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One 6 foot table was loaded with more software than (-|Vol: he ||Issue: || 8}   ||Your input  Contribute||will make  an article||OHAUG N/L8}  or program||better.  for all of||   us!|| 8} ||  ||  || 8}  ||  || Atari User Group Inc.(c)1985 |*** Alex Pignato, Pre8}sident ****** 3376 Ocean Harbor Drive ****** Oceanside, N.Y. 11572 ***8}|Charter Member NEAR*US ATARI USER Gp.|| 㮠 |8} The OL HACKERS Disk News Letter Help File  The OL'HACKER Disk Based News Lette$}ris very simple for you to use. Allyou have to do is make the selectionsyou'd like and read them. To readthe whole newsl$}etter, use SelectionA. To read only part of thenewsletter, select each file in anyorder by using the letter in front ofit$} on the main menu screen. If youwant to change one of yourselections, use the BACKSPACE key toremove selections until you$} reach theone to be changed, and start fromthere with your new selections. Theother screen editing function keyswill not$} work from the main menu. When you are finished selecting, pressRETURN then [R] and start reading. Asyou can see there ar$}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򠠠8 -=-**-=- SPREADSHEETS AND PREDICTIONS! By THOMAS R. SMITH, member of THE OL' HACKERS AUG, N.Y. @} Though this is TOMS first article it's a WINNER. Hope we get more from him! HEEDING THE "CALL" Alan Sharkis' call@} in the May-June Newsletter for us to "SPREAD THE WORD" was quite a motivator to share a phase of 8-bit use that has @}been fun and exciting----spreadsheet handicapping: turning sports statistics into predictions! APPLICATION OF @}PRINCIPLES Though my examples will be based on football, many of the principles described can be applied to @} other sports. A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE GOES A LONG WAY With adequate programming expertise, you could write @}a program to make predictions, conveniently prompt for inputs, and print an output in the desired format. The @}yzZERWOTWTRFOUPRMEKAFILEHELPMENUTITLECOL1COL2COL3LINEZLOSPACFNNCOLNSPSOOPPPAGOEP,}COLIN ,},} !"#$%99ԠŠ SAVE "D:NEWSLTR.BASdm,}m報à Ӡįί̠ŠǭԠ̮ 6-6-,}@'6-@36-@?6-@ӠϠŠӭҠԬŠ̮Ϡ̮z`,}@E:(AR`ΠŠ̮ҠŠқQB7t@d'@@d3,}@?AKA Q-'A@e'@ 5K:6-6-)6-A256-,}@33;,;,;,;,;,;,;,;A2,$(6.D1:WELCOME.SCR(8EA !A,}@h3B7t@dE@@dL. A 6.6. $(. A`8-@!8($Programmed For Th,}e Ol' Hackers Ataric9-@"9(% User Group Inc. 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Nor can you preset tabs=-} on the screen. I believe that this is a limitation of the forty-column screen more than an oversight on Robe=.}rt Chick's part. CTRL-T will move the cursor to the top of the currently-displayed screen on the first press. The se=/}cond press takes you to the beginning of your text. CTRL-B takes you to the end of your text. CTRL-A takes you back 5=0}12 characters. CTRL-X exchanges the charactor under the cursor with the one to the right of it -- handy for corr=1}ecting transposition errors. CTRL-Z will take you forward one screen. WHATS USED, AND WHATS NOT ChickScratch =2} gives a running character count at the bottom of the screen. If you need a word-count, CTRL-W will do th=3}at for you. Remember that special formatting characters are included in either count. CTRL-U can be used=4} to show you how many characters you still have free in memory. MORE FEATURES nother nice feature allows you to=5} show false spaces on the screen. A false space is a space that you dind't type, but is inserted by ChickSc=6}ratch when it does word-wrap at the end of a line. If you press CTRL-O, the false spaces are indicated with=7} dashes. You'd use this feature if you had to insert a word at the end of a line and wanted to know where the re=8}al and false spaces were. TABS ANYONE? Tabulating is a problem for any 40- column word-processor. It's usually f=9}utile to try to get the word- processor to allow setting tabs wherever the user wants them without using lar=:}ge blocks of memory. That's probably why ChickScratch makes no attempt to provide this feature. Tabs are set, by =;} default, at every five spaces, but you can change that spacing with the CTRL-TAB command. Nor does ChickScratch mak=<}e an attempt at backward tabs, decimal tabs or other goodies so common in 80-column word-processors. The vi==}sual component would just interfere. PRINT COMMANDS There are many print-formatting parameters whose defaults =>} can be changed by using SCUSTOM.BAS, but all of them, and perhaps a few more, can also be changed with commands=?