¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ MINUTES OF OHAUG MEETING JULY 18,1998¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS opened the meeting by¢ calling on ALAN SHARKIS for a report.¢ Alan described an Internet mailing¢ list. It works like this: you have an¢ e-mail address on the internet and¢ you subscribe to a mailing list. You¢ then get everything everyone sends in¢ to that mailing list. If you send a¢ message everyone who's on this list¢ also gets it. It's almost like a¢ private newsgroup, with less¢ advertising and spam. There is an¢ existing list ALAN subscribes to that¢ deals with Atari 8-bits and provides¢ very useful information. ALAN has¢ instructions on how to subscribe (or¢ unsubscribe if you don't want so many¢ messages) and passed out copies of¢ them to the members.¢¢ Also, in Canada, is LES WAGAR, who¢ was a member of NOSAUG before it¢ folded. At one time, Les had written¢ a bunch of disk utilities which were¢ published on an A.I.M. disk. Les¢ stated to Alan that he needs a place¢ like Ol'Hackers for this disk to¢ reside, so he sent it to Alan who¢ suggested he might want to join our¢ club and sent him a flyer from the¢ ones we gave JOHN HARDIE. Alan will¢ submit this disk to our Library. A¢ discussion then followed on this¢ matter followed by questions about¢ subscribing to the e-mail list.¢¢ TREASURY REPORT:¢¢ RON FETZER reported that we're in the¢ black.¢¢ Discussion then followed about future¢ meeting dates at the library. Most¢ members of our group will not be able¢ to attend the Suffolk meeting on¢ August 1, 1998 but will plan to have¢ our meeting August 15th. A brief¢ discussion then followed about the¢ World of Atari Show in August.¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢¢ RON FETZER demoed a German disk from¢ ABBUC magazine #53 2nd quarter 1998¢ on how to use the XEP80 with a TV¢ (XED80), and how to use regular¢ density instead of enhanced density,¢ and how to play Ultimate Reality,¢ also how to make an Atari interface¢ for the IBM keyboard (the old Atari¢ keyboard stays on it too.) (Library¢ #726).¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS demoed a disk called¢ Tom's Pack (Library #727). The next¢ disk is called Cassette to Disk wich¢ ALAN demoed (Library #728) and then¢ the XF2 Utilities disk (Library¢ #729). ALAN then demoed an HTML¢ decoder for the Atari 8-bit (Library¢ #730). Also demoed a Dynademo disk¢ (Library #731). And finally a disk¢ from Les Wagar, a former member of¢ NOSAUG which he calls "Disk¢ Utilities" (Library #732).¢¢ ALAN then led a discussion on what is¢ the function of a user group on a¢ national basis in response to a¢ message that he read on FidoNet.¢¢ The door prizes were won by Harry¢ Tuhill, Ron Fetzer, and Pat Mulvey.¢¢ The next meeting will be on August¢ 15, 1998 at the Library as usual.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢
