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NEW DATES PRINTEDG <**><**> PRESIDENTS MESSAGE by ALEX PIGNATO I know that CHRISTMAS has passed, buj} **-** MINUTES OF NOVEMBER 11, 1995 MEETING NEWS ITEMS: Floridian magazine PACESETTER acnowledg r}ed the OL' HACKERS in its last publication. A whole page and a half was dedicated to our club's history; and,"} MINUTES OF DEC. 16TH, 1995, MEETING ALEX PIGNATO, gave his best wishe and read a rather whimsical old belo$t}ved holiday poem, 'Twas The Night Before Christmas' which can be read President's Message column-This little piece is &} The OL HACKERS Disk News Letter Help File  The OL'HACKER Disk Based News Lette(v}ris very simple for you to use. Allyou have to do is make the selectionsyou'd like and read them. To readthe whole newsl(w}etter, use SelectionA. To read only part of thenewsletter, select each file in anyorder by using the letter in front ofit(x} on the main menu screen. If youwant to change one of yourselections, use the BACKSPACE key toremove selections until you(y} reach theone to be changed, and start fromthere with your new selections. Theother screen editing function keyswill not(z} work from the main menu. When you are finished selecting, pressRETURN then [R] and start reading. Asyou can see there ar({}e pauses in thetext so it's much easier to read. Making a selection from 1 thru 4 youcan Exit to Basic or Exit to Dos, or(|}even go to The News Letter PressRoom. Selections B thru Z are newsArticles. When a selection is madethe article is sent (}}to the screenwith page breaks. At the end of thelast article selected, you are sentback to the Newsletter Main Menu. (~} About The Printer  When you make your selection ofthe file you would like to rea(}d youwill be presented with the following: enu rint ead: If you choose then and youdon't have a pri(}nter on line you willcome back to these options. Then youshould use the option to read thefile online. If however you (}eithermade a mistake or don't care to reador print the file you selected youcan go right back to the main menujust by hit(}ting . If you choose and you have not yet configuredyour printer, you will do that beforeprinting. When the n(}ewsletter program isformatting files for the printer, orwhile it is printing, press CONTROLand P to pause printing. To re(}sume,press any key. To cancel printing,press CONTROL and C. About Configuring Your Printer   (}  The printer configuration sectioncan be reached by using selection 3from the main menu. You also will be(}send there the first time you try toprint a file, if you haven't beenthere already. Explainations of theconfiguration sec(}tion can be accessedfrom the print room menu. en't beenthere already. Explainations of theconfiguration sec(=짠򠠠,}ΠռWHERE IS YOUR OHAUG NEWSLETTER ARTICLE? ,} <-Š-> ۱ Exit To Basic ۲ Exit To Dos ۳ Printer Config ۴ News/PrinterHelp,}ԠSPACEBARϠΠà͡ READ/PRINT ALL!,} Use the ST MOUSE J/S to read Scr N/L modification Who's Who! Meeting Dates. ,} Presidents Msg.->Check Directory Minutes Nov.'95 for more M/L or Minutes Dec.'95 BASIC p,}rograms! MAGNIFY Docs Check 堲 for Club Newsl Rev more ATARI news On the INTERNET articles!!<-,}  for Club Newsl Rev more ATARI news On the INTERNET articles!!<-,- !5!ZERWOTWTRFOUPRMEKAFILEHELPMENUTITLECOL1COL2COL3LINELOSPACFNNCOLNSPSOOPPZPAGFPL0}POEPOEPGCOLIN 0} 0} !"#$%&'(99ԠŠ0} SAVE "D:NEWSLTR.BASbKK䠱cAA󠱱0}䬠dmm堲à Ӡįί0}̠ŠǭԠ̮ 6-6-@'6-@36-@?6-@ӠϠŠӭ0}ҠԬŠ̮Ϡ̮R`@E:(AR`ΠŠ̮Ҡ0}ŠқQB7t@d'@@d3@?AKA Q-'A@e'@ 0}5K:6-6-)6-A256-@33;,;,;,;,;,;,;,;A2,L(6.D1:WELC0}OME.SCR(~EA !A@h3B7t@dE@@d. AP6.6. 0}$(. A8-@!8($Programmed For The Ol' Hackers Atari9-@"9(% User Group Inc. By:Kris Holtegaar0}dF00(' Modified By:Thomas J. 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Star Nx1000 Gemini 4} Sakata Sp100 tari 1025 Printer on Epson Compatibles and Daisy Wheel Printers rint Ro4}om Help File ۿ Return To The Main Menu on Epson Compatibles and Daisy Wheel Printers rint Ro4/ The Composing Room Help File Before you can Print a file you haveto configure your 8}own Printer.To Do sothere are 2 selections that will helpto make it easy as possibile for you.If you have one of the pri8}nters listedin selection then your printerwill be set up for NLQ and DOUBLEstrike. If you don't have one of8} theprinters that's in Selection youhave to use selection . This is toensure that all printers will workwit8}hout any problems with The WQNRDisk Based News Letter. Now onceyour printer has