*+*+*+*+*¢ MINUTES JUNE 1992 MEETING¢ =========================¢¢NEW MEMBER:¢¢ Slowly but surely the clubs¢membership increases. This time, we¢welcome MURRAY BERKOWITZ who joined¢the OL' HACKERS ATARI CLUB. MURRAY¢lives in OLD BETHPAGE, L.I., a stones¢throw from th Library. MURRAY has¢worked on ATARI 8-Bit computers for¢some time, and has always wanted to¢join an all 8 BIT club. OL' HACKERS¢was a dream come true. Welcome to the¢club.¢¢GRAPHIC CONTEST:¢¢ As promised the GRAPHICS contest¢was held at ths meeting. The judges¢for the GRAPHIC CONTEST were JOE¢LEBER, BOB ULSCHMID and ALLAN ATKINS.¢After careful and deliberte¢consideration the winners were¢announced as follows:¢¢ 1st Prize - ALEX PIGNATO with¢"MISS OHAUG 1992"¢¢ 2nd & 3d Prize's - JACK GEDALIUS¢with his 2 color prints. One was a¢picture with a LOVE theme, and the¢other was a Scanned picture of his¢daughter made with a digitizer¢¢ The new CURRENT NOTES magazine¢had a very lengthy letter by BEN¢POEHLAND our member from Pennsylvania.¢In it he tells us about the deep¢feelings he had about the disaster of¢the CHALLENGER five years ago and how¢it affected him personally. He sat¢down and wrote a beautiful poem which¢was published in the JUNE 1992 issue¢of CURRENT NOTES. ALEX said the poem¢is very moving and very well done.¢ALEX read part of the poem at the¢meeting. JOE LEBER said his brother is¢an Aero-Space Engineer and he was very¢much involved in that launch and he¢can attest to the fact that the¢disaster had a profound affect on¢everyone, including JOE's brother.¢ ALEX felt he just had to write a¢letter to BEN in which he stated that¢BEN had a great talent with words and¢perhaps that BEN had missed his¢calling as an author. ALEX said that¢he enjoyed the poem tremendously and¢we were glad that BEN was a friend and¢a member of the OL' HACKERS. ALEX¢mentioned that RON FETZER used BEN'S¢article to upgrade the two of his Hong¢Kong 800XL computers, as well as¢ALEX'S. (BEN: the articles are great,¢and the upgrades work beautifully -¢ RON). ALEX praised RON for his¢dedication to the 8-Bit and to the OL'¢HACKERS in the lettter to BEN. ALEX¢mentioned that the write-in campaign¢for the CLASSIC MAGAZINE was a¢success. AIM magazine got 560¢commitments to subscribe to an 8-Bit¢CLASSIC MAGAZINE. The CLASSIC 8-Bit¢magazine campaign report can be read¢on GENIE file #5854 or COMP-U-SERVE¢#18446.¢¢The WESTERN NEW YORK ATARI USERS GROUP¢is also using our newsletter format¢for their newsletter. ¢¢COMMITTEE REPORTS:¢¢ HAROLD PEGLER the librarian¢reported on our experimental DISKO¢PARTY copy program. The program is¢going O.K. but more members should¢avail themselves of these great disk¢bargains, before the program¢finishes.¢¢ TREASURES REPORT: The treasurer¢RON FETZER reported that we are O.K.¢and in the black.¢¢CORRESPONDENCE:¢¢ RICK REASER the current 8-Bit¢editor of CURRENT NOTES wrote and said¢that in future issues he probably will¢review the RON FETZER, OL' HACKERS¢"TURBO BASIC PROGRAMMING KIT" and the¢RON FETZER, STAN SCHENFELD "DISK¢MANAGEMENT SYSTEM" disks. RICK also¢wrote to ALEX that he might highlight¢our club in his section of the¢magazine. ALEX answered him and told¢him more about our club. ALEX¢mentioned KRIS HOLTEGAARD, (one of our¢programmers) a deceased member who¢wrote the program for our newsletter -¢ an excellent programmer and a fine¢member. We shall miss him.¢¢ The SAGE SCROLL from ERIE,¢Pennsylvania mentioned the OL' HACKERS¢and they thanked us for helping them¢with their newsletter.¢¢ AL ATKINS wrote up the complete¢procedures and protocols for going on¢to the NEW NEST BBS (516) 234-4943 and¢how to use the 850 EXPRESS MODEM¢PROGRAM. He made copies of his article¢and distributed it to the members. It¢was very well done and the members¢appreciated his work. Because AL is so¢unassuming when he photo copied it he¢did not even put his name on it. AL it¢is a great piece of work and it has¢helped all of us to become more adept¢when going on a modem, and it will be¢found in this next newsletter.¢¢ A letter from JIM CUTLER our¢member from ENGLAND. He writes us that¢he is going on a vacation to North¢Wales for a week. He sends us his¢regards, and a couple of disks as¢always. Thanks again, JIM. ENJOY YOUR¢VACATION!¢¢ From the LIBRARY's "WORLD OF¢PLAINVIEW" newsletter of Jan 1987 ALEX¢showed a picture of ALEX and AL ATKINS¢and some of the other members not with¢us any more. We had presented the¢Library at that time with Atari¢programs for children and adults.¢¢DEMOE's:¢¢ ALEX showed the program HEAVY¢METAL which comes from the AIM disk of¢the month. It is a very good example¢of the great graphics that come from¢EUROPE.¢¢ ALEX showed a modification he had¢made to the "BULK FORMATTER" PROGRAM¢by RON FETZER. ALEX added a directory¢function and more caution functions to¢the program. In the mean time¢unbeknownst to ALEX, RON had re-¢written the program and called it¢"SUPER BULK FORMATTER." It will be put¢into our P.D. Library.