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They are:a qBILLBOARD $10.00v Chris WV}VCareham 1215 west Jackson# 8Spearfish,SD 57783< _MAGNIPRINT II+ $24.95 + 3.00 SHIP.c pAlpha Systemsu 1012 SkyW}WC land Dr. "Macedonia, OH 44056& _YEMACYB DELUXE $29.95 + 3.00 SHIP Innovative Conceptsd s31172 ShawnDr.x WarreX}XC n, MI 48093 You will also need coloredribbons. There are 2 sources. AlphaSystems sells you a ribbon packY}YG formost popular printers (Yellow, Cyan,Magenta, Black) for $54.00. You canalso order individual colored ribbonsfroZ}ZCm: V-TECH 2223# ARebeccaHatfield, PA 19440H \Tel: 215822-2989` I own my own ribbon inke[}[Gr. Iordered 4 blank ribbons and 4 colorsof ink, red, blue, green and yellow.They will also sell you coloredri\}\C;bbons at a reasonable cost. I use anEpson FX 80+ printer.@ To print incolor you do a MULTI-PASS printing.First you ]}]Gprint the yellow image, thenyou turn the paper back and change theribbon to green and print that image,you then turn t^}^Ghe paper back again,change the ribbon and print the redimage. Finally you print either theblue or black image in the_}_C same way asbefore. BILLBOARD and MAGNIPRINTII+ are similar. Magniprint is moreversatile. Both of these programs`}`CZ canprint either B&W or color pictures inANY size from normal to several feetacross.b YEMACYB is a morevera}aGsatile program as far as colorprinting is concerned, than the othertwo but it is also quite complicated.It prints b}bGthe colors the way they areon the screen. You also have manyutilities with it to manipulate thepicture and the cc}cGolors. This programis suitable if you want to become veryserious about color printing. Thedocumentation is quite exted}dCnsive.COLOR PRINTING I use BILLBOARD. BILLBOARD willbecome your favorite printing utilitynext to PRINT SHOP. e}eCAIt is easy to useand the documentation is clear andconcise.E iWhatever I say aboutBILLBOARDm will also apf}fCIplie toMAGNIPRINT II+ as far as colorprinting is concerned.O The oldBILLBOARD accepted only 62 sectog}gGruncompressed pictures. If you havethat version you can change them withANTIC RAPID GRAPHIC CONVERTER (9/84)or P.h}hCoS. INTERFACE by EXLENT software,to 62 sector graphics. The new versionof BILLBOARD accepts any graphic mode.s You load i}iG up your graphic picturein GR 7+ mode. In this mode you canmanipulate the various shades of theimage. In the other j}jGmodes you cannotdo this. Number keys 1,2,3,4 changethe shading of the image when you goto the print function. You ck}kCfan presseach of these keys 5 times for adifferent shade effect or for a totalof 20 shades.l Put your yellowl}lGribbon into the printer, adjust yourshading for whatever is to be printedyellow (Usually your background colorsshould m}mG be light colors). IMPORTANT!!Draw a line on the paper where thepaper bail of the printer is. This isyour color regin}nGstration line. You haveto come back to this line to registerthe 3 colors correctly. If you are notaccurately on this lo}oCEine then yourcolor registration on your picturewill be off.K Use the followingparameters for your first pictup}pCre: FORMAT: SIDEWAYS& 0TYPE:INV.5 GDENSITY: 960 DPL.L \WIDTH: DOUBLEf mHEIGHT:u FOURPOSq}qCITION: CENTER This will give you an 8 x 10picture suitable for framing. As youbecome more experienced, yor}rGu canchange the size of the picture. Ialways use INV.(Inverse) for the'TYPE' because whatever shows on thess}sCcreen will be printed. After youhave printed the yellow image turnyour paper back to the reference linewhich yot}tGu made on the paper bail. Putin the red ribbon. Go back to theprint function on the program andadjust the shadu}uGing for the red imageusing the number keys from 1-4, andthen print this image. Repeat the sameprocedure for all ov}vC?ther colors.Here are some hints that can behelpful:C k1. If you are using blue don't useblackq 2. You show}wGuld have eitherblack or blue as the dark shade.3. Be careful to align your referenceline because this will affex}xC'ct yourcolor matching and blending., \4.Always use the lightest shade ribbonfirst.b 5. Usually 3 colors arey}yC sufficient. F6. Use a fresh blue orblack ribbon if at all posible.K 7.When you print LARGE pictures use theSPACE BAz}zC8R to stop the printing and letthe printhead cool off.< Besides color printing BILLBOARDwill print the best B&W {}{Ggraphicspictures you have ever seen. At theend of the BILLBOARD documentationthere is a table for undistorted|}|Gpictures in each density. If you wantlarger undistorted pictures multiplyeach number by 2,3 etc.(giving youmultipl}}}Ges of these numbers). Youshould also make a table for yourself,of the parameters you used with eachpicture and i~}~Gn particular how manytimes each of the number shading keyswere pressed so you can repeat theprint at a later ti c}C#*LMINUTES OF THE JANUARY 1991 MEETINGS-[ -- --- b-c g-h o-GENERAL MEET }GING:ALEX PIGNATO welcomed the attendingOL' HACKERS to the start of ourSEVENTH YEAR. With the snow fallingve }Gry heavy on FRIDAY evening not manymembers were sure that there would bea meeting on SATURDAY-(no matter whatthe condi }Gtions outside, what betterplace to wait out the storm than anOL' HACKER meeting)?Next ALEX nominated, THOMAS }G J.ANDREWS, ACE of SYRACUSE-as anHONORARY OL' HACKER member, our firstsuch designation. This motion waspass }Ged unanimously by the members (Welcome aboard THOMAS).Then ALEX passed on club wishes thatJOE LEBER has a health }Gy and a goodyear in 1991. For work and familyhealth, 1990 was one of JOE's worst inhis memory.The club was then mad }Ge aware that bothNIEK VANDERLEE and ALAN SHARKISdonated many books to the club. Thesebooks will be used to fo }Grm a clublibrary whereas the members will beable to borrow them as needed. Alisting will be available at th }GeFEBRUARY meeting.HAROLD PEGLER, our new librarian,stated he expects the new updatedlibrary disk listing to }Gbe availableat the FEBRUARY meeting.TREASURY/MINUTES REPORTS:AL ATKINS read the current treasuryreport and stated }Gthat approximatelyhalf of the members had paid their1991 dues. The minutes for DECEMBERare on the new newsletter }G disk thatwas distributed by CARLOS HURTADO, soALEX read them to the members (all 105sectors, 2000 plus words). RON FETZ }GERmade a motion to accept both as readand HAROLD PEGLER seconded the motion,it then passed unaniously.VOTING, CLUB OFF }C9ICERS:ALEX asked if there were anyadditional= nominations for clubofficers, none were forth coming. A }Gmotion was made by ALAN SHARKIS tohave the SECRETARY cast one vote forthe slate nominated. CARLOS secondedthis mot }Gion. The SECRETARY, AL ATKINS,then