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Purpose
The National Home & School Macintosh User Group, also known as the GAMER Project, is a nonprofit corporation and Apple® registered user group with international membership. The group promotes the entertainment and educational qualities of the Macintosh® by offering support for game enthusiasts, educators, parents introducing their kids to computers, and shareware authors seeking convenient distribution of their software worldwide. The bimonthly disk-based magazine, Home & School Mac™, published by group, fills a niche that the corporate oriented magazines neglect.
A focus on the "Home Mac" includes reviewing and exploring entertainment software whether it be game software proper or preschool software to amuse and teach the kids. The "Home Mac" involves exploring utilities to enhance non-computer hobbies, such as software for organizing one's album/CD, book, coin, stamp, videotape, and other collections. There are hundreds of shareware and commercial programs available for the Mac which can turn one's Mac into everything from a "home planetarium" to a "pinball machine" and these types of programs are not neglected.
A focus on the "School Mac" includes reviewing and exploring educational software for all subjects and all ages, whether it be the fundamentals of reading, grade school or high school math, college physics, or references on things as diverse as art masterpieces, beer breweries, and orchestral instruments. Also, teaching aids for educators and learning aids for students are given coverage.
Representatives of the National Home & School MUG can be contacted in several countries on the following information services and networks: America Online™, CompuServe™, Connect™, Fidonet™, GEnie™, and Usenet.
Benefits
Members of the National Home & School MUG are mailed 6 issues of the organization's bimonthly publication, Home & School Mac, which features articles, reviews, and interviews covering Macintosh entertainment and educational/children's issues, information not readily found anywhere else. Each issue contains 100 - 150 pages of material. Along with each issue of this disk-based magazine is included 1200k of the best shareware game and educational software which has been released during the previous two months. Finally, members may call the GAMER Project BBS (which features an easy to use Macintosh interface) to access the largest known collection of Mac entertainment and educational shareware, as well as to participate in message bases created for discussion of Mac entertainment & educational topics. Several shareware authors also provide support for their programs on the GAMER Project BBS.
Applying For Membership
Annual membership dues for the National Home & School MUG are: US/Canada/Mexico $15, All Other Countries $21. Dues for shareware authors are discounted 50% off the full membership rate. US applicants may send personal checks or money orders made out to the National Home & School MUG. Applicants outside the US must send an international postal money order in US$ or a check drawn on a US bank in US$.
Name _____________________ I am/am not interested in having an
account on the GAMER Project
Address _____________________ BBS (in the USA, New Orleans LA).
Enclose $3.00 extra if you want the
_____________________ special terminal software mailed to you.
Enclosed is: $15 for US/Mexico/Canada, $21 All Other Countries.
(less discount listed on bottom of front page - not to exceed $3.00)
*US applicants may send personal checks or money orders made out to the National Home & School MUG. Applicants outside the US must send an international postal money order in US$ or a check drawn on a US bank in US$.
National Home & School MUG
Post Office Box 640641
Kenner, LA 70064 USA
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*Survey* (A guide for the selection of the software included on the disk)
Game Preference (Check All That Apply)
_____ Adventure _____ Children's Other __________
_____ Arcade _____ Puzzle Other __________
_____ Board _____ Game Aides Other __________
_____ Card _____ Wargame Other __________
Educational Preference (Check All That Apply)
_____ Pre-School _____ Biology _____ Languages
_____ Primary _____ Chemistry _____ Math
_____ Secondary _____ Electronics _____ Physics
_____ High School _____ Health _____ Reading
_____ College _____ History Other __________
Hobby/Collecting Support Preference
_____ Albums/CDs _____ Coins/Stamps Other __________
_____ Astronomy _____ Ham Radio Other __________
_____ Books _____ Television/Video Other __________
