¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ Editor's Message¢ by Alan Sharkis¢ Editor, OHAUG Newsletter¢¢ It's gratifiying indeed to put out a¢ call for articles on using the 8-bit¢ on the Internet through a newsgroup¢ and getting responses. I've included¢ the gist of a message I got in¢ response to that call. I was also¢ referred to an article at UMICH and I¢ synopsized that one for you, too. ¢ Find both in an article I included on¢ Side 1 called, "Internet News."¢¢ I also jumped the gun on the promised¢ article from TOM ANDREWS about using¢ the 8-bit with Usenet Newsgroups. ¢ There was no indication that the¢ expected issue of Atari Classics,¢ which was to carry that article, was¢ going to be released soon, so I¢ figured we weren't doing any good by¢ withholding it from our membership¢ and it appears on Side 2 of this¢ issue.¢¢ The program that runs from spacebar¢ on side 1 is FORTUNE.BAS, which comes¢ from our copy of the Pool Disk. It¢ was originally from the December 1986¢ disk from A.N.A.L.O.G. magazine. ¢ Also on side 1, look for¢ CHALENGE.BAS. This game requires two¢ joysticks and two players. It¢ involves finding letters and guessing¢ a word. It IS challenging, indeed!¢¢ The program that runs from the¢ spacebar on side 2 is IRA.BAS, which¢ also comes from our copy of Pool¢ Disk. It's a program that calculates¢ what a conventional IRA will do for¢ you when you retire. It would be¢ interesting to see somebody convert¢ this program so that it will also do¢ ROSS IRAs. I'm not familiar with the¢ details of this new IRA, so you're on¢ your own here. If you do succeed,¢ please send a copy of your program to¢ us. You will also find VIEW3D.COM¢ and HOUSE.V3D on side 2. VIEW3D.COM¢ is a program for drawing orthagonal¢ and perspective views of objects, and¢ HOUSE.V3D is a sample drawing for the¢ program. You may copy these two¢ programs out onto a formatted disk¢ with DOS files on it and rename¢ VIEW3d.COM to AUTORUN.SYS, if you¢ like.¢¢ I hope you enjoy this issue. Please¢ send me your comments, questions, e-¢ mail addresses, etc., and I will try¢ to include them in the next issue.¢¢