} imbedded in the text. Some of these are familiar, and some are unique, I believe, to this program. If there are an=@}y that are missing from this program, I haven't found them. Remember: we can't realistically discuss such =A}things as special fonts and redlining. I leave those to programs like DD3. But, I will tell you that these imbedd=B}ed commands are entered in inverse video, which you access with a SELECT-CTRL-(letter) command. If you accidentally=C} type a command that ChickScratch doesn't understand, it fills in the command with a null (heart) character on the=D} screen to warn you. The print- formatting commands, then, will allow for all of the following: 1. setting lef=E}t, right, top and bottom margins; 2. setting page length; 3. printing page numbers; 4. defining header=F}s and footers up to two lines long; 5. releasing the left margin for "outdenting" a line; 6. printi=G}ng a line flush to the right margin; 7. toggling indent on and off and setting the number of spa=H}ces in an indent; 8. centering a line of text; 9. toggling page-wait; 10. varying line-spacing from sin=I}gle to 255 spaces; 11. putting in a non-printing "information line"; 12. forcing a page feed (see com=J}ment below); 13. linking the next file; 14. toggling justification; 15. Setting print column width; 16. defin=K}ing the starting page number; 17. beginning print with a specific page number; 18. toggling underline=L}. REASSIGN NUMBER KEYS FOR PRINTING There are also ten number keys that are preset to the Atari XMM801 printer=M}, but can be reassigned for your own printer codes. They send the escape character, turn double- width printing=N} on and off, select pica, elite or condensed type, turn bold on and off, and turn continuous underline on and off.=O} HOW ABOUT LETTER KEYS? In addition, any letter key that has not been assigned by the program can be assigned by you =P} to some other printer function. The documentation tells you how. DOC FILES APLENTY! Speaking of that documentation=Q}, it's on the disk in three separate files. The text buffer in ChickScratch isn't long enough to hold all of the docs,=R} so learn how to use file-chaining if you're going to use this program to produce long documents. If you set your p=S}rint formatting in the first file, it will carry through for all files that are then chained. It's important to put th=T}e "force page feed" (ASCII 12) command at the end of your document. ChickScratch puts one at the end of every =U} page automatically, EXCEPT the last page. Your printer will stop in the middle of the last page if it's not a full p=V}age. This hint is especially important if you're using an ink-jet or laser printer. FINALLY TO PRINT, OR TO SAVE=W} ON DISK The actual printing of a document is done with CTRL-P. You're prompted for a device and filename. The usua=X}l device is "P:", but a "Dn:filename.ext" will print the document to a disk file with forma=Y}tting intact. Printing to "E:" gives you a quasi-preview of the formatted text (remember, we have a 40-column scr=Z}een!). The preview will scroll, and the scroll can be stopped and restarted with CTRL-1, but you can't escape from the=[} scroll and back to the edit screen; you must let the scroll finish. LOADING You can load a file from the edit sc=\}reen. If you do, the file will be inserted at the cursor position. This is handy for inserting previously=]}-saved blocks of text. You press CTRL-L and you're prompted for the filename. If you leave out the drive number, t=^}he program will default to the last-accessed drive (or to drive 1 if you've just booted up.) Similarly, you can =_}save a file from the edit screen. Here, you're prompted for a filename. If a file was previously loaded into the e=`}dit window, the program will ask if it's OK to use that filename. You can say "no", and give a new filename. If you=a} say "yes", the program will ask if you want to overwrite the file on disk or to make a backup. You type the approp=b}riate letter and the file is saved. DOS, ANYONE? There is also a DOS menu screen, which you access with CTRL-M=c}. The upper part of this screen shows the files on the current drive. There's a highlight bar that you use to =d}select the file on which you want to operate. You move the highlight bar with the arrow keys. You can also use CTR=e}L- combinations to load, delete, rename, lock or unlock a file, or format a disk. If you load a file from this=f} screen, however, it will replace whatever you have in the edit buffer! Note that YOU CANNOT SAVE a file FROM THIS =g} SCREEN. DRIVES 1 OR 2 OR RAMDISK 8 ChickScratch recognizes only physical drives 1 and 2. It will recognize a Ramdis=q}(B%DOS SYSB*)DUP SYSBSRAMDISK COMBVAUTORUN SYSBXAUTORUN COMBYBJOYSTCKTXTB]CWHO TXTBmDMEETDATTXTBrEPRESMESTXTBHELP DOCBvMAINMENUHLPB;NEWSLTR BASBPRESSPRTMNUBPRESSPRTHLPB~WELCOME SCRBHCHICK TXTB5IFOOTBALTXTBWLBLMSTR2BASB8FSEPMIN TXTB+,BLCKJACKMODB:nGOCTMIN TXTk (drive 8) if a Ramdisk Driver has been loaded. MY FEELINGS, AND TT TOO! I was enthusiastic enough about ChickSc=r}ratch to write this review on it. I was also recently at the Connecticut AtariFest, where I met Brad Koda of Be=s}st Electronics. Brad had set up a demonstration of the XE Touch modification for the 130XE. I had been bemoaning th=t}e soft feel of this keyboard for years, and even preferred, until recently, to do all my writing on my DOS machine.=u} Now that I have ChickScratch and the XE Touch has been installed, I can go back to using my Atari for writing =v}long documents. Score another point for ATARI 8 BIT! +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+sing my Atari for writing <ap. My spreadsheet predictions at the time were doing about 10% better, so I continued with them, though alwaAx}ys testing new ideas. THIS IS ONE WAY TO DO IT For a hypothetical game of Mustangs vs Zebras, a simplAy}ified spreadsheet version of that Antic program would look like this: A B C D E F 1 TeamAz} PF PA SPD PSC MGN 2 MUS 30 14 -2 24 5 3 ZEB 21 17 +2 17 -5 where PF = points fA{}or PA = points against SPD = spread all from newspaper inputs, and PSC = predicted score, (B2+C3A|})/2 for cell E2 (B3+C2)/2 for cell E3 MGN = margin, D2A}}+(E2-E3) for cell F2 D3+(E3-E2) for cell F3 This MGN calculation indicates that the Mustangs are predicA~}ted to "beat the spread" by 5, quite a comfortable "margin". WHY DOES IT WORK? How was I able to get betteA}r results than the Antic Football Predictor? The logic of the Antic formula is actually quite sound -the keA}y is having that formula operate on better data, -data that a spreadsheet is ideally suited to provide. USING BETTER DAA}TA Part of that better data key is gathering it over the right period of time. Teams change week by week, so A}the team on the field the upcoming weekend is not the same team you have statistics for 6 or 7 weeks past. Data A}you have for a team beyond a certain point does not accurately represent the current team. CounteringA} this, teams have bad and good days, luck, and officiating that results in single game scores that aren't represA}entative. It takes several weeks worth of scores to get a realistic measure. Another part of the better data is A}taking into account the strength of opponents. Winning by 14 points is not as significant against a weak losinA}g opponent as a strong winning one. Over the proper period of time, most teams will have accumulated their statisticsA} against an adequately similar range of opponent strengths. IS THERS A BETTER WAY? I don't know of a betteA}r way to determine this period of time than to experiment, and to my delight and surprise, a certain number of A}weeks worth of data has always produced better results that greater and lesser numbers of weeks. I'd spoil your funA} by telling you how many! MATH TO THE RESCUE There are creative mathematical ways to factor in opponent strengA}th, formulas easily experimented with and tested by spreadsheet. For example, you could create a new scoring system A}of your own in which the winner scores the opponents's wins going in plus one, and the loser scores nothing or maybeA} the winner's wins minus one. A NARROW VIEW Each of the numerous statistics published in the Sports section of tA}he newspaper is a reasonable measure of performance, albeit a narrowly focused aspect. Each statistic, by comparison wA}ith the same statistic of an opponent, makes a prediction. A spreadsheet makes it relatively easy to keA}ep track of numerous statistics and their predictions, and with follow-up, keep track of how effective a predictoA}r each statistic was. With this effectiveness information it is possible to refine each statistic's prediction, and A} give it appropriate "weight". TWO SPREADSHEETS USED The two spreadshheets that I've used are the GT AlbertA} Spreadsheet, that came with Indus drives, and Mike Silva's SynCalc, marketed by Synapse and Broderbund. SynCalc A} is a powerful, user friendly gem that was also produced for the Commodore 64. This C64 version was on one side oA}f a disk, the Atari version on the other. If you find SynCalc, BUY IT! OTHER SPREADSHEETS (NOTE: several otA}her Atari commercial programs were produced this way, Mercenary, for example, so you just might score some terrific A} Atari software on the back of a C64 disk at a garage sale or swap meet somewhere.) Other spreadsheets that probably woulA}d be OK, though I haven't tried them, are Calc Magic and VisiCalc. Calc Magic received a rave review in an L.A}A. area (Antelope Valley -AVACE) user group newsletter a few years ago, and was available through C&T ComputeA}rActive, P.O. Box 893, Clinton, OK 73601.) Another great way to use the lil ol' ATARI, and maybe make a BUNDLE! A} =+=end=+=, Clinton, OK 73601.) Another great way to use the lil ol' ATARI, and maybe make a BUNDLE! @ ** ** MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER 1994 MEETING: ====================================== We wI}elcomed CURT VENDEL our member from Staten Island N.Y. to the meeting. CURT has been with the 8-bit since 1981. This I}was the first time he was able to attend a meeting. We hope it wont be the last! SYSOP, CURT used to run his own bulleI}tin board. He is an old hand on the 8-Bit. 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Its called "FOOTBALL.TXT". It can be J}used very effectively for betting purposes. TOM wants to load a binary program from BASIC."TOM, just use TURBO BASIC.J} It has a binary load command BRUN "D:FILENAME". You don't have to go to DOS to load binary." ALEX answered him and J} thanked him for the disk. He mailed us a wire 3-D program and a label program. A letter from our AKRON, J} N.Y. member DANE STEGMAN. He tells us that he really enjoyed the JUL/AUG 1994 newsletter and the games on it. He isJ} looking for a users manual for the ATARI 800. Our member CURT VENDEL will mail him a copy. There is very little infJ}o in that manual. A letter from TOM WRAY in TX to ALEX. He thanked ALEX for the prompt answers to TOM'S questiJ}ons. TOM had some more questions for ALEX to answer. TOM has come a long way since he joined OHAUG. Thats the wayJ } to go, TOM! A letter to ABBUC, BIT BYTER club, in Germany from ALEX. He mailed them SPARTA DOS version 3.J }2g June 1994, to relace their older SPARTA DOS copy. DEMOS: ALEX demod an envelope address printing progrJ }am made by our deceased member KRIS HOLTEGAARD, that ALEX had modified. If your printer will accept envelopes without rJ }emoving the paper then you should get it. You do not have to print gummed labels anymore if you have this programJ }. ALEX did not put it in the library at this time. We then saw COLLOSUS CHESS from ANTIC. Boot it up with no BASIC.J} It is fully documented. It has a very nice graphics board and it is a very