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Daffynitions Pres. Message. INFORMATION Minutes Sep.'93 h} Minutes Oct.'93->Check Directory נ Review for more M/L or Meeting Dates BASIC pi}rograms! N/L Reviews. Check 堲 for TB32Q.DOC more ATARI news From the JAWS! articles!!<-j}  for TB32Q.DOC more ATARI news From the JAWS! articles!!<--***********************************OL' HACKERS WHOS WHO ? ? ? ? ? ? ?PRESIDENT..............Alex PignatoVICE-PRESIDENT.l}......*Jack GedaliusSECRETARY................Ron FetzerTREASURER................Ron FetzerBLANK DISK SALES.........Ron m}FetzerLIBRARIAN.............Harold PeglerDISK NEWSLETTER EDITOR.Alex PignatoLEGAL-COUNSEL........Jerry GinsbergEQUIPMn}ENT-MANAGER......Bob UlschmidMEMBERSHIP...........*Jack GedaliusINT'L CORRESPONDANT....Horst DewitzNEWSLETTER LIBRARIANo}...Alan SharkisLIB. COPY MASTER....Allen C. AtkinsMAGAZINE LIBRARIAN....Jack GedaliusNOTE-[*] denotes change in positiop}n. *****(O.H.A.U.G.) is in no way associatedwith the ATARI Corp.,or any of theirafffiliates, other thanq} using a greatproduct. Atari and Atari relatedproducts are the Trademarks of theirrespective companies and arer} used onlyas informational help to our membersand the Atari user in general. Opinionsherein are not necessarily thos}se ofO.H.A.U.G. but those of the variousindividual authors.O.H.A.U.G. is a NOT-FOR-PROFITOrganization in tt}he State of New York.O.H.A.U.G. will NOT tolerate ANYreferances, directly or by implicationto piracy or the use u}of any computerequipment for illegal activities.DEADLINES FOR NEWSLETTERJAN/FEB DEC 31 JUL/AUG JUN 30MAR/APRv} FEB 28 SEPT/OCT AUG 31MAY/JUN APR 30 NOV/DEC OCT 31 Submitted articles arew} preferred asdisk text files, preferably made on the1ST XLENT Word Processor, in 38 columnsbut it will be gratefully acx}cepted ashard copy. Send your articles, commentsto:OL' HACKERS Newsletterc/o A. Pignato,3376 Ocean Harbor DriveOceay}nside, N. Y. 11572.Please refer to the above schedule forOL' HACKERS NEWSLETTER deadlines. ****end*****Oceax*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* A REVIEW OF THE NEW DISK CATALOGER and YEARLY CALENDER maker by Ala{}n SharkisA NEW DISKRON FETZER strikes again! This time,he has many accomplices, includingALEX PIGNATO, the O'HAUG|} president.And the IRON is hot. Red-hot! Theymodified and put together some realwinners. There is a need for calendar}}programs that will run on our Ataris.There are,to be sure, lots of themout there, but this package uses thebest of th~}e best, and modifies them.THE SEARCHBoth RON FETZER and ALEX PIGNATO arevery capable programmers, and assuch are} also excellent judges ofprograms written by others. Theygive full credit, if not in thescreen versions then} certainly in theBASIC listings, to all the authors. A GREAT MENU SYSTEMAlso they have created a menu systemthat tie}s the programs togetherbeautifully. Seamlessly. How oftenhave you had a menu system in frontof you where some} of the programsexit to the menu, some exit to BASICand some simply don't exit? Nothere!! These programs all exit }to themenu with no trouble at all. Fromthe menu, if you wish, you can easilyexit to BASIC.NEW-DIRECTORY MODULE & DIS}K CATALOGERIn addition-there isa great directorymodule and its called from BASIC thatdeserves a few real words of prais}eand a disk cataloger that is amongthe best I've seen anywhere. Moreabout them later. I just have towrite abo}ut the calendars first.CALENDAR # 1The first calendar program on themenu is called YEARLY CALENDAR MAKER.It creates} a two-page affair thatprints to an Epson-compatibleprinter. You give the program a yearfrom 1801 to 2399. }You also give ityour name so that it can personalizethe calender for you. Next, youcreate the calendar by givin}g itdates to highlight in each of thetwelve months, along with thedescription of that date. Months canbe s}kipped. I made use of thatfeature when I created the first halfof a school-year calendar. On thefirst page of pr}int-out, you get alltwelve months printed. The SPECIALDATES you included are in bold type. The second page cont}ains thedescriptions for each HIGHLIGHTEDDATE. However, you have to becareful when entering data. Should}you discover an error after you'veentered a date, you can only erasethe last date that was enterered. Calendars a}re saved to disk with a.DAT extender, so the filename mustbe meaningful to you. Save yourcalendar before printi}ng! Also, ifyou switch to lower-case wheninputting your name, be sure toswitch back to upper-case for } therest of the program. Filenames canonly be understood in upper-case. Heed the warning about setting yourprinte}r to top-of-form beforeprinting, and if you're using aGraphix AT interface as I do, switchit to transpa}rent mode beforestarting. A sample yearly calendaris included. This calendar programbegan with a simple one by }Steven C.Chen, but was made much more usefulwith NEW added routines made by TOMANDREWS, ALEXPIGNATO, and RON FETZER.}DOCUMENTATION AND READER PROGRAMRON supplied the documentation tothis and all other programs on thedisk. Documen}tation is on side 2,with options to read it from thescreen or to print it in 40- or 80-column format. The do}cumentationreader/printer program, by the way,was also done by RON FETZER.CALENDAR # 2The next calendar program c}reatesmonthly pocket appointment calendars,which are small enough to be foldedand placed in a wallet. This programwas }written by Jim Hodny. You selecta month and year, enter the dates andplace up to two appointment reminderson each date. }I'd advise you to savethe calender to disk before printing,but you are warned by the program tosave it before quitting th}e program. You can list all the calendars on thedisk, and you can view the currentcalendar on screen to see which dates}have been highlighted, but not thespecific appointment messages. Youcan, of course, ask to edit aparticular} date, and then the itemsentered are shown. The warningsabout setting