MINUTES OF THE OCTOBER 1993 MEETING.¢ ====================================¢¢ NEW CORRECTED MEETING DATE:¢¢ Saturday December 18, instead of¢ December 11. WHERE? At the Library.¢¢ ITEM:¢¢ STAN SCHENFELD tendered his¢ resignation as VICE PRESIDENT of the¢ OL' HACKERS. He informed us that he¢ has become deeply involved with¢ AMATEUR RADIO and PHOTOGRAPHY and¢ therefore has not enough time for¢ everything. STAN we thank you for the¢ many years of devoted service to our¢ club. It is with regret that we¢ accept the resignation. STAN says he¢ will remain an active member.¢¢ We have a new VICE PRESIDENT and¢ MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN - he is JACK¢ GEDALIUS. JACK has been a devoted OL'¢ HACKER who has agreed to add more¢ duties to his already busy personal¢ schedule. We wish you well, and we¢ know you will do a bang up job.¢¢ ITEM:¢¢ A group of dedicated OL' HACKERS¢ (4) packed addressed and mailed the¢ 300 plus ATARI CLASSICS disks. It was¢ a small group this time because many¢ of us were either sick or recovering¢ or not available. Regardless what the¢ cause the OL' HACKERS will always try¢ to honor its commitments!¢¢ THOUGHTS TO PONDER¢¢ In 1983 ATARI CORP. had a USER¢ GROUPS of 50,000 members. Now there¢ are less than 5,000 members. What¢ happened???¢¢ CORRESPONDENCE:¢¢ ALEX read a letter mailed to our¢ member DENNIS KLINE in Florida¢ written by RON FETZER. RON¢ congratulated DENNIS on the superb¢ article he wrote in the last issue of¢ CURRENT NOTES called "SMALL BUSINESS¢ SYSTEMS", which had been published in¢ a prior issue of our newsletter.¢ A message on the MACHINE BBS¢ (516) 764-5748 from our member in¢ MA, GLEN SOUNDERS. He said he refuses¢ to serve only IBM callers on his BBS.¢ He will serve non-specific platform¢ information. His BBS is "STARS". He¢ saidTHE MACHINE BBS SYSOP LOU TRAPANI¢ has the OL' HACKERS connection and is¢ therefore a very valuable BBS for 8¢ BIT'ers. LOU is an OHAUG member.¢ A letter from our member DANE¢ STEGMAN in upstate N.Y. He tells us¢ that he can run PRINT POWER on this¢ XMM801 printer but AWARD WARE does¢ not work even though it is from the¢ same company. We tried it on our¢ XMM801 and you are right, DANE, it¢ DOES NOT RUN on the XMM801. Sorry to¢ give you this news, but at least you¢ know its not your equipment.¢ A letter from our member¢ THEODORE TOPPING in MA who renewed¢ his membership for 1994. He asks if¢ there is a way to connect an IDE HARD¢ DRIVE to the 800XL. He is also¢ programming the PIA CHIP to act as a¢ joystick input on port #1 and a drive¢ output on port #2. He wants to drive¢ a 7406 chip jig to drive LEDS. He¢ also likes the newsletter. He also¢ ordered 15 library disks. ALEX¢ responded and gave him BOB WOOLEY's¢ (super HACKER) address.¢¢ DEMOS:¢¢ ALEX showed the latest TWAUG¢ disk (Sep/Oct 93) from our members in¢ England. On it is MAGIC SQUARE, SPACE¢ WOLF, FOLDER LABEL, BOMBER, ROBO¢ ADVENTURE. On side two there was¢ EMPIRE, ZEROX.ARC. We saw EMPIRE. A¢ great game. A 2 player strategy¢ game.¢ A disk from the SAN LEANDRO¢ COMPUTER CLUB NEWSLETTER OCT 93. It¢ has HEARTS, SKULL ISLAND, PRNSTAR.131¢ (UPDATE and LATEST VERSION), FILEEM,¢ (with data) and BOINK.¢ The next disk we saw is the¢ first SAMPLE FUTURA disk from¢ Scotland from our member STUART¢ MURRAY. This was the 1st disk he¢ made. We have ALL FUTURA DISKS in the¢ library. They are great!. This was a¢ sample disk. It has a very nice¢ VIEWDOCS program. It has a lot of¢ programs on the disks. Side two has a¢ lot of .OBJ programs on it. MULTI¢ FILE COPIER II. ETC.¢ Disk TWAUG #4. JUL/AUG 93. We¢ saw ABBUC'S BRAINWAVE PICTURE LOADER.¢ They had a lot of GARFIELD pictures¢ on it. A continuous picture show.¢ Also on side two are pictures. The¢ graphics are excellent. Each one is a¢ 62 sector picture.¢ Next we saw ARTIST UNLEASHED. It¢ is a art program to create pictures¢ and paintings. It has a lot of¢ features. It is in the library. Side¢ one has the master program, side two¢ has the data disk.¢ Next we saw a NCAUG disk JUL/AUG¢ 87. (Brand new - Grin). It had a very¢ nice introduction to the disk.It had ¢ DEBUT, QUICK REFERENCE.OBJ, NOTE-¢ POINT BASIC, VOLCANO ISLAND,¢ ADVENTURE 40.BAS, DEVILS'S DOORWAY,¢ ZERO FREE.OBJ, ARACHNID.BAS, 13¢ BUSINESS PROGRAMS on side two. A¢ loaded disk to get. Also now in the¢ library.¢ ALEX showed MENU2BIN.BAS. You¢ can write a description of the files¢ on the disk and the Menu will boot¢ automatically with the file¢ description. You can also print it¢ out as a hard copy. It loads BASIC¢ and BINARY files. Only works with DOS¢ 2 and 2.5. It has many features.¢ We also saw VTCOR FIX. It has a¢ lot of features to manipulate the¢ VTOC TABLE. It also has a disk¢ mapper.¢ We also saw CUSTOM PRINT.MOD by¢ MAT RAT and modified by TOM ANDREWS¢ for the GEMINI 10X printer. A program¢ that list all the special Atari¢ characters as well as prints inverse¢ characters. A great program to get.¢ Many features.¢ We saw LABEL MASTER for making¢ mailing labels. Disk Directory¢ labels, Envelope labels and address¢ envelopes. Aother very nice program¢ to get.¢ We also saw NUMERALOGY.BAS. We¢ ran the numeralogy profile for HARRY¢ TUTHILL. It was pretty accurate. We¢ also ran a profile for ALEX. What¢ B.S.!!¢¢ DOOR PRIZES:¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS¢ HARRY TUTHILL¢ ALAN SHARKIS¢ JOE LEBER¢¢ Submitted by¢ Ron Fetzer¢¢ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<¢¢¢
