Hex editors? Oh dear. If you use Linux (or any *nix), you can just "strings adom > adom_strings.txt", and there won't be any messiness. That leaves you with some "strings" that are not actual strings, but definitely beats hexediting. The ADOM executable contains almost 13000 strings, almost 400kb in ASCII...
edit: here's the result for all you windozers: http://www.mediafire.com/?yot22yyywqw. I've snipped some of the obvious non-strings from that.