cast that one vote. The slateappears in this newsletter under"WHO's WHO". O }Gbservation, from thestart ALEX PIGNATO appeared to be ashoo-in to be elected PRESIDENT. Hisimpending retirement, M }GARCH 1ST, willnow make it possible for him to devote60 to 80 hours per week to clubactivities.CORRESPONDENCE:CH }GRISTMAS CARDS were received fromJ.C.PETTY, who is once again statesidein PENNICOLA, FLORIDA. ALSO a cardfrom SOFTW }GARE INFINITY, STATE COLLEGE,PA., who are sole distributors of "KESOFT", GERMANY (software and manualsare in English). }EGALEX read THOMAS ANDREWS letterexplaining the modified version ofKRIS HOLTAGAARD'S "NL PROGRAM". TOMoffered }G his apology to KRIS foraltering his great program. a. Thefile reflected the changes. b.Increased effic }Giency of the program,allowing for more files. c. In orderto print properly, all text must havecharacters of 39 or few }Ger characters,per line. d. Prints page headings anddate of newsletter on numbered pages(ALEX printed out copies to exh }Gibit).e. It will print different sizes ofprint at users option. f. The letter[A] is now reserved for printing allf }Giles, or the user may select andprint in any order.ALEX then suggested that all futurefiles "NL" articles have }Ga beginningand ending identification, such ascouple of asteriks.DEMONSTRATIONS:JACK GEDALIUS demoed "MAPWARE", }G aprogram that displays the world in anumber of configurations. Jack started"MAPWARE" in motion at the beginningof o }Gur meeting as the program is veryslow drawing the coordinates to formthe map. JACK had entered theLONGITUDE a }Gnd LATITUDE that chosePENNSYLVANIA as the center of his map.He had preprinted a number ofdifferent maps and p }Gassed them aroundfor inspection of the finishedproduct. Jacks homework really paidoff with an excellant demo! }GHAROLD PEGLER came in with "TIMEWISE"a commercial 1982 ATARI PROGRAM. Aprogram that can be used to scheduleappointm }Gents and keep a daily diary.It consists of a program and a datadisk and can be used with one or twodisk drives. Bei }Gng menu driven you arelead into and through the program. Themain menu will have inputs such asDATE, TIME, PERSON, }G TYPE, EVENT,PLACE, COMMENTS, INQUIRY, BROWSE,UPDATE, to chose from. All records andfuture appointments may be se }Glectedfor search, then displayed or printed.Like "PRINT SHOP" a monthly calendarwith dates, time, type, and commentsc }Gould be printed for carrying and easyaccess. Using his own personal files,HAROLD, walked the members through allphases o }Gf the program. He sure knewthe program. Another great DEMO.ALEX demoed the IOWA "M.A.G.I.C. ClubDOM", disks from AUGUS }GT, SEPTEMBER andOCTOBER. Everyone of them is loadedwith excellent programs (two sided)and are fantasic disks. Ea }Gch diskcontains a synopsis concerning everyprogram on the screen."BACKGAMMON" was found on one side ofthe OCTOBER }G'90 disk. As a communaleffort everyone tried their hand atexplaining and playing this game. Noone was right!The }GAUGUST '90 M.A.G.I.C. diskdisplayed at a previous meeting wasshown again. The disk has digitizedpictures of }GLAUREL and HARDY, FOURTHOF JULY FLAG, conversions between U.S.and METRIC measurements, binary fileinformation and others }G.Alex researched the archives ofCOMPUTE, ANTIC and ANALOG magazines tocreate a special disk of indispensableutili }Cdty type programs for the user andprogrammer.He lead off with his docs called"KEYLOADR.BAS"h mwhichq will load }G"KEYCODE" from COMPUTE MAGAZINE MARCH1986. The program also does automaticline numbering. The program has manycommands }G such as graphics, color, dataand line numbering. The order numberprogram using softkey with autonumbering incre }Gments in line numberschosen by you.Next came "CATALOG.BAS" a menu driveprogram which will run basic programs,no bina }Gry here. Catalog has a screenmenu which can be more than one screenlong. You are asked to select yourchoice, Run, D }Gelete, Next Page, etc.Upon selecting the highlighted letter,the command will be executed."ERROR.BAS" and "ERROR.DOC" the }C0lattertyped up by our JOE LEBER allows youto5 :write? CyourH KownO words(documentation) for all the errorst }Ghat might be experienced. As anexample, Error 138 might pop up,having previously documented thiserror, y }Gou now see on the screen"ERROR 138, printer has not beenturned on." The user now does not haveto go searchi }Gng for his "ERRORMESSAGE" listing. In order to fullyuse the "ERROR REPORT SYSTEM" youstart with a disk havi }Gng all of theerror messages correctly recorded onit. The "ERROR REPORT WRITER" can beused to create your own custom }Gerrormanual. It will ask you for an errornumber and it's matching message. Themessage is then written to disk underth }Ge appropriate error number file."WRITER.DOC", documentation written byJOE LEBER, to explain the usuage ofthis program. }G"TRACER.EXE" a three sector program,with instructions. This program isused for programs that have a bug inthem. }G As the program is executed theline numbers show up at top of screen,it will stop where a problem exist."RENUMBERING.BAS }G" program goes intomemory. Can only be used by listing.By hitting "L" key, program loads intomemory, hitting any oth }Ger key it willcreate the program "D:RENUMBER.OBJ" ."TYPOTOOL.LST" is a line lister anddata reader. Hitting any key wil }Gl slowdown the scrolling screen (pause)."HOME LOAN ANALYSIS" a 1982 ANTICMAGAZINE program that will provide youwith }CP purchase and loan information bypumping in known numbers. The programallowsT Wyou[ ]toa eviewi resultsyear-by-year }G on the screen, change onenumber and get a different result, orprint a hard copy."SEARCH VARIABLES LIST", Actually }Glists all your variables, prints themout with line numbers on screen orprinter.Having shown a large portion o }Gfprograms on side 1, ALEX went to theflip side to continue demonstration ofhis custom made disk.Starting on side 2 w }Gith "LABELPRT" aprogram that ALEX gets a lot ofmileage out of. He demoed how changingline number 340 and 2000 cha }Gnges thedisk drive number. Then changing line310 will change the size of the printon the label.Talk about getting a }G lot of mileagefrom one program, next on display wasALEX'S all time favorite, "FINGERS"."FINGERS" is a BASIC program }G. Let'splay a game...OK? If I can explain howthe demo worked and you are at leastsix years old or older then there is }Gno reason why you can't have fun with"FINGERS". ("R" = RETURN KEY)1. Boot program up. It will ask for aletter, hit "K". }G.."R" (unless you havethe ALEX modified program, which doesit for you). 