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2008 MEETING AGENDAS
For the:
Halifax Computer Club
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Topics:

Club Business
Ian Fleming will show the game Quake 1
Colin will show some Linux software and the program Advanced Batch Converter

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Topics:

Club Business
Katie Learmonth, the President of MUGNS, will demonstrate Mac OS X Leopard
Colin will present Quake 2
Web Site review - 1 year later
Photos of interest.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Topics:

Club business
A Club member will demonstrate the program DOSBox.
Ian Fleming will show the game Pac PC running in DOSBox.
Richard Bonner will discuss the creation process of a DOS Batch File.
Tip of the Month
Photos of interest.

At this point in the Club's history we moved to a new meeting location,
the Sobeys in Clayton Park.


Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Topics:

Club business.
A Club member showed the game Star Trek The Kobayashi Alternative.
A Club member showed a OCZ Rally 2 8GB flash drive.
Andy Cornwall discussed and explain MaGlobe.
Andy Cornwall also showed off the site Archive.org.
Dave Mason will discuss the version of Linux he is using.
Photos of interest.
Q & A.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Topics:

Club business.
A Club member will show the game Danger From The Deep.
Ian Fleming talked about the differences between AVG 7.5 and AVG 8.
Bill Marchant talked about his woes with a scanner and finding Linux drivers.
Photos of interest.
Q & A.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Topics:

Club business.
Ian Fleming will show the game Puzzle Quest.
Bill Marchant will give a demonstration of using an Epson Scanner with SuSE Linux.
Dave Mason will discuss the problems with e-mail when using more than one computer.
Photos of interest.
Q & A.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Topics:

Club business.
A Club member will show the DOS game Das Boot.
Henry Hill will give a demo of using virtual machines on Linux.
Andy Cornwall will show the PureBasic GUI.
Visit here to download a PureBasic game written by Andy Cornwall
Q & A.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Topics:

Club business.
Club chair Richard Bonner will show the changes to DOS chess games, from text to graphics.
Colin will demonstrate 3D game programming using Blitz3D.
Ian Fleming will show the Eee PC from the Royal Bank.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Topics:

Club Business
A Club member will show the game ACiD Tetris
A Club member will show some of the free programs he uses for web work.
Rob MacCara will demostrate the Untangled firewall (This is a PDF file).
Question & Answer

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Topics:
Club Business
Ian Fleming will present the game Sam and Max Hit the Road.
Richard Bonner will show the DOS utility Slow Down
Andy Cornwall and Bill Marchant will give a demonstration of Netmeeting.
A round table discussion on 'free e-mail services' (Gmail, Yahoo mail, etc)
Question & Answer Period

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Topics:

Mark Palmer from Brilliance Computer Technologies will show Tech gifts under $100
HCC Christmas social




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