Monthly Archives: August 2013

Mapper

I made good progress on Mapper today. I finished the add room routine and got a start on the edit room subroutine.  In fact because of sharing subroutines, I just need to clean the edit subroutine up. After that I

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Mapper

— Mapper — I did a little work on Mapper today. Mostly cosmetic, I changed the title page and changed the positioning of a few things that cleaned up the display. I renamed a subroutine so it made more sense.

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Still Quiet

Its still very quiet on the Apple II front here.  I didn’t get to work on Mapper today.  Did check the message boards, still pretty quiet there also. I’ve been doing car stuff (my favorite) today.  My oldest daughter was

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Quiet

Things are pretty quiet on the Apple II front around here.  I’ve done a little work on mapper.  I’ve done my usual run of the message boards and they are pretty quiet also.  I think a lot of people are spending the

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Mapper

— Mapper — I knew it was something simple.  This morning when I got up, I got right into it.  The problem was, I wasn’t reading the control record, which has the record count.  I fixed that and things are

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Home and Working on Mapper

— Mapper — I’ve been working on the routines to add a room.  I’m not doing something right.  I run the program and add several rooms and the map file changes size.  However, when I run it again the record

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More Mapper

Today was another productive day on mapper.  So far my source code is up to 9 blocks. I designed the file structure which is very simple at this time.  The first record is a control record.  At this time all

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Mapper plus

— Mapper — While working on Mapper, I have made some up front choices.  Zbasic allows you to work in immediate mode just like in AppleSoft.  To add or change lines you just type a line number and then then

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Change of Venue

  Tonight’s post and for the next few days,  is a little different than other posts I have done.  I’m writing from an island seven miles of the coast of Maine in Penobscot Bay.  It is called Isle Au Haut,

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Apple //c

If you have used an Apple //c you notice some things. It really is compact.  That was one of the things I liked about it.  I remember looking at the //e  and the //e seems much bigger. All then features

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