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F0Ξ05: [ BDEHI%} VY8 B V  @  /DE `E:D8:DUP.SYSERROR-SAVING USER MEMORY ON DISKTYPE Y TO &}STILL RUN DOS B;DE J  (` 9 V⪍ ઍ  -'}LLu ÝDEHILV 9 .l 9 .l  `` s$B BH(}I|DE V BLV nB,DE JLV B V BLVDEIʩ BꭝLu }A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON TO ALL ATARIANS************************************** MINUTES OF THE DECEMB*}ER 1990 MEETING GENERAL MEETING: T'was the meeting before Christmasand what could be more fitting than anadded att+}raction such as a "MAGICSHOW". Our newsletter editor, CARLOSHURTADO, displayed a hidden talentvery few members k,}new he pocessed, butmore about that later. ALEX opened the meeting by wishingall a MERRY CHRISTMAS, and a HAPPYHA-}NUKKAH. The OL' HACKERS havereceived some early Christmas cards,the first one being from BOB BRODIE,Group Use.}r Manager, from the ATARICORPORATION, then from ICD, even thothey are no longer into 8 BITcomputing, and a/} third from ANDREWBUONGIORNO, an old exmember. ALEX PIGNATO passed around samplesof Christmas labels made from 0}theprogram "P/S LABLER". The specialfeature of these samples was that theywere made with red addresses and greenxmas1} tree. By changing the color ofthe ribbon ALEX was able to create aseasonal greeting label. ALEX also displayed 2}three articlesfrom the "M.U.G. NEWSLETTER" or justplain "CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIAMICROCOMPUTER USER GROUPS NEWS"3}. Theywere "An Open Letter to All ClubMembers" by ALEX PIGNATO, "ATARI theGAME MACHINE?" by CARLOS HURTADO, and"4}BASIC PROGRAMMING for BEGINNERS" bySTAN "The PILLMAN" SCHENFELD (Way togo fellows!). JOE LEBER is the first memb5}er totype out an old "SOFTSIDE MAGAZINE"type in program called "At the CODFISHBALL". From NETA FILLMORE, BAKERSF6}IELD,CALIFORNIA, she has foreign names andadresses for those who wish tocorrespond with pen pals world wide.Sh7}e brought to the "B.A.C.E. LINEBAKERSFIELD ATARI COMPUTER ENTHUSIASTSraffle, several foreign decals and anew disk 8} sent to her by the OL'HACKERS CLUB. From J.A.C.G., the JERSEY ATARICOMPUTER GROUP, a thank you for ourDOM9} (Disk of the Month) forNOVEMBER/DECEMBER on on one side,which brings them up todate with theSEPTEMBER/O:}CTOBER issue, also with agood bowling program and "The STORYCONTINUES". ALEX combined two issues,one on each side ;}of a disk, and JACGhas entered them into their clublibrary. ALEX read outgoing JACG president'smessage from <}DAVE NOYES to ourmembers. It concerned his mixedfeeling over leadership, the emotionaland physical drain that =}is associatedwith it. He also stated that FUN iswhat the club is all about and that'swhat doing things for a club s>}houldbe, FUN, NOT A CHORE! ALEX reread ANTHONY FALCONE'Sletter, having first read it at ourannual club dinne?}r. ANTHONY stated hehad enjoyed reading the stack of otherclub's newsletters he borrowed at thelast meeting. Because of@} school workand finals at COOPERS UNION he will beunable to attend the next two monthlymeetings. However, he has someA} newprograms given to him by members andhe is trying to learn them. He did notcount on this extra learning process. AB}LEX read member NICK VANDERLEE'Slatest letter from the wilds ofCANADA. There aren't too manyeight-bitteC}rs in his neck of thewoods,so he is very happy he is amember of OL' H. Throughcorrespondance witD}h other clubs hedoes pickup some eight-bit disks toenjoy. The "CLEVATARI NEWSLETTER" forOCTOBER 1990 carE}ried an article "TheOL' HACKER'S DO IT AGAIN". This columnreferred to our disk newsletter andforced the writer to dustF} off his oldATARI 800 one more time in order toread the newsletter with the slicklooking menu with a help key. AG}s hestated each member would be requiredto use his ATARI eight-bit computer atleast once a month just to read thenewH}sletter. Being exclusively aneight-bit club our ATARI'S do get alot of mileage each and every monthand the incI}entive is turned up a notchwhen the club newsletter is issued. Hegave us a great compliment, in sayingwe were on of tJ}he STRONGEST 8 BITCLUBS! ANNUAL DINNER: BOB DEPOTO gave a report on theANNUAL OL' HACKERS CHRISTMAS DINNER.AK}s in the past the dinner was wellattended and enjoyed by all. Besidesthe summer picnic this is the onlyother occL}asion where our wives join usfor some merriment. Adding to thepleasure of the evening were someformer ATARIANS M} who went on to "BIGBLUE", but it was still nice to partywith them. DOOR PRIZES: Christmas came early as ALEX comiN}ngon as SANTA's HELPER, emptied thebarrel during the spinning of the"DOOR PRIZE" program. Would youbelieO}ve, most members collected asmany as three prizes that includedDisks, Games, Utilities,DocumentationP}, Disk Holders, etc.. One member commented "We got a yearssupply of door prizes at one meeting".It was really a grQ}eat CHRISTMASmeeting! IN keeping with the season, Coffeeand Cake during the break were on thehouse. MINUTES/TREAR}SURY REPORTS: The minutes were accepted as writtenand AL ATKINS gave a healthy year endtreasury report. In addition} The WQNR Disk News Letter Help File  The WQNR Disk Based News Letteris very T}simple for you to use. All youhave to do is make the selection you'dlike and read it. As you can see thereare pauses in U}the text so its mucheasier to read. Making a selectionfrom 1 thru 4 you can Exit to Basic orExit to Dos, or even V}go to The NewsLetter Press Room. Selections A thru Zare news Articles. When a selectionis made the article is sent tW}o thescreen with page breaks. At the end ofthe article you are sent back to theNewsletter Main Menu. About X}The Printer  When you make your selection ofthe file you would like to read youwill Y} be presented with the following:enu rint ead:.. If youchoose then and you don't have aprinter on lZ}ine you will come back tothese options. Then you should use the option to read the file online. Ifhowever you either ma[}de a mistake ordon't care to read or print the fileyou selected you can go right back tothe main menu just by hitting \}. Now when a file is beingprinted it will not only printto your printer, it will also at thesame time pr]}int it to your screen.With the rint option you can onlyuse Control-1 to stop & start printingto the screen and y^}our printer if youare reading the file at the sametime. About Configuring Your Printer _} This is where I tell you aboutthe selection, and how and configuring your printer.gO) !"`3!3($Programmed For The Ol' Hack(}ers AtariP-@"z(% User Group Inc. 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TRE,}ASURER............Allen AtkinsLIBRARIAN............Harold PeglerLEGAL-COUNSEL........Jerry GinsbergEDITORS.............,}.Carlos Hurtado Alex PignatoEQUIPMENT-MANAGER....Harry TuthillINT'L CORRESPODENT...Horst DewitzPro,}gramming-Manager..