been configured youwill NOT 8}have to reconfigure yourprinter as long as you are have yourNews letter running. Not only that theprinter will stay 8}configured to whatever configuration you selected aslong as you have your printers powerturned on or until you 8}reconfigureit. Once you have configured yourprinter all you have to do is hit theۿ to Return to the Main menu. 8|PP PTU PSetting Up ATARI 130XE RAMDisk U PRAMDisk Not Formatted! U P   <} P@BDPEJK V@C08? PiLPhPhPPP PLPPHPH`HI BLV P}`@<} BLVDPQ8:DUP.SYSPK V@C08? PiLPhPhPPP PLPPHPH`HI BLV P}`@<|Vol: he ||Issue: INTERNATIONAL || @}   ||Have you   Loads of ||checked our   new & old||Disk @}PD   usefull ||Library list  info||lately?   & progs!!|| @} ||  ||--> <--|| @}  ||  || Atari User Group Inc.(c)1985 |*** Alex Pignato, Pre@}sident ****** 3376 Ocean Harbor Drive ****** Oceanside, N.Y. 11572 ***@}|Charter Member NEAR*US ATARI USER Gp.|| ⮠ |@}|Charter Member NEAR*US ATARI USER Gp.|| ⮠ |@ ()()()() MAGNIFY Brought to you by OL' HACKERS. The program "MAGNIFY.COM" will be founD}d on OHAUG Jan/Feb 1996 newsletter disk. The programmer is unkown. WHAT DOES IT DO? MAGNIFY is a program which D}allows you to take any graphics 8 or graphics 7 1/2 (Micro-Painter format) file and dump it to your Epson (or compatibleD}) printer. There are several extra features in this program which make it different from the many public domain scD}reen dump utilities around. BACKGROUND! I had started out with such a program (KWIKDUMP), and started adding eD}xtra features. In the end, it was becoming too slow, since it was written in Atari Basic, and I was unableD} to add the last few special features, so I decided to write the whole thing in machine language. PROBLEMS FACED.D} One problem I had with KWIKDUMP was that it simply dumped the screen to the printer with no editing capD}abilities. Any 1-bits in the picture printed as black and 0-bits printed as white. Depending on the choice D}of colour registers in the picture, the printed image could end up looking like a negative. To resolve this D}in my modified version of KWIKDUMP, I created a routine to flip all the bits in the picture. Another problem was thD}e printed pictures were too small, taking up less than 1/4 of the page. I wanted them to be closer to a full paD}ge in size. My first cut at magnifying the picture was to take each bit and print it as a 2x2 square of bits with theD} same value. Each 1-bit would become 2 1-bits side by side which were printed twice. This worked fine, but led to ratD}her blocky pictures. It also did not allow for the fact that graphics 7 1/2 pictures have four colours, and it would bD}e nice to try to differentiate between them. WHAT I DID! I decided to try to magnify each pair of bits togetherD}, calling it 2- bit horizontal magnification. Each pair of bits beside each other horizontally on the screen (D}1 pixel in graphics 7 1/2) are treated as one entity to be magnified. A bit pattern consisting of a 1 followed bD}y a 0 (i.e. 10) becomes 1010. This bit pattern would be printed two times, thus supplying the verticalD} magnification. This helped to distinguish between the 4 colours of the original picture, since a 10 or 01 patD}tern would look gray instead of black. However, this method still had some problems in the vertical D}direction. I therefore decided to add another routine which would treat each pair of bits in the vertical direction as oD}ne entity for magnification, calling it 2-bit vertical magnification. Instead of taking a 1 and 0 vertD}ically and making them 1100, I made them 1010 vertically. This helped to alleviate some of the problems. COMD}BINING TWO METHODS. Finally, I created a routine which implemented both 2-bit magnifications, calling it 2-bit hD}orizontal and vertical magnification. I was now able to print pictures the way I wanted, using the much modD}ified KWIKDUMP, with a number of machine language subroutines stored as strings doing the magnifying and flippingD}. However, I could not tell what the picture was going to look like until I printed it in all of the different moD}des. Why not magnify it on the screen, and scroll around the picture, thus deciding which magnification techD}nique was best! BRINGING IN ASSEMBLY! Goodbye basic and hello assembly language! MAGNIFY was born. Writing it E}was a great learning experience. I had to be able to read the disk directory and display it, read the picture E} file itself, implement