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- W E L C O M E
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- F R O M
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- A M U C
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- WE ARE ... The AMiga Users of Calgary, the Amiga support group
- in Calgary. The 2400x200 pixel 32 colour IFF picture contains
- the likenesses of some great people, and some famed Amiga GURUs.
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- The Truth Behind the Picture
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- It was conceived in the mind of Stephen Vermeulen, who while hacking
- on a superbitmap window one day said "Wouldn't it be nice if this
- scrolling was faster and smoother?". To which Gonzo Gunn (Ian) said
- "Yes, the flickering scroll sucks!". So... after many hours, and
- much meditation in the key of C, the program "Display" (now dubbed
- ScrollBoard Express) was born.
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- One day a second Steve entered the story, Iconosist Extrordinaire
- Stephen Jeans, when the first Steve realizing that the scrolling
- program could make shockwaves at the local (Mac + PC dominated)
- computer show gave him a ring.
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- "Steve," said the first, "wouldn't it be nice if [..pause..] you could
- put togeather a very wide Calgary Skyline for the computer show?".
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- Said the second Steve: "How big?".
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- Replied the first "Oh about 3000 pixels wide by 200 high.".
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- "On a 512K Ami? You've been drinking too much tea!".
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- There followed many-a-late and long hour wherein the Second (with
- borrowed 2Meg card, the 512K machine having met its match) Steve
- spliced, cropped, massaged, retouched (the Wayner), and coloured
- the faces of about 1/3 of AMUC's membership, not having forgotten
- to do the orginal Skyline as well.
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- By the way the scrolling demo does run on 512K Amigas (the Ultimate
- Machine says the 2nd Steve), but you will probably have to close down
- everything to do this...
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- The amount of interest this scrolling demo created was amazing! The
- scolling demo was run on 6 Amigas in a row simultaneously, with the
- programs timed such that as a particular face scrolled off one screen
- it was appearing on the next screen to the left. There were many who
- upon visiting the booth who were so taken in that they bought the
- answer:
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- "Yes, we have a SUN 260 acting as a file server under the
- table, and the Amigas are networked to it via Ethernet... :-)"
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- Because of this interest it was decided that we should release the
- demo into the Public Domain for the enlightenment of all Amigoid
- (and non-Amigoid) lifeforms around the world... So here it is,
- courtesy of:
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- Stephen Vermeulen Stephen Jeans
- and PAR Software Inc. 4720 Chapel Road N.W.,
- CANADA and USA Calgary, Alberta, CDN
- (403) 282-7990 T2L 1A6
- (206) 694-1539 (403) 284-3630
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- By the way, if you want to edit the picture you will have to get
- a copy of Express Paint (available from PAR Software Inc.) as
- it is the only Paint program to go beyond 1008 pixels wide (up
- to 8192 pixels with current CHIP ram limitations). It also
- supports editing in Extra Half Brite mode (unlike the rest) so
- you can have 64 colour pictures too...
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- AMUC is the Calgary area Amiga users group to which Stephen
- Vermeulen is the Chairman and Stephen Jeans is the Newsletter
- Editor, Art SIG Chairman and Whiping Boy... The following is
- general information on AMUC.
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- Membership in this club costs $25.00, $50.00 for those who wish the
- Newsletter mailed to them, and $60.00 for over-seas memberships.
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- The club has a monthly newsletter, included in the membership fee,
- which is published on disk as a support resource.
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- If you are not yet a member of AMUC and would like to join or
- attend a meeting ask the staff at the Computer Shop, Hindson
- Computing, or the Soft Options store, or write the following address:
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- AMUC
- BOX 4365
- Station C
- Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
- T2T 5N2
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- The general meeting is held on the third Wednesday of each month at
- the University of Calgary's Engineering Bldg., Room A103 at 7:30 PM.
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- For time and meeting places of the specialty SIGs read the sig
- reports in the newsletter.
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- AMUC is run by an elected (press ganged) executive committee
- composed of the following:
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- Stephen Vermeulen - Chairman, 282-7990
- Ian Gunn - Vice-Chairman, 228-1464
- Alan Davies - Treasurer, 243-5693
- Brett Wuth - Secretary, 282-1346
- Ed Wilts - MAL (Member At Large) & Chairman of Music Sig, 285-8695
- Russ Forster - MAL & Club Disk Librarian, 243-1198
- Hazel Clarke - MAL & author of CLInic, 283-0786
- Lenny Post - MAL & perpetrator of LENWARE, 282-8384
- Bob Stratton - MAL & Newsletter Editor, 238-2439
- Stephen Jeans - Newsletter Editor & MAT (Man About Town), 284-3630
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- The Club's BBS is up and running for all members. The number to call is
- the Fly By Wire BBS at 403-247-1728. The Amuc board is operated "behind" the
- normal BBS and if you wish access to it you must first have your status on
- the board upgraded to that of an AMUC member.This is done by simply sending a
- message to the sysop requesting the upgrade.This board supports 300/1200/2400
- baud and the BBS program running on it is very fast. Have fun on it! (Mucho
- thanks go out to Bill Nelson for letting us use his board!)
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