¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE¢ by Jack Gedalius¢¢ May--August, 1999¢¢ At our May meeting, AL SHARKIS demoed¢ how our newsletter is produced. It¢ was a very interesting educational¢ demo. We also looked at some¢ programs from the previous newsletter¢ disk. At this meeting and the¢ following meeting, Al discussed the¢ Linux-6 version for the IBM system.¢¢ I was unable to attend the July¢ meeting because I was picking up my¢ 14-year old daughter from Vassar¢ College, where she was taking summer¢ courses.¢¢ On July 17, we had a terrific¢ barbecue, at my home, which was¢ attended by all of the local members.¢ The weather was beautiful and the¢ food was plentiful. Everybody¢ enjoyed themselves.¢¢ On August 8, Al Sharkis's son TED got¢ married to a lovely lady named AMY.¢ We wish them a happy marriage filled¢ with many joyous events.¢¢ At our August meeting, I showed a¢ video tape of the barbecue party that¢ was held at my house.¢¢ Al Sharkis demoed a disk that had¢ fifteen different versions of DOS,¢ taken from the website of ERHARD¢ PUETZ, also known as "Atreju."¢ Erhard is a most prolific Atarian,¢ having produced many hardware¢ projects, programs, and general¢ expertise via ABBUC, the Atari8-L¢ Mailing List (Polish) and the¢ comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup. On¢ this disk, Atari DOS 2.5 was¢ represented in both an English and a¢ German version. It was interesting¢ to see how DOS could be converted¢ into so many forms.¢¢ Alan also demoed Atari Artworx which¢ came from Holland. This program¢ helps you design and route printed-¢ circuit boards. Included programs¢ are an editor, a utility that¢ transfers the finished designs from¢ an Atari running Artworx to a PC¢ running Artworks (a similar program)¢ and vice-versa. A third program¢ prints the completed circuit board,¢ but the author, RUDOLPH CORNELISSEN,¢ states that this utility is not¢ finished. The package can be used to¢ design up to a four-layer circuit¢ board. The two-disk set has the¢ three programs and a short read-me on¢ side one of the first disk, full¢ documentation on side two of the¢ first disk, and a second full disk of¢ assembly source code.¢¢ I demoed the famous Atari¢ Planetarium, showing the eclipse of¢ August 11 over London. You can¢ really see the moon covering the sun¢ as time moves on in this program.¢ Then I showed a printout of the¢ eclipse. This Atari program is¢ phenomenal.¢¢ We tested the library's telephone¢ line by connecting to the Nassau Net¢ using Ice-T. We went on to CURT¢ VENDEL's site. The meeting was¢ great.¢¢ BYE FOR NOW,¢ JACK GEDALIUS¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢
