>>>***<<<¢ MINUTES OF THE NOVEMBER 1993 MEETING¢ =====================================¢¢ NEW MEMBERS:¢¢ LUISE DI MICELI joined our club.¢ LUISE received her 8-Bit equipment¢ from her brothr-in-law who lives in¢ te midwest, and she was told to join¢ OHAUG. When she came to our meeting¢ we helped her with programs and got¢ her acqauinted with whats available.¢ LES ELLINGHAM the editor of PAGE 6¢ and publishers of THE NEW ATARI USER¢ in England also joined our club.¢ Welcome to to the club, both of you.¢ I think you will have a good time and¢ make many new friends.¢ ¢ THE TREASURER REPORTS.¢ RON FETZER the treasurer reports¢ that we are in the black. He also¢ reminded all members that dues of¢ $24.00 are due for 1994. Make your¢ check out to RON FETZER.¢¢ ITEM:¢¢ BOB ULSCHMID volunteered to¢ bring the printer to the meetings.¢ BOB also ran the DISCO-DESK (disk¢ duplicating set up) for the members.¢ JOE LEBER lost his mother who¢ was 89 and his aunt who was 91. JOE¢ also went through some serious¢ surgery, at the same time. The club¢ extends our deepest condolences and¢ hopes he feels better. ¢¢ CORRESPONDENCE:¢¢ We received our first Christmas¢ Card from our member JIM CUTLER from¢ England. He extends Seasons Greetings¢ to all the OL' HACKERS, near and¢ far!¢¢ PAGE 6 EDITOR JOINS¢ LESS ELLINGHAM the Editor of¢ PAGE 6 from England writes us that he¢ is joining our club and he wants to¢ re-establish past links to PAGE 6. We¢ used to exchange newsletters when our¢ newsletter was printed as hard copy,¢ and not on disk.¢¢ THE AMS SHOW IN ENGLAND¢ A letter from the TYNE AND WEAR¢ ATARI GROUP in England. DAVID EWENS¢ one of our members writes that he¢ receives our newsletters and that he¢ likes them. He especially liked the¢ bonus programs on our disk. He writes¢ they are going to the AMS7 SHOW. This¢ is a great 8-Bit show in STAFFORD,¢ ENGLAND. There will be 14 8-Bit Atari¢ Tables at the show. He writes us that¢ TWAUG is going to release their 1st¢ commercial program ULTIFONT. It is an¢ excellent font editor with joystick¢ control. A member of TWAUG is also¢ writing a book on more than the¢ memory map of our computer. It will¢ be similar to MAPPING THE ATARI and¢ will correct some of the errors.¢ DAVID also asks permission, which was¢ granted, for the following OHAUG¢ programs to be put into their¢ library: back issues of the¢ NEWSLETTER; the CALENDAR DISK; the¢ DISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM and the¢ PROGRAMMING KIT DISKS. ALEX¢ answered that a goal of the minutes¢ in the NEWSLETTER, is to make¢ the reader feel he/she is at our¢ meeting. He said he will pass on¢ DAVE'S HINT or request for some new¢ material for their newsletter, from¢ our members.¢¢ A LETTER FROM SCOTLAND.¢ A letter from our Scottish member¢ STUART MURRAY. He mailed us FUTURA¢ DISK #8. (See demo section). He tells¢ us that he included an article from¢ ALEX in the FUTURA DISKS. He tells us¢ that he will help spread the word of¢ the OL' HACKERS throughout the United¢ Kingdom.¢¢ FROM CALIFORNIA.¢ A letter from our member WILLIAM¢ SMINKEY. He wants to know how to¢ print the international character¢ set. WILLIAM, check your printer¢ manual. Most printers have a DIP¢ SWITCH setting for different¢ countries character set.¢¢ AND FROM PENNSYLVANIA.¢ LARRY TISCHBEIN our member from¢ PA. writes us that he had some¢ trouble with the Postal Service they¢ losthis onlycopy of their newsletter.¢ He also writes that he went into the¢ hospital and had some gall stones¢ removed by a NEW procedure called¢ Laproscopy. They make only a small¢ incision and insert a fiberoptic¢ instrument and remove the gall¢ stones. Hope you recover real fast¢ Larry.¢¢ DEMOS:¢¢ LOVE THAT LOGO!¢ ALAN SHARKIS gave a fascinating¢ demonstration of the LOGO language.¢ He showed how to program the LOGO¢ TURTLE. ALAN explained the structure¢ of LOGO. He discussed PRIMITIVES,¢ PROCEDURES, OPERATIONS, INPUTS etc.¢ ALAN drew a spider web with the¢ TURTLE. You need a LOGO CARTRIDGE to¢ run LOGO. ALAN showed us the command¢ structure for LOGO. LOGO is a very¢ structured language with procedures¢ and sub procedures. You can pass¢ values from procedure to procedure.¢ Youngster who use LOGO will learn a¢ heck of a lot of geometry and it will¢ lay a foundation for logical¢ thinking. We also saw a game written¢ in LOGO as well as heard some music.¢ Excellant demo, AL!¢¢ THE NEWSLETTER EDITOR SPEAKS. ¢ ALEX showed us how he edits text¢ program that he receives to prepare¢ them for the newsletter. ALEX showed¢ how, when he gets text materials they¢ usually are not in 40 column format.¢ Therefore he has to use either COL40,¢ FIXUP.COM, or REFORMAT to change them¢ to 40 column. Then he has to take out¢ the RETURNS because he has to right¢ justify the text. He showed us how he¢ preserves the paragraphs by putting¢ in "**". It is then saved to PRINT in¢ RAMDISK 8. ¢ When the document is reconstituted he¢ now knows where the paragraphs are.