top-of-form, etc.,apply to this cale}ndar program, aswell.CALENDAR # 3The third calendar program, thePersonal Daily and Monthly Calendarby Alfred F}ilskov III, is going to bethe most useful one for me. It hasonly one flaw -- it puts Monday inthe left-hand column }and Sunday inthe right-hand column of calendars itdisplays on the screen and printsout. This arrangement is far }fromunique, but also far from usual. Itwill take me some time to adjust tothat placement. However, the rest ofthe }program is superb. (EDITORSNOTE: This correction was made to theprogram after the author received hiscopy of the dis}k, and the programnow prints out starting with SUNDAYrather than MONDAY!) At the program'sinitial menu, you can th}en selecteither load/create a month; delete amonth; get a directory of months onthe disk; or go back to the main menuo}f the OHAUG package. If you opt toload/create a month, you then inputthe month and year to be loaded orcreated. }That takes you to anelaborate, five-window screen. Threeof the windows give you the status ofthe creation process, t}he fourth isused for viewing/editing ofappointments on a particular day, andthe fifth contains your menu choic}es.As you put data in for a particularday, the date is highlighted in thelarge monthly calendar window. Up toseven m}emos or appointments can beplaced in any one day. Individualdaily appointment lists or monthlycalendars with the} daily appointmentslisted in the appropriate boxes canbe printed out. It's that lastfeature that I find most usef}ul.THE NEW DIRECTORY MODULELet's return to the main menu of thepackage. On it, there's thatdirectory entry. }What you get if youselect it is MUCH MORE than yourusual disk directory. First,understand that the program }for themain menu is written in BASIC, sojust getting a directory from BASICis something of a feat. But ALEXan}d RON, took this module (yes, it'sa self-contained module, and it caneasily be inserted into your ownprograms) tho}ught of some REALLY NEATADDITIONS! So, you select thedirectory. You get a screen with theusual Atari DOS listing }on the left. But on the right there are twocategories that are REAL NEW. One iscalled disk data. It displays t}heNUMBER of FILES on the disk, theNUMBER of SECTORS used, the NUMBER ofFREE SECTORS, the TOTAL NUMBER ofSECTORS,} the DENSITY of the disk, andthe REVISION of ATARI BASIC in YOURCOMPUTER. Below this list are a setof choices for you }to make, under thecategory of "DISK ACTION.". You canget another directory [A]. You areprompted, if you select this }action,to place the new disk in drive 1. Atpresent, only drive 1 is supported(hint for later improvement?) (EDITORThi}s and other suggested improvementshave been added after this review waswritten,) You can go to BASIC [B], orto DOS [D]. }You can load a disk (presumably self-booting) with [L], again, with aprompt that the disk should be indrive 1. }Pressing [R] brings youback to the MAIN MENU. I can thinkof two possible future improvementsto this screen. The}re should be anitem to print out the directory. Space may be a problem here. Thesecond involves trapping } outkeysrokes other than A, B, D, L, andR. I accidentally pressed anotherkey and the module went off intonever-}never land. (EDITOR this is nowdone).STAR OF THE DISK...THE DISK CATALOGERNow for that DISK CATALOGER. Withthis inc}lusion, OHAUG has gone intocompetition with one of their earlierpackages, and the competition theypresent is stiff.} Originally thisDISK CATALOGER came from M.A.G.I.C.Disk Library. The BASIC listingcites a revision by Grant Rich}ardson,and a further one by ALEX PIGNATO ofOHAUG. RON FETZER's Docs advise yourseparating files into categories andcat}aloging them separately if theynumber more that 1,279 -- the maximumnumber of files the program willprocess. RON} also advises that youidentify your first disk with thenumber 101, and that you write thedisk numbers on the disk} labels byhand, since disk numbers are notrecorded on each disk by the program.From that point on, you can selec}tAUTO ADD from the menu, indicate sideA and the program goes to work. Thenyou flip the disk you're catalogingover, pre}ss OPTION, and side B isautomatically done. Pressing SELECTbrings up the next disk number. Suppose you fail to} have the nextdisk in the drive with the drive doorclosed? The program will give you a#144 error, and you can restart} it bytyping "CONT" after you put the diskin the drive. Choosing MANUAL ADDprompts you to put in the filenameswith}out extenders, then put in theextenders when you are prompted. DELETES can be done from within theprogram. Th}is must be donecarefully, but it's a useful featureif you come across duplicate filesand wish to have them en}tered onlyonce. When you ask the cataloger fora list on screen or printer, thedeleted filename and extender are}shown, but there will be a "DEL" inthe Sector column. Asking theprogram to DISPLAY puts your list offiles up o}n the screen. Asking it toSEARCH brings up a submenu. If youask for a search by filename, theprogram requires that} you put in thefilename and use spaces to pad out toeight characters, then type in theextender (no period). That'}s aprocedure you'd have to get used to,but RON advises searching by disknumber, rather than file number,anoth}er submenu option. I've triedboth, and the search by disk numberis easier IF you know what disk thefile occupies. }When you ask for aSORT, you're taken to a submenu sothat you can select whether the sortis by filename or disk n}umber. Itmight be useful for a future revisionto include a sort by extension. Thesort is made in RAM only. Be advised}that the sort is fast! A machine-language sort routine has beenincluded. PRINT outputs the cataloglist in f}ive columns on a page incompressed mode. The date and pagenumbers are included. You can LOADand SAVE files. You }don't have toenter the drive number; the programdefaults to D1. You can also use theunique ERASE command to erase a }filefrom RAM. This will not delete thefile from its disk. You can also geta normal disk directory from theprogra}m. RON advises that you canbreak the program and enter your nameon lines 2082 and 2800 to personalizethe program. Yo}u should then resaveit with the filename, "MAGCATAL.BAS",so it will continue to work with thepackage. I'll add a custom } hint ofmy own. The print routine wasfor EPSON and Star printers, and itsends the printer an "ESC-=" beforep}rinting. This is supposed to putthe Star in inverse mode, but on myEpson-compatible it asks that theeighth bit }be stripped! Nothing wasbeing printed, until I went into theBASIC code and took that instructionout. It's one of sev}eral on line2020. The other instructions on thatline should be left alone. I've seensatisfying demonstrations of t}hisprogram, but haven't put it to workon my system except for a small test.The best part is that the program atall ti}mes tells you in what catagoryyou are working, via explainationprompts, so that you can't get lost!!It just might b}e my next majorproject, and with over 700 disks inmy collection, it's long overdue.EXTRA SPACEThe Ol' Hackers }thoughtfully leftenough room on their disk to allowsaving not only catalogs, butcalendars in any of the three }formatsused by the calendar programs. Thereare some samples for a couple of theprograms to help you see the results.HO}W TO GET ITSo, this package is certainly worththe $3.00 that you will pay for it. Make your check personally payabl} ****** PRESIDENTS MESSAGE A MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL the OL' HACKERS a}nd ALL OUR MANY FRIENDS! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ALL OL' HACKERS, WHEREVER YOU } ARE! As we go into our NINTH YEAR as an all 8 BIT club, I am glad to report that our membership is} at a RECORD HIGH! We presently have 71 members, and if we grow much more, we will have to turn down new non-local} members. This is because of the "grunt work" necessary to keep records, package and mail out 100 newslet}ters bi-monthly, and to try to respond to members letters etc. How different this is from the decline of membership in o}ther clubs. I guess we must be doing something right. Our own ATARI CLASIC magazine is having its first anniversar}y, and I am told that we have over 500 subscribers, and over 300 Disk subscribers, so it too is growing.} THE 8 BIT DEAD? NO WAY JOSE! We just must not listen to the doomsayers. If your 8 BIT does what you want it to do, ST}AY WITH IT. Lately I have seen messages on BBS's saying that they wish they hadn't gotten rid of their 8 BITS when } they bought clones. If you must have a 16 BIT for whatever reason, fine, just put it next to the 8 Bit and make it act }as a RAMDISK fo the 8 BIT via the SIO2PC cable (grin). In the current newsletter, you will notice that bec}ause of the many requests received, I have put more programs on side 2 and therefore there is less text than usua}l. Please let me know if you like having a combination of the two, or more of one or the other. Your input i}s needed to help guide me in future newsletters. We have a new Vice President, &Membership Chairman, JACK GED}ALIUS-andknowing JACK, I'm sure he will be agreat help and an asset to the club.Welcome Mr. V.P., Membership chairma}nwe expect great things from you. Thats all for now, be healthy and well till next time!P., Membership chairmag +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* (Editors NOTE: Its catch up time... This article and the N/L Review on side two }are not the very latest, but theyare interesting and were'nt printed in the past, so I feel they are both worth }printing in the newsletter because ofthe popularity of these reviews.) +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* } NEWSLETTER REVIEWS by ALAN SHARKIS OLDIES BUT STILL WORTH KNOWING ABOUT: LIAUG LightHouse for } March, 1991 -- This issue is packed with 8-bit material. The reprint of Rick Burton's (RACE) The Basics o }f BASIC article from January, 1991 AIM examines the SETCOLOR command in detail. Robert Anisko's BetaZine } article compares Tetrix, Fortress and Atartris, three popular 8-bit Tetris clones. Both of the Bit Byter article }s are full of news about the German club, and of a new club in The Netherlands. The disk descriptions (disk #23) ma }ke me want to look at that disk myself! One of the programs refers to a 1029 printer. Have you ever heard o }f that one, or is that a misprint? ACE St. Louis Newsline for March, 1991 -- Charles Parson tells us how to upgrad }e a 256K MIO to 1 Meg. This can be a very tricky project, but a very rewarding one. You do need a 1 Meg MIO because }the ROM from it must be copied. Joan Ryan's Gatebits column is an excellent illustration of how networking on B }BSs can help users from all over the country solve problems. Joan's Bits of Eight column contains many interes }ting references, the majority of them directly related to OHAUG. S.L.C.C. Journal for April, 1991 -- Bob Woole }y keeps his promise and brings us his 80-column board. The article continues from a "rough- sketch" done pre }viously, but this time there are construction outlines, a complete schematic, and the assembly source code that } puts the board to work. ACE of Syracuse Newsletter for April, 1991 -- Ken Wickert tells us how to get onto GEnie !}in Full Duplex. Tom Andrews reviews Rail King, an exciting railroad game for the 8-bit. Speaking of Tom, there is!} a full page devoted to his connection with OHAUG and how he and Kris Holtegaard cooperated on the newsletter pro!}gram and how Ron Fetzer is a member of ACE of Syracuse and on and on and ... It's gratifying. (FR)ANTIC (AAAUA) for!} April, 1991 -- Read everything! Hidden in Alvan Sherrill's column, Presidential Ponderings are news, review!}s, club program suggestions, telecommunications, you name it! Editor Manuel Garcia tells us where!} Hi-Tech Expressions is now located and who is doing support for the Muppet Learning Keys. Alvan Sherrill has a t!}errific article for beginners about printers. Ed Hall, AAAUA's Canadian member, describes England's Page 6's latest!} effort, a magazine with DOM called New Atari User. (It's not to be confused with AtariUser magazine, !} which is American.) Chuck Leazott's article about ICD's closeout sale is reprinted. ACE St. Louis N! }ewsLine for April, 1991 -- Joan Ryan reviews the 8-bit DOM, which contains two interesting games. Her Bits of Eight ! } column is full of important files and products. Her Slowmo Reviews column, likewise. Finally, there is an article (aut! }hor not mentioned) about some of the idiosyncracies of programming in MAC/65. ACE of Syracuse Newsletter for A! }pril, 1991 -- Tom Andrews has written an excellent article about Assemblers, Interpretors and Compilers. Ken W! }ickert has extensively quoted Chuck Leazott's ICD sale article (mentioned above). Vernon W. Smith writes about some of t!}he entries in the Addison- Wesley "Atari Software 1985". Some of the software mentioned then is still going stron!}g today. B.A.C.E. Line (Bakersfield) for May, 1991 -- Although there are no 8-bit- specific articles, there are som!}e interesting features. Between Bytes (JACS) for May, 1991 -- There is some 8-bit news scattered around, but not u!}nder any specific heading. Read it all. S.L.C.C. Journal for May, 1991 -- Bob Wooley continues his his article on an !}80-column card with a correction of the circuit presented last time, several important enhancements, and hints to t!}hose who desire to write a word-processor program for the card. MUG Newsletter for May, 1991 -- The NAPCO material is!} getting mighty thin! However, there's substance here in an article decrying the split of Atari users into 8-bi!}t and ST camps, a reprint of John Aalto's comments detailing new articles and products for the 8-bits, and !} a reprint of AtariWriter+ Part VI, Jimmy Boyce's AIM article. +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* 8-bits, and n MINUTES OF THE OCTOBER 1993 MEETING. ==================================== NEW CORRECTED MEETING DATE: Saturday Decembe%}r 18, instead of December 11. WHERE? At the Library. ITEM: STAN SCHENFELD tendered his resignation as %}VICE PRESIDENT of the OL' HACKERS. He informed us that he has become deeply involved with AMATEUR RADIO and PHO%}TOGRAPHY and therefore has not enough time for everything. STAN we thank you for the many years of devoted service t%}o our club. It is with regret that we accept the resignation. STAN says he will remain an active member. We %}have a new VICE PRESIDENT and MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN - he is JACK GEDALIUS. JACK has been a devoted OL' HACKER who has %}agreed to add more duties to his already busy personal schedule. We wish you well, and we know you will do a bang %}up job. ITEM: A group of dedicated OL' HACKERS (4) packed addressed and mailed the 300 plus ATARI CLASSICS disks%}. It was a small group this time because many of us were either sick or recovering or not available. Regardless what the% } cause the OL' HACKERS will always try to honor its commitments! THOUGHTS TO PONDER In 1983 ATARI CORP. had a US%!}ER GROUPS of 50,000 members. Now there are less than 5,000 members. What happened??? CORRESPONDENCE: ALEX r%"}ead a letter mailed to our member DENNIS KLINE in Florida written by RON FETZER. RON congratulated DENN%#}IS on the superb article he wrote in the last issue of CURRENT NOTES called "SMALL BUSINESS SYSTEMS", which had been pu%$}blished in a prior issue of our newsletter. A message on the MACHINE BBS (516) 764-5748 from our member in M%%}A, GLEN SOUNDERS. He said he refuses to serve only IBM callers on his BBS. He will serve non-specific platform informati%&}on. His BBS is "STARS". He saidTHE MACHINE BBS SYSOP LOU TRAPANI has the OL' HACKERS connection and is therefore a very %'}valuable BBS for 8 BIT'ers. LOU is an OHAUG member. A letter from our member DANE STEGMAN in upstate N.Y. He te%(}lls us that he can run PRINT POWER on this XMM801 printer but AWARD WARE does not work even though it is from the%)} same company. We tried it on our XMM801 and you are right, DANE, it DOES NOT RUN on the XMM801. Sorry to give yo%*}u this news, but at least you know its not your equipment. A letter from our member THEODORE TOPPING in MA %+} who renewed his membership for 1994. He asks if there is a way to connect an IDE HARD DRIVE to the 800XL. He is %,} also programming the PIA CHIP to act as a joystick input on port #1 and a drive output on port #2. He wants to drive a%-} 7406 chip jig to drive LEDS. He also likes the newsletter. He also ordered 15 library disks. ALEX responded%.} and gave him BOB WOOLEY's (super HACKER) address. DEMOS: ALEX showed the latest TWAUG disk (Sep/Oct 93) fro%/}m our members in England. On it is MAGIC SQUARE, SPACE WOLF, FOLDER LABEL, BOMBER, ROBO ADVENTURE. On side two th%0}ere was EMPIRE, ZEROX.ARC. We saw EMPIRE. A great game. A 2 player strategy game. A disk from the SAN %1}LEANDRO COMPUTER CLUB NEWSLETTER OCT 93. It has HEARTS, SKULL ISLAND, PRNSTAR.131 (UPDATE and LATEST VERSION), FILEEM,%2} (with data) and BOINK. The next disk we saw is the first SAMPLE FUTURA disk from Scotland from our %3} member STUART MURRAY. This was the 1st disk he made. We have ALL FUTURA DISKS in the library. They are great!. This%4} was a sample disk. It has a very nice VIEWDOCS program. It has a lot of programs on the disks. Side two has a%5} lot of .OBJ programs on it. MULTI FILE COPIER II. ETC. Disk TWAUG #4. JUL/AUG 93. We saw ABBUC'S BRAINWAVE PI%6}CTURE LOADER. They had a lot of GARFIELD pictures on it. A continuous picture show. Also on side two are pictures.