January 1991
Newz fro, tht Prtz! By ~atnan Block "--
Happy New Year ! I trust you all had a splendid holiday season, 11ne was wonderful, So wonderful 1n fact I a, a tad short on news this ■ onth, The club 1s doing extreaely well ftnanctally , As I have stressed during the 1eet1ngs thts ts entirely due to the support you, the 1e1bersh1p, has given tt, Having been Htth another user group before and seeing its demise, i can truly say SPACE ha s so1eth1ng really special going on, We nave some very knowledgeable people who know their stuff and are willing to share tt, Thank you 1e1bers for a good year 1n 1990 and let us aake 1991 even better! If you 11ssed the Dece1ber 1eeting, I aust inf orm you\ it was the 1eeting of the year! We had lots of good food, a very unique raffle, auction, and a piatn oia gooo t11e: I also ftad heard previously fro• •Y ATARI penpal in Switzerland who sent 1e a really i1press1ve game called DRACONUS, For those of you who own ZYBEX, bel ieve 1t or not, this ga1e iOPS Ii, DRACONUS will be the feature DOI'! of this month and you WILL WANi to pick it up,
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BUDGET COMPUTER 1n Fridl-ey, the store I work at, has coae up with so1e REALLY RARE ATARI software, The Fridley store has 4 factory sealed copies of WAR GAl'IES based on the 1982 s1ash ~GI'! 1ov1e, For those of you who have never played WAR GAMES , 1t is one of the best ga1es ever written, The ga1e play is fast, exciting and graphicaily superior to sany ga~es, BUDGET also has l'IASTER OF THE LAMPS, FLIGHT SIMULATOR II and one large package containing the FLIGHT SIMULATOR II scenery disks 1-6, I will atte1pt to bring in so■ e of these software titl es at the next meeting, That ts really about this 1onth, I have eade some New Year's resolutions and one of the• 1s to help keep SPACE going strong for another year, You can help, TELL YOUR ATARI FRIENDS about our club and pass the word 1 There are PLENTY Gf ATA~I ~iGple Gijt thare, H! just h~ve tc le; the; know we are here' Nathan &lock MINUTES OF THE SPACE MEETING
Deceaber 14, 1990
by Pat Krenn, Secretary I, The 1eeting was called to order by President Nathan Block at 7:30 P,N,
2, President Nathan Block dtscr1bed the location of business '- C@l~Yttr ~tat1on 1 Which hll Atlt-1 8z~1t n1row1rt and software tor sale, "Co1puter Station• 1s located on D1a1ond Lake Road near the intersection with Nicollet, Thetr telephone nu1ber 1s 822-0777,
3, V1ct·Prt11dent and Sysop Kin Nodttn reported that the club is looking tor a 40 1ill1on byte (40MB) or greater nard drive for the BBS, The club 1s looking tor a good deal on one, If you find one, please notify Ken, Co-Sysop Larry Sertlaten or a Board me1ber, 4, A drawing for 3 door prizes at SI / chance was then held with Btll Cadwell getting the 'Jin gle Disk"; Pat Krenn getting the "Ace of Aces• ga■e; and Mike Schmidt getting the "Drop Zone" ga1e, 5, Time out was then taken for people to register to win an Atari 400 or a "De Re Atari" l'lanual , During this ti1e a deeo of the Switzerland ga1e "Draconus• was shown, The Atari 400 was won by Nark Vallevand and the ' De Re Atari" was won by another club ~ember (forgot to get his na1e),
6, One more S35 color monitor was available for club sembers iOo d raffle was hEld b~twe en 3 ~e,bers int~rested in th~
11onitor, 7, Joe Danko received a request for a club aember to look at so11e hardware the Guadalupe Area ProJect has avai labl e, Two mea~ers of t~e club volunteered to check this out, 8, An auction was held tor an "R-ti1e
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software; this sold for 121 to l'lark Val levand, 9, News and Probleas - Russ HcGlenn as ked if anyone can restore a "V1s1calc" program disk; his copy has quit working and he 1s not able to get a replace1ent, Pat Krenn volunteered to make a copy for h11 and mail it to hia tor $1 postage, 10, News and Probleas - Hark Vallevand reported that so1eone on the BBS 1s looking for a wotK1ng AiR8000 (runs CP/1'1 OS); Joe Danko has one but his is not working, 11, Atari Corporation 1s still prov1d1ng custoaer service and the trade-in offer for 810 drives 1s still on; the Atari por:teli~ com,ut,r 1s :~ lli~~ rig~t n~w for ,400 ~;th
software, 12, Disk of the Month - This months DOMs include a set of & 1ach1ne language disks at Sl a piece as well as 3 utilities disks also at 11 a piece , This previous DO" software grouped together by area, co1plements of Joe Danko, 13, Since ■any new faces we re at tne meeting and a request was aadee to match BBS na1es with faces, everyone 1n the roo1 introduced the1selves or were introduced, 14, The 1eeting concluded at 8:45 P,f'I, with a GREAT pot-luck fttd and dt1onstrat1ons were conducted on the DOMs avai lable It tht Htt1n9, End of the 11nutes for the Deceaber 14th, 1990 SPACE meeting, Respectfully subai tted by Pat Krenn, Secretary
GIFNCODE ~trt 11 • Word St1tc~ ~u:zlt 91n1r-attd bY • ~r-ogra~ troffi APX, by Max Mulliner , There will be a different one each 1onth, Each with it's own theme,
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The first one is co1puters, The answer to this 1onths will printed in next months newsletter,
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(graphics 81 91 or 15) into GIF for uploading to other computer BBSes and displayable by other types of syste~s, Reads unco1pressed or Koala/Microlllustrator files in graphics 15, Also pretty good as a way to view all the._,,. picture tiles on your disk one by one, Please read the XXX,DOC file, ShareWare , ,,enjoy!