(O.H.A.U.G.) is in no way associatedwith the ATARI Corp.,or any of theirafffiliates,other tha,}n using a greatproduct.Atari and Atari relatedproducts are the Trademarks of theirrespective companies and ,}are usedonlyas informational help to our membersand the Atari user in general.The opinions herein are not necessarilyt,}hose of O.H.A.U.G. but those of thevarious individual authors. O.H.A.U.G. is a ,}NOT-FOR-PROFITOrganization in the State of New York. O.H.A.U.G. will NOT tolerate AN,}Yreferances,directly or byimplication,to piracy or the use of anycomputer equipment for illegalact,}ivities.DEADLINES FOR NEWSLETTER------------------------JAN/FEB DEC 31 JUL/AUG JUN 30MAR/APR FEB 28 SEPT/OCT A,}UG 31MAY/JUN APR 30 NOV/DEC OCT 31 Submitted articles are preferred asdisk,} text files, but will be gratefullyaccepted as a hard copy. Send yourarticles to Ol' Hackers Newsletter C/OC. Hurta,}do, 117-05 149 Ave., So. OzonePark, N.Y. 11420. Please refer to theschedule above for future deadlines. ,} ,Dates for the next Ol' Hackers Meeting:Sept 15, 1990Oct 13, 1990 Bring kids to meetingNov 10, 1990Dec 15, 1990 Holi0}day meetingJan 12, 1991 Membership dues!Feb 09, 1991 Election Time!Mar 09, 1991Apr 13, 1991May 11, 1991Jun 01, 190}91Please post these dates for future use.0+  `Lw00D8:D8:*.*D1:DUP.SYSD8:MEM.SAV DUP SYS}Setting up Persistent RAMdisk 4}Please wait...@00     PBD0EJK V0u00PBDEH4}I V0 * 00L011 0 [ `0`P B V00 Lh2P B V B0D0EDH4}I VPBD0EJK VPB D0EJK VLO2PB͝D2EHI VP B VPB D4}0EJK80 VP B12͝D2E VP B VPBD0EJK VP BHI VP B V8?4} BHI} V`PBD0EJK VPBDEHI V䭁 #0 L28?P B VLO24}t04 AL, representing thenominations committee, gave themembers a proposed slate of clubofficers for 1991.} The proposednominations are as follows: PRESIDENT ALEX PIGNATO VICE-PRESIDENT STAN SCHENFELD SECRE}TARY GINA BRYANT TREASURY AL ATKINS LIBRIAN HAROLD PEGLER LEGAL COUNCIL JERRY GI}NSBERG CO-EDITORS "NL" CARLOS HURTADO ALEX PIGNATO EQUIPMENT MANAGER HARRY TUTHILL INT'L CO}RRESPONDENT HORST DEWITZ BOB DEPOTO made a motion to acceptthe slate of officers proposed by thenominating committee} as presented andthe motion was seconded by RON FETZER.As no other people were nominated,nominations were closed. Moti}on passedunanimously. Voting will be at theJANUARY 12th meeting by paid up 1991members. BLACK MOON SYSTEMS: CA}RLOS then demo'd a commericalprogram from BLACK MOON SYSTEMS,"LabelMaster". This program wasdonated by } the author to our librarythrough CARLOS. LabelMaster comes as atwo disk set. CARLOS used version 1.7for his demo pointi}ng out that one ofit's best features of the labelingprogram is that it will print as amulti column labeler, two} or threecolumns across. Looks like a superprogram for the ten dollar price.LabelMaster will complement the "SMA}LLBUSINESS" program from the samecompany. Their address is: BLACK MOON SYSTEMS P.O. BOX 152 WINDGAP, PA. 180}91 MAGIC SHOW: The entire membership was taken bysuprise when our newsletter editorCARLOS HURTADO put on a "MA}GIC SHOW".Very few members knew this side ofhim. CARLOS went thru the followingsleight of hand acts, in this }order: 1. "THE NEWSPAPER TRICK"- afterhaving HARRY TUTHILL tear a newspaperinto many small pieces, HARRY was}asked to roll them into a ball. Whenhe opened, the paper was again in it'sorginal condition. 2. "THE UMBRELLA"- mul}ti coloredpieces of cloth, when twisted into atube, out comes an umbrella. 3. "RECORDS"- three black recordsinser}ted into a folder, then whentaken out they are now BLUE, YELLOWand RED, after examination the folderis empty. }4. "THE ROPE TRICK"- a rope is cutin half, then cut again, and again, aknot is tied on the rope, moved to becentered }and suddenly it is again onepiece. 5. "COLORED PAPER"- orange and blackpaper, torn three times, balled up,blown on } and comes out a hat withflowers. 6. "100 DOLLAR BILL"- two tricks inone. First in getting a member to partwith a $}100 dollar bill. CARLOS talkedhis pigeon BOB DEPOTO, into giving hima hundred dollar bill, (pretty goodtrick so far). T}he bill was marked foridentification, folded and rolled upand the bill was then suspended undera handkerchief, when th}e handkerchiefis dropped, no hundred dollar bill!CARLOS had placed a small tube with ascrew top and a lock and key}, on awork table. When BOB unlocked the tubeand screwed the top off, a sigh ofrelief came out of him as he got backh}is $100. Carlos was given a big handfor an excellent show. The computerdemonstrations almost seemed like alet down }after that act of sorcery. DEMONSTRATIONS: ALAN SHARKIS lead off the demos withsome files he found in his collection}that have been around for awhile,"Oldie's, But Goodies". Thinking thatsome OL' HACKERS may not have seenthem or} forgotten them, or just mightenjoy seeing them once more. First up was a cute littlesimulation, "SANTA BBS}". You dial1-2no-rth-pole, make a connection,then receive the following dialoque.Have you ever been here before}? no,what is your name? Santa is listening,HO, HO, HO, RUDOLPH is eager to seeyou. Many members began thinking ofho}w wonderful it would be to have thisprogram during the coming season. ALAN then went through "XMAS TREECONSTRUCTION }SET" a program from theold FAMILY COMPUTING MAGAZINE. Next was "CAPITAL" a monopoly typegame of high finance. Two,} three orfour players are allowed, where youroll the dice, land on a property, youthen have an opportunity to purchas}ethat property. A program "PRYZM" puts 256 colors onthe screen (try focusing your eyes onthat graphic). The p}rogrammeralternates between two graphic modesto create a slide show. A drawingprogram is on the reverse side. "X}-WORD" a word puzzle, 26 of themto be exact. Documentation for X-WORDis included on the disk. Great programfor those }who can't throw away anewspaper without doing the crosswordpuzzle. "COMPUTER ART GRAPHICS" a 1985GERMAN dis}k with fantastic graphicsfor a SLOT MACHINE operation in GERMANof course. ALAN'S wrap up demo was a commericalprogram} "HANUKKAH DISK", thatcontained a number of religiousprograms and ALAN choose the DREIBELgame to attem}pt to clear up a coupleof mysterys that surrounds HANUKKAH,one of the biggest mysterys of all iswhat is this gambl}ing game thateverybody is talking about. Thisprogram probably explains it betterthan any explanation yet heard} WQNR SOFTWARE P.O. Box 533 Selden, N.Y. 11784Item Description Price--=}-- ----------- -----Disk 1 WQNRDos Shell $10.00Disk 2 WQNRDos Utility Modules $ 7.00Disk =}3 WQNR VCR Utility Modules $ 9.00Disk 4 WQNR User Group News- letter Modules $12.00Disk 5 WQNR SpartDo=}s Data Base Explained $ 7.00Disk 6 WQNR Disk Utility Module Volume 2 $ 7.00=}Disk 7 WQNR DataGraf Business Manager (3 Disks) $25.00All prices inclue shipping & handling. Send NO CASH, = }check or money order made out to Kris Holtegaard. Your order will be sent within 5 business days.