smooth scrolling, and dump the picture to the printer, and all in one program! Great stuff.E} COMPROMISES MADE! In writing this program, I had to make several compromises due to memory restrictions. It wilE}l only read Micro-Painter format picture files (i.e. uncompressed), and does no error trapping when reading the fiE}le. I can only magnify the middle 32 bytes of the 40 bytes per line of picture. The ANTIC chip does not allow a diE}splay line to cross a 4K boundary. When implementing smooth horizontal scrolling, you create a display lineE} which is wider than the screen, and you only show part of it. To make the magnification and scrolling routines as E} simple as possible, I chose a display line width which divided evenly into 4096 (4K). The best choice E} was 64, which is 2x32. Besides, I didn't have enough memory to magnify the whole 7680 bytes of a graphics 7 1/E }2 picture. USING MAGNIFY The MAGNIFY program should be put on a DOS disk as an autorun file (i.e. name it AUTORUNE }.SYS for DOS 2.0). Boot your computer without any cartridges (hold down OPTION on XL/XE's). Once ME }AGNIFY has loaded and gives you the startup screen, remove the program disk and put in your picture disk and presE }s START. You will now see a list of all the files on the disk which have an extender of .?IC where the ? is any lE }egal character for a filename. This allows for .MIC and .PIC. Each file has a letter beside it. Press the appropriaE}te letter for the picture you want and it will be loaded. GRAPHICS 8 PICTURE. The picture will initially beE} displayed in graphics 8. If you are using a television as your display device, artifacting could make your picE}ture look rather interesting. I use a monitor, and in hi-res mode it displays the pictures properly without any artiE}facting. DIFFERENT CONTROL COMMANDS: To invert all bits (exchanging black and white), press OPTION. To swE}itch back and forth between graphics 8 and 7 1/2, press SELECT. Now plug a joystick into port 1 and let's startE} magnifying. If you press the joystick button you will cycle through the 5 magnification modes, which are: (E}1) none (2) 1-bit horizontal and vertical (3) 2-bit horizontal and 1-bit vertical (4) 1-bit horizontal andE} 2-bit vertical (5) 2-bit horizontal and vertical. In any of the four magnified modes you can scroll around thE}e picture, checking out how different areas look. Once you have decided which magnification technique shoulE}d work best on your printer, press START. The full picture will be printed in the same magnification mode as E}is currently on the display. TO GO TO DIRECTORY MENU: To return to the directory menu, press the ESC key. If yE}ou want to change picture disks, simply press ESC again, change disks and press START. ENJOY! I hope you find MAGE}NIFY a useful program. I certainly do, and I also learned a lot about the fantastic graphics capabilities oE}f Atari computers while writing it. Have fun! ***** the fantastic graphics capabilities oDO +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* 10/95 NEWSLETTER REVIEWS by Alan Sharkis OHAUG Newsletter LI}ibrarian This will be a short column, but rather than combine it with material I expect to get, I'll write it now sI}o that you are kept up to date. LVAUG News for July/August, 1995 -- There is a reprint of an always timely articI}le by GEORGE MUEDEN (HACE Newsletter, 11/91). It deals what members of an organization owe to the group, and it's imI }portant reading. There are very interesting article taken from The Washington Post and The Associated Press. One pI!}oints up some of the science bloopers uttered by otherwise capable science students. The other shows how on-linI"}e people care enough to help a fellow net cruiser who, at the time, couldn't even coherently ask for help.I#} It's a heart-warming story, in view of the negative things we've been hearing about Internet activity. Still anotI$}her article, source unknown, talks about the nature of electricity. There is a short type- in program to disablI%}e BASIC in an 800XL, and a reprint of RUSSELL STOWE's article (AAAUA, (FR)ANTIC, 2/95) on disk drive maintenanI&}ce. (FR)ANTIC for August, 1995 -- JAMES G. MARTIN, a corresponding member of AAAUA, has written an article reI'}viewing entries found in recent editions of New ATARI User, including some new software! He also reports that he haI(}s contacted AC and that the magazine continues to function. (Ed. I just received my September/October issue A.P.) JameI)}s has also reviewed, in another column in this issue, a game called Nibbler which was produced in 1983. Finally, AAAI*}UA saw fit to print their membership list on the back cover of this issue, and JOHN HARDIE's name is, of course, theI+}re, among so many familiar names. The PACESetter for September, 1995 -- JEAN BROKAW presents an example of how you caI,}n use the World Wide Web to take college courses for credit. She includes a screen-shot of the home page for the SPI-}JC writing club and suggests that this would be a good place to visit for PACE members who don't feel that they I.