January 2010
NEWSLETTER for January 2010 President’s Corner by Michael Current January 2010 Welcome to the new decade from your good old Atari club! I must say, last month's holiday party, auction, and meeting was one of the best SPACE meetings I can remember. A nearly complete turnout of club members and families, great food, and a truly competitive auction all made it more than worthwhile. It was neat to see the club's demo 800XL video output on a modern wide-screen LCD television. And it was great fun for me to check out the new paddle controller playing Kaboom! with a member of the latest up-and-coming generation of Atari computer users. I just had a really good time overall, and I hope everyone else did too. Thanks to everyone for your role in making the night a success! Thanks, keep using that Atari, and come to your next SPACE meeting, Friday January 8, 2010. **********************************************
I want to give special thanks to my wife, Jackie, who without her the party could not have been what you experienced. She did all the work, shopping, cooking, preparing and making the party real. What you witnessed is what I have gotten since the day we married almost forty years ago. She really knows how to take care of people. Now for the Treasury report for the year ended December 31, 2009: Beginning balance as of December 1, 2009:
881.25
Receipts for the December SPACE meeting: Auction Sales Membership Renewal Dom Sales
89.00 15.00 12.00
Total Receipts for the December meeting:
116.00
Expenses for the December SPACE meeting: Room Rental-2009 Web-Site Monthly Web-Site Annual Renewal
300.00 10.00 9.95
Total Expenses for the December meeting:
319.95
Ending balance for December 31, 2009
677.30
Treasurer's Report by Greg Leitner For December 2009
It will aready be 2010 by the time you are reading this report. I usually say if you missed the SPACE Xmas party it was your loss. I can't say that for the SPACE 2009 Xmas party because all our members were present except one that lives out of state. It had to be the best turnout in many many years, and the food (so I heard) was excellent. I think everyone got enough to eat even though we were a little worried about running out with the larger than anticipated crowd. Thanks to all who attended and let's keep that interest going in 2010. The auction was a complete and to me a very surprising success. We took in more money at this auction than in our last two auctions combined. The bidding was fierce and exciting and made it seem like a real auction. That was missing in past auctions as most items sold for one bid of $1.00 each. I have more stuff to auction off, mostly magazines, but their are other things I can throw into the mix to make another auction interesting. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Thanks to all the members for your continuing support and because of that support we are going into a new year with a very healthy balance in our treasury. We are just $30.00 behind our balance from this time last year so it looks like another successful year is in store for us again in 2010. If we can make it through the most economically hard times as we did in 2009 we can make it any time. (New York, New York) Just kidding around on that one, I couldn't get the song out of my head when I started writing that line. All joking aside, we really can make SPACE a Club that has no end in sight. After seeing the members having fun at the Xmas party it gave me a confident feeling that not one of us wants this experience to end. So I guess it's time to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New year, and I will be seeing you all in 2010. **********************************************
Secretary's Report By Steven Peck For December 2009
No minutes were submitted in time for this Newsletter.
******************************************** BBS Corner By Nolan Friedland For January 2010
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.
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From: Michael Current [michael@mcurrent.name] Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 9:06 PM Subject: New STe-demo from MJJ Prod New STe-demo from MJJ Prod December 14th, 2009 Strider of MJJ Prod writes: MJJ Prod released a new STE demo last month at Alchimie 2009. It is called 'Realtime'. It requires a STE or Mega STE with at least 1 MB of memory. The archive "REALTIME.ZIP" contains the executable file whereas "REALTIME.ST.ZIP" contains the disk image for emulators. » Download Realtime executable file http://files.dhs.nu/files_demo/realtime.zip » Download Realtime disk image http://files.dhs.nu/files_demo/realtime.st.zip » At Pouet.Net ******************************************** ******************************************** ******************************************** ******************************************** ********************************************