November CFCS Meeting.
 Solgames USA
Home Networking and Gaming in Orlando
If you weren’t at the November meeting, you missed a chance
to hear a really fine presentation by Joseph Boy of Solgames
USA. According to Joseph’s opening statement, he “isn’t
much of a motivational speaker”, but in performance he
had us caught up in what he is doing as a business and as a community
service.
Many of us in The Society are far from being “gamers” as far as
PC usage is concerned, but Joseph’s use of games for young people is
a wonderful hook to get them to learn to use and understand computers.
 As parents, grandparents and in some cases, great grandparents,
we are interested both in the youth of our community
and of course the use of computers. By placing
games in a competitive area and assuring that all gamers that play can not
use drugs, alcohol and promise to clean up after themselves while providing
registration and ID elements, Solgames puts the system in proper order and
control.
Wherever games are set up, and that ranges widely from Joseph’s house
to large motels, gamers have to swipe their ID cards in order to play and compete.
Each competition is properly supervised and involves PCs not Xboxes and other
game packs.
 Joseph’s explanations were clear and detailed about how the competitions
are arranged and networks set up. At that point, after involving Society members
in a short networked game competition, he explained the basics for networks,
and network setup.
Clearly he was very knowledgeable on the types of networks and the software
involved. He fielded questions from the membership concerning Windows, 98,
ME, 2000, XP and XP Pro networking and did so in a manner that everyone understood
the answers.
His close out Q&A session was really outstanding and solved a few problems
that members were having with their networking systems. I’m sure that
many of us went home and contacted the younger members of our family to let
them know of Solgames and all that they are involved in.
A really outstanding presentation and our sincerest thanks to Joseph Boy!
Author: Ken Larrabee
Date: 11/16/2003
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