October 2010
NEWSLETTER for October 2010 President’s Corner
Treasurer's Report
by Michael Current October 2010
by Greg Leitner For September 2010
Important meetings coming up, starting this month. There's talk of moving our annual holiday party from December to January this year. If we're going to do that, we'll need to get that decision made soon. Be sure to come to the meeting this month to make your voice heard!
I guess if we were going to have an off month September would be the one. With the end of the State Fair and summer soon over, and with the kids back in school it's no wonder that September is the most hectic month of the year. With that said we have twelve paid up members now, and six of those members were present at the SPACE meeting. I guess a fifty percent attendance ain't too bad.
Our Annual Meeting is in November, when we elect club officers for the next year. As always, everyone is encouraged to get involved! SPACE is your club. Please consider putting your name into the hat for one of the officer or other volunteer positions this year! I recently read a good book picked up at one of our recent SPACE club auctions: "Atari Roots: A Guide to Atari Assembly Language" by Mark Andrews. Published by Datamost/Reston in 1984. I cheated, I didn't sit at the computer typing in sample code, I just read it straight through. Highly readable, considering the topic! For all my experience programming in Atari BASIC, BASIC XL, BASIC XE, and PILOT, I must say that this book helped me for the first time get a real sense of how one goes about creating programs in assembly language on the Atari. Well, the next thing I'd have to do is get my hands on an Atari Assembler Editor cartridge, or perhaps a cartridge version of MAC/65. All I have is an early disk-based MAC/65 that I've never gotten anywhere with. If I could find the time, it would be fun to try writing some simple little assembly programs, just to get a feel for it.
We were discusiing the possibility of moving our SPACE Xmas party to January 2011 as I won't be at the December meeting this year. There is even some hinting that maybe tacos have finally gotten old and another food choice might be selected this time around. I am all for that but it doesn't really matter all that much to me. What does matter is that we decide by the November meeting so that my wife and I can prepare for the January party. Get your ideas together next month so we can start the process, and don't forget the elections in November. We need to have our nominees announced in October so that we can vote in November. Not much happening in September, Nolan has been gone for a couple of months so we haven't paid anything out for the web-site, and because we have no other expenses this time of year all the doms sold and memberships renewed just add to our SPACE Treasury. Here is how the SPACE Treasury looks for September 2010. Beginning balance as of Sept 1, 2010:
847.10
Doms sold Memberships renewed
9.00 15.00
Hope to see you soon! Thanks, keep using that Atari, and come to your next SPACE meeting, Friday October 8, 2010.
No expenses for September
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Ending SPACE Treasury as of Sept 30, 2010
871.10
This balance is almost $100.00 more than the same periond in 2009 which I have a hard time believing. After paying out the $300.00 room rental fee for 2010 we will still have over $500.00 and possibly more than $600.00 to start 2011. With our membership at twelve and all our members being currently paid up and with dom sales at three or better each month this Club has a very bright future. I can almost picture myself doing this ten years from now and by then I will be seventy years old (ouch!!). With that thought I will leave with your own, and I will see you all in October. **********************************************
Secretary's Report By Steven Peck For September 2010
No minutes from the September meeting were submitted in time for this newsletter. ******************************************** BBS Corner By Nolan Friedland For October 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, September 26, 2010 9:16 AM Subject: New Torment release New Torment release September 7th, 2010 Torment released a chip-music demo for the ST today. It competed at Sundown 2010 and is Spinys first demo he have coded in assembler. 'Chippery' features three new maxYMiser tracks by Rhino. » Download Chippery http://files.dhs.nu/files_demo/chippery.zip ********************************************
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