2. Screen shows readyfor input, to go }Gto DOS, type"DOS"..."R" 3. To load hit "L"..,then type in your program, & hit "R"to load a BINARY program. 4. Ty }Gpe "B"to go to BASIC..."R" 5. At readyprompt, type, RUN "D:YOURFIL.* (yourfile name)..."R" 6. Hit [CTRL 3],( }GThis step tells the computer you arenow finished with commands).. 7.Program asks "DISK or CASSETTE?", hitletter " }GD"..."R" 8. If you have anAUTORUN program on the disk, it willask if you want to append the AUTORUNon top of the }Gother AUTORUN? Answer"YES or NO"..."R" 9. If no AUTORUNappears on the disk, the question willnot be asked. 10. The nex }Gt 2 questionsconcerns load and numbers. Hit "R"each time (twice) 11. Program now ask,"WHAT SPEED?"(1 is fastest, }G9 isslowest). Select a number for desiredspeed. "#"... 12. The program will nowput your efforts on disk as anAU }CYTORUN.SYS (2 Sectors) 13. Every timeyou boot this disk up, that disk willautomatically] _goc through thesecommands }G and run the selectedprogram.I took time out to try running"FINGERS", It works great, now we bothknow h }Gow to use this handy andyprogram."COLUMN40" came next, a text formatted1990 program by THOMAS ANDREWS, A.C.E.SYRACU }CSE, using runtime, Kload"D:COL40.CTB, ALEX went through theDOCO SOURCE that explains thisprogram.Agai }Gn, time ran out just when we werehaving fun. Side 2 contained many,many more programs yet to be demoed.At least w }Ge now have a seed for theFEBRUARY meeting.Before the ATARI equipment setupscould be broken down, RON FETZER movedw }Gith lighting speed and came up with abeauty. The members had no idea whatwas to come as he typed in RUN"D:COMPIL }GER.DOC. UP popped his image,a digitized picture, by far theclearest picture any member had everseen on an ATA }GRI COMPUTER. He has adigitizer called "EASY SCAN". It's acartridge with a long fiberopticcable. While the pictu }Gre is beingprinted the fiberoptic cable scans thepicture and loads it on the disk.DOOR PRIZE:No, I didn't forget to \}C%*ZFrom our GERMAN ATARI 8 BIT clubfriends, ABBUC!}*}C** Bit Byter "Sonderdisk # 8".Translated by Horst A. DewitzInternational Correspondent for ABBUCe.V., OL HACKERS, I}Gncand LIAUG.Sonderdisk # 8 on side # A containsthe following *.TXT files,accessible thru the Loader Menu,1)Fremdflopp}C ycontroller 7- Seetranslation2)Infos aus dem Club@ j- Seetranslation3)Protocoll der JHV 1990o -Minutes of t}C$he annual Meeting4)ICD-Bestellungen/ b- ICDList of Items available5)ICD-Bestellformularj - ICDOrder Form6)}CDie komplete PD-Liste 8-ABBUC's PD Library listingV h(12/90)7)PD-Ecke| -}CR Newsabout the PD-List8)Informatie voor Nederland - Forthe ATARI group in thep Netherlands}C:9)COMPY SHOP neue PreisListe - COMPYnot out of BUSINESS,Y &price list10)Frau Mueller's Spiel}C#ecke - Tipsand tricks for gamesB \(Mrs.Mueller is an ABBUCz me}C:mber)11)Glosse von Rolf A. Specht -Humorous story, seeX translation12)Brief von Kemal Escan}C - SeetranslationSide # B has an excellent PaintProgram on it. Unfortunatelythe available manual is in German andv}Gery lengthy.Fortunately all the menus are inEnglish. Getting out of adrawing screen - press [start].Program is joystick o}Gperated.To call a drive just press it'snumber, just to give you afew hints.Now following are the translationsand commen}C[ts to thevarious text files:1) Fremdfloppycontroller - 1.44 MByte Floppy's on an ATARIu XL/XE!L}Gooking for a relative fast drivewith plenty of room?Search no more. I completed aninterface, which will connectalien driv}Ges to our computers.Only requirements are, a drive whichwill accept a disk-change-signal at pin 34.I am currently running}G 2 ST 3.5" Teacdrives (FD235HF) with720K (=2880 sectors, double density)I recommend these Teac drives,because they are qu}Giet,reliable and capable to handle highdensity (=1.44M, 80tracks, 2 sides). SPARTA DOS lets youuse them to their fullcap}Gabilities.Possibilities at a glance:- serial interface- up to 4 drives with this interface(=5.76Meg's)- accepts many SPE}C9EDY and HAPPYcommands for instance: PERCOM read/ writeH echange drive # thrusoftwaret Warm star}Ct )Ultra speed sectorskew8 Custom format- Normal speed- Warp speed- Ultra speed- Operating s}Gystem easily changed(16k...64k), meaning updates possible- Single, double and high density- SORRY NO MEDIUM density, it w}Gouldbe a waste anyhow to format less than 720k- Still programming for: - Super high speed (SPEEDY 96000Baud) - Track bu}Cvffer - Autoformat (SPEEDY 1050) - Possible Mini-Rom-Disk or Rom-BootProjected price:Interface complete with chips{ DM}C250.--Teac Drive FD 235 HF* DM140.--(Exchange rate about DM 1.50 for US$1.--, Horst A. Dewitz)Delivery inc}Gludes:Interface, schematics and cables. Youmust provide thetransformer, rated 5V .05A/1.0A perdrive.Production of the in}Gterface is onlyfeasible if 50 or moreorders are received. Since 1) I amworking on this projectalone and 2) I am not the B}Gank ofEngland, therefore I am requesting adeposit of DM 100.--Erhard PuetzKleinsiepen 1D-5608 RadevormwaldGermany2) }GInfos aus dem ClubHello dear Bit Byters!First of all a Merry Christmas and aHappy New Year to youand your families.CONC}GERNING THIS SONDERDISK:Side #B has Winfried Piegsda's Paintand Drawing programI.P.E.S. on it. Use the accompanyingmanual }G(GERMAN).On side #A you will find the minutesof the annual meeting(1990) and the new PD-list, as wellas other text files.}GYou also will find DEMO.COM on thisside. DEMO.COMdemonstrates the new Soundeditor fromBENJI-SOFT. Load itfrom DOS with f}Gunction [L]. (Pleasenote: side #A does nothave DUP.SYS on it, lack of space!).DEMO.COM arrived just intime for insertion }Ginto thisSonderdisk. More about thissoundeditor in our magazine # 24.DELAYED MAIL DELIVERYWe are receiving horror story'}Gs fromour formerly East Germanfriends. ABBUC's magazine in someareas took 8 weeks toarrive at the mail box of ourmembers}G. We are of the opinion,that we could have delivered itfaster on foot. We hope thatthis situation will change soonNEW GE}GRMAN 8-BIT MAGAZINETitle "Neues XL/XE Magazin",bimonthly, 32 pages,price DM 4.70. Contents: gamedescriptions, reference c}Gards,inner workings of the XF etc..Address:A.M. HenschkePSF 30D-7543 Luebbenau 1GermanyA price reduction is projected,}G ifthe circulation increases.MAGZINE # 24The next issue of magazine # 24 isprojected for the middle/end of February. Re}Gmember, allcontests are still running.With the magazine, expect the TurboBasic Manual.Until then,Wolfgang3) Protocoll}G der JHV 1990 (Clubminutes)(I will give you the more importanthighlights in abbreviatedform of the minutes of this annual}Gmeeting. Horst A Dewitz).