While writing the MACHID program, that sidetracked me from mapper, I learned a bit. The MACHID byte has some information on the model of the computer, but not all is very specific. It will identify the amount of memory the…
Monthly Archives: August 2013
MACHID, Continued
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Posts, Programming Tagged with: 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, Apple IIe, Applesoft, AppleWin, PRODos, Programming
MACHID
In the past, when I was writing programs, I always wrote for my machine, the Apple //c. I knew what was there and could write for it. While working on Mapper, I planned to use the 80 column card. But this…
Drift
Last night I was reading comp.sys.apple2 and ran across a post by Daniel Kruszyna where he mentioned a an Apple II music disk he collaborated on called Drift. (In the interest of giving proper credit I stole the next sentence…
Mapper
I worked on mapper today. I’m hoping to have it finished this weekend or early next week. I tend to move around my apartment and work on different computers, depending on what I’m doing or what is going on. My…
Posted in Apple //c, Programming Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, ADTPro, Apple //c, Programming, ZBasic
New Page, New User Kit
I’ve added a new page to the new user kit today, Useful Modern Hardware For The Apple II. Please feel free to suggest additions. — 52/53
Mapper and ZBasic
I decided to use ZBasic for writing my IFComp entry and so I will use it for my mapping program. I’ve been doing some reading in the manual. I’ve mentioned before about some of the features of ZBasic. It is…
Posted in Apple //c, Posts, Programming, Projects Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, Interactive Fiction, ZBasic
Interactive Fiction Mapper
When I was in high school, we had a DEC PDP 11/70 running RSTS/E Version 6. We had a copy of adventure (ADVENT), that quite a few of us were playing and later we had a copy of dungeon (DUNGEO),…
Posted in Apple //c, Programming, Projects Tagged with: Apple //c, Interactive Fiction, Programming, Projects
Apple People
When lurking and snooping around the internet, I occasionally run across interesting people. People, who have been on the Apple II scene for decades or who were there when it started and moved onto other things. In the last couple…
Inform? No.
As I suspected, there is not a version of inform for the Apple II, either compiler or interpreter. Apparently, there was a version for the //gs, but I don’t have one. I’m looking for something that when all is said…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Posts, Programming Tagged with: Apple //c, Apple IIe, AppleWin, Interactive Fiction, Projects
Inform?
In addition to doing some looking around various websites for information about Inform for the Apple II, I posted a message asking for the same information on several different message boards. It doesn’t look promising, so I’m not going to…
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