Piedmont Triad Atari User's Group (PTAUG)

The Piedmont Triad Atari User's Group have been meeting on the last Wednesday of every month
(except July and December) for over ten years. We meet in Greensboro, North Carolina,
USA at the Folk Youth Center.
We really enjoy our Ataris. Anyone is welcome attend our meetings free.
 

Danney Hartman, president
Mail: C/O Keith Fulp, 5980 Baux Mountain Road, Winston Salem, NC 27105, USA
Tel: 1-336-722-9902
Email: d.hartman2@genie.geis.com
Robert Barnett, newletter editor
Tel: 1-336-869-6341
Email: RAtari@aol.com or r.barnett22@genie.geis.com


Toronto Atari Federation

Our December meeting saw a demonstration of E-Magic Logic 2.5 by our membership clerk Martin Neuland.
With such a full-featured program as Logic is it could well take literally days to demonstrate its many capabilities, however, Martin happens to be a music teacher in the Ontario school system, and gave a very comprehensive and easy-to-follow demo concentrating on its scoring abilities, as well as playing back a number of contemporary and classical MIDI files.

Our January meeting rang in the new year with a very important topic - getting on the Internet! We were very lucky to have Quebec native and Atari enthusiast, Martin-Eric Racine, come all the way from Montreal to put on what many of our members said was the best presentation TAF has hosted in a long time. Martin-Eric is a beta-tester for Alexander Clauss's CAB as well as a number of other STiK/STiNG related internet clients, and put on a very well-presented talk (despite our inability to get a phone feed in the Rose Room).

Compared to that triumph, February's meeting turned out to be a real comedy of errors. Slated as a demonstration of the hottest Falcon and ST games, it got off to a late start when we couldn't find the cable for the graphics tablet (I had helped out another club, the Personal Computer Club of Toronto, the previous night when the cable to their graphics projector turned out to be incompatible with their guest speaker's laptop) - it turned out to have been placed in a not-so-apparent zippered part of the case. And then the featured program of the night, the demo of RUNNING, refused to run on the club's Falcon. However, the big hit turned out to be Starball, the incredible pinball game - our club librarian reported a run on that particular game during the break.

We have many events planned for the next few months including a look at building SCSI-based hard drives, a demonstration of Cubase Audio 16 (April 15th) running on a Falcon performing integrated hard disk recording and sequencing, presented by Club Cubase and a presentation by Michael Burkley of Suzy B's Software (May 20th) - the US' most popular Atari PD/Shareware house, who's sure to have some entertaining tales to tell...

Toronto Atari Federation meetings are held on the Third Wednesday of the Month in the North York Memorial Community Hall on the Lower (or Concourse) Level of the North York City Centre Library at 5110 Yonge Street at Parkhome Avenue. Via public transport take the TTC's Yonge-University-Spadina line to North York Centre Station. Meetings start at 7.30 pm, $2.00 to non-members. Membership costs $35 CDN a year which includes a subscription to the club newsletter Phoenix and full use of the TAF on-line BBS. TAF membership IS Atari support!


 

Contact: Dan Dreibelbis, TAF Vice President
Email: dreibel@idirect.com
Tel: 416-766-4743
TAF Online! BBS: 416-421-8999
TAF home page: http://www.interlog.com/~schrist/taf/
TAF PHOENIX page: http://www.outer-net.com/~redfrog/phoenix.htm


Cheshunt Computer Club

This was a meeting of two halves - and we're not talking football. March meeting saw the successful connection of a Falcon to the World Wide Web and the AGM.

Web browsing via a modem-enabled cell phone isn't the most cost-effective or speediest way to browse the net but it did remove the furrows from the foreheads of doubters!

Peter West's Falcon and Steve's MegaSTe, sporting a MegaVision300 graphics card to accompany his already extremely well specified machine, took us up to half time dispensing hints and tips and demonstrating various utilities.

Following the refreshment interval the meeting was called to order and the AGM commenced, there were no major surprises, and the committee was re-elected as it stood. I announced the Cheshunt Computer Club WWW site is now on-line and contains meeting details for the rest of the year along with some useful software.
 

Derryck Croker
BBS Netmail: 90:102/108@nest.ftn
Email: derryck@cix.co.uk
URL: http://www.cix.co.uk/~derryck/
Tel: +44 (0)1923 673719 (answerphone)


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Mail: Atari Computing (User Groups), "Rois Bheinn", Overton Crescent, Johnstone, PA5 8JB, Scotland

Email: usergroups@ataricomputing.com
Netmail: 90:100/315.0@nest.ftn
 
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