- 112 members participated- ABBUC has now 772 members- Bob Term is the most popularTelecommunic}Gations program- Using medium density for magazine,since magazine # 22- ICD has hard & software andcatalog, 10% off for AB}GBUC members- Since 11-1-90 new BBS, runningBBS-PRO under SPARTA DOS, on a 320k 800XL with 10 Meg hard drive- ABBUC membe}Gr of N.E.A.R.U.S., agroup of Atari Users Clubs in the North East U.S., representedby Joe Kennedy and Horst A. Dewitz- Ne}Gtherlands & Belgium will have asection on ABBUC's magazine- The new Atari Germanyrepresentative, Mr. Huber, insisted tha}Gt Atari still produces the 8 BitMachine. When questioned about the delivery of the XEP-80,long breath, no answer, he did }Gnot seem to know thisproduct. Referred a Portfolio Owners question about Atari, toABBUC.-Working on interface for PS card } Gs(IBM XT type), Mr. M. Pascher has hardware ready,software for parallel/serial interface in themaking, looking for prog } Grammer for E:/S: handler (Screen- Hercules card), planing for hard drive handler.- High treasury reserves made theissue o } Gf the Turbo Basic Manual possible (with disk # 24)- Hobby Tronic at Dortmund 5-8-91 to5-12-91, it is not decided yet if A } GBBUC participates.7) PD-EckeExplains the reorganization of theABBUC PD library and theaddition of 6 more disks.9) COMP } GY SHOP Neue PreislisteCOMPY SHOP's denial that it is out ofthe 8-Bit market (there wereearlier stories about this!) andth}Geir price list.10) Frau Mueller's SpieleckeTips and tricks for games, includeschanges of basic programlines to get more }Cslives etc. Mrs.Mueller is an ABBUC memberand not fictional.11) Glosse von Rolf A. SpechtThe power of Habit!w Really}Co, one get's used to allpleasant things in life,only the unpleasant things do disturbus time and time again.s For instan}Gce the Atari computer.In my school days Isolved math- and cosine problems withpencil and paper. Forespecially difficult s}Gituations I hada pocket calculatorwith my school tools. But when thisAtari entered my house, allproblem solving had to ta}Gke thedetour thru the electronicchips of this apparatus. Yes, it israther pleasant whenresults can be decorated with text}Gand when repetitive tasksneed not be squeezed into thekeyboard of a TI 30, again andagain. ( Electronic freaks of theear}C4ly electronic years knowwhat I am talking about!).8 It is certainly comforting, whenthe products ofheavenly inspiration}Gs, can betransformed to cassette tapes.There is no need in this way to storethe damn program on apiece of paper every tim}Cre. ( To myknowledge, pencil andpaper are the slowest storage medium,since the invention ofthe stone tablet!).v But, ca}Cyn all this be managedfaster? Sure, with adisk drive one can overcome the slowmotion recording of acassette recorder.} }CBOh God, how did I manage to storedata before I had adisk drive.F Did I say ONE drive? Well andgood, is it not moreplea}Gsant to have TWO drives? Itspares me of the pesky diskswapping. I did feel like a diskjockey already! So, let'sget one! }CA Well, well, those were the days,hacking with only onedrive!E Boy oh Boy, 19200 Baud are verynice, but somehow there}Cshould be a way to boost this!.RCOMPY/SHOP thank you! Thereis the Speedy 1050!V Was there life before the Speedy?Funny}G, with it my,informative wildlife really began!What did I do, to bootDOS, Before I had the Speedy? Ibooted from a disk -}Cchild's play! Besides, a third drive does wellas a disk holder whencopying, it is so classy. AndAlternate Reality with}Gout 3drives is really a joke! Be that as it may, today 64 KB isnot enough anymore, atleast not for anybody who is serio } CVusabout his computer. Likeme for instance. The 130 XE is by allmeans a finemachineZ. Assuming one is notdisturbed by t!}!Ghe designrelationship between the XE and the1050, which is about asgood a match as the banana toTABASCO. But then there i"}"Gs theXF drive, with which one can restorethe harmony on ones deskagain. it stores 360KB, ideal forword processing with an#}#C80-caracter card. And joysticks? What am I talkingabout? Whole JoyBOARDSare needed. Ball Games withoutAutofire are re$}$Ceally tough.(the first night I owned one, wasspent playing Landscape,Cyrus and other ball games).i Why in the world ATA%}%GRI? ATARI isthe thing! Much faster,bigger, and more storage and morecolors and a sound card andmuch better gizmo's and Gi&}&Ggabytes andin Mega drive WOW. Andwhat else? Tomorrow Tower AT,EGA-Graphics too -gloock- inCray 2 realtime -piep- zrr...f'}E'Grrzz... file loaded. -tuet-page ready. Give input.---Obituary---Sorry to tell you, that the Authornever finished this(}(G text.According to eyewitnesses he hunched,severely shaking, overhis computer while writing thisarticle. Further more, he)})Gallegedly ate, with a big grin, 2dozen disks. The ensuingspectacle was too horrendous to bedetailed here. Only thismuch:*}*G medical personal describe thisas mutation.After everything was over, a tower ATwas found in his chair.Once in a while, s+}+Go goes the rumor, ashallow, metalliclaughter can be heard from the caseNone of our techniciansdared as yet to remove the ,},CKfrontcover.Rolf A. Specht12) Brief von Kemal EzcanKE-SOFT goes U.S.O It's been a year ago now. Then,at ABBUC's ann-}-Gualmeeting 1989, we met Horst Dewitz, aBit Byter from the USA,who was nice enough to take home someinformation about our.}.CPsoftware. He promised to contactinterested companies andpass on our material.T It took some time for things tohappen. B/}/Gut then itclicked: SOFTWARE INFINITY, asoftware distributor overthere, showed interest in marketingKE-SOFT products in th0}0CeUSA. After some to and fro, it finallybecame a reality: S.I.will market and distribute KE-SOFTproducts in the USA.A1}1Chdvertisements will do the rest. Atthe end of this year KE-SOFT products will be available inthe USA.m Our special than2}2Gks go to ABBUC,thru which our contactwith Horst Dewitz was possible. Aspecial Thank You to Horstof course, who started it3}3G all. Itwould be nice to hear howthe marketing of our productsoverthere is working.In conjunction with this, an appeal:4}4C Any programmer, who feels that hecan write commercialgrade programs, or who did already,should contact us at KE-SOF5}5GT and send us his work. Marketingof your work thru KE-SOFT will gain you a nice sum ofmoney (depending on thequality of y6}6Gour work!) We are lookingfor Games, Adventures,Utilities and application of allkinds. Program language canbe Basic, Turbo7}7G Basic, Quick, Actionor Assembly. So please,send your work to:KE-SOFTFrankenstrasse 24D-6457 Maintal 4GermanyWell, gr8}8C?eetings to all Bit Byters,Sincerely YoursKemal EzcanEND!d*g*}e9C 91HDD@ #@5(1A&@89@DA%IoSAVE "D:COLRWEEL.BASdnA+@sw%@{3:}:C(@  #COrEl!A(@'4ozY(@8tHYOUR PATIENCE WILL BE REWARDED, AS THE gpH GRADUALLY| C;};C HANGESz(@1 lO and ApE!pv^(@58Mc uSame Yet Different{ EA<}<CCH TIME!r-@A%)v q+@-1%@5Dx6-P:H:@HM,$@Qa,6-P:H:@ej,$@@nx,---}=}=CA`+A@&&,'@ ,##P:H:@05,$@9>,%@BK,@OS@@W`##/@do%$G:,@@s%$E:,>}>C H:@ ,!?0*AOO0P:H:@.3,$@7@,P:H:@DI,$@MV,P:H:@Z_,$@ch,$@l  A ?