--------------------------= }-------------Fill out your mailing address:Name --------------------------------Address --------------------= }--------- -----------------------------City State ------------------- --------Zip --= }--------------------------------------------------<5(This letter was in our Jan. 1987NEWSLETTER, and we thought you wouldenjoy seeing it again- Ye OldeEDITORSA}) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DEP'T. Janwury 1, 1987Deer Editore:i went and bott 1 of them nu fanA}gled'WURD PROSSERS' so that i kan spellwurds korekly, and it is wunnerful, asu kan klerly cee by reeding this lateri aA}m riting to u!cince i got it i hav rittin 1 hole pagwitout even 1 misteak- so ijust phelti had to tell u so u kudput itA} in the"ol' hakrs" nusletr. this is 1 of thereel hot softwhere discus wich urmembrs shud be told about it so theyA}kan use it to find there spllingmisteaks, and korrect them like i didin this lettr. before this i was reelyhaving pA}roblums an was no hot shot forspeling, but u kan see the impruvmintalredy, and i hav only worked with itfur 6 muntz.thA}is nu speling chekr is kalld by thenam of "SPELING CHEKR", and i kinreely rekomend it to u, and the bestthing is A}it unly kosts $500.00 wid nofedral or evn stat tax becuz its alurning tool, and all the edukationalproducts r tax freA}.hav to klos now, but i'll try to riteagin reel suun! cincrly, "x" p.s. thats not mA}yreel nam, but i don't want peeplekalling me fur help wid there spelingproblums! writ by ALEX PIGA}NATO@(For all you MODEM, & BBS USERS!) CALL ME MODEM (mad!)BY DENNIS KLINE,Member of the OL' HACKERS A.U.G. Inc.Do yE}ou recall my last article on whata computer did to my house? Now readwhat a Modem has done to me! About twoyears ago whE}en I thought the time wasright and things quited down in myhouse over having a computer, Ipurchased a modem. E} Now I have amodem, great! Now what the heck do youdo with it? Being a novice, I hookedit up per the instructioE}n sheet.After checking out all the wires andconnections, naturally, I wanted totest it. I turned on my new 300 bauE}dHayes Modem and 850 Interface and saidsmuggly to myself "So far so good".Different color lights flashed on andoff jE}ust like the instruction sheetsaid they would, and now to began mynew adventure. The instruction bookexplained howE } to set it up but ofcourse, it did not mention that youneeded special software to run themodem. Now I had to E!}find someone whocould explain what software wasneeded,and how to use it! When Ifinally reached someone E"}who wasknowledeable with using the modem Iwas told to use a program called"Amodem Plus", which started out withE#}a 4.4 version and had worked itself upto version 5.4. Question, which one doI want? Why not go for the best, the5.4 veE$}rsion, right? At this point Iwas starting to get really frustrated,but I wasn't about to give up! Usingthe latest veE%}rsion 5.4., I startedplaying with the modem, and I managedto log on to a BBS Board with a numbergiven to me by a kind sE&}oul.Questions began to scroll across thescreen, "Did I want 300, or 1200baud"? I knew I had a 300 baud, buthoE'}w do I toggle to let the sysop knowthat I have a 300 baud. By the time Ifound out how to make the switch, Ifound mysE(}elf logged off. Keeping mycool, I logged on again, like a realPro only to find bigger problems like,"Did I want AsciiE)} or Atascii"? Beingvery careful by nature, I hit one ofthem knowing I had a 50/50 chance thatI made the right choicE*}e. All of asudden I am answering more questions,almost like the questions I had on myfirst day in the Army. I'm surprisE+}ed Iwasn't asked my wifes' maiden name, mySocial Security number, and my Income!Next, the strangest thing happened.EacE,}h time I hit a letter I was gettingtwo of the same letter. Stillmaintaining my cool, I switched to theother modeE-} (ATASCII), and now thingswere looking up. However,now I amasked for a four letter password.Thinking fast andE.} typing what evercomes out, I am told I cannot use it,as someone else has it, or it is not agood word. (What words aE/}re 'good'?)By the time I got all the Armyquestions out of the way there was notime left, and again I found mysE0}elflogged off! Being an indomitable soul, The nextnight I logged on, got all thequeE1}stions out of the way only to findmore problems then the prior night.When I finally reached the point ofDownloadingE2} another problem arose. Howdo you accomplish this great feat? Notknowing the answer, I hung up and madeseveral calls to E3}some of my friends,only to find out that you have to goback to the main menu and hit ReceiveXmodem,then go back to teE4}rminal modeand hit "D"for Download. Now, aftertyping the name of the file I wanted,the screen said "Ready to send". I E5}hitstart and all of a sudden thestrangest things started to scrollacross the screen. Being new to theModeE6}m and having never seen aDownload, I thought something waswrong. At this point I was exhausted,and I deciE7}ded to let it run and seewhat happens! Not knowing that thefile I was downloading was over 400sectors long, and thE8}at at 300 baud itwould take almost 45 minutes, Iinnocently went ahead. When thescreen finally indicated E9} that thetransfer was completed I was tired,but I felt great. Now to run mymasterpiece and see what I hE:}adaccomplished. I then typed"Load" and the name of the program andeverthing looked fine. When the loadwas E;}completed I ran the program andsaw two "Readys" come up on thescreen, one under each other. Nowwhat? How isE<} this possible? Why did Iever buy this monster? I made up mymind that before using the modemagain, I would get E=}full instructionsbefore attempting it again. Aftermaking inquiries from other modemusers I finally got documentaE>}tion onlyto find that the 5.4 version had bugsin it and not to use it. Ah, but therewas a corrected version out called 5.E?}6which after some effort, I managed toobtain. After alittle over a month of fearfullystayinE@}g away from this new monster, Isat down with index cards with step bystep instructions on logging on andlogging off EA}properly. When I finallylogged on and gave my name, I wasasked for my Password. No problem, Ihad wisely jotted it EB}down. Then I wastold that the Password was notaccepted and if I was a "New user", Iwould have to to answer the qEC}uestionsagain. Full of frustration I loggedoff. Question, why was my password nolonger valid? Then I found out thatED}because I had not logged on within 30days, I was automatically deleted fromthe board! My hitch in the Army wasmuch EE} easier then using thisx#$%!!@&@## modem.One day looking through computermagazines, I found the telepEF}honenumber of the OL' HACKERS ATARI USERSGroup. I called and was told to comedown. I joined that group and foundothEG}er people with the same problemsthat I had with the modem. One of thefellows taking pity on me, kindlyinvited meEH} to his home to show me theproper way to Download and Upload.After rectifying all my mistakess Ifelt great once aEI}gain. Being informedthat there was a great program on themodem on a particular BBS Board I wentafter it like a blooEJ}dhound!. Istarted calling at 8:00 P.M. andfinally at 11:05 I logged on. Theprogram was 624 sectors longEK}. Ifigured this will take forever, but Iwas determined to get it. The programwas slow but I was getting it, whensudEL}denly, after 40 minutes and I wasat sector 525, I noticed the screengoing crazy. No! No! No! I can'tbelieve thEM}is, everything was goinggreat. Then a voice yelled down to mefrom on high. It was my wife statingshe had picked uEN}p the phone to callher friend in Florida and there wassomething wrong with the phone, as sheheard some funny sounds. ShEO}e wanted toknow if I knew what might be causingit?At this point, I will close with"Guess What Happened To My WifEP}e".By: DENNIS KLINE, 5/1/87 DD