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The Monitor Newsletter

Each month MACE publishes The Monitor Newsletter which, in addition to the news of the organization is also filled with articles from other newsletters like ours! (There! The dirty little secret is out. All user group newsletters do this.) Below are a few articles that we have written ourselves.

August 1999 Gen Con '99 Scrapbook
Photos by Dale Roethig,
Text by Gary Köhler


Our first pictorial feature, using photographs taken with Dale's Sony Mavica camera. Bonus pictures added!
May 1999 Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX
by Gary Köhler


Our first book review in ages and ages. A hilarious book, especially for those forced to program in Micro$oft's crappy software universe.
April 1999 State of Illinois Bans Arial Font
by Gary Köhler


Brilliant satire or just another Cheesehead cheap-shot? You decide. Please note the date on the by-line before you go quoting this article as gospel, OK? "Pity poor Wisconsin, so far from God, so close to Illinois!"
March 1999 Getting Your Amiga on the Internet 1999
by Dale Roethig


Originally published in the April 1998 issue, updated with everything you need to know about the hardware, software, and providers in order to bring the Internet to your Amiga.
November 1998 Multiplicity
by Gary Köhler


By purchasing a computer you are under no obligation to use the operating system that came with it. You may run other operating systems, and furthermore you do not have to give up Windows 95/98/NT to do so.
May 1998 Spider's Web, Titanic On-Line
by Dale Roethig


First installment of a feature on interesting web sites.
January 1998 Thanks, But No Thanks
by Gary Köhler


My 1.2 gigabyte hard drive is down to only 67 megabytes free. What gives? Microsoft does it again, plus a recipe for Redmond Roast Pig.

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