October 2009
NEWSLETTER for October 2009 President’s Corner by Michael Current October 2009 Well I think I've never busier than the last several weeks. Not only have I not touched the Atari lately, I got way behind in Atari email and keeping up with Atari happenings online too. Kind of annoying when real life gets in the way of your hobby, no? Auction this month! Sounds like a lot of stuff will be in the offering. This will be your chance to add to your collection, and/or donate some of your existing Atari collection to the cause of helping to support SPACE!
Not much going on in the way of our cash situation for September, but I can tell you that we lost four dollars due to the fact that we had two dom sales for $6.00 and paid out one month web-site expense for $10.00. Our total in the bank now stands at $783.25. We are about seventy dollars down from this time last year but with two auctions still to be held we have a good chance to catch up. I think we can all be satisfied that after the economoy we endured this year we have still managed to keep our Treasury solid. It was great to see our members having a great time playing a Break-out game from the September dom. This has to make Glen feel that he is not wasting his time putting together a SPACE dom each month. I think if the members looked closer at what's on the disk every month they would find more great games to play.
Hopefully I'll make it this month, and hopefully I'll remember to bring my SDrive NUXX along for show-and-tell too.
Well I am off to a parade with four of my grandchildren for Inver Grove Heights Days, so I guess I will be seeing you next month at the October SPACE meeting.
Thanks, keep using that Atari, and come to your next SPACE meeting, Friday October 9, 2009.
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Treasurer's Report
Secretary's Report By Steven Peck For September 2009
by Greg Leitner For September 2009
Seven members were present on an unusually warm September evening. We had a very enjoyable meeting as everyone participated in the topics covered. Not much going on in the Atari world, but we did have a donation from a current Atari user who brought in a few hundred magazines for our auction. There are quite a few titles included, but sad to say they were not sorted. So I brought them home to sort and believe me when I confirm there was no rhyme or reason for the way they were bagged up. I bet there was a minimum of ten different titles from each bag containing about twentyfive total magazines. Some mags are for the 8-bit, but after going through about ten bags, I would say most are for the ST. Some are just misc. but still have Atari articles in them. It looks like we should have a good auction next month in October. I have some 8-bit hardware, lots of 8-bit and ST software, and of course some magazines. I still have plans for an even a bigger December auction for our Xmas party. I hope we can get all our members to participate in both auctions.
Well, another month, another Secretary's Report. Welcome back to my article. As you know, the auction is next month. Boy, do we have a lot of literature for that auction. We had about twenty bags of literature, Atari mags galore, donated to SPACE last month. We also had some copies of VisiCalc and even an Okidata printer. The auction is going to be interesting.
Nolan is looking for old newsletters from the 80s and 90s concerning SPACE history. If anybody is saving that stuff (like I am. I have stuff that dates back to, well, the first year of SPACE, I believe...), please feel free to let Nolan know. Or me. Then I can tell him. Either way, we'll further complete the SPACE Timeline on the website.
Well, that concludes the Secretary's Report. See you in October. Excelsior!
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BBS Corner By Nolan Friedland For October 2009
If anyone has any comments, suggestions, ideas, or submissions for the BBS Corner column or the SPACE BBS web site, you may email them to me, Nolan Friedland, at the address shown on the back of this newsletter under the "CLUB OFFICIALS" section.
******************************************** From: Michael Current [michael@mcurrent.name] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 5:11 PM Subject: New Torment screen
feedback via comments article submissions are way more easy readable even on your Atari ST with CAB or Highwire article reviewing and proof reading can be done online while chatting, Skyping etc (no sharing of article textfiles anymore) So here you go! At http://lowresmag.wordpress.com/ you can find the first issue of our magazine. We hope you enjoy the read and if you want to contribute with articles, reviews or anything Atari related, just go ahead and tell us! Low Res will need your active support - and keep in mind, if it's Atari related it is suited for the magazine, 8bit and Jaguar included. We appreciate your feedback!
New Torment screen
September 14th, 2009 » Visit Lowres Magazine http://lowresmag.wordpress.com/
Spiny of Torment writes: Hi All, We (torment) released another small screen, this time at Sundown 2009. Our coder is still very busy with work, so we had to reuse some code yet again, but this time we have a new tune and some new gfx :) The tune was done at the party, as were some of the graphics. Final debugging was done over the phone to GND a few hours before the entry deadline :) Anyway, hope you enjoy it, we are all want to release more new stuff, it's just difficult to find the time when all three of us can meet up and get productive ...
******************************************** From: Michael Current [michael@mcurrent.name] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 5:04 PM Subject: Video 61's Cassette Data Storage & Maintenance/Service Pack --Subject: for all cassette users:cassette data storage&service/maintenance packs --Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:48:51 -0500 Please visit our web site page here, http://members.tcq.net/video61/cassettepack.html
» Download Have you seen our coder? by Torment http://files.dhs.nu/files_demo/hysoc.zip ******************************************** From: Michael Current [michael@mcurrent.name] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 5:11 PM Subject: New Atari magazine New Atari magazine
To view our new cassette based product. Please visit our web site here, www.atarisales.com To view our large inventory of atari games and programs for your classic atari machines.
August 31st, 2009
Simon Sunnyboy / Paradize writes: How long did you wait for the last disk magazine issue? Alive 14 has been ages away and no new version has been seen yet. Thorn, Christos and Simon Sunnyboy decided around Outline 2009 that the disk magazine concept should be transported over to a new platform and concept. We started the Low Res magazine in Web 2.0 style. It is a Wordpress based blog with the following ideas behind the magazine: releases more often, even if there are not 80 articles around cover anything from an Atarian point of view, games, demos, hardware, news a Blog system like Wordpress allows instant
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