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NEW51.ETTEn Nettz FroM The Prez: Nathan Block The Meeting on fr idall the 13th went verv Ne11!1! Although the turnout was a bit sMall. four neN MeMbers joined and Many nett things Nera brought up for discussion. I really enjoyed the Apr i I Meeting and hope the May Meeting will be the saMe, IteNs of interest this MOnth are as follONs: the newsletter savings are finall~ kicking in. our treasury is aperat1ng quite cOMfortably for the MOMent. Hototever. the MIO costs are st i 11 hanging over us and Hhen ICD does fina llV decide to ship it back to us, there Nill be MO re bills. Nhat YOU can do to help is buy a DOM or renett your MeMbership, SPACE does Mail order OOMs for the usua l $ 3 fee plus $1 to cover the shipping charges. the l as t COUPie of gaMe DOMs . MOSt notably ZYBEX and PHOBOS have been very good and are NOrth getting. The bot tOM 1 ine is this: SPACE needs DON sales to Meet budget. please he lp us out by buying a DOM! I As the Hea ther is telling us, sUMMer is not far off and Nhen sUMMer turns CNl, cOMputers tend to turn off, In the sUMMer MOnths, Many avid coMPUter fans I knoN don brilliant HaNaiian shirts Nith SNiMMing trunks and head for the beach. This Ni 11 Mean SMal ler Meetings and as a result sMaller incOMe for the club for the sw,ii.;e r ;:,.onths. What NGti ld be nice is to have is to have a great big Meeting before the sUMMer so that Ne can take care of sOMe club business And beef up the treasury a bit before the stJMMer hits us. so. MY proposal to yOU is to BE SURE AND MAKE THE MAY MEETING!! To add MOtivation. there Nill be a r affle with softMare as prizes. The re will be sOMe special DON disks. sOMe extra software deMos~ and if everything goes Nell. free gi~ts for all Nho cOMe, Also, MY offer still stands firM, if ~ou bring another ATARI mmer to the Meeting and he/she joins. I Nill ae,,ard that person with Magoetic Media. AnYNaY, the May Meet Ni 11 be Mel 1 NOrth Y01Jr Hhi le. so plan on being there! A really big Meeting Just beFore sUMMer NOUld really be good for the club! Please plan to be there for the May Meeting! this MOnthf SPACE is here to serve the ATARI user. we can't function "i thout you, Please give us a little of your and Money so we can Make your life with an ATARI a litter happier! See YoU at the May Meeting!

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by Nathan Block 1, The Meeting was called to order by President Nathan Block at 7:30 PM. 2, The MeMbership Chair Nas replaced due to previous oversight. the nett MeMbership Chair is Glenn KirschenMann Hilo can be reached at 786-47~. 3. The newsletter was out on tiMe and Many coMMents were voiced at the club Meeting. Mike 5chMidt (editor) asked for any input the MeMbers had about neHSletter. 4, The seattle Puget sound Atari COMPUte r Enthusiasts (wow. another SPACE!) Newsletter was shoNn at the Meeting , Their ATARI newsletter is professionally done and is the work of several user groups banding together. It is said to be aMong the best ATARI publications in the us. s. KenCVP) Mentioned the iMp0rtance of joining the club so that it can continue to offer full supp0rt to the ATARI user. 6. Larry serflaten is a prograMMer Nho is offeri~ his gaMes for sale on disk The price 1s $3 for an entire di~~. Those interested can contact hiM at the Meetings, Larry is aver» good prograMMer , this was voiced by several people. inc Jud ing the president and vice-president. 7. The ques t ion of table selling Nas brOU9ht up again at the Meetiogs and on tile BBS. Nat han and Ken will be going over the by-laws and there Ni 11 be a forMal vote at the next Meeting regarding this issue. a. A MeMber is looking for the poke location to cold-start his ATARI frOM 005.

