****¢ PRESIDENTS MESSAGE¢ by ALEX PIGNATO¢¢ For the FIRST time in 11 years, a¢ monthly OL' HACKERS meeting was¢ cancelled due to a conflict with a BIG¢ party given by our V.P. JACK GEDALIUS,¢ which was attended by many OL'¢ HACKERS. Best wishes to JOEL GEDALIUS¢ and the GEDALIUS family. We felt it¢ didn't pay to have a meeting with very¢ few attendees. A good time was had by¢ all who went to the party. ¢¢ The weather all over the USA has¢ been terrible. One storm after another¢ causing untold millions in money¢ damages and more importantly, untold¢ misery, and many deaths. Lets hope we¢ never see the likes of 1995 again.¢ Snow, rain causing floods, tornadoes¢ etc. an amazing display of NATURES¢ power!¢¢ I know there are many non-game¢ players out there, but I also know¢ there are many game players, so having¢ found what I think are excellent¢ games, they are in this months disk,¢ along with a number of utility type¢ programs. This should satisfy all.¢ While I'm at it, I should mention,¢ that I look for all kinds of programs,¢ some very old, some brand new, and¢ taken from various sources, including¢ old magazines like COMPUTE, ANTIC, and¢ ANALOG. I love to receive new programs¢ conceived and programmed by our¢ members, so send in your¢ masterpieces.¢¢ In this issue of OHAUGS newsletter,¢ please check out "POKER.OBJ", a¢ fantasticly well done game with great¢ graphics, and it keeps track of your¢ money (gain?), (loss) from the last¢ time you played.Then there is¢ "SMOKEY.BAS", (The challenge, is to¢ get across America in less than 55¢ hours, and its not easy, I can tell¢ you, having tried a couple of times,¢ without success) another great game¢ you call by hitting the SPACE BAR on¢ side 2.¢¢ I came across GDEVICE. If you are¢ an old timeer, you will surely¢ remember it from ANALOG. I suggest you¢ get the copy (date will be found when¢ you list the program) and read the¢ three pages of documentation. But,¢ even without those docs, I have put in¢ enough info to allow you to use the¢ program, by the two other GDEVICE¢ programs on this disk. It does wonders¢ for your printing efforts. In one of¢ the future issues of OHAUG's¢ newsletter, I hope to add a couple¢ more GDEVICE programs for you, if I¢ can find them.¢¢ OL' HACKERS, always one of the 8¢ BIT clubs in the forefront of new 8¢ BIT stuff, is now the owner of a CD¢ ROM disk with LOADS of 8 BIT stuff in¢ it. AL SHARKIS has kindly agreed to do¢ the necessary conversion from the CD¢ ROM to 8 BIT floppies which will be¢ put into our disk library. I am told¢ that the CD ROM disk holds the¢ equivelant of about 1150 double sided¢ floppies. I think we will have enough¢ demo'es for a short while (grin). AL¢ will use his font of knowledge of his¢ MSDOS, and 8 BIT micros, in order to¢ do the conversion. Thanks AL, we know¢ that this will take a lot of work on¢ your part, and we look forward to the¢ results.¢¢ Some nice member sent RON FETZER a¢ personalized S.A.M. talking program¢ which complimented OHAUG for the Bi-¢ monthly newsletter, but RON misplaced¢ (another word for lost) the senders¢ name. We thank you, but, would the¢ sender please let me know who you are?¢¢ Thats it for now, CULTR...BYE.¢ end¢
