**************************************¢¢ Hello OL' HACKER ATARI Members¢ and Friends!¢¢**************************************¢ ¢ MINUTES OF THE NOVEMBER 1990 MEETING¢¢ GENERAL MEETING:¢¢ The weather for the NOVEMBER 10th¢meeting was stormy with high winds but¢as the members entered the library¢meeting room you knew it was going to¢be an exciting meeting. Why? First¢person that was there, (very early,)¢was KRIS HOLTAGAARD, testing out his¢new program "WQNR DATAGRAPH BUSINESS¢MANAGER" on a complete equipment sit¢up he had already installed.¢¢ ALEX PIGNATO read a beautiful "Thank¢You" card from the MIKE BRYANT family.¢They thanked the club members for all¢the help and efforts to assist the¢family since they became OL' HACKERS.¢That gave ALEX an opportunity to use¢his favorite saying "That's what the¢club is all about!"¢¢ Alex appointed a nominating¢committee of three, AL ATKINS, JACK¢GEDALIUS and HAROLD PEGLER to select a¢new slate of OL' HACKER officers for¢the coming elections. The proposed¢slate of officers will be presented at¢our DECEMBER meeting. Voting will then¢take place at the JANUARY 1991¢meeting.¢¢ HORST DEWITZ'S announcements came¢next. First the OL' HACKERS ANNUAL¢CHRISTMAS DINNER at TIFFANY'S¢RESTAURANT, 416 BEDFORD AVENUE,¢BELLMORE. The date and time is TUESDAY¢DECEMBER 4th, at 7:30pm. The telephone¢number is (516) 826-0420.¢¢ HORST'S announcement was that GREGG¢BROWN of NAPCO has been selected by "K¢E SOFT" from FRANKFORT, GERMANY to be¢the AMERICAN distributor for their¢software. The software will sell in¢the UNITED STATES for $10.50 to¢$14.50. NAPCO's mailing address for¢contact is:¢¢ SOFTWARE INFINITY¢ 642 WARING AVENUE¢ STATE COLLEGE, PA. 16801¢¢ GREGG BROWN stated in his MUG¢newsletter article "The ATARI 8-BIT¢Software Drought is OVER"¢¢ HORST then presented the club with¢(3) game type programs and ATARI books¢to become door prizes in the future.¢¢ ALEX put in a strong plug for a¢library disk, "SPACE #63. he passed¢around about 7 or 8 pages of¢documemtation explaining each program¢on the disk. This disk is loaded with¢graphics and utilities for P/S. He¢estimates that a disk of this quality¢would cost a user $40.00 plus. Then he¢noted there has been very little¢activity recently in the OL' HACKERS¢disk library.¢ JOAN RYAN responded to ALEX'S¢request for comments concerning the¢disk newsletter, saying she likes a¢hard copy to read (Like many other¢people) and would appreciate seeing it¢in two columns to save paper output.¢She then reminded us about a program¢called "TWOCOLMN.BAS" from ANTIC¢magazine (around June 1989?). She¢closed her letter with ..."8-BITTERLY"¢(very appropriate). ALEX responded by¢spelling out the new changes in our¢next issue of the newsletter.¢ ALEX then read letters from KEN¢WICKERT, A.C.E., SYRACUSE.¢ Since our OCTOBER meeting ALEX has¢received inquires as to membership¢from:¢ ROY J. BISBING, Springfield, Pa.¢ NIR DARY, Acco, Israel¢ RODRIGO GOMEZ, Santiago, Chile¢ ED HALL, Yellowknife, Canada¢¢ The most common source of listing¢for te OL' HACKERS appears to be¢BELCOM, CANADA.¢¢ MINUTES/TREASURY REPORTS:¢¢ Since a newsletter disk would not be¢available to the members this month¢ALEX read the OCTOBER 13th minutes.¢Later AL ATKINS gave his treasury¢report. A motion to accept both as¢read was made by KRIS and seconded by¢GINA BRYANT. At this time ALEX¢announced he had an XF551 DISK DRIVE¢which a friend wanted to sell for¢$175.00 but would sell to the club for¢$150.00 and would the club be¢interested in purchasing it. KRIS made¢the motion to do so and HORST seconded¢it.¢¢ Contrary to the many rumors that are¢circulating, although ATARI may have¢abandoned the 8-BIT, evidently BOB¢BRODIE, ATARI USER GROUP COORDINATOR,¢still thinks of the 8-bit people. BOB¢was nice enough to call ALEX on¢NOVEMBER 8th and inquire as to how the¢club was doing. Needless to say we¢were very pleased that he thought of¢us.¢¢ At a J.A.C.G. meeting approximately¢two years ago, ALEX first met BOB¢BRODIE, and they have kept in touch¢since. BOB BRODIE was the guest¢speaker at the meeting.¢¢ DOOR PRIZES:¢¢ Again this month the club had a¢large bag of door prizes. The NOVEMBER¢winners were:¢¢ MASKMAKER CONST SET H.TUTHILL¢ & BBK ARTIST¢ M.A.G.I.C. DOM 9/90 L.BRYANT¢ M.A.G.I.C. DOM 9/90 J.GEDALIUS¢ M.A.G.I.C. DOM 10/90 C.HURTADO¢ READER RABBIT A.SHARKIS¢ ERROR MESSAGE CHART A.FALCONE¢ JAWBREAKER A.PIGNATO¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢¢ Ready or not KRIS came on like a¢"TIDAL WAVE" with his new "WQNR¢DATAGRAPH BUSINESS MANAGER" program.