CCP/M Meeting Notes Jan 12, 1993 ************************************************************ BY THE WAY, IF YOU SEE YOUR NAME ON THIS LIST, AND YOU FIND YOUR DUES OVERDUE, PLEASE SEND TREASURER TOM MANNION $15 TO RENEW! TOM'S ADDRESS IS: TOM MANNION, TREAS., PO BOX 102, WINSTED, CT 06098. ************************************************************ Members in attendance: # Name: Renewal Status 092 Bob Bates 09/93 Present 140 J. Berg-Johnsen 06/93 Not Present 061 Chip Bradley 12/93 Harvard 001 Lee Bradley 01/93 Present 122 Raymond Brown 11/92 Lost Wages, Nevada 137 Mike-Michele Dalene 01/93 Present 101 Steve Dresser 12/92 Present 119 Rodney Drymon 11/93 Not Present 125 Randy Edgett 02/93 Not Present 017 Reno Franconi 09/92 Not Present 030 Howard Goldstein 11/92 Not Present 072 Stephen Griswold 12/93 Present at Pizza meeting 021 Alan Hathway (Pres) 09/93 Present 121 Alfred E. Hawley 05/93 Los Angeles 100 Stuart Holden 12/92 Not Present 131 Sigurd Kimpel 01/93 Not Present 139 Collie Lowe 04/93 Los Angeles 099 Tom Mannion (Treasurer) 04/93 Present 138 Dana Peterson 03/93 Not Present 134 Joe Pollard 02/93 Not Present 114 Fredrick Pratt 12/93 Not Present 129 Jay Sage 12/92 Newton Centre 085 Gary J. Stagliano (Sec) 11/92 Present 123 Diane Thome 11/92 Not Present 136 Kirk Thompson 01/93 Iowa 003 Thomas Veile (News) 09/92 Not Present 112 Carolyn Wyman 10/92 Not Present Alan Church Visitor The weather was between storms and the road conditions were clear. PBBS is back running on the Xerox with a replacement hard drive and 2400 baud. Hurray!. 203-665-1100 24 hours. How do you pronounce "GIF?" With a hard "G" or a soft "G?" Compuserve recommends soft "G", like a "J." But since it stands for Graphic Interchange Format, shouldn't it be pronounced with a hard "G" as in Graphic? Sec. Report: Accepted as read. Treas. Report: Fair, holding our own at $641.83 not including two mailings. Sold an H88 for $10.00 to M. Delaney. Old Business: Steve Goldsmith has just released some more CP/M software for the C128. The programs are written in Turbo Pascal 3.0. (BLUE.LBR, BLUEINTR.LBR and ZBKIT20.ARC). They are available on the Mouse House in the Pascal section. BLUE is an arcade game with 640x200 resolution and 16 colors. It features digitized sound and joystick support. BLUEINTR.LBR is the same game for owners of the 64K VDC. It supports 640x400 16 color graphics (that's VGA standard, folks) and is fun to play! ZBKIT records, plays and converts 1, 4 and 8 bit digital sound files. Hardware limitations of the Commodore SID (Sound Interface Device) limit play to 4 bit sound. Four bit sound is a good compromise for CP/M with its 64K memory limit. These programs are a first for CP/M. It just shows you that CP/M can do most of what MSDOS can do, including sound and graphics. New Business: MYZ80 version 1.04 has been released to registered owners. All persons with 286 or higher machines can run real CP/M and for the first time CP/M Plus on their IBM equipment. This program is a must for all MS-DOS users! Spread the word. MYZ80 gives a 62K TPA running CP/M Plus. This leaves plenty of room for application space and, yes, even Z-System! Most of the meeting was spent giving visitor Alan Church ideas on how to form a computer group. Alan is a member of a new computer group in Farmington Woods. It was an interesting discussion, hopefully for Alan and definitely for us. Having a good newsletter, an active bulletin board and a unique theme were among the key recommendatons. Alan was sent a copy of our Bylaws and a 3 1/2" "stiffy" with Z80MU5 and FLIFE12. His group has mostly MSDOS users and is less technically inclined than ours. Alan uses Prodigy a lot and indicated he might be able to give us a demo at some future meeting. Gary Stagliano