¢ MINUTES OF THE JUNE 1993 MEETING¢ ===============================¢¢ NEW MEMBERS:¢¢ ALLEN R. KIRK of Keizer OR, SEAN¢ L. SMITH of HEMEL England, CHRIS¢ McCOY of Medina OH, JEROME S. KOHN of¢ Plainview N.Y. and ALICE CHRISTIE of¢ Lester PA joined our club. OOPS! We¢ forgot to mention in the last¢ newsletter DAVE GOODWIN of Middletown¢ N.J. a member of JACG also joined us,¢ (sorry DAVE). I think you all will¢ have a good time with your 8 Bits,¢ and make many new friends.¢¢ ITEM:¢¢ We held our meeting at ALAN¢ SHARKIS' house. ALAN & ANNE were very¢ gracious host and they provided many¢ goodies for our consumption. It added¢ to a very good meeting. The library¢ is being renovated for the next 2 or¢ so months, so we can't meet there ¢ HARRY TUTHILL our Freeport¢ member, this month became one of the¢ newsletter duplicators. Welcome¢ Harry, we sure need your help. We¢ send out 100 newsletter on each¢ mailing and therefore need several¢ members to help in duplicating the¢ newsletter, after ALEX, as the Editor¢ finds articles and puts it together¢ by himself.¢¢¢ NEXT MEETING:¢¢ The July 10 meeting will be at¢ RON FETZER'S house at 22 Monaco Ave,¢ Elmont, N.Y. (516) 352-1569. If you¢ need directions please call me on the¢ phone.¢¢ CORRESPONDENCE:¢¢ A letter from DANIEL CARRODANO¢ our member in France. He writes that¢ he picked up an XF551 Disk Drive from¢ someone in Rumania.¢ A letter from TOM WRAY our¢ member from TEXAS. He wanted some¢ information on how to do certain¢ things with the 1ST Xlent W.P. ALEX¢ answered him and provided the needed¢ information.¢ ALEX wrote a letter to the¢ editor of the TWAUG Newsletter in¢ ENGLAND, complimenting them on their¢ great job with their Newsletter and¢ disk. DAVE EWENS and crew are the¢ editors of this English newsletter¢ and they also are members of the OL'¢ HACKERS.¢ ALEX wrote to JEAN BROKAW. She¢ is a newsletter editor who puts out a¢ great newsletter. ¢ A letter form PHILIP GREENHUT of¢ JACG of N.J. He writes us that he¢ buys our newsletter from his club. He¢ informs us that he intends to join¢ us. ¢ A letter from our member JIM¢ CUTLER in England. He sent us some¢ disk including the corrected version¢ of PAGE EDITOR. This program will now¢ run on an EPSON or compatibles. It is¢ now in our library. JOHN McGOWAN was¢ the one who wrote the patch for this¢ D.T.P. program.¢ BEN POEHLAND our member in PA¢ and the A.C. Managing Editor¢ complimented us on the prompt job our¢ club does in mailing out the A.C.¢ disks.¢ A letter from our member ALICE¢ CHRISTIE in PA. She writes that she¢ read the CURRENT NOTES, May issue¢ article by ALEX on the OL' HACKERS¢ and decided to join us. She is a¢ member of P.A.C.S. a multi platform¢ club, and is on the board of¢ directors of P.A.C.S in PA. ALEX¢ complemented her on the great¢ newsletter she put out. ALEX welcomed¢ ALICE to the club.¢¢ CONNECTICUT ATARI FEST REPORT:¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS reported that he¢ was at the fest on Saturday. The¢ attendance at the fest was very poor¢ the first day. He reported it was¢ better the 2nd day. He said it was a¢ dissapointing showing. He said there¢ were many vendors in attendance. LOU¢ TRAPANI the SYSOP of our BBS and a¢ member was also in attendance. Both¢ LIAUG and OHAUG shared a table, but¢ the main attraction was the new and¢ long awaited FALCON030.¢¢ DEMOS:¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS showed us his MIDI.¢ He showed us how to connect the CASIO¢ keyboard to the 8 BIT computer. You¢ can read more about the theory of¢ MIDI in the May minutes of the club¢ meeting.¢ ALAN showed us how to program a¢ song - FRERE JACQUES. First he wrote¢ it in one voice. Then he added a 2nd¢ voice to it and finally he added a 3,¢ 4 and 5 voice to it. He showed us how¢ to correct a mistake, how to copy a¢ measure of a song and modify it. He¢ showed us how to program for¢ different instruments. He then added¢ a drum machine rythem to it. It¢ really sounded great. It is amazing¢ what our 8-bit computer can do. It¢ can be turned into a professional¢ musical instrument. It was a great¢ demonstration by ALAN.¢ ALAN then showed us his SIO-2PC¢ where a 286 PC is connected as a¢ slave to the 8-bit. He can create RAM¢ DISKS on the PC for the 8-Bit, and he¢ can print through his PC. You can¢ also save 8-bit material on the PC as¢ 8-Bit images.¢ Next he connected the modem and¢ called up the NEW NEST, and THE¢ MACHINE BBS's. We had a demo of how¢ to use the modem while on a BBS. ALAN¢ then called and got connected to¢ GENIE Info Service, and showed us how¢ to navigate through that system. He¢ showed us how to connect to INTERNET.¢ It was a very enjoyable demonstration¢ where many of the fine points were¢ discussed.¢ ALEX demod the last newsletter¢ disk from TWAUG. Great graphics and¢ great games and programs, as usual.¢ ALEX showed the program FADER¢ that lets you load graphics picture¢ and it dissolves them when it goes¢ from one picture to the other. It¢ plays the program automatically or¢ manually. Another program on this¢ disk is SUPER PRINT. A great print¢ utility.¢ Another disk was shown with¢ PASCAL C with docs. The library¢ number is #285.¢ We saw another version of¢ TETRIX. If you are into games this is¢ for you.¢ We saw a music disk from Germany¢ that had some familiar music from the¢ last Olympiad. The music was great.¢ We tried to fix some files of¢ ATARIWRITER + that showed that it was¢ out of memory when in fact there was¢ 500+ Bytes left. We were not¢ successful.¢ We saw ColorSquash Ver. 2.6 This¢ program will take RGB pictures and¢ translate them into COMPOSITE¢ pictures for our computer. It is¢ library disk # 287. Side 1 is in¢ ATARI BASIC side #2 is in SPARTA¢ DOS.¢ We saw PICTURE BREAKER. Library¢ #288. This program lets you copy a¢ picture form any commercial disk into¢ a 62 sector format. The result was a¢ parade of TITLE SCREENS. It is fully¢ documented. It is part of 2 seperate¢ disks, the other with more pictures.¢¢ DOOR PRIZES:¢¢ HAROLD PEGLER¢ HARRY TUTHILL¢ JACK GEDALIUS¢¢ Darn it, before you knew it, it was¢ 5:00 P.M. and the meeting was over.¢¢ Submitted by ¢ Ron Fetzer¢ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<¢¢
