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Minutes of Meetings
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June 8, 1998
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President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:11 pm. Attendance: 8 at call to order, 9 later on. He reported that he had acquired a collection of Commodore-specific magazines such as Transactor, Amiga Transactor, Amazing Amiga and many others, which he offered for sale. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the May meeting, reported on the extensive revisions to this web site and then explained about the deadline for submissions to The Monitor Newsletter. Treasurer Phil Moughmer reported that the balance remained unchanged at $203.70. Discussion
Kevin Cook described upcoming events at Harley-Davidson in connection with their 95th Anniversary.
Dale described projected activities for this year's GenCon.
Kevin Lowe provided information on the requirements for tax-exempt status for MACE, both federal and state.
A suggestion was made to add a "classified section" to the web site.
Gary Köhler read some excerpts from the time-line of upcoming events in the unfolding Y2K crisis, plus previews of further software failures in the future. Some of them are very far out into the future. A sidebar of various precautions to take in December 1999 got us to thinking about other things that could fail after the rollover, such as TV's, VCR's, automobile microprocessors and home security systems.The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 pm. |
May 11, 1998
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Vice-President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 7:10 pm.
Attendance: 5 at call to order, 6 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the April meeting. Treasurer Phil Moughmer reported a balance of $203.70. SIG ReportsGame SIG: Scott reported that our machines now have 100Mbit/sec LAN cards in time for this year's GenCon.Discussion
Philip Fritz described numerous messages from Cincinnati of hardware
and software for sale. There was discussion of our holdings.
The Monitor newsletter was discussed.
Phil Moughmer inquired about how to import an image in Macintosh
format.
Scott Brunkow inquired about membership cards.The meeting was adjourned at 8:13 pm. |
April 13, 1998
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President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at
7:12 pm. Attendance: 6 at call to order. Dale described some of the new products announced at the NAB show in Las Vegas. NewTek demonstrated a 24-bit paint program that will be available in May. DPS announced a video editing product called Perception. STFax has been released. Drives continue to get bigger and cheaper. Seagate announced an 18 gigabyte drive called Barracuda. The finishing touches have been put on a new graphics standard called RTG (Re-Targetable Graphics). Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the March meeting. Guest Kevin Lowe, recently of Seattle, described how he found our group, and the web page played a part. Discussion ranged over Amiga and C-64 emulators for the PC. Phil Fritz related some GEOS news, including the impending release of a new version called Wheels. Dale described some of the new removable drives available, including a SparQ drive he recently installed. SIG ReportsGame SIG: Dale described how it took six weeks and much juggling of IDE devices before he got the old 1.6-Gb drive to coexist with the new 4-Gb drive and then the joys of reinstalling Windows 95 and all its applications.Discussion
Gary described the Boycott Microsoft website
(www.vcnet.com/bms/) and read an article from it.
Dale described some of the websites relating to the Titanic
disaster.
Don Bedroske described the problems he has been having with his
hard drive.
Dale gave a brief demonstration of Blitz Bombers.
Kevin Lowe announced that Click-Boom has gone out of business,
according to a message left on their website. The next day changed from
"going out of business" to "that was just a promotion, buy our new game"
(They are still alive and kickin'.)
Kevin Cook turned over information on tax exempt status for
Dale's study.The meeting was adjourned at about 9 pm. |
March 9, 1998
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President Gary Köhler called the meeting to order at
7:10 pm. Attendance: 8 at call to order. Elections were held and the
following candidates were elected by acclamation:
President: Dale Roethig
Vice President: Scott Brunkow
1st Assistant Vice President: Kevin Cook
2nd Assistant Vice President: John Schwarzmeier
Secretary: Gary D. Köhler
Treasurer: Phil Moughmer
Assistant Treasurer: Gary D. Köhler President Dale Roethig then reported about preparations for GenCon this August, and spoke of the need to be certain of tax-exempt status for MACE. He also mentioned a swapfest as a possible means of raising money for the organization. There was further discussion of GenCon, and Dale mentioned that "The Group Formerly Known as MilAtari" would be running their popular MIDI-Maze there. This lead to a brief discussion of "Whatever happened to Atari?" Secretary Gary Köhler briefly described his plans for taking minutes of the meeting and publishing them in The Monitor and on the Web. SIG ReportsGame SIG: Dale reported that the March 14th meeting would be spent preparing for LepreCon 3 on the 21st.Discussion
Dale spoke of the need to "Nuke Windows" occasionally in order to
clear out the "deadwood" that builds up and degrades performance.
Dale described a problem with Scala: the directory routine
uses Chip RAM and can easily run out if the directory is large--such as
a typical font directory. He suggests subdividing the font directory.
Warning (from Dale): Don't use multiple partitions on your
removable media (Zip disks and such), whatever the operating system
might be.
Dennis Drewek suggests waiting to buy or upgrade Wintel PC's for a
few months because of new motherboard designs and peripherals coming out.
Dale described some of the new buses and cards expected out within
months, and reported that Windows 98 will require a 200 MHz
processor and 32 Mb of RAM (64 recommended!).
Amiga International and Amiga Inc. have announced a new
version of AmigaDOS, optimized for 68060, with built-in networking.
Forthcoming PowerPC boards were described.
Gary clarified Apple's withdrawal from
Sears, Best Buy, Circuit City, Computer
City, and Office Max. It seems that Apple was not
satisfied with the manner in which their product was being neglected by
the chains. This, however, did not make it into the newspapers.
A discussion of the importance of hardware and software standards ensued.
Gary described how, despite a track record of support
for OS/2, Hewlett-Packard no longer packs OS/2 drivers with their
printers. Within hours he downloaded the latest driver from IBM's
website, so it was not a complete loss.The meeting was adjourned at about 9 pm. |