeskMate use the FILE pull-down menu at the top of the screen by clicking on it with the mouse or by pressing function key <F2>. Then select COPY from the pull-down menu by using the down arrow or by clicking on it with the mouse. When the dialog box appears asking for "COPY FROM: " enter A:\*.* and press the down arrow to move to the "COPY TO: " box. Then enter C:\AMY and press the <ENTER> key. This will copy all the files from the diskette to the new subdirectory. On Windows 3.0 click again on the FILE pull-down menu and click on COPY. Click on the "From: " box and enter A:\*.* Then click on the "To: " box and enter C:\AMY Then click on "OK" to copy all the files to the sub-directory. Now you must exit from file manager by clicking on the FILE pull- down menu. Then click on EXIT, and click on "OK". Step 3: Create an ITEM on the menu or the desktop. On TANDY DeskMate use the DESKTOP pull-down menu at the top of the screen by clicking on it with the mouse or by pressing function key <F7>. Then select CREATE from the pull-down menu by using the down arrow or by clicking on it with the mouse. When the dialog box appears, use AMY for the menu title, AMY.EXE for the program name, C:\AMY for the startup directory. Then press the <ENTER> key to add the item to the desktop. Page 8 On Windows 3.0 click first on the window where you want to add the program. This should highlight the border around the window. Then Click the mouse on the FILE pull-down menu at the top left corner of the screen. Click on NEW and Click on OK. When the box for a new program item appears, enter AMY'S FIRST PRIMER for the description. Then click on the command line and enter C:\AMY\AMY.EXE Then click on OK to add the item. Windows will pick a standard DOS Icon for you and place it on an available area of the window. You can move the icon by dragging it with the mouse. You can change the image of the icon by clicking on the FILE pull-down menu and clicking on PROPERTIES. Then click on CHANGE ICON and click on VIEW NEXT to skip through the possible choices for icons. COLOR GRAPHICS DISPLAYS It has been our experience, that incompatibilities may exist in only a very few of the compatible graphics display adapters. When we began compiling the program with Borland's Turbo BASIC we only rarely received reports of an incompatible graphics adapter. Those versions also only used CGA graphics capability. This version is compiled with Microsoft QuickBASIC (TM Microsoft) version 4.5. It is also the first version since the PCjr version that takes advantage of the color capabilities of the VGA, EGA and MCGA graphics adapters. We are very excited about it and we have tested it on over 50 different PC/display combinations. If you experience trouble please try the commands below, then if that fails, please write us and let us know. We'll try all we can to help. Please list fully any error messages that may be displayed, and describe your system as fully as possible including PC: brand, type and model RAM memory: size disk drives: types and sizes graphics adapter: brand type and model display: brand, type and model. The program first checks for the presence of a VGA or MCGA adapter. If it isn't present, it checks for an EGA. If that fails, it checks for a CGA adapter. An error message is displayed if the CGA isn't present. You may overide this sequence by adding the display type on the command line as indicated below: AMY VGA for VGA color displays AMY MCGA for IBM PS/2 models 25 and 30 AMY MVGA for VGA monochrome displays AMY EGA for EGA color displays AMY CGA for CGA color displays Page 9 The program also uses direct memory placement of the pictures to speed the process up. You can force it to use the bios routines to place the pictures on the screen by adding an S to the command line as indicated below: This will slow the process down, but may make it work for your system if it isn't fully IBM compatible. AMY VGA S AMY MCGA S AMY EGA S AMY CGA S AMY S Some VGA color graphics adapters will emulate only some of the modes of the IBM VGA adapter, but not all of them. The mode that AMY'S FIRST PRIMER uses displays 320 x 200 pixels with 256 colors. If it will also emulate an EGA adapter, you may be able to get AMY'S FIRST PRIMER to work using EGA. For example on a Zymos 16-bit VGA adapter we used Zymos' special SETVID software that came with the adapter to switch to EGA mode then told AMY to run in EGA mode with the following commands: SETVID EGA AMY EGA You may have a program similar to SETVID for your system. VGA MONOCHROME GRAPHICS DISPLAYS If you have a VGA monochrome display but get the message that you have an incompatible graphics adapter, use the following DOS mode command to tell DOS that it's capable of graphics. MODE CO80 AMY Note