Parallax Abstraction

In. Credible! Kudos to you for putting in the work!

Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about discoverability for these various things. I think it would definitely require people with more knowledge than myself to build the system to make all of that neatly indexed and searchable, but I do know a couple of people I could potentially poke about that.

Hey there! Thanks for the support. I feel like this is going to be quite the search, but I'm still hopeful. I've sent out some emails to local people who might know something and the IT company I work for is owned by a guy who has been in the Ottawa industry since the 90s. I've got him asking some colleagues as well. I know this is something that could likely take a long time. I mean heck, if you Google "NCAUG Ottawa", the first link that comes up is this thread. So yeah, needle in a haystack for sure. I'll be honest with you, my web design experience is basically nil. I was likely going to either work with someone on that or just use a platform for it, at least initially. I do believe NCAUG produced a newsletter and I swear I recently saw a single scan on Archive.org, but now I can't find it. That link is fantastic! I'll definitely be perusing that catalog for any potential clues. I've had a couple of ideas for archival projects like this and if this one goes cold, I may look into other ideas as well. I've found that a lot of the things I'd like to archive have already been done somewhere, but maybe there's things I can bring to improve them. We shall see!

Hey everyone! Been a long-time lurker, but finally decided to create an account because I've taken on a personal project I'm hoping some fine folks here might be able to help with. I'm from Ottawa, Canada and grew up here. Back in the 80s and 90s, there was a local organization called the National Capital Atari Users Group. It was primarily focused around the earlier Atari home computers, such as the 400/800XL, 130XE and to a lesser extent, the Atari ST line. Growing up with a 130XE in the house, one of the things I loved about this organization was the monthly disks they put together for members, consisting mostly of community developed games and utilities, many of which were as good or better than anything you could buy off the shelf. These were made for a number of years and I think I had at least a couple dozen of them once. Sadly, these have long since been lost. I've been looking for a retro project to take on and this came to mind. I'm looking to build an online archive of all these monthly disks that will be free to everyone. I have spent many hours researching and cannot find any such archive online, or even images of the disks on Archive.org. I'm wondering if there are any former members of this organization out there who have some or all of these disks, either in imaged or physical form that they'd be willing to give or lend me. For physical disks, I will make 1:1 images of them using 1050 drive with an interface to connect it to PC. I'll then build a web site to host the archive and upload the collection to Archive.org for posterity. Of course, full credit will be given if desired. I have a lot of great memories of my early computing life thanks to the NCAUG and these monthly disks and I'm excited about building this tribute to them for other Atari enthusiasts. If anyone can help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it. Cheers!