}write well enough to submit articles for the newsletter. The Mail Box column quotes JOE HICSWA's letter abI/}out computers. It's a short excerpt, but beautifully written. ALAN FRAZER takes us on a ride through the SunI0}coast Free-Net to the Internet. It's a fascinating article that shows what our "obsolete, incapable" (sarcasm inI1}tended) classic ATARI computers can do for us. It's also a great source of what we'd need to get on the net. If yoI2}u wish to stay in computing, and wish also to go no further than that 8-bit on your desk, read the article! Alan I3} is also featured this month in the Getting to Know You column. VITO A. RAIA reviews a movie(???) in this issue.I4} Well, actually the question marks are valid until one realizes that the movie in question is DISCLOSURE, a movie I5} with a plot in which computers and virtual reality figure quite heavily. Read the review. There is a reprint ofI6} sections of a JIM TRAGESER (Mid-Florida ATARI Computer Club Bulletin, 8/93) article on the history of ATARI coI7}mputers. And, yes, the assortment of games, puzzles and cartoons continues unabated. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+I8}*+*ers. And, yes, the assortment of games, puzzles and cartoons continues unabated. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+H *-++-* CHUCKLES FOUND ON THE INTERNET! HELLO, welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline!!!!! If you M:}are Obsessive-Compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If yoy are Codependent, please ask someone to press 2. If M;}you have Multiple Personalities, please press 3,4,5 and 6. If you are Paranoid-Delusional, we know who you are and M<}what you want. just stay on the line so we can trace the call. If you are Schizophrenic, listen carefully and aM=} little voice will tell you what number to press. If you are Manic-Depressive, it doesn't matter which number you M>}press, NO ONE WILL ANSWER! (Ed. If you know of any other chuckles, let us know, so we can pass them along! A.PM}(    2 f TA  , 0 ^ ZL   ~! ! A Z$ j$ !  @$ !! ! !  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I was just thinking of sU[}omething else in preparation of this fine feature article that I am writing to...well you might call it a rebuttU\}al...no, better yet call this a reply or even just a continuation of an article by Jay Pierstoff called Commodore U]}1350 Controller that I saw in issue #147 of Zmagazine. I realize that this article (it is a reprint from a July 1986U^} issue) is a couple of years old, so I will try to not be too hard on it, but still I think that a few points need U_} to be covered. First, it is now possible to purchase a ST mouse and it readily hooks up to any 8bit computer. WitU`}h the ST mouse you can play a very mean game of Missile Command. To be quite honest, that is the only reason I boughUa}t my mouse. You would be surprised at how well your scores do after you get a mouse pad. You say what good wilUb}l the mouse do if you can only use a joystick with Missile Command. Well, you see that is not entirely the case. Uc} Atari way back when they released the cartridge, I really don't know when they did it but I know it was one of tUd}heir first, released it with a little extra that Atari apparently didn't know about. Way back in the days beUe}fore Tramiel, Atari was owned by Warner, the company didn't allow their programmers to put their names on the games thUf}at they programed. So the programmers sometimes added a little bonus that the company wasn't privy to, suchUg} as the one in the Missile Command cartridge and probably exists today in the XEGS version. If any of you own a Uq}ÂB%DOS SYSB*)DUP SYSBSAUTORUN SYSBUAUTORUN COMBVBJOYSTCKTXTBZCWHO TXTBiDMEETDATTXTBpEPRESMESTXTB\qFNOVMIN TXTBHsGDECMIN TXTBuHELP DOCBMAINMENUHLPBCNEWSLTR