}?C$GOTO 120 ě##0@(,@07$+&@H;h,  AD2:COLRWEEL.BAS}h@CaN) !"`3!3?FGMO UW ]_ eg mo uw}5}}}C !")*129:ABIJQRYZabijqry5~}~C !"$%#-G??ԠΠV rSAVE "D:NEWSLTR.BAS 6-x6-5}C@'6-@36-@'?6-@+ӠϠŠӭҠԬŠ̮Ϡ̮z(5}C@ -E:(ARKB7t@d17'@;?@dCI3@M?AKA 'A@e5}C '@ 65K:6-6-)6-A2:B56-@F33;,;,;,;,;,;,;,;A2,$(5}CA6.D1:WELCOME.SCR(8EA !A@hES3B7t@dW]E@ae@diL. A 6.5}C6. $(. 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AQ@67<,.) 6-%6-%@95}C2 ! )6-%"F:Ad,"A8" AU6#,F:Ad,"AF", A(7 A&@5}CPP:,"7(@2 "(GF6  '6-+",$%+",$+@T&,6(=:,PN (((5}C":6-+",$@ %+",$@#,G*@'0HN*Z: 6-6-@@Lh-$6.*":6. q _"F:Ad5}C,"A8" AU`,F:Ad,"AF", Ad<67B:,%,.7<,)67B:,%,.7<,<67B:,%,.7<5}CG,n"6-?:TIME,Z _BYE!}*=}C* *}< C * Dates for the OL' HACKERS Meetings:Sept 15, 1990Oct 13, 1990 Bring kids to meetingNA}Gov 10, 1990Dec 15, 1990 Holiday meetingJan 12, 1991 Membership dues!Feb 09, 1991 Election Time!Mar 09, 1991Apr 13,A}G 1991May 11, 1991Jun 01, 1991Please post these dates for future use.Future meeting dates posted when we getthem from B_}C *" 5Newsletter ReviewsB EbyN ]Alan Sharkis u*I haE}Gve received a large collection ofnewsletters for review in this issue,so without further comment, heregoes:From E}GJanuary, 1990 JACG Newsletter:David Dvorin shows us how to use theAtari 8-bit to work on MS-DOS files.It is a threE}Ge-part article, and thisfirst part talks about files ingeneral. He differentiates files bytheir most commonlyE}C8 used filenameextenders (MS-DOS files use the same@x.xxx filespec as Atari 8-bitfiles), distinguishes betweenE}G programand data files, and gives examples ofeach. Niel Van Oost gives us a grandtour of picture print programs andE}C!graphics converter programs.% Hementions a program called "Snapshot",bearing a copyright date of 1985 byJoy FoE}Gx Productions which can convertbetween many formats and print out toan Okimate 10 printer in 50 or morecolors or tE}Go an Epson-compatibleprinter in true grey-scale. He alsomentions the popular Picture Plus fromANTIC, which I have E}Cused with greatsuccess. hThere are reviews ofSYNCALC, WIZARD'S CROWN, and RESCUE ONFRACTALUS.m pThet newsletteE}Cr isreprinting Z-NET, which has gone todisk, and there is an interestingarticle by Elliot John Coerper ofE}GOsan, Korea about surviving as an8-bitter. If you haven't read it,please do so.The February, 1990 print copy ofE}G Z-Netitself contains many small referencesto 8-bit hardware and software, aswell as ads from Innovative ConceptsaE}Gnd Computer Software Services, twocompanies that make and sell manyhardware and software enhancements forour 8-bitE}Gs.In the February, 1990 JACG Newsletter,Dave Dvorin continues his article onusing your 8-bit with MS-DOS files.ThisE}G time he goes over what is neededto connect the two machines, completewith a pin-out diagram of a null-modemcable, whicE}Gh would work well if thetwo machines are physically close.(Note: I made a much less elaboratecable, connecting E}G only signal andground leads, and it works well withmy setup.) He also states that if bothmachines have modems, E}Gyou couldtransfer files from one to the othervia telephone lines. Such a setupwould work best of the machines aE}Gresome distance from each other. Infact, if a friendly BBS will give yousome disk space, you could use it as atempoE}Grary repository for the files tobe transferred. Dave Arlington writesan article explaining the memory mapof the 8-biE}CMts, with the emphasis onmemory functioning, rather than MLprogramming.R It's the simplestexplanation of the fuE}Gnctioning of RAM,ROM, the 6502 microprocessor and the"special" Atari 8-bit chips I've everseen.The March, 1990 E}GJACG Newslettercontains the conclusion of (youguessed it) Dave Dvorin's three-partarticle. In this final paE}Crt, Davegives specific# step-by-stepinstructions for creating, convertingand transferring DIF and ASCII filesE}Gfrom Lotus 1-2-3 (release 2.01), dBaseIII+ and IV and WordPerfect 5.0 toSynfile, Syncalc and AtariWriter Plus,respectE}Cively. Niel Van Oost, Jr.reviews Textpro 4.54, Thomas E. Graftells how to generate Bezier Curves(these are nE}CHecessary for any CADprogram to function) with the 8-bit,includingL RsampleV BASIC programmodules. Dave ArlingE}Gton reviews thegame, UNIVERSE.In the A.C.E. of Syracuse Newsletterof April, 1990, Ken Wickert describesthe installatiE}Gon of a 320K upgrade forthe 130XE from Electronic Dimensions.Mike Maroney writes a letter in whichhe expresses the F}G wish that all8-bitters make full use of the PDlibraries available through usergroups. He feels that such F}Guse willkeep the machines viable. ThomasAndrews writes an article aboutsorting on the 8-bits. Thomas assumesF}Gthat we are familiar with severaltypes of sort module and we know howto program them in one language oranotherF}G, and he takes us one stepbeyond with some simple tricks liketurning off the screen, using acompiled versiF}Gon of a language (TurboBASIC us suggested), breaking up thelist to be sorted, using RAM-baseddata bases rather than F}Gdisk-based databases, and using indexed arrays.The April, 1990 starts out with acheckbook balancing program compleF}Gtewith BASIC listing by Paul T.Caldwell, which the editor, DavidArlington, promises to convert toTurboF}G BASIC in the next issue, sinceit is David's intention to begin aseries on Turbo BASIC. Neil Van Oost,Jr. reviews F}G the shareware B&G SLIDESHOW, a very versatile slide showprogram which accepts graphics filesin a variety of forF } Cimats and displaysthem on the screen (even in mixedorder!) in a variety of ways. DaveArlingtonn vcompares{ MIF } GCROLEAGUEBASEBALL and COMPUTER BASEBALL, and(in another article) the XE and STversions of TRAILBLAZER. The creatioF } Gnof NEAR-US is announced, together witha listing of the clubs involved, theircontact persons, and addresses andphone F } Gnumbers.The A.C.E. of Syracuse newsletter ofMay, 1990 reprints J. D. Potter'sarticle on his experiences witF } GhA.P.A.C. I've mentioned this articlebefore, and suggest that this isanother place to read it.The JACG NewsleF}Gtter of May, 1990presents a Turbo BASIC command list,compiled and translated by Dave andLaura Yearke. These coF}Gmmands, forthose not familiar with Turbo BASIC,represent extensions to