¢ The next thing ALEX does-he reads the¢ document and writes a Paragraph¢ headline. This makes the article more¢ interesting and it breaks it up for¢ easier reading. ALL of this is done¢ on the 1st XLEnt Word Processor. ALEX¢ extensively uses the RAMDISK 8 and¢ the two TEXT WINDOWS of the word¢ processor. It is a real time¢ consumer, but thats whats needed to¢ get the results you see.¢¢ AUDIO UPGRADES ¢ RON FETZER talked about how he¢ did the AUDIO UPGARDE on the 800XL¢ and the 130XE. He used the article by¢ BEN POEHLAND called "AUDIO BYPASS¢ UPGRADE FOR THE XL/XE" in the Oct¢ 1993 issue of AC. The upgrade really¢ improves the audio quality of the¢ computer greatly and is very easy to¢ do. You just have to bridge a¢ resistor with a .1mfd mylar¢ capacitor. (EDITOR, Yeah, easy for¢ you, you real HACKER, but what about¢ us non-techies?)¢¢ KEYBOARD UPGRADES ¢ Next RON talked about how he¢ improved the keyboard of the 130XE.¢ As you know the keyboard on the 130XE¢ is soft and mushy. BEST ELECTRONICS¢ sells a "TT TOUCH" keyboard upgrade¢ kit for the 130XE for $29.95. There¢ are two types of 130XE keyboards.¢ Pull up one key. If you have a spring¢ underneath your keys then this¢ upgrade will not work. Most keyboards¢ do not have springs. To do the¢ upgrade you remove the 6 screws from¢ the bottom of the computer. Remove¢ the case. Pull out the keyboard¢ ribbon cable from its connector. Turn¢ the keyboard over and with a #0¢ phillips screw driver remove the 16¢ phillips screws. Take out the old¢ rubber contact cups and replace them¢ with the new cups. Reassemble the¢ computer. Your keyboard is now nice¢ and firm it has a good tactile feel¢ and you have a great keyboard. This¢ is a much cheaper route to go then if¢ you order a "TRANSKEY KIT" for use¢ as an IBM type keyboard.¢¢ ENGLISH GAMES¢ TWAUG disk #5 from England. It¢ is a game disk. Some of the games on¢ this disk are: MAGIC SQUARE, SPACE¢ WOLF, FOLDER LABEL (OHAUG PROGRAM),¢ BOMBER and ROAD VENTURES. Very well¢ done as usual.¢¢ ATARI 8-BIT CLUB NEWS¢ From the SAN LEANDRO COMPUTER¢ CLUB - NOVEMBER 1993 newsletter disk.¢ It has in it, FROG, KILLER XE, (a¢ CHESS VARIATION), REAR DOOR, OMNIVENT¢ BASIC, DRAGVENT, ROBOVENT, CIRC.BAS¢ (a SHOOT-EM-UP), UTILITIES AND DEMOS.¢ RTLSTMOD.LIS. (a PRINTSTAR program¢ patch MOD for the 400/800) by our¢ member THOMAS ANDREWS. This is an¢ upgrade to CUSTOM.BAS. We saw¢ STYX.DMO. A great graphics demo. On¢ side two is the updated version of¢ FILEEM. This is a data base program¢ that lists all the articles in the¢ various ATARI 8-BIT magazines of the¢ past. A great program to get.¢¢ MUSIC FROM GERMANY¢¢ We heard a great demo of music¢ from ABBUC (BIT BYTER.) Also on this¢ disk was LASER.BAS, WORD.OBJ,¢ INFO.TXT, DEMO.COM. There were many¢ more great programs on it which we¢ had no chance to demo.¢¢ MORE DEMOS¢ A POKEY SPARTA DOS disk was¢ shown with an absolutely gorgeous¢ introduction screen. The POKEY disks¢ are produced by the West New York¢ Atari Users Group in Rochester, N.Y.¢ On it was 716 AREA CODE, BARRY,¢ CHIPS, PICTURE, GOOSE, JAWS. This¢ disk has many games and some great¢ graphics on it. It is their¢ newsletter disk and everything is¢ documented. This was just the front¢ of the disk. On the back there is¢ some more great stuff.¢ We saw another POKEY disk from¢ October 1993. It had one of the BEST¢ BLACK JACK programs on it that we¢ have ever seen. VERY LARGE colorful¢ GRAPHICS. Both are now inthe library.¢¢ Next we saw some programs from¢ the late great programmer, KRIS¢ HOLTEGAARD. One was COPIER.COM,¢ QINIT.COM, DISKLBLR.BAS and¢ TWOCOLMK.RIS. These programs are¢ really great and they are released¢ into P.D..The COPIER.COM is a program¢ to dump text to the printer. It has¢ many features such as small, medium¢ or large print, etc. also the number¢ of copies wanted. We also saw¢ DISKLBLR.BAS. It prints disk¢ directories alphabetized and in¢ columns. You can print a title for¢ the directory. We also saw the¢ program TWOCOLMK.RIS. All these¢ programs are on one disk and and are¢ in the library. KRIS was an OHAUG'er.¢ ¢ We next saw FUTURA DISK #8. It¢ has articles, news, reviews,¢ utilities, games, BASIC programs,¢ TURBO BASIC and demos. EDITOR, STUART¢ MURRAY spent over 60 hours producing¢ this disk. It shows. It is a great,¢ great disk! Side two has games like¢ DUNGEONS & DRAGONS type of games,¢ COUNT DOWN, SYNTRON, TWO26.OBJ, TRON,¢ WILDECK.DMO, TURBO, WORDWISE, and¢ OHAUG.DOC¢¢ DOOR PRIZES:¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS¢ HARRY TUTHILL¢ HAROLD PEGLER¢ RON FETZER¢¢ Submitted by RON FETZER¢ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<¢¢
