Monthly Archives: July 2013

Computers, Oldest and Not so Old

I was thinking back to when I first got my Apple //c.  I had the whole system set up on a card table in the corner of my one bedroom apartment.  At that time I had an Apple //c, a

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Eamon, The Caves of Mondamen

Now that I finished the Beginners Cave to my satisfaction, I am returning to The Caves of Mondamen.  It is a little more challenging, but much more readable than the Beginners Cave. The ability of the software to display lower

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Eamon, The Beginners Cave, Revisited.

It was bugging me that I didn’t do better in the Beginners Cave, so I created another character and went back.  This time I did better and it was worth it.  I got some more loot and had a good

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Eamon, Beginners Cave and More

I tried the Beginners Cave again and on the fourth time through, I survived.  I didn’t get all the possible loot, but with a little help from my friends I made it. I may come back another time and try

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Eamon, Beginner’s Cave, ZBasic

I kept playing with the Beginner’s Cave today.  There’s quite a bit of action packed into this small adventure.  By small, I mean there are only 26 locations or rooms. As I said yesterday, I felt like I was doing

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Eamon

I started at the beginning last night and downloaded the two main hall disks.  I made then both bootable by deleting the player manual and copying prodos and basic.system to them.  I used the Graphics Main Hall for a quick

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Eamon & The Last(?) of the Current PC Stuff

I downloaded the ProDos versions of Eamon in order to play them.  Eamon is a text adventure gaming system written in AppleSoft and designed so others may create text adventures.  Donald Brown wrote the original system and a small adventure

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Z-Machine Interpreter?

The file I thought was a Z-Machine Interpreter turned out to be a program to make it possible to move Infocom games onto a Prodos disk.  I’ve moved on to the interactive fiction archive, which is where I found this file.

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Playing Games & PC stuff

I’ve always wanted to write a text adventure and have thought about writing one for an older machine. It’s alway been a toss up between the Apple II and the PDP 11/70 I first worked on.  Each has some advantages

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Hamurabi, Pascal

I spent some time working on the Pascal version of Hamurabi today.  I typed in the pseudo code and quickly converted it to a Pascal shell for Hamurabi. The thing I liked about Pascal is how easy it is to

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