%7} The graphics are excellent. Each one is a 62 sector picture. Next we saw ARTIST UNLEASHED. It is a art program t%8}o create pictures and paintings. It has a lot of features. It is in the library. Side one has the master program,%9} side two has the data disk. Next we saw a NCAUG disk JUL/AUG 87. (Brand new - Grin). It had a very nice introductio%:}n to the disk.It had DEBUT, QUICK REFERENCE.OBJ, NOTE- POINT BASIC, VOLCANO ISLAND, ADVENTURE 40.BAS, DEVI%;}LS'S DOORWAY, ZERO FREE.OBJ, ARACHNID.BAS, 13 BUSINESS PROGRAMS on side two. A loaded disk to get. Also now i%<}n the library. ALEX showed MENU2BIN.BAS. You can write a description of the files on the disk and the Menu wil%=}l boot automatically with the file description. You can also print it out as a hard copy. It loads BASIC%>} and BINARY files. Only works with DOS 2 and 2.5. It has many features. We also saw VTCOR FIX. It has a lot of fea%?}tures to manipulate the VTOC TABLE. It also has a disk mapper. We also saw CUSTOM PRINT.MOD by MAT RAT a%@}nd modified by TOM ANDREWS for the GEMINI 10X printer. A program that list all the special Atari characters as well%A} as prints inverse characters. A great program to get. Many features. We saw LABEL MASTER for making mailing l%B}abels. Disk Directory labels, Envelope labels and address envelopes. Aother very nice program to get. We a%C}lso saw NUMERALOGY.BAS. We ran the numeralogy profile for HARRY TUTHILL. It was pretty accurate. We also ran a profil%D}e for ALEX. What B.S.!! DOOR PRIZES: JACK GEDALIUS HARRY TUTHILL ALAN SHARKIS JOE LEBER Submitted by &} MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 1993 MEETING: ===================================== NEW MEMBERS: JOHN HARDIE, (an old)F} member returns) the Resource Editor of A.C. re-joined our group. WILLIAM V. SMINKEY contacted us (thanks to JOHN)G} McGOWAN) wrote to us and also joined our group. WILLIAM is our most senior member, (80 plus!.) BOB WOOLEY)H} also joined. BOB is a hardware hacker extra ordinaire. BOB uses a 1200XL which he loves. He has written many articles )I}about the mods he has done. JOHN R. DOUGLAS from Bethlehem PA. also joined us. JOHN is interested in TURBO B)J}ASIC for SPARTA DOS 3.2. (Look elsewhere on this disk for TURBO BASIC 3.2Q.) ANDREW KOLSTEAD from Washington DC )K} joined us. ANDREW uses a BLACK BOX from CSS with two 20Meg. SYQUEST hard drives, two QUINTOPUS' and 2 expanded memory)L} computers. I think fellows you will have a good time and make many new friends, and I'm sure we will all learn f)M}rom your own experiences. WANTED: ===> ALEX and I purchased the ALIEN VOICE BOX. We need the DISK PROGRAM )N}that goes with it. If anyone can make us a copy it would be much appreciated. <=== CORRESPONDENCE: ALEX wrote )O}to ROWLAND GRANT of the GARDEN CITY ACE-in B.C. CANADA. ALEX asked if we could get some of JOHN PICKEN'S latest work )P}for the 8- bit. JOHN PICKEN is one of the premiere programmers for the 8-bit. ROWLAND answered and said he w)Q}ill send us a disk of JOHN's works, as soon as they are completed. He also complimented us on our newsletter. )R}A letter from STUART MURRAY our member in Scotland. He thanks us for the back issues of our newsletter. He put them into)S} the NOSAUG library. He said he is going to spread the word of the OL' HACKERS in Europe. ALEX responded jokingly )T}and said if he spread the word too well, we might get overloaded with new members (grin!). A message on)U} GENIE from CHARLES COLE a member of our club and the HARDWARE EDITOR of AC. He assumed we are the ones that duplicat)V}e the disks for AC. He offered help with duplicating. We informed him that we do not duplicate the disk for AC, )W}but we thanked him for the offer. STEVE HOFFEE is in charge of duplicating. We are in charge of packing, stamping and)X} mailing the disks. A message from STEVE HOFFEE. He thanked us for our message to him about CHARLES COLE'S offer. He )Y} will contact CHARLES. He sends his regards to the "WORKER ANTS who do the grunt work. My hat is off to you OL' HACKERS)Z}". Thanks STEVE, but you too deserve our thanks for all the grunt work you do in duplicating 300 plus disks )[}for A.C. A letter from JIM CUTLER our member from England. JIM said he, and DAVE EWENS, another OHAUG member)\}, finally got the bug out of the SILENT PARTNER disk and it will now work OK. Thanks guys! DEMOS: We started )]} our meeting by packaging, staamping and mailing 100 of our disks to be mailed to the members. Each member sho)^}uld have received a 2nd disk with "LIBRARY II" in it. HAROLD PEGLER again out-did himself and produced a great 2n)_}d LIBRARY DISK, reviewing, printing descriptions etc., a job that must have taken many many hours of grunt labor)`}. It is members like him that make a club great. ALEX put in the library disks #406 and #407. They come from E)a}ngland and give you Plans, Docs and Parts lists to make gadgets to attach to your computer. This is for you )b}electronics guys - so you can O.D. on all the projects. The disks are written with Atari Writer. RON FETZER sh)c}owed how to use the 1ST XLEnt Word Processor and DAISY DOT III. RON made a disk that has the wordprocessor and DDIII )d} on it. The disks outoloads 15 DDIII fonts and then loads the wordprocessor. The disk uses the file "FINGERS.BAS")e} to outoload the fonts and the DDIII PRINT PROCESSOR into the RAM DISK D8: You also have to use the file BASIC OFF)f} to disable BASIC. You can go back and forth to the wordprocessor or the print processor by going to DOS Option L an)g}d loading the appropriate file from the RAM DISK. It all goes very fast because of the RAM DISK. RON made some mac)q}B%DOS SYSB*)DUP SYSBSRAMDISK COMB[WELCOME SCRBcMAINMENUHLPBkBWHO TXTBgzFCATCAL TXTBCPRESMESTXTB(HNLREV TXTB/EOCTMIN TXTBDEDSEPMIN TXTBHELP DOCBPRESSPRTMNUBPRESSPRTHLPBAUTORUN SYSBAUTORUN COMB<NEWSLTR BASBGMEETDATTXTB#ANIMAL BASBANIMAL DATBITB32Q TXTB,MINFO TXTB73JJAWS TXTB+jKCHREDI TXTBRAINBOW BASBLHUMOR TXTBSUFFLESHBASros of his address and the clubs address on the wordprocessor to use with the program. The difference )r}between the SHAREWARE version and the COMMERCIAL version of DDIII is that in the COMMERCIAL version you can use )s}an unlimited amount of fonts in your document. In the SHAREWARE version you can