BASBPRESSPRTMNUBPRESSPRTHLPBRAMDISK COMBWELCOME SCRB:HMAGNIFYTXTBINLREV TXTB9JINTERNTTXTB?MAGNIFY COMB WKMOUSE TXTB?SUPRDIR2BASBDESCR DIRBTESTMODSBASB!LNLMOD TXTCj3AINMENUHLPCX22 Track-ball you may have noticed that it has a switch on the bottom left hand side that says Joystick and next Ur} to that Track-ball. Well it seems that the ingenious programmer knew about this product coming out and added a Us}Track-ball handler to his creation. I know, I know, you're saying get on with it all ready but hey if I didn'tUt} give you some Atari lore who would. Well anyway, if you press the Control key and the 'T' key together you will noUu}tice that the screen will flash and as soon as you plug in the Track-ball you will have proportional control over tUv}he targeting cursor. Ah ha you say but what has this to do with my ST mouse, well if you plug in the mouse you will notUw}ice that it also gives you proportional control over the cursor in Track-ball mode. While we are sort of on the subjectUx} of the Track-ball, Mr Pierstorff also mentions that the Commodore mouse acts like joystick. Well, that's fine, but Uy}those of you who own the Track-ball also know that I described in the previous few lines that it will also work Uz}as a joystick. I realize that not there are not as yet that many applications for a ST mouse, but there are a fU{}ew. For instance, both of the new graphic operating systems are said to use the ST mouse for pointer movement andU|} the public domain program Icon Shop allows the use of the mouse also. Another point mentioned is that Atari has notU}} released an 8 bit mouse as yet. Well near as I can tell, we really don't need one, especially if you pick up a TraU~}ck-ball. 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Well, LARRY always tells of his mentor, DR. BOB, in nearby Allentown, PA, who is very helpful. "@}ALEX's method of education is the good ol' tried and true, trial and error method. Again, when ALEX shares about his "C"A}.U.R.S.E.," he seems to "shy up." Well, this is serious folks!! He's struggling with the keypad -- the ol"B}d newsletter will never be the same without ALEX! (The question is: would there even BE a newsletter?) ALEX shar"C}ed a walk down Memory Lane by showing the Club a 2/13/87 47 member list. This is OHAUG's alma mater and it lays clai"D}m to some heavies: a Sheriff of New York County, an official with the United States Bar Association, a phys"E}iologist (a doctor, no less!) and a defunct son-in-law. Reads like the Who's Who of Whoville (remember Dr. Seuss?)."F} JACK GEDALIUS shared a couple of comic ditties (read by ALEX) on the "beauty of aging." Everyone got a chuckle from"G} these humorous paradies. Thanks, Jack! DEMOS: RON FETZER discovered the chess game font in ATARI CLASSIC DISK VOL."H} 4, NO. 2, and printed it up to share with the club. He handed the copies to all members in attendance to show th"I}is program's offering. PAT MULVEY started his demo of the 8- bit Atari with a piece of 1/4 inch plexiglass. Why? "J} It has the ability to withstand bullets when thicker, but it's still transparent. What sounded like a marvelous commerc"K}ial became an exhibition of an absolutely beautiful engineering feat. Using hardware such as a standard 130XE keyboard "L}on top of a 130XE computer, underneath 3 1/2" disk drive and add a combo 5V/12V power supply with XF 551 Drive Boa"M}rd. Then decrease the size to a "miniscule height" by removing a number of components -- oh, yes, there is also a"N} heat shield that was taken off a ... this technical stuff went on and on, but I did pick up that the group was tota"O}lly hushed until PAT shared something about the PR connection. I guess the only thing we can say is that PAT "P}stupefied this crew with his "over the head ... but boy, do I want it, too!" demo. One can almost say a touch of artis"Q}try, PAT. Good work! OHAUG LIBRARY #615: (s/1): XL2.COM and XL2XE.COM programs; (s/2): MyDOS.TXT, SpartaDOS"R}, FONTWRTR.OBJ, ABATCON, RDNUMBER, RAMTEST.TXT ?? This disk was demo'ed by ALEX and RON shared that Side 1 was "S}an updated, debugged program. Again, the "CURSE" prevented ALEX from doing his normal, thorough investigation; so, t"T}he docs and all the Club members joined in in trying the different possibilities. Too soon did the keypad get total"U}ly locked up and no one could get beyond this impasse. Sounded a bit like Fundamentals of 8-bittery, #101. One t"V}hing though, these