the AtariBASIC language. They fall into varF}Ciouscategories, such as Disk I/O,graphics, memory, structured program(yes, you CAN structure your BASICproF}Ggrams!) and more. Although thelist is very extensive, there wastrouble translating some of thecommands. F}GDavid Arlington, the editorof the newsletter, helps out with asecond article. I have also copiedthese two articleF}Cms and hope to makethem available to club members. Onpage 15 of the Newsletter, there is aTurbo-BASICr yprogram} F}C with noexplanation. Get the newsletter andfigure it out. Better still, get theinterpreter if you don't have it, F}Grunit, type in the program, and test itout! Later in the newsletter, NeilVan Oost, Jr. reviews three old AtariBASIF}GC programs; ISO-SKETCH, TITLE CARDGENERATOR and POINTSET. Finally, thereare two pages reproduced from an oldad for tF}Ghe never-released Atari1450XLD computer.The A. C. E. of Syracuse Newsletter ofJune, 1990 contains a review ofSF}CvpeedScript 3.0 by Thomas Andrews.The June, 1990 Clevatari Newsletterpresents an article by Randy Hahnaboutz hisF}C ATR-8000, an 8-bitperipheral that combined a controllerfor up to four 5.25" double-side,double-density disF}Gk drives, an 8"(remember them?) disk drive, a serialinterface, a parallel interface and aCP/M- compatible Z-80 computF}Ger. Thereare also two beginner programs by BobParry.The June, 1990 JACG Newsletter openswith Neil Van Oost, Jr.'sF}G very finetwo-page demonstration (that's right!)of what the registered copy of DaisyDot III can do. Neil is very emphatF}Gicabout the differences between thedistribution copy and the registeredcopy, which is yours for a donation of$25 F}Gto Roy Goldman. Neil also givesus a good look at the fonts that JACGhas put on its member disk for thatmonth. They lF}Gook especially good andguess what they are in our libraryEric Jacoves follows with a good BASICutility program foF } Gr photographers.It's written in GFA BASIC (an STdialect), and with the addition ofline numbers it should also wF!}!Cork on an8-bit. David Arlington keeps apromise (only one issue late!) andshows us how to modify a checkbooF"}"Gkbalancing program written in AtariBASIC and previously published intheir newsletter so that it would takefull F#}#Gadvantage of Turbo-BASIC. Davidnot only takes us through the programstep-by-step, but also prints completelistings of thF$}$Ge Turbo-BASIC version.The July, 1990 JACG Newsletter (we gota BATCH from them!) contains aninspiring article byF%}%G David Dvorinabout how he uses his Atari 800.David explains his reasons for buyingthe 800 when he did, tracF&}&Ges theevolution of a program he wrote forthe machine, talks about hardware andsoftware upgrades, and ends with aF'}'Glist of programs he developed andhardware he uses even today with his800. Neil Van Oost, Jr. explains howhe prodF(}(Guced last month's spectacularDD III demonstration page. Then DavidArlington gives us some perspective onthe 8-bits andF)})G where we, as clubmembers, stand to benefit by readingnewsletter articles and following themup by networking with thF*}*Ge authors.Clevatari Newsletter for July/August,1990 gives us a program by AnthonyRamos that illustrates the fascinatF+}+Gingtechnique known as "bit-mapping". Ofgeneral interest is an article byRandy Hahn called. "Writing to Read aNewsF,},Gletter". Randy's suggestions fornewsletter contributors and editorsare well- taken.The August, 1990 issue of theF-}-C (alltogether, now) JACG Newslettercontains meeting notes for the club,as they all do. I don't usuallymeF.}.Gntion anything about these; afterall, we have our own minutes andaren't usually interested in those ofanother cF/}/Glub. However, the notes forJACG's July meeting are interesting tous, since they mention a demo of theWQNR Dos. Many F0}0Gother 8-bit programsget shown at meetings of JACG sincethe organization is so large. It paysto skim them all. But it'F1}1CBs especiallygratifying to see mention made of thework of one ofF IourM members, KrisHoltegaard our programmer and AuF2}2Cthorof DataGraf. While( I'mon the subject, JACG Newlsetter alsoruns frequent updates of its 8-bit PDcatF3}3CTalogue. This is another featureworth skimming. Seriously, if you seesomethingX [you_ think would beespecially F4}4G important to us as a club,the club might be able to order onecopy from JACG and duplicate it forour library. PerhapF5}5Gs we can work out aswap with them. Also in this issue ofJACG Newsletter, Neil Van Oost is atit again with DD III! TF6}6Ghis time hedemonstrates in print a two-columnexperiment he performed with theprogram. The results are stunniF7}7Gng.Dave Arlington describes a sessionwith Flight Simulator, one of hisfavorite pastimes.The September, 1990 iF8}8Gssue of the ACEof Syracuse Newsletter starts out witha follow-up to that article onsorting. It seems that the cF9}9Glub gotpermission from ICD to publish theQuick Sort included in the Sparta DosTool Kit. The source code is writtenF:}:Cin ACTION!, and is thoroughlyexplained. A short glossary of termsis included, and the role of thepointer F;};G in the sort is clearlydelineated. Finally, the routine ispresented in C, since it is part ofmost standard F<}<GC libraries. (Did youknow that there are at least threeversions of C compilers for the 8-bit,and that C is reF=}=Gnowned as aprogramming language because of its"portability" from one machine toanother?)The September, 1990 F>}>Gissue of the JACSBetween Bytes describes a process thatis common to many mixed 8-bit and STclubs. It seems that the F?}?G club hadsplit into two sigs; ST and 8-bit, butthe ST people couldn't come up with acomplete slate of officers, so thF@}@Gegroups reunited under one leadership.Since 8-bit machines will no longer bemanufactured by Atari, but the STEsand FA}ACQTTs (almost) are here, some8-bitters may be selling theirhardware.U Will the club pendulumswing against FB}BG8-bitters? Editor RogerHeller thinks not. He reminds us thathis club has a majority of 8-bitters,and that when machinFC}CGes are sold, thepurchasers will need a club! I cansee a new generation of 8-bitters whohave recently bought old eFD}DC^quipmentjoining clubs in large numbers,because literature for the machines isscarce.c Remember, club membersFE}EGrepresent the greatest source ofwisdom about their machines! JosephE. Hicswa reviews the Douglas B.FletcheFF}FGr program, SOLITAIR. Thisconstantly upgraded simulation of asolitaire game is one of my favorites,and Joseph's FG}GGreview does it justice.Robert S. Ely contributes a programthat makes 5.25" disk jackets with adirectory on the frontFH}HCa, and prints toa Panasonic printer. Nancy