NEWSLETTER BITS BY ALAN SHARKISI have a complaint. Seems like I'mnot the only oneIR} writing this kind ofcolumn in a club newsletter. Shucks,I don't even know if the ideaoriginated with Ol' HaIS}ckers. But,that's not why I'm complaining.The complaint centers around the ideathat clubs exchange newsletters, andIT}usually have a pile of them atmeetings, so that members can look uparticles of interest to them. It usedto be IU}a lot of fun watching some guylook for an article that MIGHT be inthe pile, only he didn't know whatclub published IV} it, or what date itmight have had. He only knew that hejust HAD to find a review of somepiece of hardware or IW}other, or someprogram that would solve a problem hewas having, or some tutorial to gethim over his difficulties. It wIX}aS funto watch the guy get frustrated andgive up.It was also fun to watch the clubmember who was responsible forIY} luggingthose newsleters to and from meetingsbuild biceps in the process. He'dhope his bundle was lighter going homeIZ}than it was coming in, and, wouldn'tyou know it, the same number ofnewsletters went home with him! Icould I[} visualize, in my twistedimagination, the poor guy building upa Collier-Brothers-Mansion-likecollection of I\} the things in his ownbasement, wondering if anyone elsereally cared about the stuff printedon that paper!Well, I]}the fun is about to vanish, andthat's my complaint. Atari usergroups aren't supposed to be abouthelping memberI^}s get the best out oftheir membership now, are they?They're supposed to be about bemoaningthe fate of a dwinI_}dling machine.Heck, everyone outside says that Atarimachines are old hat; that anythingyou can do with them has alreaI`}dy beenoverdone. We members aren't evensupposed to be interested in gettingmore out of the machines. So, whatIa}kind of fun can a warped mind likemine have when I see people in my cluband others actually reading the stuffin clubIb} newsletters? Ours, sure; weread our own. But OTHER CLUBS?Unheard of! And to think I and mycounterparts migIc}ht be making it easierfor other people to do that with ourreviews! Shocking!I'm a teacher in real life, who alsowriId}tes curriculum occasionally. Forthat purpose I use an MS-DOS clone, tomake file-sharing easy. My schoolsystem is hIe}eavily into Apple, so I usethem, too. But the Atari 8-bit is myreal love, my most comfortablemachine. I use If}it for just abouteverything else I do. I haven'texhausted its capabilities yet, andI've been at it since 1982.Ig} . .Well, will you look at that! My faceis getting less hairy, my ears lesspointy, and I'm not howling at themoIq} B%DOS SYSBq)DDECMI TXTB SHELP DOCB`AUTORUN COMBaAUTORUN SYSBbMAINMENUHLPBiWELCOME SCRBpPRESS HLPBwPRESSPRTMNUB{PRESSPRTHLPB?NEWSLTR BASBAWHO TXTBIDATE TXTBRAMDISK COMBOEDITR TXTB KORDE TXTB GSPECL TXTB8HMODEM TXTB*QENEWRE TXTBFSHAWR TXTBPCNOVMI TXTB#"JTURBO TXTBEMFLASH TXTBJBPRES TXTBdNCOMPI TXTB DIRMODULBASBPBITSO TXTB*DUP SYSon any more. Maybe I don't reallyhave a complaint. Maybe I should justgo on and review the newsletters I washanded. Ir} Sorry about that littlediversion. (Uh, can I crawl into acorner? Not now, you say? OK, I'lljust write the revIs}iews.)We start with something from POKEY(WNYAUG), September, 1988: Luis E.Rodriguez has a fix for the TIME$It}command in Turbo Basic, Dave Arlingtonreviews Sublogic Flight SimulatorScenery Disk #11, and Kevin D. Packardgives aIu} fairly complete list of theperipherals you can attach to yourAtari once you have a P: R: Connectionor an 850 to sIv}upply an RS-232 SerialPort. I often tell people that myMS-DOS clone is a peripheral to myAtari (through a null-mIw}odem cable, ofcourse)! Plotters can join thefamily, as can speech boards,digitizers, home power controIx}llers,text readers, and a whole slew ofinput and output devices.In the LIAUG Lighthouse of July, 1990,there is aIy}re two articles by HorstDewitz. One is his usual good job ofdescribing the German Bit Byter Disk(in this case, #20)Iz}, and the other isa review of the Backgammon clone,Double Six, from October, 1989 AnalogMagazine. David BrzezinskiI{} reviews aclassic 8-bit game, M.U.L.E., which isone of the best economics simulationsI've been fortunate to find.From SI|}TATUS of July/August 1990, thereare reminders gathered from manysources of new hardware and softwarefor our 8-bitI}}s, including TextPro 4.5and Transkey.From B. A. C. E. Line of August, 1990,there is an article about DarekMihockaI~}'s by now familiar line of8-bit emulators for the ST. Seems asif many ST owners actually gave uptheir 8-bits wI}hen they bought the STsand are sorry they did! Now they wantto run all that good software again.The ST Xformer emulatI}ors let them dothat with some non-protected software. Their editor describes thelimitations, and then states tI}hat thesolution to the problem is to buy an8-bit!H. A. C. E.'s Update Atari of August,1990 has no exclusively I} 8-bitarticles, but it has not forgotten us,either. In a colum called HardWire,George Iken talks about sharingI}peripherals for both 8-bits and STs. HM and itstill leaves some mystery. It dependson a spin of the DREIBEL whether youget to bet against the computer, pick}up the pot, get half the pot, doublethe money in the pot. In DREIBEL 1000which is a different version you getthe num}erical value of the letterwhere the DREIBEL lands on (everyletter in the HEBREW alphabet has anumerical value)}, so you get a word byputting the letters together andcounting the numerical values. Thefirst one to reach 1}000 gets theirchoice of games. ALAN selected CARLOSand HARRY to play a game. It's verysimple "LEARN WHILE YOU PLAY".} Had enough?....plenty more to come. RON FETZER stepped up to show us"COMPILING MADE EASY" using a demodisk pro}gram about 30 lines in length,written in BASIC. Demonstrating howslow the program ran, then to make anautorun disk you} take the compiler forTURBO BASIC and put the fileAUTORUN.CTB on your disk and rename itRUNTIME.COM. RON then d}emoed by usingthe program to compile a disk andputting it on a prepared disk. Nothingto it, now we all know how to do} it. Want more? ALEX took his turn andreviewed many of his favorites. Oneword of advice, he suggested was thatif} TURBO BASIC runs the program toofast, go into the program and changethe speed to your satisfaction. Alex went }through "DOMINOS" acommerical program by EMI an ENGLISHCO.. ALEX held his own until thecomputer came on strong }at the end. Then came "OL' HACKER'S FINANCE"which comes in single and enhanceddensity. Finance help is avail}ablethroughout the many money programscontained on the disk. A real BIGBARGAIN in our LIBRARY! (BUY THISONE}!) How about "AUTODIALER UTILITY" foruse with touch tone phones. Enter yourmost used telephone numbers into afile}, select a number to be dialedfrom a menu, hold the phone near yourmonitor speaker, hit start and youhave simul}ated tones doing yourdialing. The option key will redialfor you. Keeping up with the HOLIDAY SEASON,ALEX fini}shed with two appropriateseasonal disks. First was HIGH TECHEXPRESSIONS, "JINGLE DISK". The diskcontains three p}rograms, "CREATE aGREETING CARD", "HOLIDAY GREETINGS"and "CHRISTMAS TREE", a complete storywith Xmas Tree, Santa } Claus, toysoldiers, model railroad train, miceand a pussy cat. What else could youask for? In closing, ALEX } went throughSPINNAKER'S "CHRISTMAS SAMPLER"showing a poem "T'WAS THE NIGHT BEFORECHRISTMAS". Always a teriffic d}isk togenerate enjoyment at this time ofyear. HAROLD PEGLER agreed to delay thedemo of his program, "TIMEWISE" }untilthe JANUARY meeting as once again,five hours had flown by at jet speedand the library was closing shortly,bu}t nobody was too anxious to leave.ALL IN ALL, IT WAS ONE HECK OF A GREATMEETING, IN LINE WITH THE GREATHOLIDAY S}EASON! FUTURE MEETING DATES: Future meeting dates for the OL'HACKERS ATARI USER GROUP are: JANUARY 12, 1991 A}PRIL 13, 1991 FEBRARY 9, 1991 MAY 11, 1991 MARCH 9, 1991 JUNE 1, 1991 All dates are SATURDAY and are}scheduled for the PLAINVIEW/OLDBETHPAGE LIBRARY. Remember........ the next OL'HACKERS ATARI USER GROUP} meeting isscheduled for JANUARY 12th, at11:30am Sincerely, AL ATKINS} dmolecules until they line up to form aone-molecule-thick film. Each time aglass(******************************Special Editors Message******************************This month we ran out of room on si9}de one of our Disk Newsletter, so we were forced to put some articles and programs on side 2. Be sure to flip the disk over f9}or more information. toperform logic functions similar tothose now performed by silicon-basedCHIPS. There are 8(Ed. Note: You may have seen some orall of this article before, but it isinfo of use to new and old hands! YeOlde EDITOi}RS) OL' HACKERS BITS O' BYTES by ALEX PIGNATOSay, did you ever get your peeks allmixed up i}with your pokes? Or not evenknow your right poke from your leftpoke (pun intended)?Well maybe this article might help moi}st of our members (except for you exceptional guys who know it all).For instance, did you know that toget out of BASIC ifi} you forgot tohold down the option key when bootingup with an XL or XE, you type:POKE 1016,1 [RETURN]..now press[RESET] ai}nd you will go to the DOSmenu! ***********That to determine which revision of Basic you are using? Just type:i}PEEK(43234)If the screen shows: 162 - You have Rev. A. 96 - You have Rev. B. 234 - You have Rev. Ci}.(Rev. C is the best naturally) ***********Do you turn off your computer everytime you are re-booting? Why noti} giveyour micro a COLD START (without anybooster cables too) just type:POKe 580,1 [RESET] orA=USR(61733) which does samei} thing. ***********Need a random number in the programyou are masterminding? Just type:100 Print PEEK(53770)1i}10 IF PEEK(53770)=173 THEN PRINT "YOU ARE RIGHT!" ***********Forgot to boot up a 'MEMSAV' filewhile in basici}? No sweat, type:A=USR(5947)(NOTE, XL & XE owners press [RESET]when drive stops spinning! ***********You alsoi} forgot to format a disk-andyou have 400 lines of your newest &best program, RIGHT? Easy solution isto type:A=USR(3352)ai}nd you will format a disk in singledensity from BASIC ***********Small innocent fingers tend to foulup your hii}gh score game while youweren't looking? Why not disable theKEYBOARD? Type in:POKE 16,255Press [RESET] to enable it again!j}(The following is taken fromM.A.G.I.C. D.O.M. for October 1990,and is worth spreading around,hopefulM}ly to be copied by othernewsletters)Share Wareby Calamity JaneI love the Share Ware idea... I meanthe WHOLEM} thing. If you like a programand can use it... then send theprogrammer the money. For the mostpart, the ShareM} Ware programs I haveseen are top quality stuff... I mean,top quality. DCopy by Ralph Walden,is the first I got invoM}lved with. Iuse it EVERY DAY!! Now with the FoReMBBS program supporting the Doors , we will seeM} moreof this spring up. The Mailer thatallows FoReM to F-Net, is Share Ware.The Mailer was not a one week job, butseM}veral months worth of very hardwork. In my opinion, Dave Chiquelindeserves something.The -=*Space Empire=-* gameM} has takenalot of time and effort... Jondeserves something also. So doesevery one else who desires/deservM}esit.I F-Netted a "check" to Dave Chiquelin forthe Mailer program -- have you hadM}much luck cashing that yet? And, today I sent my ten bucks to JonRadoff for the -=*SE*=- game, but Iwent a M}step further. I have a friendthat is, well busted up and busted... He wantsthe game desperaM}tely, but ten bucks isten bucks. It would be so easy for meto get the game for myself and zap offa copy and F-Net the M}sucker to him,and not care whether HE pays for it.I chose not to do this... I paid forhim also. After all, I would M}ratherhave HIM owe ME !! Some of you aregoing to think I am nuts... fine, goahead, but I think so much of thisSM}hare Ware program that I will do allI can to support it.It's one thing for me to pay 40+ bucksfor a piece of softwaM}re, that Idiscover is a pile of garbage. And ofcourse I don't REALLY know this, tillI boot it up and play!! But iM}t isquite another situation for me to playwith the software, get to know it, andsee that it fits my needs. Then sendmy M}money.The Co-SysOp of The Prairie Chip,Byron Cullen, is writing a game forthe FoReM Doors... It will be ShareM}Ware. Will I pay him?? HIM??Probably not, I can get away with justfeeding him... He will take meup on M}it, even though we are a fewhundred miles away... I do not doubtmy Co... The Chip will be home basefor this new gaM}me and I shall attemptto see he gets what he deserves... Iknow how much work has gone into hisspectacular game. I onlM}y have so muchcontrol though...Another method I thought was a niceway to pay for Share Ware, was to sendthe programM}mer two bucks or twodisks... You know this one isn't init for the money... The disks are forsaving all that wonM}derful data on...If the author of something you use,wants ten dollars and all you have isfive -- by all means send it M}!! He orshe will appreciate the fact you evenbothered.Support the Share Ware idea... May itLive Long and Prosper...M}Permission granted to reprint -=-CJ-=----------------------At last month's meeting, we werediscussing what M} the club could do topromote shareware. I ran across thisarticle on the Atari ComputerEnthusiasts of ColumbusM} (A.C.E.C.),Ohio BBS (614) 471-8559 and thought itmight be appropriate considering theongoing discussion. I downloadM}ed iton 9/16/89 but I don't have any ideahow old it is but the points CalamityJane makes are still valid. - Grant-M} *************************************This SHAREWARE topic was discussed ata recent OL' HACKERS meeting, and wealso M} think its timely and valid!SUPPORT SHAREWARE AUTHORS! Ye Olde EditorsLd************************************** Hello OL' HACKER ATARI Members and Friends!************************************Q}** MINUTES OF THE NOVEMBER 1990 MEETING GENERAL MEETING: The weather for the NOVEMBER 10thmeeting was stormy witQ}h high winds butas the members entered the librarymeeting room you knew it was going tobe an exciting meeting. WhQ}y? Firstperson that was there, (very early,)was KRIS HOLTAGAARD, testing out hisnew program "WQNR DATAGRAPH BUSINESSQ}MANAGER" on a complete equipment situp he had already installed. ALEX PIGNATO read a beautiful "ThankYou" card from tQ}he MIKE BRYANT family.They thanked the club members for allthe help and efforts to assist thefamily since they becamQ}e OL' HACKERS.That gave ALEX an opportunity to usehis favorite saying "That's what theclub is all about!" Alex aQ}ppointed a nominatingcommittee of three, AL ATKINS, JACKGEDALIUS and HAROLD PEGLER to select anew slate of OL' Q}HACKER officers forthe coming elections. The proposedslate of officers will be presented atour DECEMBER meeting. VotinQ}g will thentake place at the JANUARY 1991meeting. HORST DEWITZ'S announcements camenext. First the OL' HQ}ACKERS ANNUALCHRISTMAS DINNER at TIFFANY'SRESTAURANT, 416 BEDFORD AVENUE,BELLMORE. The date and time is TUQ}ESDAYDECEMBER 4th, at 7:30pm. The telephonenumber is (516) 826-0420. HORST'S announcement was that GREGGBROWN of NAPCOQ} has been selected by "KE SOFT" from FRANKFORT, GERMANY to bethe AMERICAN distributor for theirsoftware. The softwaQ}re will sell inthe UNITED STATES for $10.50 to$14.50. NAPCO's mailing address forcontact is: SOFTWARE INFINIQ}TY 642 WARING AVENUE STATE COLLEGE, PA. 16801 GREGG BROWN stated in his MUGnewsletter article "The ATARI 8-Q}BITSoftware Drought is OVER" HORST then presented the club with(3) game type programs and ATARI booksto become door pQ}rizes in the future. ALEX put in a strong plug for alibrary disk, "SPACE #63. he passedaround about 7 or Q} 8 pages ofdocumemtation explaining each programon the disk. This disk is loaded withgraphics and utilities for P/Q}S. Heestimates that a disk of this qualitywould cost a user $40.00 plus. Then henoted there has been very littleacQ}tivity recently in the OL' HACKERSdisk library. JOAN RYAN responded to ALEX'Srequest for comments concerning Q}thedisk newsletter, saying she likes ahard copy to read (Like many otherpeople) and would appreciate seeing itin Q}two columns to save paper output.She then reminded us about a programcalled "TWOCOLMN.BAS" from ANTICmagazine (Q}around June 1989?). Sheclosed her letter with ..."8-BITTERLY"(very appropriate). ALEX responded byspelling out the Q}new changes in ournext issue of the newsletter. ALEX then read letters from KENWICKERT, A.C.E., SYRACUSE. Since oQ}ur OCTOBER meeting ALEX hasreceived inquires as to membershipfrom: ROY J. BISBING, Springfield, Pa. NIR DARY, AccoQ}, Israel RODRIGO GOMEZ, Santiago, Chile ED HALL, Yellowknife, Canada The most common source of listingfor te OL'Q} HACKERS appears to beBELCOM, CANADA. MINUTES/TREASURY REPORTS: Since a newsletter disk would not beavailable toQ} the members this monthALEX read the OCTOBER 13th minutes.Later AL ATKINS gave his treasuryreport. A motion tQ}o accept both asread was made by KRIS and seconded byGINA BRYANT. At this time ALEXannounced he had an XF551 DQ}ISK DRIVEwhich a friend wanted to sell for$175.00 but would sell to the club for$150.00 and would the club bQ}einterested in purchasing it. KRIS madethe motion to do so and HORST secondedit. Contrary to the many rumors that arecQ}irculating, although ATARI may haveabandoned the 8-BIT, evidently BOBBRODIE, ATARI USER GROUP COORDINATOR,still thQ}inks of the 8-bit people. BOBwas nice enough to call ALEX onNOVEMBER 8th and inquire as to how theclub was doing.Q} Needless to say wewere very pleased that he thought ofus. At a J.A.C.G. meeting approximatelytwo years ago, ALQ}EX first met BOBBRODIE, and they have kept in touchsince. BOB BRODIE was the guestspeaker at the meeting. DQ}OOR PRIZES: Again this month the club had alarge bag of door prizes. The NOVEMBERwinners were: MASKMAKER CONST SQ}ET H.TUTHILL & BBK ARTIST M.A.G.I.C. DOM 9/90 L.BRYANT M.A.G.I.C. DOM 9/90 J.GEDALIUS M.A.G.I.C. DOM 1Q}0/90 C.HURTADO READER RABBIT A.SHARKIS ERROR MESSAGE CHART A.FALCONE JAWBREAKER A.PIGQ}NATO DEMONSTRATIONS: Ready or not KRIS came on like a"TIDAL WAVE" with his new "WQNRDATAGRAPH BUSINESS MQ}ANAGER" program.The program is a personal database anda business tool that can be used threeways. DataGraph allows the Q} use ofSPARTA DOS and ATARI DOS with eachsystem providing special functions. SPARTA DOS has sub-directories andyQ}our data can be called from any diskdrive. ATARI DOS allows you to binary load,write Dos functions to a disks.EQ}xample: load TEXT PRO. DataGraph is a full DESKTOP programalong with accessories which includepull down windows Q} and joystickcontrol. KRIS selected GINA BRYANT toassist him in demonstrating his latestprogram. The first screen shQ}owed a "MAIN MENUBAR" across the top of the screenlisting (5) functions that areavailable to the user. MAIQ}N MENU BAR ---- ---- --- FILES TOOLS DATA MESSAGE PRINT By selecting one of these functionsa window will R}drop down and adirectory will appear that includesmany options to be selected. Anexample of one path that mR}aybe takenis "FILES", then a sub menu appears asfollows: SUB MENU --- ---- SEARCH OPTION CREATE A DATA FILE CHECR}K LOADED FILE SET NEW DEFAULTS LOAD INVOICER LOAD WQNR UTILITIES DESKTOP INFO If you select "SEARCH OPTION" fromR}the sub-menu, the screen will split inhalf and you will have a work screen.All selections and menus remain on thescreen R} at all times. Your work screenwill look like this: SEARCH OPTIONS ------ ------- A By File Number B By Name C R} By Address D By City,State,Zip E By Phone Number One super plus of DataGraph is thatit will search both upper R}and lowercase letters to find your record. KRIS then explained the other MAINMENU BAR functions: TOOLS Consist oR}f DOS Type Funtions DATA Edits Existing File Information MESSAGE Edit, Save, Update, Check R} Message and Print Files PRINT Print options, NLQ, Draft, Double Strike, and Fonts Phone BoR }ok Select Label and Print Select Envelope and Print The "DESKTOP INFORMATION" consistsof: 1. MR }aking an Invoice 2. Pre-set Invoice The "UTILITIY DATA" files allows(26) for each DataGraph UtilityModule. R } By creating a file"UTILITY.DAT" you could includeWQNR.BAS files such as "TWOCOLUM",VCRLBLR", "CAR }LANDER", "CASSETTE","JOYSTICK", "JOYTEST", "INVOICE.PRG",and many, many more. KRIS gets so enthused whenprR }esenting his programs he reminds meof the "Birthday Party Helium Balloon",unless you tie him down, he willbecome aiR}rborne. With this new program"WQNR SOFTWARE" has taken a giant stepforward and will make 8-BITTERSthrough out the cR}ountry happy. The next demonstrator was ALEX, whohad a very tough act to follow. Alexwas to show the members ten proR}grams,that many of the members have, buteither put on the back burner, orforgot about them. 1. PRINT DOC R} Antic Magazine,modifications that was shown were madeby ALEX, shortly before the author,ROLAND FETZER, became an OR}L' HACKER.ALEX demoed the modifications thatincluded two disk drives and the useof additional printing regular size R}orcondensed printing. 2. CLOCKSYS.BAS The use of a timeclock that will appear in the upperright hand corner of thR}e screen. 3. TOFORMAT.BAS Will count thenumber of disk formatted and allowsthe use of two disk drives. 4. R}ATASCIIC.ODE Will match thenumerical code values of letters. 5. TWOCOLMN.BAS ANTIC MAGAZINE,JUNE 1989, calledR} to the OL' HACKERSattention by JOAN RYAN, A.C.E., ST.LOUIS, will print two column textfiles on a page. 6. MUR}LTICOL.PRT Another programthat will print double columns fortext files. 7. ATARIDEM.COM A cute tale ofATARR}I power and to show the power of8-Bit computing. 8. TOS.COM Drop down menus to demoan ATARI ST type program. 9. R} CURSRPLS.BAS (Cursor Plus) Usedlike a cursor would be used in a wordprocessor, using keys ctrl/shift/ltretc. 10. R}SEAWOLF, ALEX brought back anaval shoot-em-up type game withsubmarines, destroyers and torpedos.He selected R}an unsuspecting pettyofficer named MIKE BRYANT. MIKE'sscore was an uneventful number and wasrecorded. Then handing R}the joystick toMIKE'S daughter, she proceeded to wipeout MIKE'S score (It's great to havethe reflexes of the young). R}FUTURE MEETING DATES: Future meeting dates for the OL'HACKERS ATARI USER GROUP are: DECEMBER 15, 1990 APRIL 13,R} 1991 JANUARY 12, 1991 MAY 11, 1991 FEBRUARY 9, 1991 JUNE 1, 1991 MARCH 9, 1991 All dates are a R}SATURDAY and arescheduled for the PLAINVIEW/OLDBETHPAGE LIBRARY. Remember........The next OL' HACKERSATARI USERR } GROUP meeting is scheduledfor DECEMBER 15th at 11:30am. Sincerely, AL AR!}TKINS P-Useful Short Routines in Turbo-Basicby Ron Fetzer TURBO-BASIC XL is turely the bestlanguage for the 8-Bit AtariV#}. It is 5times faster than ATARI BASIC. It hasa great compiler that increases thespeed up to 15 times over the BASIV$}Cversion of your program. It iscompletely compatible with ATARI BASICand it gives you 1,747 more bytes offree RV%}AM than ATARI BASIC. If you are going to run yourpresent programs on TURBO-BASIC besure to change your timeV&} delay loopsto the PAUSE command. The increase inspeed will make it too fast otherwise.If you compile a program you shV'}ouldalso use PAUSE otherwise the speedincrease will be unacceptable. Thecompiler is very easy to use and youcanV(} make self booting programs withit. If you are interested inTURBO-BASIC please get from ourlibraryV)} THE COMPLETE TURBO-BASIC KIT.I do not know what number it is. Youshould also get from our library theCOMPILER DISK.V*} These 2 disks are allyou need. For $6.00 you have afantastic programming language thatrivals the best anywherV+}e. On the TURBO-BASIC KIT disk youget a 37 page documentation manual forthe language. It has an index to thepage V,} numbers and every command isexplained in detail. The manual alsogives you examples of how to use eachcommand. In aV-}ddition you get tutorialson sorting, arrays and matrixes aswell as utilities. I think you willlike it. The foV.}llowing programs requirethat you use TURBO-BASIC. They areshort programs that you can usefrequentlyTHE QUIV/}CK FORMATTER This short program lets youfromat a disk in BASIC without goingto DOS. The XIO 253,#1,0,0,V0}"Dx:"formats in single density. XIO254,#1,0,0,"Dx:" will format in 1050density. For "x" specify your drivenuV1}mber that you are going to use. 10 -- 20 REM QUICK FORMATTER 30 CLS:DIM A$(1):?:? 40 ?:? "PLEASE INSERT V2}A BLANK DISK IN THE DISK DRIVE" 50 INPUT "DENSITY - SINGLE OR 105O>>",A$ 60 IF A$(1,1)="S" THEN XIOV3} 253, #1,0,0,"D1:" 60 IF A$(1,1)="1" THEN XIO 254, 0,0,"D1:" 80 CLS:POSITION 16,12:? CHR$(253); V4} "DONE":PAUSE 60 90 CLS:GOTO 40 100 -- One of the quirks of TURBO-BASICis that if you go to DOS you cV5}annotreturn without loosing your program.The reason for that is that inTURBO-BASIC most of the DOS commandsarV6}e accessed in the programmed mode.There is no need to go to DOS. Mostprogammers save their program beforegoing to DV7}OS. If for some reason you do go toDOS you do not have to loose yourprogram and you CAN return toTURBV8}O-BASIC. On DOS 2.5 go to OPTION Mand for the address type in 2447 andthen list your program. Address 2447is VERY FRAGV9}ILE. The following actionswill destroy this location and youcannot get your program back. 1. Deleting or locking V:}your DOS.SYS on the RAMDISK D8: 2. A very large program that approaches the available free RAM V;} 3. On DOS when you use the OPTIONS C,J, and O This address will only work withan unmodifieV<}d DOS 2.5. The next program is for the mathwizzards that have to pull roots otherthan square roots. In the program V=}therounded root is the more accurateone. 10 -- 20 REM ROOT PULLER 30 A=0:B=0:R=0 40 CLS:?:? V>}50 INPUT "WHAT IS THE NUMBER";N 60 INPUT "WHAT ROOT TO PULL";R 70 A=N^(1/R) 80 ? "THE ROOT NOT ROUNDED =";A V?} 90 B=INT((A+.00001)*100)/100 100 ? "THE ROOT ROUNDED OFF =";B 110 -- Every once in a while you get adisk V@} with a documentation file on itand no instruction on how to print it.This hint works with TEXT FILES, WORDPROCESSING FIVA}LES, DOCUMENTATION FILES,PILOT, ASSEMBLY, VISICALC TEMPLATESand LISTED FILES. It does not workwith saved files beVB}cause they are intokenized form on the disk and make nosense when you see them. Go to DOSOPTION C OPTION C 'GAMEVC}.DOC,E:' = SCREEN OPTION C 'READ.ME,S:' = SCREEN OPTION C 'DOCS.TXT,P:" = PRINTER Either E: or S: or P: wilVD}l copythe file to the specified device. UseCNTRL + 1 to stop the scrolling so youcan read then.T|Flash update!!!!Black Moon SystemP.O. Box 152Wind Gap, Pa. 18091Is now releasing Version 1.6 ofLabelMaster aZF}s a full working Demo.You can register the software for$10.00.( What a Steal!!) Once theprogram is registereZG}d with them youwill get the latest version 1.7 andthe Multi Column Lister Utility pluscomplete Docs. At this price tZH}hey willsell fast so get your order in early.P.S. There will also be an Upgrade ofSmall Business Systems 1.4. Due dateZI}is by Dec. 1990. Tell them the Ol'Hackers Sent ya.........XO *************************** Acting Presidents Messag^K}e by ALEX PIGNATO *************************^L}** ^M} Hello all you faithful 8BIT ATARIANS who are reading thismessage. First, Let me wish you abelated HAPP^N}Y HOLIDAY SEASON, whichwill probably be over by the time youread this. ***** Secondly, thanks ^O}to all ourmembers who renewed or/will renewtheir membership dues. By yourresponse you show that you want^P} theOL' HACKERS to continue. You, thepresent members are, for the mostpart, diehard 8 BITTERS, and from youI ^Q}hear remarks like I like the 8 BITand its capabilities too much to giveit up for any upgrade, just for thesake of kee^R}ping up with the JONES's. ***** Thirdly, the rumors of the deathof the 8 BIT are most premature, an^S}dAU CONTRARE, it is vibrant and alive,witness the resurgence of EXCELLENTprograms being written by individuals,like ^T}our own KRIS HOLTEGAARD. He haswritten programs such as WQNRDOS,DATAGRAF, and a bunch of utilitiesthat can be ^U} incorporated into theseprograms, and from our own HORSTDEWITZ, International Correspondentfor OL' HACKERS, LIAUG^V}, and BIT BYTER,we hear that a new source of 8 BITprograms are in the works through themix of WEST GERMANY's BIT BYT^W}ER Club,and a new AMERICAN distributor,'K-SOFT', and of course all the newSHAREWARE programs coming through,^X}such as the 5.0 TEXTPRO, among others.So keep the faith 8 BITTERS we are farfrom dead in spite of the DOOMSAYERS! ^Y} ***** Fourthly, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY OL'HACKERS. As we go into our 7th year,lets continue to make our club ^Z}the #18 BIT CLUB, that it presently is! Keepactive, volunteer your services, runfor office, but keep getting