¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ MINUTES OF OHAUG MEETING¢ AUGUST 14,1999¢¢ The meeting opened with our¢ President, JACK GEDALIUS showing¢ members a video of our annual OHAUG¢ picnic at JACK GEDALIUS home on¢ Saturday, July 17th and was well¢ attended. Jack's wife did the¢ barbequing and a good time was had by¢ all. Thank you JACK AND MARY¢ GEDALIUS, our gracious host &¢ hostess.¢¢ JACK announced the upcoming meeting¢ dates as follows: 9/18, 10/30,¢ 11/13, 12/18, 1/8, 2/12, 3/18, 4/15,¢ 5/13, 6/17. The meetings officially¢ begin at 1PM and may end as late as¢ 5PM. They will be held, as usual, at¢ the Plainview-Old Bethpage Library in¢ Nassau County, Long Island.¢¢ TREASURER's REPORT:¢¢ RON FETZER announced that we are in¢ the black.¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS reported on¢ correspondence from JOE HICSWA. The¢ first letter JOE wrote was about the¢ Newsletter going from 6 isues a year¢ to 4 issues a year as he read in the¢ last Newsletter. He wants to know if¢ there will be an accompanying¢ reduction in dues. The annual dues¢ will be $20 starting in the year 2000¢ instead of $24 as it was in the¢ previous years.¢¢ JOE HICSWA's second letter informed¢ that he was frustrated by the game,¢ Atomit on the back of the Newsletter¢ disk. He found a way to make the¢ game easier to play.JOE sent two¢ files to ALAN which are the result of¢ his research.¢¢ ALAN mentioned some email he has¢ received from a member regarding a¢ problem with the mailing of the¢ Newsletters. The problem was solved¢ by Ron Fetzer.¢¢ A discussion followed on the future¢ of the Atari club and its members.¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS demoed a menu-driven,¢ multi-DOS disk. DOSs and utilities¢ on the disk were as follows: ¢¢ Side 1¢ A. Atari DOS 2.0S¢ B. Atari DOS 931 (makes 931¢ sectors; based on 2.0 S)¢ C. Atari DOS 2.5 in German¢ D. Atari DOS 2.5 in English¢ E. Antic DOS¢ F. OSA DOS 1.2¢ G. OSA DOS 2.0¢ H. OSA DOS 2.3 (these are¢ all by OSS)¢ I. ART DOS Rainbow¢ J. Atari DOS 3.0¢ K. Double Set (a utility to¢ set density)¢ L. File copy (a utility¢ that can copy multiple¢ files)¢ M. Initialize Disk¢ N. Tape copy¢ O. Happy Computer 2+D¢¢ ALAN brought some of them up. Then¢ he showed Side 2, which contained¢ several commercial and freeware DOSs¢ that are based on AtariDOS. The¢ SpartaDos family was not represented.¢ This DOS disk came from EHRHARD¢ PUETZ, or "Atreju," who wrote this¢ DOS disk and has been in the field¢ for many long years making¢ significant hardware and software¢ contributions along the way.(Library¢ #743).¢¢ Next ALAN SHARKIS demoed Artworx¢ which consists of 2 disks. It's a¢ companion program to Artworks, a PC¢ program. This package allows the¢ user to lay out, print, and transfer¢ printed-circuit designs to the PC¢ version. The author states that the¢ printer program, however, is¢ incomplete. The editor, printer and¢ transfer programs and the Readme are¢ on side 1 of the first disk, and all¢ documentation is on side 2 of the¢ first disk. The second disk is¢ devoted to the assembly source code¢ for all three programs which was also¢ released as freeware. The cards can¢ be up to four layers. The package¢ comes from Holland, with¢ documentation written in English¢ (Library # 744 and 745).¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS demoed Atari¢ Planetarium which is one of the¢ better programs that Atari made. JACK¢ read some interesting information the¢ program brought up about the Earth¢ and the moon. Then he showed the¢ eclipse and how it happens. Then¢ there followed a discussion of how¢ our galaxy is, the infinite nature of¢ the uiverse and the big bang theory.¢ He showed the constellations and read¢ some interesting information about¢ them. RON FETZER commented that the¢ members were watching JACK perform¢ miracles.¢¢ Then the members went on the internet¢ with Ice-T and brought up www.atari-¢ history.com. This was done to check¢ the phone line, which we discovered¢ wasn't working at the last meeting,¢ and which is certainly working now!¢¢ There were no doorprizes for today's¢ meeting. The date of the next¢ meeting is September 18, 1999.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢
