The Voice of the ACUG December 20Q5ce Issue F
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Ship's data L Date of preparation 2. Ship name 3. Class H' 4. Tech level 5. Laid tlovn 6. First flight S t at i s t i r s Basic ship information for classification and registration purposes. 7. Ship type 8. Tonnage 9. Configuration 10 Jamp 11. Acceleratioi 12. Pover plant 13a, Computer model 13b Optic backup 14. Crev 0 [ ] Yes [ ] No 3 * $ Weaponry Data on ship armaments and defenses for classification into universal ship profile. is 15. Hull strength 16. Sand 17. Meson scree* i 18 Nuclear dampers 19. Force field 20. Repvlsors 21 lasers 22. Energy veepons 23. Particle veapons S i a. -------- 24 Me mu qun 25a. Missiles 25b. Magazine Miscellaneous information concerning Additional data ship equipment. 26 Fighters 9wdi 27 Ship's vehicles ■aK 0 r a 5 28 Ship's troops 0 *+ft 9 1 29a Fuel tankage 29b. Maximum jumps 29c. Unrefined duel? s m3 h < [ J l f e s Q u o 2 « a 30 Intended ship's purpose Form 3 Ship's data The Voice of the A.C.U.G. December 20Q5ce Issue f - 1 Officers of the A.C.U.G. (We didn't ran fast enough) Chancellor. {Sensed David O J L Mohr Treasurer: Scott Farley <BBS J16> Commodore Librarian: imperial Warlord <BBS I2> Amiga librarian: Mark Reed <BBS/4> jf EditorOSysOp: Lord Ronm from Q-Link <BBS /!> Deputies: /30 (Librarian, file testing) f i (Secretary, general girl Friday) /23{BBSgames,general)/l6{EmuIation) /2I {NTSC fixes and Hacks) The A.C.U.G. Originally formed in I978ce, as a Pet Club. The current membership is composed of a new group of users. Renamed m I994ce from "Astoria Commodore Users Group" to the more inclusive name of Amiga K Commodore Users Group. Our objectives are to preserve the material, hardware, sorfware and hidcopy, for our chosen P.C platforms. But not as dusty museum pieces. As actual functioning items regularly used as either the prune computer system or major back up. To this end, we collect as much for the systems as possible. As we attempt to learn about the aspects of the systems m a mutual leammg environment There are over 3,500 files on our BBS, an ever growing collection of books, magazines, hardware and of course disks. That we collect one by one or in bulk. We freely admit to "beginner” status in all aspects of the use of our platforms. Membership is open to all, interested m the Commodore 8 bit P.C's as well as the Amiga Line. Emulator users are also welcome as members. Cost is $18 USD per year. This gives a membership card, certificate of membership { G , Amiga or both) The monthly 16 page newsletter. Known as "The Village Green". Several hours a day on the BBS {Second largest amount of time) N o credit cost for BBS files. Access to the hardcopy library of books, magazines and manuals. In addition, access to an Amiga and Commodore set up in the shop. A 201 discount on all G a Amiga items, purchased in the shop. The "Penny Farthing" is a G monthly disk. Mostly in 1541 format 64/128 files each month, differing accordmg to grot$ interests. This is an extra 75 cents each month. Amiga disks are handled by request {WB differences) at $1.00 each. Next Meeting & Contact Info Meeting will be on l5/Dec/2005ce. 14/Kiskv/5766 In Mohr Realities Games, 623 29th St Astoria Ore. Visitors, Smokes and demos welcome. Snail Maib A .C U .G /4 4 7 623 29th S t Astoria Oregon 97103 Voice 503-325-1896 BBS: 503-325-2905 300-28^ C G 40/80 Ascii 40/80 Ansi accepted kiet: brdronm@videocaianetau [email protected] [email protected] ilberonnSqwestnet The Voice of the A .C .U .G . December 20Q5ce Issue f - 7 M .A .C U .G . Marty mentions us m regards to the Kansas City group. LR added at that time that he Notes from t the Post Script Printer and is asking for more help m Q Q t W Q on the lists. Addmg that Lenard had sent him some e-mail while he was sick. Which he recently looked at, and discovered that the msg file attached was not □Open: 7KX)pm m ascn or any format that he could read. □Newsletter. Approved [bloody cowards! After a bit of discourse on the exchanges that they are considering dropping. Marty suggests that the □Chancellor: Started off by noting that our groups should share their mail lists. A t that black furry sgt at arms, A500 is still m the moment, Sensei put the idea to the group for a vote shopAII members promised to do what can be, Agrees 100J of attendees to share out list of to prevent her being stolen agam. exchanges with users groups to M . A C U .G LR was drafted to write a letter and indude the groups 141 on The Village BBS, handle RamswelL to which we exchange Turns out to be the man that bought 8Bit Designs. A t the moment he is sorting things Looking over the list of groups that Marty is out, and does not have the new website. LR considering dropping. LR mentioned that the will run an ad for him m the newsletter. When C UC KC send to us. Houston has not sent anything he has a listing of items. A t the moment, he m over a year. We were told by a mutual member mentions a Protovision Heavy Duty Power that they are suffering from an ill editor. We Supply, and a couple of FD-4000 mechs. Plus haven't heard anything more United Commodore, he thinks that he has the terminated SCSI cable who put out th e G Digest Qosed at the end of last for LR and the Zip Drive project year. A few of the last issues were done by ARC Bruce Thomas in Canada. #21, [Had Maxi has sent a couple of quick e-mali Still in Idiio, and has a camper ng Going over The Village Green. Mention was made now. Doing some sort of work at the moment that IX forgot to include the fact that A 3 [Atorl Obviously not enough to let him afford all the was a QGuide on the original Q-Lmk. He is now the things he would like and/or need. Looking head QGuide on the bom agam Q Lm k. What was forward to see his return to the great wet north found interesting is that a letter to Rarewell [ f 411 west IBG1 was sent on Friday to his home m Southern Calif. He recaved it the following Wednesday. While the He is receiving his Penny Farthings via newsletters where sent off on Satirday. Ator e-mal. Zipped .D64 style. The Mad One has received his on Monday m Arizona. Interesting post asked for some intro screens, text, music and office deliveries. covox work to make the intros for the packed disks of Operation Lost C at LR sent a msg Talking about the cover of the November issue back about waiting till they are proof read Mention was made that the font used by LR for the more and spell checked. A s he did to a degree data <Which is an actually character he created) on the Red Cat stories with /30. Still no word Looks remarkable dose to the font used to make the' on the loan of the controller for the Zip Drive GeoPamt page. /30 was asked what font he used work. Things with him are not on the ful for the form. University was the closest one he upswing at this time. We are sorry to report found to match the original forms. LR used Times Roman from the Laser Lovers disk to enter the A t the time of the meeting there was only one character data. exchange in our hands. The R EA D Y from The Voice of the A.C.U.G. December 20Q5ce Issue f - 7 LR discussed how /I3 had sent him the Wasn't the space. Imperial Warlord and LR decided article on the BBS in e-maiL He had to take the that fonts were more important than an intro screen. mail file from the subpartition to the SCPU. A short text screen is the first on the disk. There m Geos/Wheels, he used Wrong is Write Explaining about the disk and where the GeoPaint 81 to convert the text to GeoWrite Z L He told file is located. about hoe it looked on the screen, being it two 40 columns. He reformatted the page, and Side one has of course that GeoPaint file. There changed the font to VillagePlain. Then it was is the intro screen. A t the demo of the disk. The make the paragraphs again. Separate words and point of the image bang too large for the screen fix some of the typing. As #13 has a freaky was mentioned. A question about using some of the keyboard, with keys that sometimes work. tools in Geos to make the image smaller, and if that Then splice Imes together. A task that he has could be done for a future disk. The Load Star done several times in the past from Inet EmaiL Reader is on this side, for those that wish to us it However, the page looked good on the screen. for the SEG reader. This can be done from the text Looked fine m the GeoPub editor.