good program. CURT VENDEL was called up tJ}o play it. He was very impressed with the program. It is in our library #514. Next RON showed a program tJ}hat was written by ALEX called FORMDOS. In my opinion, it is one of the great classical, usefull, utilities that J}everyone should have-Its AUTORUN.SYS file will format your disk, write DOS and RAMDISK.COM on your disk in Drive #2. wJ}ithout your doing anything. Once its loaded, it is completely automatic. It does its job continuousJ}ly until you hit BREAK. All you do, is keep taking out completed disks and putting in new ones. This means you can J}format as many disks as you like. I use it all the time. It is a great time saver. time ago. It is in the Library becauJ}se it was reviewed and demonstrated some time ago. Look for it on your Library disks. Next we saw a FORMDOS verJ}sion that in addition also puts TURBO BASIC on the disk, also all automatically. It will do one disk at a time and thenJ} stop and ask if you want to do another disk. Library # 515, side 2. Then we saw a third version of FORMDOS thaJ}t in addition to FORMATTING, adding DOS, RAMDISK.COM, TURBO BASIC, it also writes a PROGRAMERS UTILITY J}for centering words all automatically on your disk in drive #2. It also puts an AUTORUN.SYS file on the 2nd disk J}that will copy the centering utility into the RAMDISK D8. I wrote this version of FORMDOS. Library #515 Next AL SJ}HARKIS showed a word processor called CHICK SCRATCH. It was written by ROBERT CHICK of Guam. It never received mucJ}h publicity. It is very interesting. It has some unusual features. It uses a minimum amount of memory and a minimum amoJ}unt of code space. It will work with any DOS. The default setting can be changed while the program is loaded. If youJ} want to modify it you must put it on an enhanced density disk to have enough space. AL used it with SPARTA DOSJ}-X. The default setting is without WORD WRAP on. This is so you can write BASIC programs with it etc. It has a J }40 column screen. It will print 80 columns on the printer. It has margin settings. It has has help screens by usingJ!} [CNTL & H]. It has a very extensive help screen setup. The free RAM space is 25K or enough for 13 pages of tJ"}ext. But you can chain text if you have larger needs. It does not use the RAM BANKS or bank switching. It is a very J#}good word processor for you to get from the library. ITEM-CONNECTICUT ATARI SHOW JOHN HARDIE then gave us a reportJ$} on the CONNECTICUT ATARI SHOW. MIKE HOHMANN'S MARS-8 is still in the works. Also the TURBO 816 is being worJ%}ked on. There was not too much new 8-Bit stuff. They also had a JAGUAR contest. JOHN won a JAGUAR. That makes two thatJ&} he now owns. JOHN helped man the Fine Tooned engineering table.ITEM A NEW 8 BIT MAGAZINE We saw issue #1 and #2 J'}of ATARI 8-BIT ALIVE which is written by DAMON WALKER of RD #1, Box 62, Salem N.J. 08079. A great newsletter thatJ(} is completely written by DAMON. He charges $2.79 per issue. ALEX wrote to him and invited him to join the OJ)}L' HACKERS. DAMON replied that he intends to join us soon. This is another great way to "spread the word!" DOOR PRIZJ*}ES: RON FETZER HAROLD PEGLER ALEX PIGNATO FRANK COSTALDO JOHN HARDIE Written by Ron Fetzer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<VZZB0SXBDDPDPDPDOOODCABYMBO@@QA$$ND}ICORN to make sure that subscribers would get refunds for the unused portion of their subscription. I know for ".} a fact that BEN did evertrhing above board for the benefit of the subscribers, and yet some people, instead of"/} being grateful for ALL OF BEN's EFFORTS, in bringing forth the magazine, and in giving UNICORN a complete list "0}of subscribers that were entitled to refunds, is getting hate mail. Now, I personnally know that a couple of OHAUG"1} members had their checks bounce, and were also hit with extra charges. Some had redeposited the checks, and again "2} the checks bounced, with resultant bank charges. ALAN SHARKIS called or wrote to UNICORN, insisting that they"3} reimburse him, and he was sucessfull, but