Monthly Archives: July 2013

Games

If you go to the Asimov website and look for games to play on your Apple II you will find hundreds of games.  They are separated by type to make finding one easier.  Most likely if you have an old

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Crash 2 & 3

Have you ever had one of those weeks?  My computers are dying all over the place.  The CPU fan on my laptop died two days ago.  My wife’s laptop stopped functioning on the internet yesterday.  It will access the internet

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Apple II Introductory Disks

I downloaded and tried out “Apple presents: The Apple IIe” and “Apple presents:  The //c, an introduction”.  These disks contain a very basic introduction to the Apple II complete with graphical keyboard examples. I also tried out “Apple presents:  The

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More Suggested Disks

I had another idea for disks for your Apple II.  If you have an Apple IIe, //c, or //c+, you can get images for the introductory software that Apple supplied with these Apple II’s.  These images are Masters, Model Specific. 

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New User Kit, Part 3

I spent quite a bit of time looking for and working with .shk files today.  In the process, I made some notes and added a page to my New User Kit.  I called it Extracting .shk Disk Images on Windows.

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Crash!

Last night the laptop I use to do this blog crashed.  It turns out the fan on my laptop needs to be replaced.  I kind of expected it.  My other laptop had the same thing happen to it.  They are

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New User Kit, Part 2

Yesterday, I suggested a New User Kit.  I’d like to clarify what I meant.  The name is a complete misnomer, because first off it wouldn’t really be a kit, and secondly, it wouldn’t be just for New Users. I was

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New User Kit

The other day when I was rebuilding my working disk, I had trouble finding original disks to do it with. Yesterday, I had some time, so I set up one of my Macs to try out the printer.  Turns out I

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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding, Feeding and Planting

Continuing with this project I worked on planting and feeding:     I found a some changes. Under Handle Land Sales, if you try to sell a negative amount of land, complain you messed up and end. Under Handle Land Sales, if

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Simple Startup, Problem and Fix

I turned on my Apple //c with my work disk in it.  When it booted up and the startup menu appeared, I accidently typed in 4 instead of 3 to start AppleWorks 3.0.  AppleSoft came back with: ?BAD SUBSCRIPT ERROR

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