<**><**>¢ PRESIDENTS MESSAGE¢ by ALEX PIGNATO¢¢ A long overdue CHRISTMAS dinner¢ was held on March 14th, with 20 people¢ in attendance, including PAT MULVEY,¢ President of LIAUG. JOE HICSWA,¢ President of JACG in New Jersey, and¢ an OHAUG member, had agreed to come,¢ but nature in the form of heavy rain,¢ forced him to cancel his planned¢ motorcycle jaunt to join us. We missed¢ him. We were honored that 2 of the¢ only ATARI clubs in the area wanted to¢ join in the OHAUG festivities. ¢¢ A funny (?) thing happened at the¢ dinner. I asked PAT to draw the first¢ raffle ticket, and while everyone¢ kidded him about NOT drawing his own¢ number, he stuck his big fist in the¢ basket. Yes, your right! He did draw¢ his own number. He told me it was all¢ on the up and up, so I guess I should¢ believe him, after all I was running¢ the raffle, and he hadn't offered me¢ any bribe. (grin)¢¢ In this newsletter will be found¢ a new program from BELGIUM. ROBERT¢ DeLETTER, an OHAUG member, wrote the¢ program using Turbo Basic, and it is¢ an extremely well done program called¢ "MEMORAND.TUR". You must run Turbo¢ Basic (also on this disk) first. Once¢ again OHAUG comes through with a scoop¢ and a winner. ROBERT also wrote two¢ very long game programs with fantastic¢ graphics. Because they are so long, I¢ felt it would take up a whole disk¢ side, making non-game players feel¢ left out, so I did not use them. I did¢ however, demo the programs, and they¢ are now in our library. The name of¢ the main one is "CTULHI". My hats off¢ to you ROBERT, keep on programming,¢ you do have a talent. JOE HICSWA-Pres.¢ of JACG and OHAUG is well represented¢ in this newsletter. See his PRTSHEET.¢ BAS, that he made long ago and which¢ was modified by our KRIS HOLTEGAARD¢ before he died.¢¢ Speaking of programs, I received¢ a couple of requests recently for good¢ programs to show and print pictures,¢ so I dug up an oldie, from a prior¢ newsletter, "PICPRNT.BAS" and put it¢ in this newsletter. I think it will¢ satisfy you graphics lovers, who may¢ have missed it. Note also that you¢ will find SPDSCRPT.OBJ and SPDCALC on¢ this disk-both with documentation that¢ I did not have when I may have used it¢ in a prior newsletter.¢¢ In the same vein, I think you all¢ know that I look for usefull,¢ interesting programs, so if you¢ already have a program that is in one¢ of our newsletters, remember that not¢ everyone has that program, so please¢ be understanding of the purpose of the¢ newsletter. It is to bring new and old¢ info, and programs to ALL members. ¢¢ In this issue, I tried something¢ new. I used the same program¢ "SUPERDIR.BAS" for front and back.¢ When you run it, you will understand¢ why. It has many great features, such¢ as printing out the menu, with the¢ program descriptions, just by hitting¢ the TAB when in the correct menu. A¢ wonderful way to know exactly what¢ each program does, by reading the¢ description that you yourself wrote¢ about it. As a starter, I wrote most¢ of the descriptions of newsletter¢ programs, articles, for you.¢¢ I hope you enjoy receiving your¢ newsletter without fail, every other¢ month. I'm proud of the fact that we¢ meet our commitment to you, our¢ member. Bye for now!¢ * E^N^D * ¢
