<<**>>¢ MINUTES OF THE OCTOBER 1994 MEETING¢ ===================================¢¢ DAVID OLDFIELD talked to our¢ member JOHN HARDIE and decided he¢ would like to belong to the club, and¢ so he joined us. JOHN told him what a¢ great club we have. He, like so many¢ others, thought there were no more 8¢ BIT clubs around, and felt lonesome¢ for other 8 BIT'ters. Welcome to the¢ club, DAVE!¢¢ CORRESPONDENCE:¢¢ ALEX read a letter from BEN¢ POEHLAND to Unicorn Publications. BEN¢ was very upset over the failure of¢ Unicorn to have enough money in the¢ ATARI CLASSICS checking account to¢ cover the refund checks, after BEN had¢ gone over the account balances to be¢ sure that all subscribers would be¢ reimbursed. (Editor: See Presidents¢ Message for more on this topic!)¢ A letter from RUSSEL STOWE,¢ President of AAAUA, to RON. He thanked¢ us for the TREASURER'S REPORT program¢ that he mailed to him at the ALAMO¢ AREA ATARI USERS ASSOC. RUSSEL mailed¢ us one of his programs that will tell¢ you what keys were pressed in a¢ machine language program. It is very¢ interesting and will be demod at our¢ next meeting.¢ RON received a Print Shop card¢ and Calendar made by our member LARRY¢ TISCHBEIN in PA. LARRY had some¢ problems with the P/S COMPANION and we¢ helped him out. He is now enjoying his¢ 8 BIT even more. Again, the value of¢ belonging to a users group is shown.¢ A letter from our member DANE¢ STEGMAN. He said he bought a bunch of¢ items from JOHN HARDIE, at a big¢ bargain. He was very happy with the¢ games in the newsletter, specially¢ CRAZY 8.¢ A letter from our member TOM¢ SMITH in CA. He writes us that he is¢ pleased that we are going to publish¢ his program FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS in¢ the coming newsletter. He is also an¢ early bird and paid his dues for 1995.¢ This is the best indication of how TOM¢ feels about OHAUG! Thanks Tom.¢ ALEX distributed a two page¢ excerpt from T.W.A.U.G., ENGLAND. DOS¢ TIPS & TRICKS and BELTING YOUR 1050.¢ Both good reference articles. ALEX¢ hopes to put some of the info in¢ future newsletters when, and if, he¢ gets the urge to type them in (grin).¢ ALEX wrote to BOB BUMAN who is¢ the author of a great new disk¢ cataloger program called SAGE CAT. It¢ will be demod by RON later in the¢ meeting.¢ A letter from our member JIM¢ CUTLER in England. He mailed us two¢ disks packed with good programs. As¢ usual JIM comes through with great¢ disks. He is truly a STERLING member.¢ Thanks JIM.¢ A letter from our member TOM WRAY¢ in Texarkana to ALEX. He asked for¢ some help with many questions he had¢ with DOS and some other problems. ALEX¢ answered all his questions and cleared¢ up the confusion, hopefully. ALEX also¢ sent him a disk with usefull¢ utilities. TOM has come a long way¢ this past year.¢ Our member NORMAN WILLIAMSON in¢ England mailed us a card. We wish his¢ wife a speedy recovery from her¢ illness. He is on vacation, basking in¢ the sun, helping her convalesce on a¢ sunny Mediterranian isle.¢¢ DEMOS:¢¢ RON(me - grin) demoed the program SAGE*CAT a disk cataloger program. It¢ was written by BOB BUMAM. It is¢ shareware and we mailed BOB a¢ contribution for his program. The¢ program among other options AUTOLOADs¢ and reads the directory by itself. You¢ have a choice of not cataloging¢ unwanted files such as DOS, or those¢ ending with .SYS, etc. You can sort by¢ file name, extender, sector or disk¢ name. The sort is extremely fast. You¢ can print in 4 different formats from¢ listing to disk envelopes, disk labels¢ and inserts. You can mark files that¢ are to be pulled out or put on another¢ disk. You can automatically catagorize¢ your disk. On our copy the MARK¢ function did not work. It could not¢ locate the files asked for. We have¢ version 1.1. We will write to the¢ author and see if there is a corrected¢ version. We also had problems with the¢ 3 and 4 column print out. It is a¢ great disk cataloger if these two¢ problems are resolved, but it is still¢ good for certain tasks, even with the¢ problems mentioned. It's our library¢ #516¢ ALEX wanted to show MICRO CHECK¢ 130XE. This program works ONLY on the¢ 130XE. It automatically reads all the¢ files into the Ramdisk D8 so they are¢ retrieved immediately by the program,¢ as needed. Unfortunately ALEX' copy¢ did not work. We did not put it into¢ the library, till he can check out why¢ it didn't work. The programs ability¢ to use RAMDISK makes it very valuable.¢ Now we have to see if it can be¢ workable. Tune in next meeting for the¢ answer.¢ We saw HOME & BUSINESS #1 AND 2.¢ It is two sides on one disk. It has an¢ excellant calendar program on it. A¢ LoanPlus program (also very good). A¢ USR address program. It also has a¢ data base. It is very nice except it¢ can hold only 64 records(the number of¢ disk file names on a disk) because¢ each record becomes a separate file on¢ the disk. It can print mailing labels¢ and up to 6 lines of data for each¢ record can be entered. If you have a¢ number of small data files, this is¢ the one to get, because you can use a¢ different disk for different groups of¢ records. It has many other useful¢ programs on the disk. An awfull lot of¢ hard hours of progaramming skills went¢ into the making of this terrific disk.¢ A must disk to get. Library #517.¢ Next we saw a disk from¢ T.W.A.U.G. in England # 11 Sept/Oct¢ 1994. It has MEDIEVAL COMBAT, MENU¢ PLANER (weekly menu planner), MAX¢ HEADROOM, FIRE SCANNER (Virus killer)¢ and SUPER PACKER. MAX HEADROOM was a¢ great graphics demo. On side two we¢ have CODESMITHS NEWSLETTER READER.¢ Usefull for those that want to put out¢ a newsletter. (Great!). Our library¢ #518.¢ Next we saw an ABBUC disk from¢ Germany. Magazine #38. A great intro.¢ screen as usual. We saw some great¢ pictures, some were ported over from¢ the Commodore 64. It had a cassette to¢ disk copy program. It had some games¢ on it. The TETRUS GAME was very fast.¢ We played it and lost. R-TIME 8¢ Handlers and clock setting programs¢ and source code.Side two requires the¢ use of TURBO BASIC. Library #519.¢ Next we saw SLCC DISK Sep. 1994¢ DOM. On it was ATOMIT a game, DLMASTER¢ (A picture manipulator), MINIGOLF.BAS¢ and a CONSTRUCTION SET for those that¢ want to make their own golf course. We¢ saw GUITAR CHORD TUTOR, to help you¢ learn chords by showing where to put¢ your fingers, and by playing the sound¢ you have edited. Library #520. On Side¢ 2, we have SAGE*CAT DISK CATALOGER¢ (See discussion in demo section¢ above). We all played MINIGOLF.¢ Everyone was terrible except me, I was¢ the PRO! (grin) and won the game.¢ ¢ DOOR PRIZES:¢¢ FRANK CASTALDO¢ HAROLD PEGLER¢ JOE LEBER¢ JACK GEDALIUS¢ BOB ECKSTEIN¢¢ Written by Ron Fetzer¢¢ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<¢¢¢
