ADAM has three major components: an anatomical drawing section, a "family scrapbook," and a collection of animations. All three sections are fairly intuitive. The anatomical drawing gives the user a choice of torso or full body, front or back views, male or female, skin color, and then 12 different body systems. Each view can be seen with or without labels. The scrapbook contains a folksy, pseudo-textbook set of descriptions of the various body systems, with audio descriptions. The animation section includes several dozen short presentations of various body functions and potential maladies, ranging from ulcers (causes and treatments) and sprained ankles, to nerve conduction and phagocytosis.
A.D.A.M. The Inside Story, A spin-off from the vendor’s line of anatomy software for health-care professionals, teaches about basic anatomy and physiology with a tantalizing mix of sound, graphics, and animation. It’s a multimedia CD-ROM application that really delivers.
A.D.A.M. (Animated Dissection of Anatomy for Medicine) contains a self-running demo, a QuickTime catalog introducing the company’s other products, and an installer program. You can either copy just the main application with its support files and extensions to your hard drive (it takes up about 5MB), or do a complete installation, which requires around 500MB of disk space. A.D.A.M. runs on any Macintosh witli at least a 16MHz 68030 CPU and a double-speed CD-ROM drive.
A.D.A.M. is divided into two main sections. The first, a sort of do-it-yourself anatomy lab, opens automatically when you launch the program. Most of this window is taken up by exquisitely detailed renderings of the human body... A slider lets you peel structures avay layer by layer to reveal what lies underneath. Icons let you choose a skin tone, switch between male and female anatomy, and view the body from the front or back. Clicking on any structure identifies it by name and sy^stem; you can also locate body parts via a pop-up menu.
A.D.A.M. enables you to look at the body’s anatomy all at once or home in on a major organ system by highlighting its components. Either way, the drawings are as good as any I’ve ever seen in medical textbooks. For users who want to hide, ahem, sensitive body parts from view, you can opt to cover genitals and breasts with strategically placed fig leaves.
A.D.A.M.’s other section, a pictorial introduction to physiology and disease called the Family Scrapbook, is even more entertaining. It offers a whimsical look at ourselves, with Adam and his significant other, Eve, as guides. Using a series of clever animations and drawings, the Family Scrapbook show's how our bodies work and what happens when things go wrong. If you prefer to explore, a menu lets you jump directly to any of A.D.A.M.’s more than 50 animations.
I found A.D.A.M.’s interface intuitive and easy to use. (If you get stuck, the program supports both online and balloon help.) As an incentive to register the software, you get a code that unlocks six anatomic puzzles when you call the vendor’s toll-free number. Solve the puzzles and you’re rewarded with a brief animation.
The Last Word Unlike many multimedia applications, A.D.A.M. left me wanting to see more. If you are the least bit interested in learning more about how the human body works, buy this program.
Tessler, Franklin N., M.D. (March 1995). A.D.A.M. The Inside Story. Macworld. (pg. 81).
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68K + PPC (FAT)
From Mac OS 7.0
up to Mac OS 9.2
Compatibility notes
68030/16 or higher, or PowerMac in native mode, System 7, 8MB RAM, 5MB hard disk space, 9 inch or larger monitor, 256 colour display, 2X CD-ROM
Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
A.D.A.M. Software
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