that MODE is a program that came on your DOS diskette. It may be found either in your DOS sub-directory of your hard disk or on your DOS system disk. If the pictures load ok on your VGA monochrome display, but some of the colors don't show up on your display, try the command: AMY MVGA to tell the program to use a special pallette that will provide shading values with higher intensities. VGA adapters should display 64 monochrome shades using intensity values from 0 to 63, but with some adapters shades from 0 to 25 are indistinguishable from the black background. Page 10 HERCULES MONOCHROME GRAPHICS DISPLAYS Hercules monochrome graphics adapters (MGA) do not provide complete compatibility with the IBM color graphics adapters (CGA). If you try to run AMY'S FIRST PRIMER on a PC with an MGA adapter you will get a message stating that you have an incompatible graphics adapter. Don't worry; a special shareware program has been developed to emulate the CGA by Athena Digital in Athens Georgia. The program is disk number 870 in PC-SIG's library and is called HGCIBM. The shareware price is $10.00 and is well worth the investment, as it will make hundreds of packages run that were previously not able to run on MGA displays. You can purchase an evaluation copy of HGCIBM from your favorite shareware dealer, or from one of the following addresses: PC-SIG Athena Digital 1030D East Duane Avenue 2351 College Station Road Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Suite 567 Ask for disk #870 Athens, GA 30605 408/730-9291 404/354-4522 Be sure to read the documentation before using HGCIBM and make sure you actually have a Hercules or Hercules compatible mono- chrome graphics adapter. There are some important warnings in the documentation. IBM provides a monochrome display adapter called MDA. MDAs can't do graphics at all and will still not work. If you have verified that you have an MGA adapter, you can copy HGCIBM.COM to the diskette for Amy's First Primer and then change the file AMY.BAT to contain the following lines: HGCIBM/E AMYSFP HGCIBM/U Line one enables the CGA emulation and line 3 uninstalls it. Page 11 USER SUPPORT Amy's First Primer is a user-supported "shareware" program. You may copy it for free and share it with your friends on a "try before you buy" basis. If you or your child like the programs, and find them useful, we request that you purchase a license to the program by completing the form on the following page and sending $15.00 (US) to: (We pay all postage.) Rob Robinson 523 Albany Avenue NE Orange City, IA 51041 USA In appreciation, we'll send you another free disk (and the license to use it) containing the DRAW program that was used for the graphics on Amy's disk. The DRAW program provides all four colors and two palettes on CGA systems and 16 colors for EGA, VGA and MCGA systems. Commands available for the DRAW program are Draw, Erase, Circle, Box, Line, Jump, Fill, Get, Put, Input, Output, Report, Foreground color, Background color, Wipe, and Quit. DRAW doesn't require a joystick, mouse, or lightpen. All drawing is done with the keyboard. Sample source code is included for some example game programs which show how to take graphics created by DRAW and use them in your own game programs. If you wish to only purchase a license to Amy's First Primer without the DRAW program, please complete the form on the following page and send it with $10.00 (US). We have also received registrations from over 20 countries. We very much appreciate this and want to make it as easy as possible. We also have a cooperative bank that doesn't charge much for an exchange fee. If you desire, you may send a check in your own currency for whatever the current exchange rate indicates would be equivalent to $15.00 (US). We will pay all exchange fees and postage to anywhere in the world. Page 12 REGISTRATION FORM FOR AMY'S FIRST PRIMER For all registrations, we'll send you a free update to Amy's First Primer autographed by Amy, and we'll even personalize it to display your child's name or names in the place of Amy's. Fill in the blanks below and send this page with your check: Your Name: ___________________________________________ Child's Name(s): ___________________________________________ (first & last) Address: ___________________________________________ City: __________________State:________Zip:_______ Computer Brand: ______________________Model: ______________ Display Type: (CGA) or (EGA) or (MCGA) or (VGA) or (Hercules-MGA) Diskette size: (5.25") or (3.5") RAM size: ______ Amount Sent: ($15.00) for both disks or ($10.00) for AMY only Please make the check payable to Rob Robinson and mail to: 523 Albany Avenue NE Orange City, IA 51041 USA Thank you. (v2.2) The First update is sent to all registered users