,. In the confe rence rOOM, an 810 was successful y fi xed by our technician Rich Mier. If you have faulty ATARI equiPMeflt, he NOUld be happy to look at it and give YoU advice at the Meetings, 18, Anot he r boot gate was featured on DOM, PHOBOS is a shoot-eM up siMiliar to CAVERNS OF MAR5. but Much More interesting. 11. The Meeting closed Nith the deMO of Larry's progrBMs and the Disk of the Month,

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5PRCE SOFTNARE LIBRARY NEWS May 1 ~ SPACE Disk of the Month The library Nill be offering software for sale as usual, at the Meeting or via the U5 Nail. All disks are $3 each If you can't Make the Meeting call Joe Danko at 777-~00 after 6PM or Mail your request to: .Joe Danko

2766 ChisholM AV, N, St, Paul, Mn 5510,

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Mailed softNare Nill cost an extra $1 for each MUitiple of 3 disks or so.

Blank disks Nill be for sale at 38 cents (S8.38J each. Disk of the Month - MAY Side l SPACE DOM MAY_1,,e_1 LOTTOHISENT LOTTOHI'SOAT LOTTINIT LOTTPATT LOTTCALC LOTTHILOOAT ISJAUTO BAS UITALSINBAS ACEDUCE BAS sz, TXT

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LOTTO Prediction Aid: All files that start Nith NLOTt•, Put all of these files on a disk Nith 005. RenaMe LOTTORUN,ARS as AUTORUN,SY5. Boot Ni th BASIC, BASBOOTR Ni 11 run and get thill9$ started. This systeM was d e s i ~ for the Arizona lottery so YoU Ni 11 have to adapt it for your· otm use, 6JAUTO,BAS A blackjack siMUlation that Nill let YoU play or Nill rl.fl autOMatically. VITALSIN,BAS SiMUlation of huMan blood pressure. respiration and blood oxygen level. You get to choose exercise level and air quality. ACEOUCE,BAS SiMUlation of the classic two-player card gate Nith user playing against the COMPUter.

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Other Software Newly Released: 1, SURF'S UP A BOOT-DISK gaMe. Boot Nith no basic. YOU !1t,JSSed it! Thi s gaMe is about surf mg. Z, DAISY-DOT III The long awaited uPQrade to DAISY-DOT II, This set of erogra...s Nill allow printing text files us i ng selectable custOM fonts. also BOLO and UNDERLINE and Many other nice features. DO III prints ratt saved text files. OD III appears to be ~ e Machine language instead of Tur asic Nhich Means it can run Nith SPARTOOOS. The following Library news is for the erior tNO MOnths. They were excluded frOM the past newsletters due to the tranition of newsletter printing and editiQ9_. also the busy schedule of the Disk llorarian. It NOUld seeM the DISK LIBRARY is still at the Mercy of your librarians personal and professional life. I Just barely Made it to the January Meeting hot off the plane after yet another UNISYS school. TiMe thi s Month has been short and the software has been COMPiicated. If that is not enough, Carl TowberMan. MY loyal assistant, has decided to defect to the ranks of The FASCIST IBM CLONE NORSHIPERS Nith his new Mini-toNer 386SX/80 MB hard disk/VGA systeM. once again I aM on MY own and dire need of s o Meone not to far froM North St. Paul to do disk copying , Label printing MOUid be nice also. The bes t hardware/software to have is a 256k./312k uPg r aded XL/XE with us Doubler/1050 running SPAR TAOOS for high-speed copying. SoftNar e reMains a bit scarce right now but we are in luck that what has becOMe available is of hi~hest quality If an~one has public ck>Ma1n software that 1s not in the library we will trade disk-for-disk. SPACE DISK of the MONTH Feburary 1,,0 SIDE 1 SPACE

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Side 2 SPACE DOM MAY_l990_2 DOS SYS AUTORUN SYS PZMSLIDETXT PRZMPIClPZN PRZMPIC2PZM PRZNPIC3PZM PRZMPIC4PZM

MOde 11 technique to display uP to 256 colors. The package includes five picture files for deMOOstration of the prograM, once a picture is di s played, press any key to get the next o ne. Boot this side Nith no BASIC.

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TETRIX CON 132 TETRIX DOC 035 SNAPSHOTCOM 014

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TETRIX.COM,TETRIX,DOC That's right. its a clone of TETRIS. the popular gaMe that is said to have origjnated in Russi~. This Of}e is_io Machine language and uses a Joystick. SNAPSHOT,COM,SOFTBOOT,COM,SNAPSHOT,OOC

ttere is a really oddball utility for YoU SCHIZOID types. These prograMS allON an XL or XE Nith at least 256K of MeNOry to M.rl tNO indenpendent enuiroOMents and switch betNeen one in and the other one out at any tiMe with a keypress. YoU can run a coMbination of oos's or self-booting prograMs. ATLAM.OBJ.ATLAM.DOC.PR.SCR

ttere is a COMPiete 6502 Machine language asseMbler systeM that uses labels and includes Monitor/debugger.

