This month is the SPACE Club's Annual Meeting. We will have elections for the Officer positions that make up the Executive Board: President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Additional nominations may be made at the beginning of the meeting, but so far the nominations are:
President - Michael Current
Vice-President - Greg Leitner
Secretary - Brian Little
Treasurer - Greg Leitner
The Annual Meeting is also a time to make sure we have continued commitments for the volunteer positions of Membership Chairman, Newsletter Editor, DOM Librarian, BBS Operator, and Webmaster. This is a crucial moment for the club. With our membership count as small as it is, it would only take a couple key people deciding to step aside to bring essential club functions to a halt. I hope there remains enough interest among us to keep SPACE going for another year. I think there is!
Elsewhere in this issue, I believe you'll find the announcement of the opening of the Official Clevelend Free-Net Atari SIG Archive. This is the cumulation of a project I've been involved in over the past two years, helping develop a permanent web archive of the CFN Atari SIG, which I helped operate for a number of years. It's an extensive resource, and I'm really happy to see it finally available again, in a form resembling the original. Take a look at: http://www.atariarchives.org/cfn/
A few weeks back I wandered into one of the electronic games stores in the Burnsville Center, and ended up buying a couple more of the Atari/Hasbro Windows games efforts: Pong and Breakout (very cheap closeout prices). These are fairly well executed actually, in my opinion, although kind of scary in a bizarre way. They took these two very simplistic gaming originals, and turned the little rectangles you used to control with a paddle into walking, thinking rectangles with eyes, that speak some alien language. Have you ever watched Teletubbies? The games are turned into graphical adventures, pausing often for skill challenges, some of which resemble the original game concepts and some less so. I already finished Breakout, that might also tell you something. If I can get them cheaply, I may continue to look to complete my collection of the Hasbro Atari games for PC.
Another reminder of my project to complete our collection of past SPACE newsletters. If you have any issues earlier than February 1986, please let me know, and consider contributing them back to the club, so that we can complete our records of our own history!
Thanks, keep using that Atari, and come to your next SPACE meeting, Friday, November 9, 2001.
Well, there weren't many of us in attendance at the October SPACE meeting but we had great discussions on many topics. It was unfortunate that many of you were not there for the nominations of SPACE officers for the November elections. It looks as though there will not be many changes for 2002 except Mike will step down as Secretary and Brian will once again try his hand at it. Thanks to Brian for stepping up to fill the position. If anyone still wants to run for any of the officer positions there will be another chance before we vote next month.
Here is the accounting of the SPACE club finances for October 2001.
Beginning balance as of October 1, 2001: 800.75 Receipts for October 2001 Membership renewals 15.00 Doms sales 15.00 Total receipts 30.00 Expenses for October 2001 .00 Ending balance for October 2001 863.14
As you can see the Club is still doing very well and I can't see why we won't have a very healthy cash flow for the new year. Amazing isn't it?
I have to implore every member to be present for the November meeting and vote. This is your responsibility as a SPACE member and that is why only those who are paid up can vote. Please make sure that your membership is in good standing and if you have any questions about where you stand you can see Glen. So please mark your calendars for the next meeting and don't forget we need to plan for the SPACE XMAS party.
Space meeting opened at 7:50 PM. Michael Current, Space club president, welcomed members to meeting.
Michael asked for a secretary report. Mike Weist, Space club secretary, recapped September minutes printed in October newsletter.
Michael then asked for a treasurer report. Greg Leitner, Space club treasurer, gave a report. Greg stated that there wasn't much expense for October 2001 except $48.01 paid out for newsletter expense to Mike Schmidt, newsletter editor. Haven't seen a room rent bill for 3rd quarter(July, August, and September). Greg said 2 members renewed, auction income was $57.00, and $61 for DOM sales. This makes a $61 gain to treasury. The treasury balance stands at $861.14.
Michael Asked for DOM report. Glen Kirschenmann, DOM chair gave a report. Glen said side one has two games on it. These games are Rubber ball and Maneuver, Side two is Gismoe, a dungeon game.
