March 2011
NEWSLETTER for March 2011 President’s Corner by Michael Current March 2011 March Madness is upon us! Starting with the fact that I totally spaced (oooh, a pun!) out on sending material in for this issue of the Newsletter. So I'm at least partly to blame for this issue coming out late, sorry about that. One excuse is that there's a real dearth of Atari news to share, it seems. Let's hope this is only a temporary lull, as we all awaken from our winter hibernating. Anyone going to the Midwest Gaming Classic in Brookfield Wisconsin (near Milwaukee)? It's coming up quickly, on March 26-27. See the show website at http://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ for all the details. I haven't committed to going, but I could, and I seem to be in the mood and possibly have time this year... One other little bit of news for me, I just agreed to preside over a classic Atari computer gaming event at the public library in my hometown of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan this June. Haven't quite worked out what we'll actually do, but I'm sure it will mostly be introducing teens to classic games on our classic Atari computers. Should be a blast!!
home before 8:30 PM. With the weather turning nicer we should have a much better turn out in March. Here is how the treasury looks after the February meeting: Beginning balance as of February 1, 2011:
658.15
Doms sold at the February meeting:
+ 6.00
Web-site expense for February:
-10.00
Ending balance as of February 28, 2011:
654.15
See I told you it was a slow month. This could be a harder year on SPACE with very little auction items left. It will be very important for all our members to renew their memberships this year and I would hope you will want to buy the monthly Dom that Glen works hard on every month. I know things can change in an instant as all we need is for someone to donate some Atari stuff and our auctions will be back. The Club really needs your support in 2011 and I know from past experience it will be there. See you all in March. **********************************************
Secretary's Report By Brian Little For February 2011
Thanks, keep using that Atari, and come to your next SPACE meeting, Friday March 11, 2011. January Minutes: **********************************************
Treasurer's Report by Greg Leitner For February 2011
I guess you would say we had a pretty slow SPACE meeting in February. It's not unusual after a party and auction the month previous. Can't blame the weather because it was a great night to be out, but we only had six members show for the evening. Not much happening in the Atari world lately so it was a rather short meeting and after watching Glen showcase all the programs on the Dom we still all headed
Well...... I said last month the New England Patriots would win the Super Bowl. Once again I am wrong in my predictions. Next season I guess, right? Anyways here's a quick recap of the January Taco Fest Meeting... Meeting started at 7:45 PM. I gave the secretary notes followed by Greg giving the treasury. Glen's membership count is at 10 paid members. DOM has some interesting games on it. Nolan reports he did a few edits to the web page but otherwise everything is running smoothly. The only news during the old and new news part of the meeting is the Atari Jaguar movie releases from Black Cat Theater continues to sell well.
Meeting ended at 7:55 PM. See you at the February meeting. February Minutes: I can now go on record saying that my secretary's notes are now more delayed in getting done then the release of the HTC Thunderbolt yet nowhere near as delayed as the Guns N Roses album Chinese Democracy is. Yet somehow by the time you read this I suspect the Thunderbolt still might not be out for sale yet. Anyways now with my monthly zinger done and over with here's the notes from the February meeting. The meeting started at 7:35 PM. I gave the notes from the January “Taco Fest” meeting and inadvertently got called “Steve” by Nolan. Greg gave his treasury notes. Our membership count is standing at 11. Glen talked about the DOM which is a New Years disk from a club in Germany including a dozen demos and games. The highlight includes a Centipede clone. Everything on the tech end from Nolan is perfectly fine. Nothing on the old or new business. Meeting ended at 7:50 PM. See you at the March meeting where we'll find out if the HTC Thunderbolt is finally out for sale or not.
******************************************** From: Michael Current [michael@mcurrent.name] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 9:20 PM To: kirschg@netzero.net; Schmidt, Mike; michael@mcurrent.name Subject: Surprising return from Finland Surprising return from Finland February 6th, 2011 Out of the blue, Emphii of Xtream just released a new intro for the STe. Featuring an oldskool effect and DMA Protracker music with code by Emphii and graphics by !Cube. » Download 'Xtrintro' by Xtream http://files.dhs.nu/files_demo/xtrintro.zip ******************************************** ******************************************** ******************************************** ******************************************** ******************************************** ******************************************** ********************************************