I don't know if the others have gotten their money by the time you read"4} this. Its a shame that the 8 BIT community should have to go through this kind of uneeded problems. "5} I understand that some people sent their refund checks to JIM HOOD who is trying to put out another A.C. "6}magazine. I understand that JIM is now has some checks that have not cleared either. This sure doesn't do the new A.C. "7} any good. It only reinforces those people who have constantly stood on the sidelines, saying "See, I knew the 8 BIT "8}community wouldn't back an 8 BIT magazine, thats why I didn't send in my subscription to the first A.C. Well, I hav"9}e news for those sorry people, it is because of the likes of you that this mess has come about. If the 500 subscriber":} base had been maintained by the first A.C., we would still have what was slowly becoming a first rate magazine. Tru";}e, as some have said, there were some flighty articles, but there were also many interesting, informative "<} and educational articles for us dedicated 8 BIT'ers. My hat is off to BEN and to his volunteer staff who "=}did what no one thought was possible. They brought forth a great magazine with only volunteer staff members. ">} BEN, I and a few others, know what you have personnally gone through, what with loosing your job, havin"?}g your mother so ill in ARIZONA, and your other problems. All I have to say is I am proud to consider myself your frien"@}d even though we have never met. I know that ALL OL' HACKERS agree with me. I dare you to make your threat of att"A}ending a meeting come true some day soon. We welcome you with open arms. Time to get off the soap box, but I "B}just had to get it off my chest. Let me leave you with one thought. Stick with the OL' HACKERS and hopefully, we will be"C} around when hell freezes over. ** end **ne thought. 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BEN was very upset over the failure of Unicorn to have enough money in the ATARI CLARs}SSICS checking account to cover the refund checks, after BEN had gone over the account balances to be sure that allRt} subscribers would be reimbursed. (Editor: See Presidents Message for more on this topic!) A letter from RURu}SSEL STOWE, President of AAAUA, to RON. He thanked us for the TREASURER'S REPORT program that he mailed to him at theRv} ALAMO AREA ATARI USERS ASSOC. RUSSEL mailed us one of his programs that will tell you what keys were pressed in Rw} a machine language program. It is very interesting and will be demod at our next meeting. RON received a PriRx}nt Shop card and Calendar made by our member LARRY TISCHBEIN in PA. LARRY had some problems with the P/S COMPANIONRy} and we helped him out. He is now enjoying his 8 BIT even more. Again, the value of belonging to a users group is shown.Rz} A letter from our member DANE STEGMAN. He said he bought a bunch of items from JOHN HARDIE, at a big barR{}gain. He was very happy with the games in the newsletter, specially CRAZY 8. A letter from our member TOMR|} SMITH in CA. He writes us that he is pleased that we are going to publish his program FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS in theR}} coming newsletter. He is also an early bird and paid his dues for 1995. This is the best indication of how TOM feels abR~}out OHAUG! Thanks Tom. ALEX distributed a two page excerpt from T.W.A.U.G., ENGLAND. DOS TIPS & TRICKS and BELR}TING YOUR 1050. Both good reference articles. ALEX hopes to put some of the info in future newsletters when, R}and if, he gets the urge to type them in (grin). ALEX wrote to BOB BUMAN who is the author of a great newR} disk cataloger program called SAGE CAT. It will be demod by RON later in the meeting. A letter from our R}member JIM CUTLER in England. He mailed us two disks packed with good programs. As usual JIM comes through withR} great disks. He is truly a STERLING member. Thanks JIM. A letter from our member TOM WRAY in Texarkana to ALEX. R}He asked for some help with many questions he had with DOS and some other problems. ALEX answered