Michael asked for a membership report. Glen Kirschenmann, Membership chair, gave a report. Glenn said there are currently 15 paid up members and a few members can renew.
BBS report
Nolan not present. BBS is not working.
OLD BUSINESS:
Mike Weist, club member said Hamfest is coming up.
NEW BUSINESS:
Lance Ringquist talked about the FIRST BUY LAW.
Mike Weist said October newsletter was great.
Mike also touch on article in September 2001 IMAGE user group newsletter about the Classic Game Expo.
Greg Leitner talked about great emulation on web site called Little Green desktop. It is run by Richard Davey.
Nominations for officers went as follows:
Greg Leitner nominated Michael Current for Club president. Mike Weist nominated Greg Leitner for Vice-president. Brian Little nominated himself for Club secretary. Greg Leitner was nominated for Treasurer.
Greg Leitner contacted Mike Schmidt about accepting a honorary Space club membership. Greg said Mike declined and wanted to pay for a membership. Mike will pay Glen Kirschenmann $15 for a membership.
Meeting adjourned at 8:40 PM.
Mike Weist, Space club secretary
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Subj: cc65 v2.7.0 released
Date: 10/20/01 4:49:39 PM Central Daylight Time
From: mcurrent@carleton.edu (Michael Current)
--From: Ullrich von Bassewitz <uz@musoftware.de>
--Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 09:00:19 -0700
I'm proud to announce version 2.7.0 of CC65, a C cross-compiler /cross-assembler combo for 6502 systems.
CC65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines,including
The libraries are fairly portable, so creating a version for other 6502s shouldn't be too much work.
Version 2.7 has a real lot of changes, including a completely rewritten backend. Here is a short list:
There is still no support for the following features:
Available packages:
As usual I will provide the complete sources and several binary packages, including RPMs for RedHat Linux. Linux is the primary development platform, so the sources do compile out of the box on Linux machines.
Please note that there are now separate RPMs for the compiler proper and the target specific libraries. To develop for one of the predefined target systems you need the compiler RPM package *and* one of the target machine packages.
Binaries for DOS and Windows will follow or may already be available at the time you read this. OS/2 packages will again be available, but since there are almost no downloads for OS/2, so the host platform may get dropped in the near future (again). As with the RPM packages, you need the package for the development system (Windows, etc.) *and* one of the target machine packages.
Download: More information and a download link, please visit the cc65 web page at: http://www.cc65.org/
Thanks to all who sent feedback and suggestions and of course to anyone who helped developing cc65!
Ullrich von Bassewitz uz@musoftware.de
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Subj: Official Cleveland Free-Net Atari SIG archive
Date: 10/27/01 2:09:47 PM Central Standard Time
From: mcurrent@carleton.edu (Michael Current)
--From: Kevin Savetz <savetz@northcoast.com>
--Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:16:03 -0700
I am proud to announce the launch of the Official Cleveland Free-Net Atari SIG Archive.
http://www.atariarchives.org/cfn/
The Cleveland Free-Net, a free dialup and telnet BBS offered through Case Western Reserve University, was home to an active group of Atari users. The Atari SIG (special interest group) had information about every Atari platform, including 8-bit computers, 16/32-bit computers, Jaguar, Lynx, and Portfolio. The Cleveland Free-Net was shut down on September 30, 1999, but before it was, a complete backup of the Atari SIG was made.
Working with the folks who ran the forum, we have endeavored to preserve both the feel of the SIG and the information it contained. This is an amazing resource that exceeds 200 megabytes of data - much of which isn't available elsewhere.
"The Atari SIGOps hoped to preserve this extensive information resource we had built over the years. We approached www.atariarchives.org and Kevin Savetz with the idea of a permanent web archive of our SIG, and we couldn't be happier with the result." --Michael Current, mcurrent@carleton.edu, former 8-bit Atari SIGOp, Cleveland Free-Net Atari SIG.
Among the highlights:
Kevin Savetz <savetz@northcoast.com> Curator of the Digital Antic Project -- http://www.atarimagazines.com & Atariarchives.org - http://www.atariarchives.org Moderator of news:comp.sys.atari.announce -- Atari computer news
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