My first experience with a GUI was the MacPlus. I worked on one for more than a year doing what was then a new thing known as WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get. It was a big…
Monthly Archives: August 2013
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Last fall I bought one of those mini netbooks. It is very small with a 7″ monitor and cost less than $45. My hope was to run AppleWin but it would not run on Windows CE. Using an sd card…
Future, Continued…
Forgive me if my understanding of certain systems is imperfect or a brutal simplification. With the Macintosh and Macintosh Plus era, the LaserWriter had a CPU and the Mac basically said print this, and the LaserWriter took care of the…
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Future?
Sometimes writing this is really easy and everything falls into place. The topic really grabs me and the words flow and I’m off and typing. Other times, nothing. Can’t find a topic and no words to be found. Those are…
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Saturday
I visited with an old friend today. He used to live with two other guys in a three bedroom apartment on the other side of town from me. One of the friends owned an Apple IIe with two disk II…
Friday
It’s Friday night and when I started to write this I had no idea of what to write. I laid down and checked the usual message boards and came up with no new ideas, so I took a short nap.…
Checkin
I worked on mapper for a little bit again today, as well as my IFComp entry. I also checked in with csa2 and csa2 programming. Both were pretty quiet. I checked in with a few other message boards I lurk…
IFComp
After my little side trip with MACHID in the last couple of days I’ve come to realize that my plan to write an adventure program for the Apple II had hit a snag. I had originally planned to write it…
MACHID, Follow-up and ZBasic
When working on MACHID I learned a lot. I remembered a little. I never wrote any programs that looked at system information. That provided a little challenge. Anybody who actually does this stuff, can look at my code and see…
MACHID, Finished
I cleaned up the ZBasic and Applesoft versions of MACHID. I put them onto the disk image MACHID.DSK and uploaded it. The disk image is a boot disk. I’ve added the driver for the no slot clock which will work…
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