free of charge. We also pay the postage & handling for the first update. For further personalized updates after you register, please send $5.00 for Amy's First Primer and/or $5.00 (US) for Dan's Drawing Disk plus $1.00 postage for orders from USA and Canada. For foreign updates, please send $3.00 postage. Include again the names of your children and the serial number from your registered diskette label. As of 3/16/91 we have no capability to accept credit cards. Educational discounts: (see next page for details) $15.00 to use on one computer at a time in one school. $50.00 to use on as many computers as you have in 1 school. $300.00 to use in as many schools as you have in 1 district. Page 13 EDUCATIONAL SITE LICENSES Many schools in the US, Canada and Australia have registered their versions of Amy's First Primer and we are very grateful We like to personalize these disks with the name of the school when we send out our updated registered diskettes. Please include the name of each school that you're registering for. Special discounts are available for schools needing a site license. If you are using Amy's First Primer as a learning station where it is used on only one computer at a time, then you only need to purchase a single user license for $15.00 (US). You will receive the most recent versions of Amy's First Primer and Dan's Drawing Disk. If you have a school PC lab or a local area network (LAN), where you will be using the program on more than one computer simultaneously, then you should purchase a multi-user site license for $50.00 (US). The multi-user site license is valid for one school or building. You must purchase a separate multi-user site license for each school in the district, if you have five or less schools using Amy's First Primer. You will receive one copy of the most recent version of Amy's First Primer and one copy of the most recent version of Dan's Drawing Disk for each multi-user site license. You may make as many copies as you need for the school. If you desire a multi-user site license for six or more schools in your district, you may purchase a multi-user district license for $300.00 (US). All participating schools for a multi-user district license must be in the same school district. You will receive one copy of Amy's First Primer and one copy of Dan's Drawing Disk for each multi-user district license, with instructions on how to personalize Amy's First Primer for each school (optional). It will be your responsi- bility to make and distribute copies of the diskettes for each school. Computing Specialties will make the copies and personalize them for an additional $4.00 per school. Distri- bution to each school will cost an additional $1.00 per school. PURCHASE ORDERS FROM SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE ACCEPTED. The following form may be used for determining the cost: ____ Single-user licenses at $15.00 each = ______ ____ Multi-user Site Licenses at $50.00 each = ______ ____ Multi-user District Licenses at $300.00 each = ______ ____ Copies for each additional school at $4.00 each = ______ ____ Distribution to each additional school @ $1.00 each= ______ Total Cost= ______ Page 14 SYSTEMS THAT AMY'S FIRST PRIMER HAS BEEN TESTED ON PC ADAPTER DISPLAY RAM RESULT ------------------------------------------------------------------ IBM PC-XT CGA IBM 5153 Color 640K good IBM PC CGA Composite Mono 640K good IBM PC-XT IBM EGA IBM EGA Color 640K good IBM PC-AT IBM CGA Composite Mono 640K good IBM PC Herc MGA TTL monochrome 512K needs HGCIBM IBM PS/2-30 MCGA 8513 VGA Color 640K good IBM PS/2-30286 VGA 8513 VGA Color 1MB good IBM PS/2-50Z VGA 8503 VGA Mono 1MB needs MODE CO80 then AMY IBM PS/2-50 VGA 8503 VGA Mono 1MB needs MODE CO80 then AMY MVGA IBM PS/2-55SX VGA 8515 VGA Color 2MB good EPSON EQUITY-IIE VGA VGA monochrome 1MB good WYSE 386 PC Par. VGA WY650 VGA Color 2MB good CompuAdd 286 EGA Tatung EGA 1383F 640K good Zenith 183 lap CGA LCD 640K good Toshiba T1100+ CGA LCD 640K good Tandon 286 CGA Composite Mono 1MB good MultiTech XT EGA EGA Color 640K good Vendex Headstart VGA VGA Color 1Mb good Gateway 2000 VGA Crystal VGAcolor 1Mb good NEC Powermate SX VGA GoldstarVGAColor 2Mb good NEC Powermate SX VGA NEC Multisync II 2Mb good Packard Bell 286 VGA Packard Bell VGA 1Mb good Tandy 1000 TX AT CGA Tandy CM5 color 640K good Tandy RL2 CGA Tandy CM11 color 640K good Northgate 286 EGA Northgate color 1Mb good Data Dynamics 286 Zymos VGA Emerson VGA color2Mb needs SETVID EGA then AMY EGA Goldstar GS230 VGA Goldstar 1220W 1MB needs MODE CO80 VGA monochrome then AMY MVGA SYSTEMS KNOWN TO NOT WORK WITH AMY'S FIRST PRIMER PC ADAPTER DISPLAY RAM RESULT ------------------------------------------------------- IBM PC-XT MDA TTL monochrome 512K wrong adapter