involved.I^[} can assure you, it's more fun thanjust staying on the sidelines, justask JOE LEBER, ALLEN ATKINS, CARLOSHURTADO, ^\} KRIS HOLTEGAARD, HORSTDEWITZ, ALAN SHARKIS, HARRY TUTHILL,STAN SCHENFELD, etc. etc. I might justas well name th^]}e whole club rooster,because the whole club is involved tosome degree or other! ***** Finally, I pla^^}nned on running forPresident again, and if elected by thetime you read this, (probably becauseno one else will be rushing^_} to take onthe task of PRESIDENT, and if so, Iwill be unanimously elected, after amost strenous campaign against ^`}allodds) I will try to continue to keepin contact with the many friends Ihave made in clubs from all over. Itis ^a}through the publishing of our DiskNewsletter and my correspondence withthese new friends that keeps the clubin touch ^b}with all kinds of nicethings. A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OURFRIENDS. THATS ABOUT ^c} IT FOR NOW! ALEX PIGNATOA,j((67$A&@\` COMPILING MADE EASY by Ron Fetzer Member of THE OL' HACKERS ATARI U.G. The TURBO-BASIC COMPIbe}LER is theeasiest and the most trouble freecompiler for BASIC programs everwritten. It works equally well wibf}thATARI BASIC or TURBO-BASIC. A compiledprogram will increase in speed from10-15 times over its BASIC version. In bg} certain programs, thissometimes can be a problem. If youhave critical timing loops, they willalso increase bh}in speed from 10-15times. To overcome this, use theTURBO-BASIC command of PAUSE n. PAUSE60 is equal to aboutbi} 1 second ofdelay. For longer pauses increase thenumber [n]. The PAUSE command will notspeed up when compiled. The folbj}lowinginstructions are for a 1 disk drivesystem. MAKING A SELFBOOTING COMPILED DISK 1. Format a disk and put DOS bk}on it.(This will be your compiled disk.)2. Copy the file RUNTIME.COM from thecompiler disk onto your new disk andre-nabl}me it AUTORUN.SYS. RUNTIME.COM isneeded to run the compiled program.3. Put the COMPILER DISK into thedrive and go tobm} DOS, option [L]. Loadthe program COMPILER.COM into yourcomputer. REMOVE the compiler disk.4. Put your program disbn}k with theBASIC program that is to be compiled,into the disk drive.5. Press '1' for one disk drive. Youwill see a dibo}rectory of files of yourdisk. With the arrow keys go to theprogram that you want to compile.6. Press RETURN and the pbp}rogram willbe compiled. REMOVE your programdisk.7. Insert the disk with DOS and theAUTORUN.SYS into the drive.8bq}. Give the compiled program thefilename of AUTORUN. The filenameextender of .CTB(Compiled Turbo-Basic)will be br}automatically attached by theprogram. PLEASE NOTE the following.You can ONLY save a compiled programin drive 1. Anbs}swer [N] to SPEICHERN(SAVING) again.9. Press CNTRL+R to boot up your newdisk. Answer 'J' Ja=Yes You now have abt} self bootingcompiled program. Compiled programsand all TURBO-BASIC programs run onlyon XL/XE computers. The fobu}llowingprogram structure will NOT COMPILE. Ifyou have one of these please change itfirst. 10 FOR X = 1 TO 20 20bv} IF X =15 THEN NEXT X 30 NEXT X If the compiler sees two NEXTs ina loop it assumes it as an error. Thecompiler bw} is written in German. Thiscan be a little upsetting, However,below is the translation in ENGLISH: TURBO-BASIC XL Cobx}mpiler Version 1.1 =================================== Which program should be compiled?First select the disk drivby}e numberbetween 1 and 8 and then select theprogram with the arrow keys <-,->, uparrow, down arrow. Then press RETURN bz} CONTROL D = RETURN TO DOS CONTROL R = REBOOT-------------------------------------- Here are some Gerb{}man words thatmight help you.GERMAN ENGLISH------ -------JA YESNEIN b|} NOSPEICHERN SAVING TO A DISKPROGRAMLEANGE PROGRAM LENGTHFEHLER ERRORZEILE b}} LINE NUMBERLAUFWERKSNUMMER DISK DRIVE NUMBERPFEILTASTEN ARROW KEYSTASTE DRUCKEN PRESS A KEYCOMPILIERb~}T COMPILEDWAHLEN SELECTING*************************************** I hope I have made you reab}lizehow really simple it is to compile aBASIC program with th COMPILER, sothat it will run like a machinelanb}guage program.December 20,19906-'6-36-A= A"G B`L >AWUFREFDYAS@T@'@SAVE "D:DIRMODUL.BASe;@,;@f},e 6.06.0eA!6--6-96-n >:A%,%٭Ҡˠf}Ӡ@@D1:*.*e@(eH7@<@,4 06-%A:7@,,>6-%@f}H B`e@f6-A:7@<@,,0f//  䡠 :f2) @*7@f}<@,4999+2 :ENDDf^7@<@,4999+[ 7Anzahl der freien Sektoren nicht genau bestimmbar.^Xf0 f} ŠӺ0(% lf-@@ vfK-@ @'( Another DiskKPOSITION 21,6:? "Df}irectory Y/N?";fU-@ @+( [Y]=-@!@U(RETURN TO PROG?[R]f*-@!@*(f}TO END PROG [E]f/-@!@+(ϠĠǮ [E]/ ff (}f4RBcf4YBYff}4EBbfI (} (((I(2 Ӯf% D:NEWS*.*D:DIRMODUL.BASd} 3E:}DISK OPERATING SYSTEM II VERSION COPYRIGHT 1984 ATARI CORP.A. DISK DIRECTORY I. FORMAT DISKB. RUN CARTRIDGn} ***********ALTHOUGH I WAS GOING TO NOTE JUSTPEEKS AND POKES, I THREW IN A COUPLEUSR ROUTINES. NOW ALL I HOPE j}IS THATTHEY ALL WORK AS THEY ARE SUPPOSEDTO. DONT BLAME ME IF THEY DON'T, IDISCLAIM ANY EXTRA ABILITY AT THISCOMPUTER STUj}FF!(IF SOME OF OUR MEMBERS, (or you thereader) SEND ME THEIR FAVORITE BASICTIPS, we can spread them around, sodrop me aj} note, wont you?) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-j}=-=-= Part 2 ALEX P. HACKER MORE LITTLE BYTES N pieces!TO SILENCE THE COMPUTER DURING j}DISKI/O--- POKE 65,0 ---FOR SOUND BACK --- POKE 63,0 ---IF YOU DON'T WANT SCREEN TO CHANGECOLORS WHILE PROGRAM j} DOESN'T USEKEYBOARD --- POKE 77,0 ---TO USE PRINTER AS A SCREEN (WORKS ONALL ATARI'S): S1=PEEK(838):S2=PEEK(839)POKEj}838,PEEK(58422):POKE 839,PEEK(58423)TO RETURN THINGS TO NORMAL:POKE 838,S1:POKE 839,S2 (FROM ANALOG6/85-PG.6)TO GET j}RID OF EXTRA BYTES WHEN EDITINGAND RE-SAVING A PROGRAM, DO THEFOLLOWING:LOAD "D:PROG" THEN LIST "D:PROG" THENTYPEj} NEW, AND THEN ENTER "D:PROG" ANDFINALLY SAVE "D:PROG".FOR 800XL OWNERS TO SEE IF YOU HAVEREVISION B. WHICH HASj} BUGS, ORREVISION C. WHICH IS THE BETTER OF THETWO, TYPE:10 IF PEEK(43234) THEN PRINT "YOU HAVEREVISION B, SORRY!"THEj} REVISION C CARTRIDGE CAN BEORDERED FOR $15.00 (if stillavailable), FROM:ATARI CUSTOMER SERVICE390 CARIBj}BEAN DR.SUNNEYVALE, CA. 94088TO DELETE 'WRITE VERIFY' AND SPEED UPLOADING IN A PERMANENT WAY:LOAD FROM DS "L"-'SETUP.COj}M' FILE FROMDOS 2.5, AND MAKE THE CHANGE AND SAVEBY USEING 'WRITE DOS' OPTION.FOR A TEMP. CHANGE (LOST WHEN COMP ISSHj}UTDOWN) TYPE: POKE 1913,80 Gathered by ALEX PIGNATO tear a newspaperinto many small pieces, HARRY washDE J. DUPLICATE DISKC. COPY FILE K. BINARY SAVED. DELETE FILE(S) L. BINARY LOADE. RENAME FILE M. RUN AT ADDRESn}SF. LOCK FILE N. CREATE MEM.SAVG. UNLOCK FILE O. DUPLICATE FILEH. WRITE DOS FILES P. FORMAT SINGLEL !N'n}#"&))9(&*)/h)''-&؆莟R'S  vL/ˢ L }Insert DOS 2.0s, type Y Λx n}DEfHI 1莏#q! @ y0ɛ8A0,' ȅ 1 1ild! 1L!NO SUCH ITEMSELECTn} ITEM OR FOR MENU! 0 .z:*{}.|{ 1 0 0JB 18L%|DLn}%DIRECTORY--SEARCH SPEC,LIST FILE?[# 0 0 &|D3" 1L!NOT A DISK FILEN !B 1L!E# 1 !BDn}ED:}:1BJ|DE 1DEBHI 1 h0ߢ 0.n}  0?詛 1 y0YЛ 1 ;#L" ;#L! BL1TYPE "Y" TO DELETE...DELETE FILE SPECn}COPY--FROM, TO?OPTION NOT ALLOWED697 FREE SECTORS COPYING---D8:COPY32.COMl# 0|D .L/%#n}##JB|DE 1BHID#E 1#0: B 1L!#͑### B 1#c$0SYn}S1}:## # # .#Ƚ# # 𩛙## 1,#PD#ELJ- <.BJD#E n}1 1HH 0hh|DL%1}:̳# L% #D#EL% 1 0 . .0O% 1L!WILD CARDS NOT An}LLOWED IN DESTINATION 0 <.|K