use only one font. This is a )t} BIG DIFFERENCE. The COMMERCIAL version sells for $25.00 from the author RON GOLDMAN. RON said that next to the w)u}ordprocessor he uses DDIII the most. ALEX showed a very similar program that was created by our me)v}mber from France - DANIEL CARRODANO. He uses TEXTPRO 2.5r and the shareware version of DDIII to create a s)w}imilar program. You still need a 256K computer. He creates 2 RAMDISKS, and in one he loads the fonts and DDIII )x}and in the other he loads TEXTPRO. This program is faster loading because both DDIII and the wordprocessor are in a RAM)y}DISK. To go to DDIII you just press START. To go to TEXTPRO you just press RESET. Since both programs are in a RAMD)z}ISK you get virtually instant loading. This disk is in now available in our library. The beauty of using DDI){}II is that you have about 60 Near Letter Quality Fonts you can use. In addition you have several hundred D)|}DII NLQ fonts that will work with DD3. There is no printer regardless of price that has that many built in NLQ fonts)}}. Check the library disk for DDII and DDIII fonts. ALAN SHARKIS built a voice synthezier (ANALOG #29). It )~} was called "CHEAP TALK". You need a chip that at that time was sold in RADIO SHACK. It is not available anymore. I)}n A.C., April 1993 it is mentioned again. LUIS MARCOTTE picked it up again and wrote some ML routines for it. So no)}w you just can type in words in BASIC and the program will say it. He created a T HANDLER. This T HANDLER will the)}n translate the word into sound. A.C. does cover a lot of territory, so you never know which article is just the on)}e you were looking for. ALAN now has a great program to go with his voice synthezier. The sound was q)}uite remarkable. I think it was even better than S.A.M. ALAN also demonstrated a great DOS program that let)}s you write notes while in DOS. It does not work with TURBO BASIC. It has a great little pop up editor. It has m)}any nice features. It will also give you the internal code, the ATASCII code and the keyboard code of any key. It als)}o has a built in calculator. You use CNTL & SHIFT & 1,2,or 3. For HELP you press the HELP KEY. The calculator is a pre)}tty good calculator. It also has a ML monitor. A great little program to get. It is in also in our library. )} ALEX showed a working WINDOWS PROGRAM called DESKTOP. A remarkable resemblance to the drop down windows on the S)}T's. It works with the joystick. On side two of the disk we have MEC DOS. This DOS is very close to SPARTA DOS and)} MS DOS. It is #409 in our library. We saw FUTURA DISK #7 from NOSAUG, SCOTLAND. We saw several games on)} this disk. A great disk to get. There are lot of programs on this disk. Now in the Library. 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(@J}(@  @ S,DOES IT HAVE FOUR FEET S,IS IT DOMESTIC S,DOES IT EAT MEAT& NNN,IS IT J}A WORM0 NNY,IS IT AN EAGLE: NYN,IS IT A CHICKEND NYY,IS IT A MANN YNN,IS IT AN ELEPHANTX YNY,IS IT A WOLFJ}b YYN,IS IT A COWl YYY,IS IT A DOG D:ANIMAL.BASY,IS IT A MANN YNN,IS IT AN ELEPHANTX YNY,IS IT A WOLFH?216SDOES IT HAVE FOUR FEET?SIS IT DOMESTIC?SDOES IT EAT MEAT?NNNIS IT A WORM?NNYIS IT AN EAGLE?NYNIS IT A CHICKEN}N?NYYIS IT A MAN?YNNIS IT AN ELEPHANT?YNYDOES IT HAVE A MANE?YYNDOES IT ROLL IN MUD?YYYIS IT A DOG?YNYNIS IT A WON}LF?YNYYIS IT LION?YYNNDO YOU SADDLE IT?YYNYIS IT PIG?YYNNNIS IT A COW?YYNNYIS IT HORSE?S IT A DOG?YNYNIS IT A WOLb Turbo Basic 3.2q (C) 1992 CTH Enterprises by Tom Hunt All rights reserved R} This text be freely distributed as long as it remains intact, and as long as no moneys are exchanged, exR}cept for the nominal cost of media. "TB32Q.COM" is on S-2 of this disk! This program is based upon TurbR}o Basic for the old Atari 400's and 800's, by Frank Ostrowski. That particular version had it's own mini- dos embeddeR}d in it, which was compatible only with Atari dos 2.0/2.5 . This version, 3.2q, was specificaR}lly made to RUN ONLY under Sparta Dos 3.2. It works fine under both a floppy based system, and a hard drive based R} system. It is an interpreter, not a compiler or a runtime for compiled programs. It is by far the fastR }est Basic interpreter. You load it by simply typing "TB32Q" at Sparta's D1: prompt. Once loaded, you may rR!}eturn to dos and back without destroying your Basic program, as long as you do not use any destructive commandsR"} while in dos. A destructive command would be the COPY command, for instance. To return to Turbo Basic 3.2q afR#}ter going to DOS, you simply type RUN at Sparta's D1: prompt. As long as you haven't loaded or executed any other macR$}hine language program, you will return to Turbo Basic 3.2q, with your Basic program intact. ** TECHNICAL STUFF FOR PRR%}OGRAMMERS** This version of Turbo Basic occupies from $1C20 to $63E5. Once loaded, Turbo Basic 3.2q should R&}give you 22313 bytes of FRE(0) memory. There are two functions that are not supported in this version of Turbo BaR'}sic, which are in the other versions. The BLOAD and BRUN functions will return an ERROR 255 if executed. R(} These functions are easily implemented through XIO statements, so it's no big loss. ** --------------------------------R)}----- Send ShareWare donations to: Tom Hunt 1704 Twp. Rd. 65 Jeromesville, OH 44840 I may be contacted at R*}the following BBS: Tom Hunt (Sysop) Closer To Home BBS 419-368-4413 24 Hours/7 Days 300/1200/2400 <><><><>ollowing BBS: Tom Hunt (Sysop) Closer To Home BBS 419-368-4413 24 Hours/7 Days 300/1200/2400 <><>*<*> PLEASE NOTE THAT 1994 MEMBERSHIP DUES WILL BE DUE BY JANUARY 1994. FOR THOSE MEMBERS WHO HAVEV-} ALREADY PAID FOR 1994, PLEASE DISREGARD THIS NOTICE. To all others, if your dues are not paid up, you wilV.