User Group News


Coventry Atari User Group

The CAUG was formed last year, at a meeting organised by Keith Dunn. Everyone introduced themselves and spoke about their Atari set-up and computing interests, while Harry Sideras, who travelled from Birmingham, offered his guidance to get the group up and running.
One of the founder members is Antony Lacey, the Sysop of the All At Sea BBS (01203-601448), wasted no time and soon had a CORK message area, floating around on his board (CORK seemed more appropriate than CAUG). Antony kindly hosted our second meeting, giving us an insight into how a Bulletin Board is run.
CAUG has now found a permanent venue at the Radford Community Centre, Jubilee Crescent, Coventry, where we have received a lot of encouragement and support from Ian McLean, the Centre's manager. Meetings are held between 9.00am - 12 noon, on the second Saturday of each month and anyone within travelling distance is warmly invited to join us. We are keen to help anyone taking their first steps and keen to learn from anyone willing to share their computing experience. Nick Ripley edits and publishes an excellent Newsletter while Keith Dunn devotes his efforts towards assembling a Disk Library. Keith Bateman is setting up a magazine library so if anyone has any magazines to donate please get in touch. For more information contact:

Coventry Atari User Group
Gordon Stott
6 Chesholme Road
Coventry
CV6 4FQ

Tel: +44(0)1203 689625
Email: gstott@a11atsea.demon.co.uk


South Manchester Atari Group - maybe!

Simon Osborne says:
  • Do you live near Manchester Airport?
  • Do you want to meet fellow Atari users?
  • Do you want to have a good time every month?
  • Do you want to swap ideas and knowledge with people?
then SMAG could be for you...

SMAG can't exist without members and membership is free. I know there are a lot of Atarians in the Manchester area so it makes sense to open a user group. If you're interested please contact:

Simon Osborne
11 Tillhey Road
Manchester
M22 0DA

Tel: +44 (0)161 718 9685
NeST: 90:102/146@nest.ftn


NAG Meeting #2

Report by Dave Hollis
Despite a lower turnout this time it was as much, if not more fun, than the last meet. Most people attended on Saturday although some turned up Friday. Steve, Gordon Storey, Richard Clark and I had already set up our machines and Pete Augustin hooked up his EZ135 drive to my spare STE. In the lounge there were two Jaguars linked up for people to play Doom on the Deathmatch mode - which proved ideal for the competitions held later in the meet.
Gordon was demonstrating Pagestream and working on our NAG logo - which looked real nice on screen and gave us a glimpse why this DTP package continues to attract loyal support from its users.
An early test issue of ST+ sporting a new shell attracted some useful comments and the new shell will be pressed into action from ST+ issue 19 onwards.
The rest of Friday saw activities ranging from the first ever Deathmatch SUBSTATION - thanks to Pete's MIDI cables and some assembly coding by Steve.
Chris Holland and Richard Spowart arrived Saturday and we soon had Chris's Falcon set up showing off Running, the shareware game under development by New Beat Development. We had to declare the Doom competition a draw between Steve and myself otherwise we'd still be playing now!
All in all a great weekend of computery goings-on, hopefully we'll see YOU at the next one!
Northants Atari Group
Dave Hollis
43 Spenfield Court
Lings
Northampton
NN3 8LZ

Tel: +44 (0)1604 416951




This page isn't solely for UK based groups so if you have a user group and you want a mention then send us a report along with your logo to:

Atari Computing
"Rois Bheinn"
Overton Crescent
JOHNSTONE
PA5 8JB
Scotland

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usergroups@ataricomputing.com



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