BIGCHAR.BAS

A SiMPle basic prograM b~ SPACE MeMber Glen KirschenMann that displays each keypress as a very large character on the display along with a sound effect . SPACTRIS,BAS This tetris clone is so new that it doesn't have a naMe. soi Made one uP , It Nas Nritten by Larry serflarten in response to MY challange on the BBS, It is Nritten in BASIC and uses a joystick. LQUEST2,BA5

This is an uPgrade to the BASIC phrase guessing gaMe. LQUEST. frOM an earlier DOM. Glen KirschenMann cleaned it up and enhanced it. NORDHUNT,BAS This 3ASI:C gaMe SG!icit!;. ;.,;ords f ..,.OM the pla~r and builds a word Maze and then fills the space left Nith randOM letters. The player has to find all the original NOrds. SIDE TNO is the ultiMate version of TEXTPRO. A very powerful and unique text processing systeM. TEXTPRO+ V4 . 54 This version configures itself for the 005 in use so it is the onl~ version required llON, The library Nill be purged of all of the old versions. TEXTPRO+ V4.54 Nill also support all 5PARTAD05 x f1X1Ctions. This release is the prograM. ttr::LP SY5teM Macros and screens and basic inforMation. First tiMe users and old TEXTPRO hands both should be able to use it ri9ht a1o1ay, The disk side had built-in info fies. Also included is a powerful spelling checker called Personal Spelling Checker. This is a big iMProvettent over the unsatisfac tory exaMPle on previous disks. PSC is a single integrated p r ograM instead of the three seperate prograMs required by the old one. For those users Nho require MOre poNer and inforMation for TEXTPRO+ V4,54 the library has More disks Nith full doCUMantation and collections of Maeros and suPport files. SPACE DISK of the MONTH MARCH 1~~0 SIDE 1 5 t~~is~~~~1~t'rfng shape gaMe but with a tNist. This one has the choice of three songs that you can

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Displays 005 2.x or PSHOP directories frOM SPARTAOOS X or disk SPARTAOOS. ALOGGANE,SNL.ALOGEDUC,SNL.ALOGGRAF , SNL ALOGPROG,SNL.ALOGOISK,SNL.ALOGMISC.SNL Inde• of prograNs frOM ANALOG Magazine SIDE 2 TP454XJ5.COM TEXTPRO V 4,54 that uses expanded RAN for tNO extra 15K-byte text buffers that are keyboard selectable. There can be three different files loaded at the saMe tiMe and text can be cut and pasted between theM, This disk has MYDOS 4,50 configured for an 600XL Nith ~56K-bytes of MeMOry, The extra 1,2K 1s setuP as a 126K-byte RAMDISK and the other 64K for the use of TEXTPRO. TP454XJS,COM

TEXTPRO v 4.54 that allows the BASIC to be enabled Hith TEXTPRO loaded. TEXTPRO DOCUMENTATION DISK To go with the neN version of TEXTPRO The library is also offering a disk Nith CQMf?lete neN DOCS, The disk is COMPietely full of TEXTPRO forMatted text files on both sides. SPACE DISK of the MONTH

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D5KLIB31BAS 126 PROGINDXM87 196 PROGINDXNS, 08~ PROGINDXX01 012 PROGINDXM~ 024 SPACEIDXXT1 05'3

SYS 037 SYS 042 AUTORUN SYS 001 MENU 035 HELP DOC 006 All of side 2 is devoted to the SPACE disk library index. Nhen you BOOT Nith BASIC OSKLIB31.BA5 Nill aut0Maticall9 run. I have fixed OUMerous bugs in the printing routines and it Nill print Nith the proper registration on 8.5 x 11 paper in tNO coh.JMns. The only bug knoHn at this tiMe occurs Nhen a text file is Nritten to disk during SEARCH function. ADDITIONAL MI5C. HEN RELEASES SPACE LIB 000 AUTORUN SYS 147 TIRESIZE 900 TIRESIZECOM 147 BOOT NO BAS 000 LIB 04', 005 SYS 037 READ ME 062 DUP SYS 042 TIRESIZE is written in PASCAL and is ~tarted tt:40 Nays. If it is BOOTED as 1 t COMes 1 t rl.Hls under oos 2 .5 and MUSt be the AUTORUN.SYS file erovided and be included with the LIB file, If you can use SPARTADOS, execute the TIRESXZE,COM file Mith the LIB also. Ne are also releasing a gaMe_provl~ed by our PREZ. NATHAN. PttOBOS 15 a disk that BOOTS Nith no BASIC and requires a joystick.

