June 2010
NEWSLETTER for June 2010 President’s Corner by Michael Current June 2010 I don't think I have a whole lot of news to report this month. It was a big race to the finish line of the academic year for me. So here we are into the summer, and I still seem to be working as hard as ever. Sigh. I've had a couple different plumbing & heating guys in my place the last few days. I got to talking Atari with both of them (kind of hard to avoid with Atari stuff scattered all around my place). The first guy surprised me when he associated "Atari" with "Jaguar". I guess there's a narrow generation that would think that! The second guy had many memories of his old VIC-20, and was quite interested in all the Atari computer stuff I have, so that was a fun chat. (Plus, I have a brand-new central air system! So much for any accumulated spending money.) You'll want to come to the meeting this month to help plan the details of next month's party. The identity of the main dish hangs in the balance! Thanks, keep using that Atari, and come to your next SPACE meeting, Friday June 11, 2010. **********************************************
Treasurer's Report by Greg Leitner For May 2010
Seven members were present for the May SPACE meeting and that is a good showing. We have eleven members on our records, but sadly we only show that nine members are recorded as paid up to date. The membership dues are important to the Club so please keep your dues current. Once again the SPACE Birthday party was discussed and I think some of you might reconsider having tacos as
the meal. I know having the same meal every party gets a little boring so I ask you to think about it for the next meeting and maybe come up with a different idea. I sense that some of you are ready to make a change. I know I am!!!! But if you still want tacos I won't stand in your way, and I will leave it up the majority. Just keep in mind that change is good (hint, hint). Also at the July SPACE Birthday party we have another great auction and this would be a good time to look at your Atari magazine collections and see what you are missing. I have many different titles to auction off and if you are looking for Antic and Analog 8-bit mags. I could possibly have the ones you need. Also if you short some of the disks that go along with the Antic and Analog mags. I could have some of those too. Now for the SPACE Treasury for May 2010: Beginning SPACE bank balance for May 1, 2010: 742.30 Dom sales for May 2010 Web-site expense for May 2010 Ending SPACE bank balance for May 31, 2010:
9.00 10.00 741.30
As you can see not much going on right now that is changing our funds. We need those membership renewals to come in and keep buying those great Doms that Glen produces each and every month. With the auction coming up in July we should be seeing our bank account at around $800.00 which we have not been at since October 0f 2009. It looks like we could possibly be in a better financial sitiuation in 2010 and that is simply amazing! Keep up your support for the Club. It looks like another successful year for SPACE. Tacos NOOOO. Anything else YESSS. See you next month for the hotly contested debate. **********************************************
Secretary's Report By Steven Peck For May 2010
Donkey Kong (Arcade) - Updated version with Arcade Music and SFX. Also = including the Intro from the arcade with kong bending the girders. Moon Patrol - Full XL/XE Compatability
Well, another day, another Secretary's Report. Hi, folks. I read that the FireBee Atari clone will be released the second half of 2010. So, if you would like to get it, if you can, you might want to consider it. It is supposed to be a nice machine for music and other Falcon applications. Lance was telling that there was another RISC-based tablet coming out that would be even cheaper the the Freescale SABRE tablet, at $110.00. It could also, like the SABRE, run TOS like a Falcon. I wouldn't getting one of these three computer systems. Now that summer is here, soon it will be the SPACE Birthday Party. That means another auction. It looks like there are good software titles in there. I wouldn't mind getting some of the software, would you? I think that it will shape up to be a big auction. Well, that concludes the Secretary's Report. I will see you in June.
Realm of Impossibility Pitfall! Atlantis Demon Attack - XL/XE Compatable Space Invaders - (5200 version converted for the 8-bit) Qix - (5200 version converted for the 8-bit) Electrician - (Fixed Version, Game can now be completed) Hyperblast! Millipede! - (Final Version) Montezuma's Revenge=20
Excelsior!
Lode Runner - (Full Color Version)
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This is just a taste. More Titles to come in the next week.
BBS Corner By Nolan Friedland For June 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: Friday, May 28, 2010 8:07 PM Subject: Kjmanns Atari Sales. New Website. (New 8-Bit Games, Release Date June 5th)
Sal "kjmann" Esquivel Kjmann's Atari Sales and Service Website: http://atari-sales.com ******************************************** From: Michael Current [michael@mcurrent.name] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 8:13 PM Subject: Positivity releases new bootsector intro Positivity releases new bootsector intro
May 3rd, 2010
Positivity with the help of X-Troll released a new ST bootsector intro at Outline. It's a spline with 768 dots running at full frame rate. Background sound by Cyclone of X-Troll. » Download Quadratic Splines http://files.dhs.nu/party/outline2010/quad.zip
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Here are some of the new game we are releasing on june 5th. =20
From: Michael Current [michael@mcurrent.name] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 8:23 PM Subject: New release from Syntax New release from Syntax
May 26th, 2010
After what I think is years of silence, Syntax sent us a new ST-release. It's not a demo, it's not a utility.. Syntax themself describe it as a "Virtual presentation of a solar system".
Reboot releases new Jaguar game
» Download http://files.dhs.nu/files_util/solarsys.zip
Superfly DX is made by Cyrano Jones, GGN, SH3 and MSG.
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» Download Jaguar CD image http://files.dhs.nu/party/outline2010/sfdx64_cdi.zip » Download Jaguar BJL http://files.dhs.nu/party/outline2010/sfdx64_bjl.zip » Download Jaguar ROM http://files.dhs.nu/party/outline2010/sfdx64_rom.zip » Visit the Reboot Superfly site http://dbug.kicksass.net/reboot/web/superflydx/superfly.html
From: Michael Current [michael@mcurrent.name] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 8:14 PM Subject: CiH releases CD-ROM CiH releases CD-ROM May 8th, 2010 CiH writes: Howdy doody, it's that "thing" I've muttered about for months. It's finally been released shortly after the Outline 2010 Party. This is the 'Random Images' CD Rom collection for the Atari ST, STE, Mega STE, TT and Falcon. This ISO image contains a shedload of 'random images' lovingly converted to Targa format for easy viewing on these machines. There are also a bunch of equally random animated GIF files included as well for your enjoyment with some tools to view them on an Atari MC68K series near you. It is MS-DOS format, and Atari ST CD-ROM drive friendly. This is not really a 'demoscene' release, although it has been shown at the Outline 2010 demo party, it namechecks a popular thread from Pouet.net, it has used some material from that thread, and its companion, 'Random Animated GIF's', and it also uses some material more directly from that source in the form of logo's and the tiny 16 x 16 avatar GIF files. Glad that's clear.. This is is the culmination of over a year's worth of netgrubbing and more or less careful collecting and picture sorting activity and comes to you from CiH at the Outline Party in April 2010. CiH - 7.5.10 - The hangover morning after the UK election night! » Download CD from Marcers FTP ftp://marcer.mine.nu:1698/CD%20Roms/randomim.zip ********************************************
From: Michael Current [michael@mcurrent.name] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 8:12 PM Subject: Reboot releases new Jaguar game
May 3rd, 2010
At Outline 2010 Reboot released a much upgraded Atari Jaguar version of the classic ST-game Superfly.
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