=-=-=-=¢ MINUTES OF THE JULY 1992 MEETING¢ ================================¢¢NEW MEMBERS: (This is always a happy¢way to START A MEETING!) ¢¢RICK NEAL joined our club. He bought¢an Atari outfit for very very little¢money, and he was asked to find 10 or¢more such bargains for us. He is just¢starting with Atari. THEODORE TOPPING¢JR. joined our club. THEODORE used to¢correspond with me when I wrote the¢TURBO-BASIC FLYER. FRANK CASTALDO¢joined us also. FRANK is an¢inexperienced computer user. MARK¢BENSLEY also joined. MARK is a super¢programmer. MARK has some commercial¢8-Bit Atari Educational programs on¢the market. MARK also programs for¢other computers. PATRICK HAYES joined¢us. PATRICK lives in North Carolina. I¢know PATRICK from the old days of the¢TURBO-BASIC FLYER. Welcome all to the¢club. This is the fastest growing 8-¢Bit club in the USA. You all made a¢very wise choice, fellows! Thats 5 NEW¢members added to th rooster!¢¢PICNIC DINNER:¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS brought in,and¢showed us a video tape of our 1st¢INDOOR ANNUAL PICNIC. We all looked¢great on it! Thank you JACK.¢¢CORRESPONDENCE:¢¢ We received a letter from our¢member BEN POEHLAND of Pennsylvania.¢He is a prime mover for the CREATION¢of the new ATARI CLASSIC COMPUTER¢MAGAZINE. The publisher is UNICORN¢PUBLICATIONS. ALEX talked on the phone¢for 1 12 to 2 hours with BEN about the¢magazine. BEN asked us to package the¢CLASSIC COMPUTER DISK. This would¢involve packing about 600 disks in¢mailing envelopes and gluing on the¢labels. This would be a 3 times a year¢obligation on our part. BEN hopes to¢put out the AC at $25.00 a year¢including the AC disks. ALEX said if¢OL HACKERS make the commitment to do¢this, it has to have 100% approval by¢the membership. The membership agreed¢100% by vote to take on the task for¢AC.¢ BEN said next year he might come¢to one of our meetings on his¢vacation. He as very pleased that we¢are using his article on upgrading the¢800XL. He said he wrote the manifest¢for ATARI CLASSIC,and will turn it¢into the publisher. It was read to us.¢It is the foundation of the magazine.¢It took him a long time to do it. JEFF¢MC WILLIAMS is working on an advanced¢8-Bit program which will allow camera¢ready schematic diagrams to accompany¢articles in the magazine.¢ A letter from our member TOM¢ANDREWS of Syracuse to RON. He sends¢us a disk with a whole bunch of great¢programs on it. This newsletter will¢have a further improvement. You will¢be able to print on the front and the¢back of the paper. We have an ODD,¢EVEN, ALL page option on printing. You¢first print the ODD PAGES then you¢turn the paper around in the printer¢and print all the EVEN PAGES, thus you¢have front and back pages printed on¢the paper. Or you can select ALL and¢print as usual. TOM is the author of¢this modification. An ACE of SYRACUSE¢member demoed the DISK MANAGEMENT¢SYSTEM and it went very well.¢ JIM CUTLER our member from¢England wrote to us. He just got a new¢modem and he is going to use Bob Term.¢RON said he will mail him some¢articles on BOB TERM. ALEX instructed¢the librarian to issue 5 disks of¢JIM'S choice and send it to him. This¢is in return for all the great¢programs we have received from JIM.¢¢ A letter to DAVID EWENS our¢member from England. ALEX thanked him¢and the other members from England for¢the disks that they sent us. He¢informed them to drop a note to our¢librarian and inform him of the 5¢disks that they would like to have¢from us. This is just a small token of¢our appreciation for their kindness.¢ALEX encouraged them to write an¢article for the newsletter from the¢English perspective.¢¢ ROWLAND GRANT of the GARDEN CITY¢ACE in B.C. in Canada sent us a disk¢with the MANDELBROT SET on it. On the¢back he sent us 2 great games - THINK¢and SUPERHOP, both made by one of the¢clubs members.¢¢ITEMS:¢¢ On the bottom of page 44 of the¢JUL/AUG 92 issue of CURRENT NOTES¢MAGAZINE is a note that TEXTPRO 5.0¢will be mailed to all who ordered from¢R. RICHE, the author of the program.