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NENS FROM THE FRACTALS SIG. Do you play Nith COMPUter-generated PUblished by the St Paul ATARI COMPUter art? If' you'd like to enable your Enthusiasts (SPACE), an independent 8-bit Machine to create sOMe, I NOUld o~anization Kith no business recOMMend YoU get a copy of' the sept affiliation Nith ATARI Corporation. 1,88 SPACE Disk of' the Month (DOM). is 9ranted to any siMilar You'll find a great little prograM on PerMission - - - - - • .... -..• .; __ •·•• •I-. •·•'"-.;-a... cnn,-..c _.,."'"'~-.......,...-,.,.. UI !::fGll&.&.Clt..&UII ft&t..11 n,, ... ..,., Jrft\.,I.. 'CA\.rllGll~C.:. this disk called PATTERNS.BAS. Brief to reprint ~aterial f'roM details of hoN to use it are contained neHsletters this neHsletter. Ne do hoHever ask that in a text file naMed PATTERNS.DOC. credit be given to the authors and to Frankly, the Circle and ttopa1Qll9 9Pinions expressed are those of options are not very spectacular. but SPACE. the authors and do not necessarily the Mandelbrot option MOre than Makes reflect the views of the SPACE, club up for theN. Please run this option officers, club MeMhers or ATARI using Turbo BASIC. Even at that, be prepared for plotting tiMes in excess corporation. of four hours. If you use Atari B A S I C , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - you'll have really long Naits to see anything. (You don't have Turbo?? If you've got an XL or XE, get a copy frOM your friendly SPAC£ librarian. Saint Paul Atari COMPuter Enthusiasts Those Ni th a 400 or 808 Machines Ni 11 SPACE Meets on the second f'rida!:I of have to develop stoic patience because each Month at 7:30 PM in the Falcon Turbo BASIC does not rlil on theM). I Heights COMMUnity Center at 2077 Nest reorganized the pro!1raM a bit, and Nas larpenteur Ave. Doors open at 7:00 PM, able to chop an ackh t ional 12:1. off' the Mandelbrot plotting tiMe. Cleveland N Ave Besides the paraMeter values given in FalCOQ Heights the doc f'ile, try the follONing values GIBBS COMMlKlltY Center for interesting patterns: MUSEUM 2077 N. Larpenteur 5 CORNER CORNER SIDE MAX X X (REAL) (IMAGXHARYl l .F.W.JTH XTERAT:IONS Larpenteur Ave -2.0 -2.0 4.0 20 -0,205 -1 .185 8,002 24 St. Paul -0.,es -8.276 8.81 36 U of M CaMPUS -8.27 -1.18 8.03 60 -1.18 -8.27 0.81 60 -1.18 -8.27 0.883 60

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I've only heard froM one person about lastCFEB?) MOnth's article on HOPPER. Does anybody else have it or knoN Nhere it caMe frOM? Nould anyone like to swap interesting paraMeter values for HOPPER or PATTERNS? If you do, or would like to share MOdifications like MY Mandlebrot speed-up. please write. CI can't alNa!:IS get to SPACE Meetings) earl Miller 1444 N. NilloN St. Chippewa Falls, NI

SPACE BULLETIN BOARD BBS Phone:(612)-425-3~2 5!:ISOP:KEN MODEEN

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(FrOM the ~DITOR: the above article Has sent to the P.O. BOX. but was not included in MARCH NENSLETTER) President Nathan Block vice-President Ken Modeen secretary Pat Krerv1 Disk Librarian Joe Danko Paper Librarian JiM Scheib MeMbership Chair Ken KirschenMann 5PRCE.IMA5T Treasurer Allan Fink SPACE Newsletter Edit. Mike SchMidt

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