<=><=>¢ MINUTES, MEETING OF JAN. 6, 1996¢¢ President, Alex Pignato opened our¢ meeting announcing the conflicts of¢ the next meeting, scheduled for Feb.¢ 10, 1996, with the Bar Mitzvah of¢ member, JACK GEDALIUS' SON, wherein¢ many members would be attending. ALEX¢ suggested that the February meeting be¢ cancelled--motioned by RON FETZER,¢ seconded by HARRY TUTHILL and accepted¢ unanimously! A big congratulations to¢ JOEL GEDALIUS, on this auspicious¢ occaision. The OHNL will continue¢ without the usual second meeting's¢ minutes (more room for games and¢ stuff). The new March/ April¢ newsletter will then be distributed¢ and then mailed after the March¢ meeting.¢¢ ORRESPONDENCE:¢¢ VALERIO CORAZZIN of Italy renewing¢ his membership with lots of¢ appreciation to the club.¢ LARRY TISCHBEIN renewed and shared¢ that he had a second knee replaced.¢ (ouch).¢ JACK GEDALIUS, who has had similar¢ problems, appreciated that he was not¢ alone with these medical problems.¢ JOYCE and NORMAN WILLIAMSON sent¢ their greetings but no¢ "greenings"...Secy RON is puzzled why¢ they haven't sent in their dues yet.¢ NOSAUG is going quarterly because¢ of STUART MURRAY'S busy schedule --¢ he'll just double up discs per¢ mailing. FUTURA #17 is their biggest¢ and best magazine yet. He shared his¢ appreciation of SIMON WELLS wonderful¢ trip across the big pond. It seems¢ that no one has heard from him yet. ¢ We hope his transatlantic voyage met¢ with no resistence. Perhaps he could¢ not leave the lure of the states. ¢ STUART wished all 8-bitters his best¢ wishes for the future. ALEX and he¢ shared much about the goings on in the¢ 8-bit world.¢ ROBERT DE LETTER, Belgium, wrote a¢ request to pay for his membership with¢ his charge card. ALEX responded¢ wholeheartedly sending him a history¢ of the OHAUG as well as his greetings¢ and salutations, and requested that¢ dues be paid in American dollars. (Ed.¢ Since this meeting, ROBERT did send in¢ his American dollar dues. A.P.)¢ JIM CUTLER, lovingly known as "the¢ ancient Brit", wrote to thank the club¢ for making him an honorary member for¢ 1996. As usual, JIM applauded the¢ consistent quality of OHNL -- one¢ could almost hear the smile in our¢ editor in chief's voice. Further in¢ his letter, JIM spoke of his¢ experience with wordprocessors. Of¢ all, he suggests SUPERSCRIPT (it has a¢ choice of American and British SPELL¢ CHECKERS -- 'cause Brits speak a¢ little differently, you know).¢ JOE LIEBER inquired as to the date¢ SUPERSCRIPT was released and amusingly¢ realized that it had been out for a¢ quite a few years already.¢¢ DEMOS: The following disks are¢ offered according to number:¢¢ #626 - NWPAC CHRISTMAS DISK: Happy¢ music opened up the DALE WOOSTER¢ OFFICERS ANNUAL CHRISTMAS DISK and the¢ visuals were truly enjoyed. ALEX¢ charted their adventure in this¢ wonderfully interesting disk. RON¢ shared that the programs on this disk,¢ CALENDAR.BAS, had already been¢ modified by OHAUG. ALEX demoed GRASS-¢ CALCULATOR, a working calculator¢ written in BASIC which he felt was so¢ good that he wanted to include it in¢ the newsletter if all of it worked¢ properly (which it didn't!). Other¢ programs offered on S/1 are CALC.BAS,¢ CAL.BAS, RECALL.BAS. S/2 has today's¢ demo: GRASS CALC, CATERPIGGLE, MUNCHIE¢ MADNESS (Bolderdash clone), BLIP (a¢ tongue-type, 2 player game with an¢ attitude), LIVEWIRE 2 (from Analog)- a¢ colorful and fast joystick or paddle¢ game), 2 player PAC MAN (3 skill¢ levels - CRAZY SCOOTER - race around¢ the PAC MAN maze and avoid collision,¢ ANDROTON - another PAC MAN-type game,¢ and finally, FIREBUG, another a-maze-¢ ing game with a twist. Hope all¢ enjoy! ¢¢ ALEX and RON (that daring duo)¢ demoed GRASCALC.BAS. While ALEX¢ displayed regular math, RON lead the¢ club in trying to figure out how to¢ convert (HEX) for machine language. ¢ As always, the club rose to the¢ challenge. And as ALEX shared, "Not¢ being able to figure it out by¢ themselves, they resorted to that¢ cowardly act: reading the docs!" ALEX¢ then announced that they were going to¢ run WHY,WHY.EXT and proceeded to read¢ off some of the funny offerings of¢ this delightful program.¢¢ #627 - ABBUC Magazine #43 (Dec.¢ '95): this program starts with Santa¢ wishing all well with movie quality¢ graphics.¢¢ #628 -NWPAC DOM (Oct. '95) Printer¢ Tricks: printer programs PIGLATIN,¢ TALL.TXT, PRINT.TXT, LOADIT.BAS and¢ PRNTHEAD.TXT--they demoed VERTICAL.BAS¢ and to their delight found that the¢ original program had been authored by¢ OHAUG's very own RON FETZER and¢ modified by ALEX PIGNATO (small world,¢ isn't it?). Well now, RON and ALEX¢ have a new claim to 8-bit fame as¢ "programmers." S/2: original¢ PRNTSTAR.BAS and PSINDXER.BAS with¢ docs and VIEWDOCS.BAS.¢¢ #629 - NWPAC DOM (NOV. '95): S/1¢ MENUMAKER Library Disk; S/2 PRINT SHOP¢ ENVELOPE MAKER.¢¢ #630 - NWPAC DOM (DEC. '95): S/1¢ Christmas Joy; S/2 PS (PRINT SHOP)¢ Holiday Icons--as ALEX demoed S/1, the¢ club enjoyed a chorus of Jingle Bells¢ as Snoopy Santa and other holiday¢ graphics bid farewell to another OHAUG¢ meeting.¢¢ DOOR PRIZES:¢ The club allowed ALAN SHARKIS a¢ proxy vote because ALAN was enroute¢ from the LIAUG meeting in Smithtown;¢ and, guess what, his number came up as¢ the 1st winner!¢ #2 = ALEX number came up next, but¢ he passed to the next draw which was¢ RON FETZER's number.¢ #3 = HARRY TUTHILL (of course!)¢ #4 = HAROLD PEGLER ¢ ¢ With lots of trading of "goodies",¢ RON took ABBUC because he can read¢ German, while HARRY was delighted with¢ San Leandro's (SLCC) disk, and so the¢ meeting ended.¢¢ <=><=>¢¢