Have Fun!
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LABRYNTH,OBJ In this ga1e 1 which co1es with documentation, you must race a solar-powered cart through a 3-D 1aze and co ll ect diamonds while shooting baddies, !st person perspect1v~ 9a1e 1 collect 10 diamonds to win 1
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TK13BETA If you presently own a Trans~ey IBM keyboard Translator, this file will provide you with so1e bug fixes and NEW features,
Title: Co111puters
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LANGUA&E CASSETTE PADDLE DISKETiE HARDWARE PILOT SOFTWARE RECORDER &AS!t JOYSiJCK GRAPHICS HXT TERMINAL PRINTER BYTE
SPACE SOFTWARE LIBRARY NEWS fanuaryI l':191 Happy New Year and Happy New Decade, It 1s truely the 1990's now, BLANK DISKS tor sale at the 1eet1ng, 10 for
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We are still assemb ling the Disk Of the Montn as the newsletter goes to press, Therefore, the 1nfor1at1on you are about to recieve aay not be 100% accurate, January, 1991 DOH: LabelHaster V!,o
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This 1s a full working version of labelHaster, A shareware progra1, You can register and Black Hoon wil l send you the latest enhanced version plus the Multi-Colu■n Lister Utility and the full docu1entation, Label ■aster prints labels and mailing lists,
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EPRO~ Bur·ne-r·,
2732 EPF:O~, Uib--f!'iOS SP.Ar-!,
Includes the NEW Object code and Docs, GEHSETS GEMSETS co1plete with docu~entation and source cooe, Mac /65, Designed to put any Atari 8b1t font into your &emini, or Epson prrnter·, ACTFLOAT Complete floating point library 1n Action, Provides access to all the built in floating point functions 1n the Atari operating system, Also prov1oes al l the derived functions, DISKC011P DlSKCOMP 1,1 compares two dis ks to see 1f tney at e eY.actly alike, TWO DRIVES ARE REQUIRED! Non-;atch1ng se ctors are reported on-screen, Docs included, TARTRI52 THE 8-b1t Tetris clone, New Features include: Permanent high scores Two-_n layer c.oo.p_er-ati on 110.de. Structure height bonus Lines-to-go display Lines completed display Bonus for clearing board Second playe r Join-In feature and 1ote ! PF:INTSTAR This BASIC progra■ prints out 40 Colu1n XXX,DOC and XXX,TXT files in two or three rows of print, A great paper saver for those big XXX ,DOC files (for Epson type printers) Also available at the January 1eeting will be a disk with a 48K version of TURBOBAS!C that will execute TURBOBAS!t-.._. software on an ATARI 400 or 800, The disk cotes wit h so,e application progra1s,
Another BONUS d1sk will bt DRACONUS, ¬htr gait that escaped fro• Europe. DRACONUS is outstanding with great sound/1us1c and fantastic graphics. Also available at the 1eeting will be the taaous i disks. Classic original SPACE Library software cra11ed on disks tor ONE DOLLAR each. I would like to thank Glen ~irschenmann tor assisting with the library. He is currently excercising his organizational skills on the li brary coo1es and will nave a surprising obJect with ni1 when he appears at the meeting. with tne disappe arance of George &ar1s, we desparateiy need someone to take care ot the ANTIC and ANALOG disks and ;agaz1 nes . The appointed person would only have to mak~ disk coDies and labels to keeo several of each disk in stoc k and keep track ot the disk and paper eedia as to who has 1t checked out and for now iong. If possible, the Antic/Anaiog coordinator could also handle disk sales of those products at the uet10g. It nas oeen a disastrous 1onth for •Y co1put1ng env1ron1ent. For so1e reason, I took my working 5PARTADOS disks to the Decemner ~eeting and lost the•• I am Just now getting oroductive again. In addition, •v MSDOS svstea hard-d isk self-aestructed on the 30th. I soent most of the 31st shopping for a new hard-disk so I could start doing hoaework tor my ' C' class that started on the 3rd. Things are aimost back to normal . See you at the aeeting. BBS CORNER Not much this ionth, I was on vacation and things on the BBS see~ec to be pretty quiet while I was gone.