Hellerwrites an interesting article abouthowe hherl missing-persons-lFI}IGocatingagency uses an Atari 800XL for all ofits work.Clevatari Newsletter for September,1990 seems to be an educatFJ}JGion issue.The venerable 8-bit Atari Touch Typingprogram is reviewed by Randy Hahn.Unfortunately, this is the only reviFK}KGewthat is identified as 8-bit. I knowthat the 8-bit world is chock-full ofed programs, and even more are beingwrittFL}LGen and released as shareware orp/d even now.The September, 1990 JACG Newsletter(the last one in this column, FM}MGIpromise!) makes mention of the factthat the club has entered into an8-bit disk-swap arrangement with thelibrarFN}NGy of MACE (Modesto, California). I wonder, as I write this, if thereis anything to be gained by a NEAR-USclearing housFO}OGe on club libraries, sothat all NEAR-US members will be ableto find programs they need quickly? Iinvite your feedbackFP}PG on this point.For example, JACG member and frequentcontributor Joe Hicswa (isn't he withJACS, as well?) is looking fFQ}QGor 8-bitsoftware that can be used by peoplewith disabilities. It's a legitimateneed that might be better met withFR}RCbetter coordination among clublibraries. Perhaps NEAR-US can showthe way? Among the 8-bit articles isa repeFS}SGat of Joe Hicswa's review ofSOLITAIR, a follow-up article by DaveDvorin on 8-bit to MS-DOS filetransfers giviFT}TGng the correct pin-outfor a null-modem cable that serves theAtari and a 9-pin AT style serialport, Neil Van Oost,FU}UG Jr.'s "how-to"covering the DD III-Print Shop Iconconnection, and mention in the 8-bitlibrary column of our owFV}VGn KrisHoltegaard as being a fan of Betamenu(aka Demamenu), which I demonstratedfor Ol' Hackers a few months back.B. FW}WG A. C. E. Line for September, 1990contains a reprint of Derek Furman'sBetaZine article, in which he rescuesfiles origFX}XGinally saved on a doubled1050 at varying speeds by using SpartaDos Tool Kit and Bev. Brown's SpartaDos Disk Editor. HeFY}YG also rescued filesthat contained what he called,"phantom sectors" using a variety ofother tools and techniquFZ}ZGes. It's ahighly technical article, but writtenin a nice, narrative form. Derek is afrequent caller to Dateline II, F[}[C'theBBS of B. A. S. I. C. in Brooklyn.}D'\Glist prizes orwinners of the JANUARY DOOR PRIZES.DOOR PRIZES was as always on themonthly agenda but the first t]}]Gime inmemory, no way could it be squeezedin. Maybe FEBRUARY will bring doubleprizes?FUTURE MEETING DATES:Future ^}^CR meeting dates for the OL'HACKERS ATARI USER GROUP are:FEBRUARY 9, 1991V YMAY] k11, 1991MARCHq y9, 1991} `}_Cthe LIBRARY!/*0}@0`CJUNE 1, 1991APRIL S13, 1991All dates are a SATURDAY and arescheduledW for the PLAINVIEW/OLDBETHPAGE LIa}EaCBRARY. Remember.thenext OL' HACKERS ATARI USER GROUPmeeting is scheduled for FEBRUARY 9,1991, at 11:30am. b}bC Sincerely,0 :AL ATKINSD*E} EcCme, if you sodesire. Above is another great use forthis versatile 8 BIT micro - GAMEMACHINE? Me thinks not d}dC! Till !Next9 @Time,` fBYE!}* e}eC*}fCebecame a collector of ATARIMemorabilia, displaying two rareitems, a 1090XL Expansion System and aXTC2012g}gG ATARI Thermal Color Printer.JOHN has fond memories of his ATARIlife in Texas and now hopes tocontinue it 2h}hG in New York. Uponcontacting AAAUA, they then put him intouch with our club. Here's hopingJOHN has found his A2i}iGtari Utopia withthe OL'HACKERS. RON FETZER donated a large quantityof Antic Magazines for club membersuse. They w2j}jGere immediately put intoour hard copy library. ALEX suppliedthe members with a listing of the manybooks donated by ALAN2k}kG SHARKIS and NIEKVANDERLEE at the January meeting. Thislibrary has already been set intomotion, as a couple of th2l}lGe membershave taken advantage of this newlibrary, which contains many out ofprint books. MINUTES/TREASURY REPO2m}mGRTS: ALEX next read the lengthy Januaryminutes report and AL ATKINS gave hisup todate Treasury Report. Both wereac2n}nGcepted as read. MAIL & CORRESPONDENCE: Surprise mail came to our Oceansideaddress from FRANCE, to be exact, anAtar2}}oC'* FR.A PeckN 174SS Advanced ComputerProgramming In Basic Nw}wC W.S. Watson $250Compute's Vol IC M18 Vol IIk v25 Vol III} Nx}xC %30Atari Basic- =Albreht, FinkelP W& Browna 330Your Atari Computer LonNy}yC Poole .458Electronic ComputerProjects: AComputeJ 182Family Computing Dictionary of Simpleterms MNz}zC ade Simple /96Atari Sound &6 LMoore, LoweerGraphicsX b& Alberchth 234Mapping The AtarN{}{Ci Ian Chadwick 194-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- We also have a very large selection of Newsletters fromN|}|C1 other Atari User Groups from around the world.}L0}Gi Newsletter and Library Listing,in French no less. It was from "CLUBCENACLE ATARI", containing news of theXL/XE. The 2~}~G newsletter was passed toJACK GEDALIUS for translation andreporting back at the March meetingThe CENACLE CLUB 2}Cgis a nation wideFrench ATARI User Group. Their purposeis to make the worth while 8-Bit live,thoughk qFrenchu supporte2}Crs haveconsidered that these computers weredead (sound familiar?). For over threeyears they have been publishi2}Gngnewsletters with disk, containingrograms born from the creativity oftheir members. They also have a PublicDomai2}Gn Library for which some membershave produced hard and software. Theyare interested in corresponding withATARI User Gr2}Goups throughout the worldfor an exchange of information and theexchange of membership of AtariGroups. ALEX responde2}Gd "Tout De Suite"endorsing their ideas and forwardedcopies of our last three newsletters. "CLUB CENACLE", B.P. 42}G9, 95110Sannois, France. ALEX read a letter from HORST DEWITZwho said he cannot attend regularmeetings. HORST2}G our internationalcorrespondence member, is as well, amember of LIAUG and ABBUC, GERMANY. Hewould like to continue 2}Gto act as theconnecting link and perform thecoordination of activities betweenGERMANY and the USA. DR. R.B2}G. HERMAN, President of "THEW.A.N.D.", WESTCHESTER ATARI NEWSDIGEST an all 8-bit ATARI club, wascontacted by ALEX 2}Gat the suggestion ofROLAND FETZER. DR. HERMAN has agreedto an exchange of N/L's and articlesbetween the clubs. KEN 2}GWICKERT, A.C.E., SYRACUSE hasreally jumped into "DESERT STORM". Hebrought his 8-bit computers into thelocal school 2}G systems and to thesupport system for wives and familiesof affected servicemen and women. Hehas taught word process2}Ging to familiesto allow them to send mail to theirloved ones, either paper mail or"GENIE". He also printed hund2}Greds ofmailing labels for families as well.TOM ANDREWS at a minutes notice, hascomposed for