¢The program is a personal database and¢a business tool that can be used three¢ways. DataGraph allows the use of¢SPARTA DOS and ATARI DOS with each¢system providing special functions.¢¢ SPARTA DOS has sub-directories and¢your data can be called from any disk¢drive.¢¢ ATARI DOS allows you to binary load,¢write Dos functions to a disks.¢Example: load TEXT PRO.¢¢ DataGraph is a full DESKTOP program¢along with accessories which include¢pull down windows and joystick¢control. KRIS selected GINA BRYANT to¢assist him in demonstrating his latest¢program.¢¢ The first screen showed a "MAIN MENU¢BAR" across the top of the screen¢listing (5) functions that are¢available to the user.¢¢ MAIN MENU BAR¢ ---- ---- ---¢¢ FILES TOOLS DATA MESSAGE PRINT¢¢ By selecting one of these functions¢a window will drop down and a¢directory will appear that includes¢many options to be selected. An¢example of one path that maybe taken¢is "FILES", then a sub menu appears as¢follows:¢¢ SUB MENU¢ --- ----¢ SEARCH OPTION¢ CREATE A DATA FILE¢ CHECK LOADED FILE¢ SET NEW DEFAULTS¢ LOAD INVOICER¢ LOAD WQNR UTILITIES¢ DESKTOP INFO¢¢ If you select "SEARCH OPTION" from¢the sub-menu, the screen will split in¢half and you will have a work screen.¢All selections and menus remain on the¢screen at all times. Your work screen¢will look like this:¢¢ SEARCH OPTIONS¢ ------ -------¢ A By File Number¢ B By Name¢ C By Address¢ D By City,State,Zip¢ E By Phone Number¢¢ One super plus of DataGraph is that¢it will search both upper and lower¢case letters to find your record.¢¢ KRIS then explained the other MAIN¢MENU BAR functions:¢¢ TOOLS Consist of DOS Type¢ Funtions¢ DATA Edits Existing File¢ Information¢ MESSAGE Edit, Save, Update, Check¢ Message and Print Files¢ PRINT Print options, NLQ, Draft,¢ Double Strike, and Fonts¢ Phone Book¢ Select Label and Print¢ Select Envelope and Print¢¢ The "DESKTOP INFORMATION" consists¢of:¢¢ 1. Making an Invoice¢ 2. Pre-set Invoice¢¢ The "UTILITIY DATA" files allows¢(26) for each DataGraph Utility¢Module. By creating a file¢"UTILITY.DAT" you could include¢WQNR.BAS files such as "TWOCOLUM",¢VCRLBLR", "CALANDER", "CASSETTE",¢"JOYSTICK", "JOYTEST", "INVOICE.PRG",¢and many, many more.¢¢ KRIS gets so enthused when¢presenting his programs he reminds me¢of the "Birthday Party Helium Balloon",¢unless you tie him down, he will¢become airborne. With this new program¢"WQNR SOFTWARE" has taken a giant step¢forward and will make 8-BITTERS¢through out the country happy.¢¢ The next demonstrator was ALEX, who¢had a very tough act to follow. Alex¢was to show the members ten programs,¢that many of the members have, but¢either put on the back burner, or¢forgot about them.¢¢ 1. PRINT DOC Antic Magazine,¢modifications that was shown were made¢by ALEX, shortly before the author,¢ROLAND FETZER, became an OL' HACKER.¢ALEX demoed the modifications that¢included two disk drives and the use¢of additional printing regular size or¢condensed printing.¢¢ 2. CLOCKSYS.BAS The use of a time¢clock that will appear in the upper¢right hand corner of the screen.¢¢ 3. TOFORMAT.BAS Will count the¢number of disk formatted and allows¢the use of two disk drives.¢¢ 4. ATASCIIC.ODE Will match the¢numerical code values of letters.¢¢ 5. TWOCOLMN.BAS ANTIC MAGAZINE,¢JUNE 1989, called to the OL' HACKERS¢attention by JOAN RYAN, A.C.E., ST.¢LOUIS, will print two column text¢files on a page.¢¢ 6. MULTICOL.PRT Another program¢that will print double columns for¢text files.¢¢ 7. ATARIDEM.COM A cute tale of¢ATARI power and to show the power of¢8-Bit computing. ¢¢ 8. TOS.COM Drop down menus to demo¢an ATARI ST type program.¢¢ 9. CURSRPLS.BAS (Cursor Plus) Used¢like a cursor would be used in a word¢processor, using keys ctrl/shift/ltr¢etc.¢¢ 10. SEAWOLF, ALEX brought back a¢naval shoot-em-up type game with¢submarines, destroyers and torpedos.¢He selected an unsuspecting petty¢officer named MIKE BRYANT. MIKE's¢score was an uneventful number and was¢recorded. Then handing the joystick to¢MIKE'S daughter, she proceeded to wipe¢out MIKE'S score (It's great to have¢the reflexes of the young).¢¢ FUTURE MEETING DATES:¢¢ Future meeting dates for the OL'¢HACKERS ATARI USER GROUP are:¢¢ DECEMBER 15, 1990 APRIL 13, 1991¢ JANUARY 12, 1991 MAY 11, 1991¢ FEBRUARY 9, 1991 JUNE 1, 1991¢ MARCH 9, 1991¢¢ All dates are a SATURDAY and are¢scheduled for the PLAINVIEW/OLD¢BETHPAGE LIBRARY.¢¢ Remember........The next OL' HACKERS¢ATARI USER GROUP meeting is scheduled¢for DECEMBER 15th at 11:30am.¢¢ Sincerely,¢¢ AL ATKINS¢ ¢