guys proved once again, they love a challenge! OHAUG LIBRARY #616: T.W.A.U.G. #18 NOV/DEC '95: "W} (s/1): ASTROBIOGRAMS, TANK game, VEHICLE REPORT, LARGE DISK LABELS, CASSETTE LOG WRITER, PLUS ZERO game, CONAN.PIC, BB"X}K COMMAND PROCESSOR by Bryan Chappell, ANALOG '87; (s/2): For Side 1, ALEX passed around samples of the charts crea"Y}ted by the ASTROBIOGARAMS program, a European version of Biorhythms. Info based on astrology which gives pe"Z}rsonality traits, horoscope and biorhythm chart. Don't get confused like ALEX did with the European method of reporting "[}dates of birth. As to Side 2, ALEX found this a bit difficult .. first off, he could get nothing but a couple of"\} notes repeating and repeating and repeating. Sounded sort of eerie when he showed the Club. Then, he found tha"]}t by booting Side 1 up without BASIC and then Side 2, it offered three games. Of course, all the guys perked u"^}p a bit when they were playing the games ... but, then, maybe not all. We really wouldn't know if JACK GEDALIUS was "_}taking one of his famous snoozes ... OHAUG LIBRARY #617 & 618: ENVISION -- 2 ANTIC disks from JIM CUTLER which has "`} 30 pages of documentation which ALEX passed around. Poor RON was chosen to plod through the droll Utilities"a} Introduction (yawns were definitely heard at this point). The review: good graphics program because (as Professor "b}MULVEY edified) it take pictures and turns them into text. Not only is it faster to boot, this saves lots of sp"c}ace on the disk! Amazingly, PAT demo'ed this program 5 years ago and was still able to remember it's benefits."d} OHAUG LIBRARY #619, 620 & 621, respectively are: FLICKER TERM, Version 5.1; ICED-T; TERM 80, Ver"e}sion 1.6 -- ALAN explained the benefits of the three disks in question. Each gives an 80 column display,"f} and at least 2 of the 3 give BT100 emulation needed to access the WORLDWIDE WEB through either GENIE or some other "g} provider. Text based server, LYNX, needed to get graphics. DOOR PRIZES: #1 HARRY TUTHILL #2 AL MANN"h}ELLA #3 PAT MULVEY #4 ALLEN ATKINS #5 HAROLD PEGLER Submitted by D.E.C. "i} **=**3 PAT MULVEY #4 ALLEN ATKINS #5 HAROLD PEGLER Submitted by D.E.C. t having come across this poem after CHRISTMAS, I felt you would get a chuckle from it, more than my prk}attling on. So here it is: POLITICALLY CORRECT SANTA Twas the night before Xmas and Santa's a wreck, How to ll}ive in a world that's politically correct! His workers no longer would answer to "Elves," Vertically challengem}d they were calling themselves; And labor conditions at the North Pole were alleged by the Union to stifle the soul.n} Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety, Released to the wilds by the Humane Society. And Equalo} Employment had made it quite clear, That Santa had better not use just reindeer. So Dancer and Donner, Comet ap}nd Cupid were replaced with four pigs, And you know that looked stupid! The runners had been removed from his sleiq}gh The ruts were termed dangerous by the EPA. And people had started to call for the cops, When they heard r}sled noises on their rooftops. Secondhand smoke from his pipe had his workers quite frightened; His furtrimed red sus}it was called "unenlightened!" And to show you the strangeness of life's ebbs and flows, Rudolph was suint}g over unauthorized use of his nose! And had gone on Giraldo in front of the nation Demanding millions in u} overdue compensation. So, half of the reindeer were gone; and his wife, who suddenly said enough of this life, joiv}ned a self help group, packed and left in a whiz Demanding, from now on, her title was Ms.! And as for the gifw}ts why he'd ne'er had a notion, That making a choice could cause such a commotion! Nothing of leather, nothing ofx} fur -- Which meant nothing for him! and nothing for her! Nothing that might be construed to pollute; nothing ty}o aim and nothing to shoot; Nothing that clammered or made lots of noise; Nothing for just girls or for just z}boys. Nothing that claimed to be gender specific; nothing that's warlike or nonpacific. No candy or sweets, they{} were bad for the tooth, Nothing that seemed to embellish a truth. And fairytales, while not yet forbidde|}n were like Ken and Barbie, better left hidden For they raised the hackles of those psychological who claimed}} the only GOOD gift was one, ecological. No baseball, no football -- someone could get hurt. Besides, playing s~}ports exposed kids to dirt! Dolls were said to be sexist and should be passe And Nintendo would rot you}r entire brain away. So Santa just stood there, dishevelled, perplexed He just could not figure what to} do next. He tried to be merry, tried to be gay, But you've got to be careful with that word today! His sack was qu}ite empty, limp to the ground Nothing fully acceptable was to be found. Something special was needed -- a gift t}hat he might..... Give to all without angering the Left or the Right. A gift that would satisfy with no indeci}sion Each group of people, of every religion, Every ethnicity, every hue, everyone, everywhere -- even you! So } here is that gift, it's price beyond words "May you and your loved ones enjoy Peace on Earth." } *** (NOTE: This poem is copyrighted by Harvey Ehrlich, 1992. It is free to distribute, without changes, as lon}g as this notice remains intact. (Ed. it was copied from the late December issue of NUACE. A.P.) <<}**>>s this notice remains intact. (Ed. it was copied from the late December issue of NUACE. A.P.) << comical. How '90s it is to be conscientious of being politically correct in all aspects.... Several enchanting&} Christmas cards flowed in this month along with our normal correspondence. Our senior member, BILL SMINCKEY, s&}ent a wonderful greeting sharing that he is enjoying good health and wishes all his best. ALEX truly enjoyed heari&}ng from all, especially this octagenarian. An OHAUG thanks to ALL!!! JOHN PICKENS, GCACE, CANADA,&} sent 3 disks, which included his upgraded XL2 and XL2.XE. The Club's appreciation was not only&} communicated, but an extra hope was asserted for JOHNS continuing with his 8-bit involvement -- his mind is a gre&}at thing! ALEX truly appreciated the last issue of GCACE's X103 and thanked GORDON HOPPER for an enjoyable newslett&}er. Can't wait to see the review that ALAN SHARKIS is going to write -- ALEX sort of set the tone with the a&}djective 'rave'? The philosophical problem ALEX is dealing with is 'how can the puddle give to the ocean'? He sen&}t JOHN an '84 French disk and closed, offering anything else we can give him in return. NIBBLES & BYTES, Nov/&}Dec '95 newsletter from N.W.P.A.C. alerted all that N.W.P.A.C. is going to be on the Internet. It includes Mac, IBM &}and other 16 bits. FRANK KUZLOSKI sent a lovely letter that certainly helps motivate the ol' Chief Bottle Was&}her (CBW) to keep on keepin' on! Perhaps the other Club members will be stirred to another rousing year of stirr&}ing ideas and wonderful articles that both edify and entertain! No, no there's no pay; but when something good is said a&}bout the OHN/L, we all can share in the joy! ALEX shared that RON FETZER received many letters covering&} next year's dues. It's wonderful to see how many of our members mention the newsletter as being one of the main&} areas of interest to 8 BIT'ers. A letter was received from CHARLES COLE. First off, he remarks about the &}scarcity of 8-bit activity in 'Cyberspace'. When speaking with BOB PUFF, he was advised that manufacture and&} sales of black boxes is slow. MIKE HOHMAN from Fine Tuned Engineering (FTe) is hard to find -- he's taken his B&}BS offline. His Voice Phone is still available at (602) 668-6676. CHARLES asserted that MIKE is a genious &} at product development (always creating better is not always the way to stay in business) but some merchandi&}se took far took long to be shipped. CHARLES must have been very down when he wrote this letter. A concerned &}and reasonable ALAN SHARKIS pointed out that CHARLES is acting as a conduit for the negativity he sees while not keepin&}g a realistic balance. For example: yes, BEN dumped his surplus equipment, but he is still up and running. ALAN also po&}inted out that BOB PUFF is just working the ol' Capitalistic supply and demand game. If the demand for an item rises, h&}e'll furnish it. Buck up CHARLES, OHAUG is still here and we've proven to be a feisty group!!! Things can only look&} up from here on!!! To reach CHARLES, use his E-mail address: on COMPUSERVE, '73217,2321' or on GENIE, 'C.COLE1', or &}see ALAN for his long INTERNET address. Along with his dues, member BILL FORBES shared his enthusiasm for the&} CD-ROM from the Netherlands. See below for more on CD ROM! FRANK SAGSTETTER, OHIO, is our newest member. WE&}LCOME ABOARD FRANK! JEFF T. GERMAN sent his dues and a question about pairing his BLACK BOX with a MODEM and an in&}kjet printer. ALAN shared that there is no hardware to run faxes yet on the 8-bit. If the printer is Hewlett Pack&}ard, he bellieves, JEFF needs a DESKJET 500 DRIVER (either NWPAC or CHARLES COLE can be consulted for more inf&}o on this). JOHN M. JOHNSON thinks that his dues are his best investment every year. He especially points &} out the "great" newsletter. DANE STEGMAN also renewed and stated how he looks forward to the club's newsletter,&} as does JOHN DOUGLAS. Thanks guys! JIM CUTLER sent in his dues, and he wrote "Enclosed is my dues for the deligh&}ts of a further year's OL HACKERDOM". Which dues was returned to him as he was accorded the title as one of th&}e HONORARY members for 1996 because of his many contributions to OHAUG. Thanks to E mail and the INTERNET, this B&}rit is as close to any other member in this country! (ALAN SHARKIS has become a very busy correspondent.) &} TOM SMITH authored an article on the INFO-8 ATARI USERS GROUP on the INTERNET. ALEX shared his deep gratitude&} for TOM's input. He wishes many more members would follow ... TOM suggested that all Club members share their GENIE ad&}dresses and offered his INTERNET address. Along with his dues, his INTERNET address: "TOM.SMITH@sdcs.org&}" He also sent the address for the INFO-8 ATARI subscription request: "LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NET" &} Thanks TOM! RUSSELL STOWE sent our Library a French Vocabulary disk to solve last month's FRENCH Epson Dr&}ive Disk problem (remember?). ALEX sent RUSSELL the disks from JOHN PICKENS in return, for his library, and&} as mentioned above, sent a copy of the FRENCH disk to JOHN PICKENS. TOM ANDREWS wrote a 4 tome communiq&}ue that offered his INTERNET address on GENIE as: "T.ANDREWS16@GENIE.GIS.COM" TOM, the great prog&}rammer, is at work developing a new version of REFORMER. Offering some praise for our newsletter allowin&}g him to feel as though he was present -- quite a trek from Manlius, NY! He also shared how he'd love to coopera&}te and take the minutes if he had the opportunity to be a part of our meetings! TOM shared how he was dissatisfied &} with the current CN because they've been neglecting the 8-bitters. RON FETZER already dropped his subscription&}. TOM told how his COMMODORE 1701 coupled with 130XE is like a match made in heaven! Always on top of things, he&} made sure to send his dues, Along with new modified NEWSLETTER program. ALEX thinks it's a great modification to the&} newsletter, and will install it. ALAN SHARKIS wrote to AC and stated that BOB WOOLEY's influence is strongly f&}elt and the bias towards the advanced Hacker is far too apparent. AC disKs needs to be better documented with a greate&}r variety for new and veteran 8 BIT'ers. Heres hopeing. LARRY TISCHBEIN, Editor of LVAUG, Quakertown, PA, shared&} this bit of folk wisdom: "Remember, every day is a GIFT -- That is why it is called "THE PRESENT." JIM CUTL&}ER, sent 3 disks. The ASTROLOGY one, showed that perhaps RON FETZER might become a President of US, but RON's birthr&}ight is Hungary ... so? Anyhow, S'amazing that the top job of this country was bantied about the members like a hot &}tamale -- seems NOBODY wants to get NEWTralized! ALEX thanked JIM for the disks. JOHN POWELL sent his new address &}in S.C, and ordered disks from our Library. He moved near a VA Hospital for health reasons. We wish you heal real &}soon. He also asked his many questions as usual, which were answered by HAROLD and ALEX. DEMOS F&}irst up was RON who showed how to load the newsletter into Ramdisk D8: and run it really fast IF you have the OS+ upg&}rade. Then he showed how to use "SPELL CHECKER (100000 words)" with 1st XLENT (or any W.P.) word processor. As &}usual RON (the teacher in him always shows) gave out explaination sheets to his students. Thanks for interest&}ing demo's, as usual. PAT MULVEY then took over by showing us (on his LAPTOP) a tiny bit of what is in the &}NEW CD ROM from the NETHERLANDS, which PAT purchased. He advised that the ROM contained the equivelant of 2331 s&}ingle density disks or 1150 double density disks. Programs and graphics galore! Price was $35.00. OHAUG hopes t&}o order it soon. There were a couple of disks demoe'd, but were not recorded for the newsletter. Sorry about th&}at. DOOR PRIZES 1. PATRICK MULVEY 2. ALAN SHARKIS 3. HAROLD PEGLER ALEX donated a CORN POPPER a&}nd Ron got it. 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