him a new version of the2}Gprogram "COL40.CTB", called "REFORMAT"that allows him to take a lettercomposed with Atari Writer andreformat2}G it to send over ElectronicMail with the least amount of wastedspace. TOM ANDREWS our honorary memberlives i2}Gn upstate N. Y., in MANLIUS. Heis a dedicated 8 BITTER, who helps hisfamily run a large dairy farm. He hasan Electrical 2}G Engineers degree, butfrom seeing his programs, I think hecut clases and went to computerschool instead. Way to 2}Ggo, TOM! JOAN RYAN, A.C.E., ST LOUIS wrotevery favorable comments concerning theOL' HACKERS bimonthly newsletter. Sh2}Geespecially liked printing it in twocolumns with "TWOCOL.BAS" from ANTIC.In addition JOAN thought including agame 2}Cqor two on the reverse side wassuper. SURPRISE!! With this disk, she,(and you) will now be able to print itinu 3 colu2}Gmns, thanks to ourprogrammers! ALAN SHARKIS volunteered to composeand send a letter to START (ANTIC)Magazine2}C$ for permission to includetheir( .typein2 programs on ournewsletters. The entire 8-Bit worldwould benefit 2}Gif we could includethese programs on the newsletter. TheOL' HACKERS are a not for profit cluband these disks are 2}Gexchanged withother clubs, not sold. DOOR PRIZES: To no ones surprise, HARRY TUTHILL'Snumber instantly popped up whe2}Gn "DOORPRIZE was run. After so many years themembers agree that the odds have to beastronomical that month after month2}GHARRY walks up and claims his "DOORPRIZE". As he picked up his prize heseemed to be mumbling something about"Positiv2}Ge Thinking". Almost unnoticedwere the other winners, RON FETZER andJACK GEDALIUS. DEMONSTRATIONS: HAROLD PEGLER star2}Gted the demos with"Menu Plus", version 2.5, put on diskas an Autorun program. All filesentered on the disk is by2}G a number.You have a choice, as in DOS, to run,load, enter, copy, make an autorun.Everything that you can do with DO2}GS.The demo disk happened to be programsof tapes converted to disk (no newprograms here). Mostly this diskconsi2}Gsted of educational programs, inbasic only. Before we knew what hadhappened HAROLD had us playing "Statesand Capitals"2}G. Then "TV TEST", color bars to allowyou to make television alignments. Youcan get crosshatch (our monitor passedwith 2}G flying colors), Horizontal,Vertical, Wide, Dots, Grey scale, testpatterns. This program will reallytell you wha2}Gt ails your monitor or TVset. "B Copy" Antic 1988 bonus disk. BCopy has an excellent use forconverting dou2}Gble and enhanced densityto a single density disk. The programwill not copy DOS or DUP, so when youformat a disk put 2}GDOS on it. Yourdrive or drives, including RAM Diskcan be selected. Hitting the start keywill produce a directory of 2}Gprogramsin drive #1. Use the arrow keys tomake file selections, then hit returnto lock highlighted programs. After2}Gmarking programs using this method,hit start and then the programsselected will be transferred to a newdisk. 2}G "Info Bits" came next, another Anticprogram, a real simple little database program. You have to generate adisk y2}Gou want to use that will have"INFO BITS" on it. Then establish afile called "Info Bit File" and youare then limi2}Gted to 119 characters,approximately three lines of print.HAROLD used Info Bits to catalog a lotof his tapes, normal2}Gly using aboutthree lines for name, number and titleof his music cassettes. You have achoice of adding to the file or2}G make asearch. Then he exhibited the searchexcellant feature of the program. CARLOS HURTADO started his demo with"TEX2}GTPRO", version 3.2, (he has passedup version 4.5, with help key),feeling more comfortable with 3.2.CARLOS pass2}Ged out handouts containinginformation about the program andstated he used "TEXTPRO" for lettersand our newsletter2}Cr. While performingthe "TEXTPRO" demo he went through thefollowing steps: a. CTRL/M key to bring up they dire2}C-ctory b. Used the arrow keys to make a3 selection c. CTRL/L key to load selection d. When using a harddriv2}Ge, makeselection, then hit the insert key toopen up a sub directory e. To return to the main directoryuse clear key2}G f. Then q1 to justify the margins.Using q1 turns justification on and q0turns it off g. Using CTRL/S, the text wil2}Gl besaved h. Then using CTRL/H to bring cursorto top of file, CARLOS typed in "PrintFile>DI:" to print to disk i. Whe2}Gn reformatting text file heuses "FIXUP" j. Then taking a text file submittedby ALAN he went through all the stepsfor 2}G making it compatible with thenewsletter program. ALAN used "ATARIWRITER PLUS to submit his article,CARLOS using2}G the Global Search featurewas able to instantly correct the textfor "TEXTPRO". ALEX PIGNATO followed with his demosstar2}Gting with "File Verifier" from TOMANDREWS, The program will check if afile has been copied correctly. Anyvariation f2}Grom the orginal file willbe noted. Next came "DOS 2.5 Modified" whenused with a 800XL or 130XE, somehow,it seems2}G to make two ram disks thatyou can configure the DOS to name,such as; D3 and D8, D4 and D8. DOS D3will have DOS and2}CD DUP and D8 will haveDUP and MEMSAV. ALEX named thisprogramH V"DBLRMDOS.BAS"Z and thedocumentation is in the2}G program. TheDOS sets up a 90K Ramdisk that can beassigned D2 to D7 when used with a256K upgrade providing RAMDISK. C2}GOM ison the disk. The second ramdisk needsto be formatted after being poweredup. How good it is??? Members willha2}Gve to play with it. "Wall Calendar" was demoed next,this program displays one year bymonths. You have the2}G option ofhighlighting any date or dates youselect, then it prints out the endresults. Then "IRA.BAS" w2}Gill calculateinterest with or without taxableincome for "N" years. Good whether youare retiring or thinking of it!2}C2 Next a potpourri of old familiarprograms,6 Z"LUNAR LANDER", "FILERECOVERY",` n"DISKEDIT:DOC"s and"FUJIB2}GONk". A lot of the programswere typed in by JOE LEBER. ThanksJoe. To finish the demos for this month,a super2}G program was saved for last,"Print Star" by TOM ANDREWS. Thisprogram allows you to select your sizeof type for t2}Ghe text. The selectionallows two columns of print having sixor eight lines to an inch. Anotherchoice is three column2}Gs of text withsix or eight lines to an inch. FUTURE MEETING DATES: Future meeting dates for the OL'HACKERS ATARI 2}GUSER GROUP are: MARCH 9, 1991 MAY 11,1991 APRIL 13, 1991 JUNE 1,1991 All dates are SATURDAY and aresc2}Cheduled Afor the PLAINVIEW/OLDBETHPAGE LIBRARY. REMEMBERI.the next OL' HACKERSATARI USER GROUP meeting is sc2}C$heduledfor MARCH 9th, at 11:30am.= KRespectfully,e pAL ATKINSu So long 2}C for now! &*'M Q }0NE