}l NOT receive any club news, or the JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1994 newsletter, or any others thereafter, Nor will you be V/} entitled to purchase any disks at 5 disks for $8.00, postpaid, OR ANY OTHER MEMBER BENEFITS! Support the INTERNV0}ATIONAL 8 BIT CLUB that is helping to keep the 8 BIT thriving and strong. Send your checks/money orders in the amounV1}t of $24.00, made out personnaly to RON FETZER, and mail to: OL' HACKERS ATARI USER GROUP, Inc. ALEX PIGNATO, PresidV2}ent 3376 OCEAN HARBOR DRIVE OCEANSIDE, N.Y. 11572 U.S.A. <*>*<*>I USER GROUP, Inc. ALEX PIGNATO, PresidTU EXCERPTS FROM THE JAWS OF THE VICE (PREZ) of WESTERN NEW YORK ATARI USER CLUB by John Kasupski, V.P. In gettingZ4} my hard drive put back together very recently, I made a discovery. If you're having trouble finding an Adaptec 40Z5}00A controller card, you CAN take the Bios from a 4000A and put it on an Adaptec 4010 and use that instead. ** Z6} This presupposes that the problem with your old 4000A wasn't in the Bios, and it may NOT work with ALL drives Z7}and configurations. However, it works fine on my Seagate ST-225, a 20 Meg, 5-1/2" half-height MFM drive. This discoveZ8}ry was made by accident, because I ordered a 4000A and received a 4010 instead. I had previously been told that aZ9} 4010 WOULDN'T work, even if you swapped the Bios (hence the caution above), but I decided to try it anyway before Z:}shipping the card back to California and waiting another two weeks to get my drive going again. Fortunately, it DID workZ;}, so I am back in the hard drive SIG again...FINALLY! ** YOU CAN'T DO THAT, PART 1 ** ------------------------- **Z<} ** All this made me think about some of the things I've been told could absolutely not, no way, never" be donZ=}e. A few of them are: ** 1. "You can't connect a hard drive to an Atari 8-bit computer." My hard drive doesn'tZ>} believe that. Neither do Technician's, or WNYAUG's, or the HDs belonging to most any SysOp.** ** 2. "Turbo BASICZ?} will never work with SpartaDOS 3.2 because they use the 16K of hidden memory in the XL/XEs."** You'd be amaZ@}zed at the list of well-known persons in the Atari community who have uttered these, or similar, words over thZA}e years. Fortunately, there is a man by the name of Tom Hunt, who thinks the same way that I do but has a lot moZB}re programming talent, with the result that I can now run Turbo BASIC programs from my HD under SpartaDOS 3.2 ZC} in spite of all the expert pronouncements to the contrary. Thanks, Tom!** ** 3. "The CX-85 keypad won't wZD}ork on the newer XL/XE machines."** This was actually published in a national Atari magazine. FortunaZE}tely, I didn't read it before I bought my CX-85 keypad. If I had, I would never have bought the CX-85.** The factZF} is that the CX-85 most certainly DOES work with the XL/XE, only the driver for the 400/800 that is on the bZG}oot disk you get with the keypad doesn't work on the newer machines. What you have to do is get into DOS and use ZH} the KEYPAD.OBJ file. There is also a public domain utility to use the CX-85 with SpartaDOS in case youZI}'re like me and can't stand Atari DOS or any of its clones like SmartDOS, MyDOS, etc.** ** All the above just gZJ}oes to show that as soon as someone says that something can't be done, "absolutely not, no way, never", ZK}there will be someone with the inclination AND the expertise to eventually prove them wrong. After all, diZL}dn't they say that man would never walk on the moon? Well, a guy by the name of Neil Armstrong left some footprints ZM}in the dust up there, didn't he? So did Buzz Aldrin, and a few other guys as well.** We should be glad we havZN}e people like Tom Hunt in the Atari community in the first place. Their accomplishments may not be on a par with ZO}those of Armstrong and Aldrin, but they make things a lot easier and much more interesting for us Atari users! ** ZP}CHECK THIS BBS OUT!** -------------------** ** Speaking of Tom Hunt, whom I mentioned above, I can't say thiZQ}s enough lately: Check out his BBS, Closer To Home. The number to call is as follows:** ** 419-368-4413 ** The ZR}BBS runs on BBS Express! Pro, and supports 300/1200/2400 CPS. I highly recommend it! ** YOU CAN'T DO THAT, PART II** ZS} --------------------------** Did you know that it is possible to connect two printers to your Atari ZT}and have them both printing at the same time? Even to have them printing two entirely different documents?*ZU}* Well, I've discovered that this is possible, at least if you have a MIO. The proof is right here on mZV}y computer desk. My own Brother M-1009 printer is connected to the serial daisy chain on my 130XE, while WNYAUG's StarZW} NX-15 is connected to my MIO. The MIO is the key, because the printer port on the MIO can be configured aZX}s either P1: or P2: using the MIO's printer configuration options. I set the MIO printer port as P2: which makes tZY}he Star P2: while the serial printer, of course, is P1: as is normal for a serial printer. Also, you can use the ZZ} MIO's internal RAM as a print spooler the size of which can be varied from 64K to 256K in increments of 64K. To get Z[}both printers printing at the same time, I set up the MIO with a 64K spooler and boot the XE version of TextPro Z\} (I'm currently using version 4.56). Since TP lets you use the extended RAM in a 130XE (or other machine Z]}with compatible upgrade, such as a Rambo XL) to load three separate banks of text, I can load one document into onZ^}e bank and a second document into another bank. I then print the file in one of the Banks to P2: and the contents Z_}go to the MIO print spooler's RAM almost immediately. That leaves me plenty of time to go to Z`}the other bank and print that file to P1: which is the serial printer. I can then sit back and watch as one printer pZa}rints out, say, a letter to a friend of mine, while the other printer is producing the hardcopy of the docs for the Zb}new program I downloaded the night before! This doubles the productivity of TextPro, and thus, the use oZc}f my Atari computer system. If you have a MIO and an extra printer sitting around, you might want to pick up a caZd}ble to connect one of your printers to your MIO printer port so that you can do the same. The only other requiremenZe}ts are enough space in your computer room for both printers to be connected, a word processor (and a DOS) that supportZf}s the P2: device (the above was done using SpartaDOS 3.2), and two text files that you need to get printed out.Zg} ** Just please don't go rub the noses of all those poor Commodore owners out there in this. They have enough Zh} of an inferiority complex already without us Atari ES users rubbing it in! ** *********************************Zi}** ** nferiority complex already without us Atari ES users rubbing it in! ** *********************************X ******* CHAR PACKAGE for ATARIWRITER, and ATARIWRITER PLUS by PETER PAYNE and printed by OL' HACKERS A.U.G.