¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE¢ by Jack Gedalius¢¢ May--June, 1998¢¢ At our March meeting we discussed the¢ Atari Fest to be held at the Sahara¢ Hotel in Las Vegas from August 22 to¢ August 23. John Hardie from our¢ group will be attending this great¢ event. He will hand out flyers and¢ membership applications for the Ol'¢ Hackers' Atari User Group.¢¢ Al Sharkis demoed a program called¢ "Cross-Stitch Your Atari." A picture¢ or graphics is introduced into the¢ computer and it prints out as a¢ needle-point pattern. Another¢ program he presented is "KATAKANA"¢ which teaches the reading and¢ pronunciation of its character set.¢¢ Al also demoed "TWAUG", disk no. 30¢ which is a game disk on side one. It¢ consists of Monopoly, Pools League,¢ Black Jack, Creepy Caverns, and Dos¢ Wizzard. Side two has a magazine¢ catalogue file.¢¢ Ron Fetzer demoed an ABBUC, disk no.¢ 52 which had Mahjonng, a Flintstone¢ game, Dynakillers (excellent¢ graphics), a picture converter which¢ converts Print Shop , News Room and¢ Micropainter to each other. ¢¢ Our April meeting was held jointly¢ with LIAUG at Nesconset. We all¢ discussed the history of Atari and¢ its failures and the newtake over of¢ the company. Al Sharkis discussed¢ the disk "Ice T" which is a terminal¢ emulator which allows the Atari to go¢ onto Internet. Patrick Mulvey played¢ a VCR tape showing a demo of the¢ VIRTUOSO program which produces music¢ and graphics with the music.¢¢ On April 18th John Hardie, Harry¢ Tuthill, myself and my son, Joel,¢ attended the Trenton Computer¢ Festival at Mercer County Community¢ College in Tenton, New Jersey. We¢ always enjoy the extremely large flea¢ market and the commercial indoor¢ exhibitions. I personally purchased¢ FROGGER, the cartridge game, some old¢ Antic magazines, the book "Your Atari¢ Computer", and the following booklets¢ by Michael Boom: "Understanding¢ Atari Graphics" and "How to Use Atari¢ Computers." We saw many Atari 1050¢ disk drives, computers -- 800XL and¢ 1200XL -- for sale at the show. We¢ all had a great time.¢¢ BYE FOR NOW,¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢
