NEWSLETTER FILENAMES:

The newsletter filenames contain the date in YYMM format. This results in a chronological file list.


NEUC NEWSLETTERS:

The newsletters published from 1984-1987 were done by the National Eamon User's Club. Unfortunately, the original NEUC disk files have been lost. Given that these 12 newsletters comprise 145 pages of sometimes dense and often complex text, the only viable way to preserve them was to scan them in as images.

You will perceive the image quality as poor. What you have here are scans of 15-year-old photocopies of 9-pin dot-matrix text that was often printed with a less-than-fresh ribbon. The photocopies were done on a small personal copier at a time when even the best professional copiers had a lot of trouble reproducing clean dot-matrix copy. The original newsletter pages are not a great deal more readable than these copies. Such was the technology of the time.

Many of the images appear skewed. This is not so much because of careless scanning (though there are surely a few such examples) but because the originals were cut-and-paste jobs, and the pasted elements were not always aligned well. Possibly some of the skew resulted from sloppy paper feeds on the original copy job.

The scanned images are saved here as JPEG files. You will need a JPG reader that can scale the image to a readable size. Windows 98 has an "Imaging" program in the Accessories folder of the Start menus. Another excellent program is JASC's Paint Shop Pro, shareware and widely available from online sources.


EAG NEWSLETTERS:

The newsletters published from 1988-present were done by the Eamon Adventurer's Guild, which assumed the NEUC's membership obligations after the NEUC folded in early 1988. The entire EAG newsletter set is presented here in TXT or RTF file format.

All of the EAG newsletters published before 1997 were printed on an Apple II system, and are presented here as TXT files. Starting with the June 1997 issue, the EAG newsletter was composed no an Apple II, then transferred to a PC and laid out in Word before being printed on a modern inkjet printer. These later issues are presented here in RTF format.


COPYRIGHT NOTICE:

All of the NEUC newsletters originally stated that no part may be reproduced without permission. All of the EAG newsletters state that any part of the newsletter may be copied without permission if source credit is given to the EAG. These notices have been deleted from the newsletters contained on this CD.

These copyright restrictions are wholly lifted and the newsletters are hereby released into the public domain. You may reproduce any part of any newsletter on this CD without permission or restriction.

Tom Zuchowski, editor
Eamon Adventurer's Guild newsletter


NAMES AND ADDRESSES:

The original newsletters contained a lot of names and addresses of members and vendors. These have been deleted to protect the privacy of the members, and because the vendor information is hopelessly outdated and useless.