^k} OHAUG not responsible for authors poor memory! Program is on this disk as "CHREDI.BAS"8-bit users are able to view^l} theprogam with AtariWriter or AW+.WHAT IT IS! Char Package (pronounced CarePackage, get it?) is a character s^m}eteditor for the 8-bit Ataris. Writtenin standard Atari Basic B, it shouldhave no problem running in BASIC XL,XE, or ^n} Turbo BASIC. It was writtenas an entry in the 1984 Greater SanDiego Science and Engineering Fair(it won second ^o} prize). To myknowledge, it has more options thanany other program of its kind, andhas no serious bugs. I worked^p} on theprogram on and off for two years,learning as I went, so the code ishorribly unorganized. In fact, whenI ^q}started it, I didn't even know howto alter the character sets. I havenot worked with the program fornearly a yea^r}r, and I doubt if Iremember all the options, much lesshow they work.AN ACCIDENT Unfortunatly, I have ju^s}stdiscovered that the rest of my @*&$(@file has been erased (let's hear abig hurrah for the lame Habba harddisk!), ^t} so I'll try to tell you whatthings were all over again (hey, Ilove typing, don't you?)... First of all, almost ^u}all thetime, pressing escape will take youout of whatever you are doing. Whenediting your font, press option andse^v}lect to switch between the user andROM font (when copying from this alsoapplies). Try other funky stuff incase I forgot^w} to mention it here.FUNCTIONS? I think 'A' allowed you to playgraffitti and put character text on agraphics 0 or ^x} antic 4 screen. Youcan save by pressing start and S thenthe numbers 1, 2, or 3 when it beeps.Load by pressing start an^y}d L. Notethat if you exit (with the escapekey) without saving first you willlose the image. I forget what 'B'^z} was.I think itdid something funky to the image inthe grid. Try it. 'C' will clear thescreen. 'D' is a demo mode, it s^{}howsyou all the characters in all threemodes. I think you could move up anddown on the joystick to change thegraphi^|}cs 1 or 2 part, or press optionor select or something, or 1 and 2. I forget what 'E' was also. Teehee, sorry. Some pr^}}ogrammer, huh? Ohwell, it *was* four years ago orso... 'F' is copy from. You pressit, then either press the ^~}key ofthe character you want to copy thebit pattern of, or use the joystick. 'G' was the disk menu, just likeDos^}. 'H' was something like overlaycharacter, it would do just like 'F'but would not destroy the bit patternin the window ^}first. 'I' inverts thecharacter grid. Forgot what 'J' was.Forgot what 'K' was too. 'L' loads afont from a device. Enter ^} /B at theend of the font that was saved withthe binary header. 'M' and 'N' splitthe bit pattern of the image in the^}grid, taking out odd or even bits.This allows you tomake multi-coloredcharacters. 'O' is something likeundo, it pu^}ts the last character intothe grid. I think shift 'O' will dothe second to last-but don't quote meon that. 'P' is para^}meters, you canchange, such things as the filenamethat the text screens are saved to orloaded fromand other exciting thi^}ngs.'Q' Hmmm..?? 'R' was restore the fontto the one in ROM. 'S' is save font.Enter /B to save it as a binary loadfile, i^}t will ask you to enter the(I think) hex address, or maybe itwas decimal, or maybe even both. Try different th^}ings (like puttinga '$' before a hex number). Goodluck.'T' means transfer the image on thegrid into the third plane^} of thetime-space continuum. Be carefulusing this option: you could upsetthe matter balance and start ach^}ain-reaction that would cause thedestruction of all life on the earth.(grin) Actually, I forgot what thisoption is, I^} am only joking aboutthe time-space crap. 'U' is forupside-down, I think? I think 'V' wasthe animation screen, ^}or something.You just enter the charaters in theanimation string, and follow theinstructions.GETTING OUT! Rememb^}er, escape brings you back.You can also have a text screen loadfirst, as saved with the A command. 'W'? Got me. 'X' ^}is make lines,I believe, although there is somedoubt in my mind. It allows youto generate basic-action or asse^}mblerdata with the data for the redefinedcharacters that you indicate in it.I forget what 'Y' is. Sorry. 'Z' isenter ^} character. It will take theimage on the grid, and copy it toone of the characters in the usercharacter set.Th^}ere ya have it, folks. Sorry forbeing so imcomplete, if you have anyquestions leave mail to me (LETO-2on GEnie, o^}r call me at 560-4272voice). Program is pretty straightforward and shouldn't be a problem tofigure out. Oh well^}, enjoy the fruits of myefforts, I sure had fun writing theprogram. Ah reservoir! (grin) Peter ^}Payne(EDITORS NOTE: The challenge for youdear reader is to fill in the missinginfo, and write up some comprehensivedocum^}entation and send it in to OHAUGso we can publish it. GOOD LUCK!) -+-+-+- and write up some comprehensivedocum\W/@@SAVE "D:RAINBOW.BAS"x(>:A%,$-@@N(%BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE Ob}L' HACKERS!t(!Hit FOR DIFFERENT EFFECTS!x  --@")A6%- 6-?:A6,66200b},152,74,45,9,210,141,10,212,141,24,208,76,0,6 D:RAINBOW.BAS@")A6%- 6-?:A6,66200`C *+*+*+* Just a BYTE of HUMOR! Meddyical Disctionary daffynitions for DUCTERS. 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