¢¢ A program from AIM magazine¢called DRONE was shown, It is a great¢game. It is a take off on PAC MAN but¢but it is much better and the graphics¢are great. It is in machine language¢and very fast!¢¢ ALEX showed a game program called¢"CASINO" that had about 5 games on it.¢The computer picks which game you are¢to play. From Craps to Russian¢Roulette. ALEX played craps and lost¢his shirt. Better never go to Los¢Vegas ALEX! A couple members played¢RUSSIAN ROULETTE, and lived to tell¢about it.¢¢ ALEX showed another disk from AIM¢magazine, "EURODEMO 2" made by THE¢GATE KEEPER from Holland a great demo.¢again it proves that they do¢unbelievable graphics work in Europe.¢¢ RON FETZER showed his new SUPER¢BULK FORMATTER for 2 disk drives. The¢program requires SUPERDOS because this¢DOS issues error codes on XIO format¢commands - DOS 2.5 does not. RON¢showed how the program can format 2 or¢an unlimited amount of disks at one¢time. The program can write any¢density and can format 1 or 2 sides of¢a disk. If you want too, you can also¢write DOS.SYS to the disk at the same¢time. If the program encounters a bad¢side it stops and lets you label the¢bad side and then it continues. I¢always have 5 disks formatted. I use¢single density and 1050 density.¢Frequently you need a formatted disk¢or you loose the program, such as on a¢download or when writing a program.¢This program will be put on a future¢newsletter disk for you to have. (Look¢in this newsletter!)¢¢ ALEX showed a utility disk that¢he made up of KRIS HOLTEGAARD's¢programs. We saw a SCREEN FONT LOADER¢program, a super directory program,¢copy a file, and DOS function menu¢programs, write, edit or create or¢view a text file, reboot computer,¢show current time and date on disk,¢utilities etc. It is a terrific¢program. It has so many features on it¢that it required a double density¢disk. ALEX said that he is going to¢make it up as 2 single density disks¢because many 8-Bitters do not have¢double density drives. You have a lot¢of programs on the disk to do various¢things. On the utility section you¢have such things as MULTI.COM,¢JOYSTICK TESTER, PRINTER SETUP etc.¢ALEX is still working on this program,¢and hopes to put it into the Library¢soon.¢¢PICNIC NEWS:¢¢ STAN SCHENFELD, V.P. and the¢picnic chairman reported that BRADY¢PARK has been booked for the whole¢year. He suggested that instead we¢have a PICNIC DINNER. Since we had¢such a good time last time at CAFE 20¢in Baldwin L.I. the members agreed to¢have a dinner instead. ALEX made¢arrangements for FRIDAY evening at 7¢PM. The date is July 17. By the time¢you read this the dinner date will¢have passed.¢¢ HAROLD PEGLER then demonstrated¢some digitized pictures. The pictures¢looked like they were digitized with¢EASY SCAN. The pictures were pretty¢impressive.¢¢ HARRY TUTHILL demonstrated two¢programs that he uses together to¢manage his finances. The programs are¢FAMILY FINANCE and MICRO CHECK. HARRY¢uses the same codes in FAMILY FINANCE¢and MICRO CHECK so he can use both¢programs.¢ HARRY said that FAMILY FINANCE an¢Atari program is very user friendly.¢You just follow the prompts. MICRO¢CHECK has a much better search ability¢than FAMILY FINANCE. You can call up¢any expense or income groups by its¢code for the year or quarter year or¢month. FAMILY FINANCE uses 2 sides of¢a disk. One side is cash flow on the¢other side is budgets. With MICRO¢CHECK HARRY uses 2 disks. One is the¢system disk and disk two is the data¢disk. On the data disks, one side is¢for expenses and the other side is for¢income. With MICRO CHECK you have an¢unlimited printout with codes whereas¢FAMILY FINANCE has only 13 codes of¢incomes and 13 codes of expenses.¢ HARRY modified MICRO CHECK to¢suit his needs. MICRO CHECK is in¢BASIC. Since the program is primarily¢a check balancing program HARRY¢modified it for a finance program.¢HARRY created a semi monthly worksheet¢for incomes and expenses. On the work¢sheet he enters the codes and then he¢enters it into MICRO CHECK at the¢middle and the end of the month. With¢MICRO CHECK you can call up any¢expense or income for any period of¢time that you are interested in. HARRY¢showed us some actual entries that he¢made with the programs and then he¢searched for them. He prints out a¢budget with FAMILY FINANCE.¢ The presentation was very¢detailed and complete and very¢interesting. This was the first demo¢by HARRY and it was well done, and we¢hope to see more of HARRY's, demo's.¢Harry got a standing ovation from the¢club for the great presentation.¢¢DOOR PRIZES:¢¢RON FETZER¢HAROLD PEGLER¢ALLAN ATKINS¢JACK GEDALIUS¢MURRY BERKOWITZ¢ALAN SHARKIS¢BOB ULSCHMID¢STAN SCHENFELD¢JOE LEBER¢ (No, HARRY TUTHILL did not win¢this time, Sorry HARRY!!)¢¢Submitted by¢ Ron Fetzer¢¢ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<¢