¢¢ CHUCK McBRIDE a veteran TURBO¢BASIC programmer will review the 3¢disk PROGRAMMING KIT released by us¢and written by RON FETZER for a future¢issue of CURRENT NOTES MAGAZINE.¢¢ RON showed a HANDY DANDY GADGET¢for all ATARI users. It is a disk¢notcher mounted on the bottom of a¢coffee can that has a 1/2 hole in it.¢This way your notcher does not get¢clogged and all the little black disk¢pieces get collected in the can. The¢wife will appreciate this also!¢¢ LIGHTNING PROTECTION !!!! In a¢severe thunderstorm there is ONLY ONE¢WAY to protect your equipment. You¢must unplug it from the electric¢socket. Don't forget to unplug the¢phone line of your modem. Surge¢protectors CANNOT stop a lightning¢strike near your house or traveling on¢your electric or phone lines. ALEX¢lost some equipment. I have lost an¢interface - all because I did not¢unplug my equipment. This reminder tip¢comes from SAM CORY, member of OHAUG¢and J.A.C.G..¢¢ By the way, J.A.C.G. offers every¢issue of our newsletter as their DISK-¢OF-THE-MONTH. They said we have the¢most comprehensive and well written 8-¢Bit newsletter anywhere. Thanks for¢the compliment, its nice to be¢appreciated.¢¢TREASURERS REPORT:¢ We are OK and doing very nicely,¢THANK you!¢¢DEMOES:¢¢ An Australian disk. We saw some¢great graphics on the disk. Their disk¢is like a slide show. It is a¢newsletter disk. One side is text and¢the other side is graphics. They use¢SMART RAM a great DOS program.¢ HAROLD PEGLER demonstrated a¢printing program similar to BILLBOARD¢but with easier instructions that will¢print graphics pictures from any¢format. It is called SUPERB SCREEN¢DUMP Ver. 2.0. It will print pictures¢in various sizes up to 8 x 10 inches.¢You also have shading options to¢change the type of printout that you¢want.¢ ALEX demonstrated how to use the¢1st XLEnt Word Processor. This¢demonstration was aimed at the new¢users of the word processor. ALEX¢demonstrated the use of the RAM DISK¢and the two windows that can hold¢separate programs in the word¢processor. You can have one version of¢a file in one window and another¢version of the same file in the second¢window. You can cut and paste between¢the 2 windows. It is a great word¢processor. RON then demonstrated the¢great picture formatter that comes¢with this word processor. It lets you¢print pictures with your text¢files.(See JUL/AUG 92 Newsletter.)¢ ALEX demoed BOOT DIRECTORY a¢great program that shows you the¢directory of your disk upon boot up¢time. ALEX showed us a disk of BASIC¢LESSONS. It starts you off from¢scratch and takes you through all of¢ATARI BASIC. It is disk #194 in our¢library.¢ ALEX demoed mandelbrot pictures¢made from SUPERHOP.OBJ and printed¢with BILLBOARD. SUPERHOP.OBJ loads a¢fractal picture.¢ ALEX also demoed LAS VEGAS SLOT¢MACHINE GAME and a POKER GAME. These¢are two great games. ALEX lost to the¢computer in both games. Both games are¢in machine language.¢ ALEX then showed BILLBOARD¢modified for the GEMENI printer and¢the ATARI XMM801 printer and of course¢the EPSON printers. The modification¢was done by our member from upstate¢New York TOM ANDREWS. ALEX¢demonstrated the gray scale function¢and the various printer options of the¢program. If you do not have BILLBOARD¢you are urged to get it. It is a¢classic and the best printing program¢for the 8-Bit. On the back side of¢this disk is a GREAT MENU program¢called MENUEXC.BAS. In addition there¢are a ton of great utilities on the¢back of this disk. This disk is #196¢in our library. ALEX also showed¢DISKDIR.TXT a program that reads the¢disk directory and stores it as a text¢file. You can then use it in your word¢processor and catalog your disks. Then¢came PSLABEL7 Ver 3. This is the¢newest upgrade. It is also on this¢disk. A dynamite disk to get from our¢library. It also has VTEXT.COM a¢terrific text reader program.¢¢DOOR PRIZES:¢¢MURRY BERKOWITZ¢FRANK CASTALDO¢HAROLD PEGLER¢JACK GEDALIUS¢RON FETZER¢¢Submitted by¢¢ RON FETZER¢¢ >>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<¢