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Atari TT Cosputer MICHAEL FITZPATRICK Al I Fri 4-jan-91 at 10:18:vtpm
Had the opportunity to talk to Atar i Customer Relations Tocay and I learned so1e 1nterest1ng tacts. 11 any 8-bit hardware returned for warranty repair will have the ite1 replaced fro1a stock of new products. As far as I know it pertains only to the XE-130 and the XF-551• The stocks are dwindling so that 1f anyone wants to take advantage of trading an 810 disk drive and $75 for an XF-551 should be g1v1ng serious consideration to doing so in the near future. Atari aiso plans on keeping the ST line of products going. Asked about the TT co1puttr• Currently it is only available for co11ercial applications; so1ething to do with FCC release cert1ficat1on which is pending, Atari expects to hav1 tht (ttflfl(aflDn to ltll ,~. TT II I
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The follow ing 1s fro• our co-sysop, Larry Serflattn• I have the CLUB 's MPP 1000e 1ode1 and a• ready to return 1t. (He finally bought a 1200 baud 1ode1) 1 won the use of this 1ode1 in a raffle held at an earlier 1eeting. I suggest we again send out this mode• with a 1e1ber who does not yet have a nodea. This information should be put 1n the newsletter , so that the 1e1bers who really need it are aware of its availability. If more than one 1e1ber wants to use 1t 1 we could raffle 1t oft, like when I got it. Fro, the EDITOR: Als o there will be a computer hoo ked up to tne BBS (Fi nally). The answer of using the multi-line phone was so s11ple it's embarassing. l p1ckea up an old 300 Baud acustic modem. I now have only to call the BBS and put the handset 1n the aode1 and the magic will begin ! The sysop has been kind enough to voi unteer to help tho se who wouid like to learn how to use the BBS (Download1ng 1 U~loading, Posting Messages, etc ••• ).
! ! ! ! I ! FOR SALE ! ii ! ! ! Bv the Newsletter Editor
ATARI 1030 HODEM WITH SOFTWARE .•.......•. ..•.• ..•• $21.00 ATARI 1030 MODEM WITH SOFTWARE .•••••••••••••••••• •$21.00 BMC COLOR MONITOR ••...•••...• •.••.••...•.....••. •. $50.00 MONITIOR CABLE• ••••••••••.• •••• .• •••••••••••.•••••• $5.00 ATARI 800 WITH 48K ...•••••••.••••••••••••••••••.•• i25.00 ATARI 810 DISK DRIVE ••••••••••.•• •.••••••.••••••. •s50.oo ATARIWR!TER CART. W /HANUAL .• ••. •• •••.• •. ••••••..•• $10.00 ATARILAB STARTER SET AND ATARlLAB LIGHT MODULE••••'20.00 ATARI WORD PROCESSOR ••••••.••.••••••• ••••••••••••• $10.00 PILOT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ••• ••••••.•••• .•• •.••••• s10.oo iHf. HOME FlliNG MANAGER ................. .......... . $5.(10 PRINTSHOP W/GRAPHICS LIBRARY I AND 2••••••••••••• •s1s.oo AiARI TOUCH TABLET ........................... , .... s20.oo KOALA PAD. 15. 00 SPY vs SPY I, ,,,,, •••••••• •• •••••••.••••• . ••••••• ,$10,VO I
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OFFICERS
DISCLAIMER President : Vice-President Secretary : Disk Librarian Paper Librarian : Ke1bership Chair1an SPACE/NAST Treasurer : SPACE Newsletter Editor
Nathan Block 1 Ken Modeen : Pat Krenn : Joe Danko : Jil Schieb : Glen Kirschenmann Allan Frink : Michael Schaidt :
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---------------------------------Published by the Saint P&ul At1ri Coaputtr Enthusiasts (SPACE), an independent organizat ion with no buslntss affiliation with ATARI Corporation, Peraission is granted to any similar organization with which SPACE exchanges newsletters to reprint 1aterial tro1 this newsletter, We do however ask that credit be given to the authors and to SPACE, Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of SPACE, the club officers, club 1e~bers or ATARI Corporation,
Saint Paul Atari Coaputer Enthusiasts (SPACE) 1eets on the second triday of each 1onth at 7:30 pa in the Falcon Heights Co11unity Center at 2077 West Larpenteur Ave, Doors open at 7:00 pl, Cleveland Ave,
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