all his questions anR}d cleared up the confusion, hopefully. ALEX also sent him a disk with usefull utilities. TOM has come a long R} way this past year. Our member NORMAN WILLIAMSON in England mailed us a card. We wish his wife a speedy recovR}ery from her illness. He is on vacation, basking in the sun, helping her convalesce on a sunny Mediterranian isle.R} DEMOS: RON(me - grin) demoed the program SAGE*CAT a disk cataloger program. It was written by BOB BUMAM. It R} is shareware and we mailed BOB a contribution for his program. The program among other options AUTOLOADs R}and reads the directory by itself. You have a choice of not cataloging unwanted files such as DOS, or those endinR}g with .SYS, etc. You can sort by file name, extender, sector or disk name. The sort is extremely fast. You can printR} in 4 different formats from listing to disk envelopes, disk labels and inserts. You can mark files that are to be pulleR}d out or put on another disk. You can automatically catagorize your disk. On our copy the MARK function did not worR}k. It could not locate the files asked for. We have version 1.1. We will write to the author and see if there iR}s a corrected version. We also had problems with the 3 and 4 column print out. It is a great disk cataloger if thR}ese two problems are resolved, but it is still good for certain tasks, even with the problems mentioned. It's our librR}ary #516 ALEX wanted to show MICRO CHECK 130XE. This program works ONLY on the 130XE. It automatically reads allR} the files into the Ramdisk D8 so they are retrieved immediately by the program, as needed. Unfortunately ALEX' copyR} did not work. We did not put it into the library, till he can check out why it didn't work. The programs ability to uR}se RAMDISK makes it very valuable. Now we have to see if it can be workable. Tune in next meeting for the answer. R} We saw HOME & BUSINESS #1 AND 2. It is two sides on one disk. It has an excellant calendar program on it. A LoanPR}lus program (also very good). A USR address program. It also has a data base. It is very nice except it can hold oR}nly 64 records(the number of disk file names on a disk) because each record becomes a separate file on the disk. It caR}n print mailing labels and up to 6 lines of data for each record can be entered. If you have a number of small dR}ata files, this is the one to get, because you can use a different disk for different groups of records. It has many R}other useful programs on the disk. An awfull lot of hard hours of progaramming skills went into the making of this terrifR}ic disk. A must disk to get. Library #517. Next we saw a disk from T.W.A.U.G. in England # 11 Sept/Oct R}1994. It has MEDIEVAL COMBAT, MENU PLANER (weekly menu planner), MAX HEADROOM, FIRE SCANNER (Virus killer) and SR}UPER PACKER. MAX HEADROOM was a great graphics demo. On side two we have CODESMITHS NEWSLETTER READER. Usefull foR}r those that want to put out a newsletter. (Great!). Our library #518. Next we saw an ABBUC disk from Germany.R} Magazine #38. A great intro. screen as usual. We saw some great pictures, some were ported over from the CommodoreR} 64. It had a cassette to disk copy program. It had some games on it. The TETRUS GAME was very fast. We played it anR}d lost. R-TIME 8 Handlers and clock setting programs and source code.Side two requires the use of TURBO BASIC. LiR}brary #519. Next we saw SLCC DISK Sep. 1994 DOM. On it was ATOMIT a game, DLMASTER (A picture manipulator), MINIGOR}LF.BAS and a CONSTRUCTION SET for those that want to make their own golf course. We saw GUITAR CHORD TUTOR, to help yoR}u learn chords by showing where to put your fingers, and by playing the sound you have edited. Library #520. On Side 2,R} we have SAGE*CAT DISK CATALOGER (See discussion in demo section above). We all played MINIGOLF. EveryonR}e was terrible except me, I was the PRO! (grin) and won the game. DOOR PRIZES: FRANK CASTALDO HAROLD PEGLER JOE LEBER}R JACK GEDALIUS BOB ECKSTEIN Written by Ron Fetzer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<