Some days you just don’t feel like programming and today was one of them, so I didn’t work on Mapper today. I didn’t feel like playing any games either. I have been doing a lot of reading though. I made…
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Mapper Map
The overall structure for the print map routine of Mapper is in place. I cycle through the rooms collecting the information for three rooms at a time. Once I have three rooms worth of data loaded I print the diagrams…
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Contact and Mapper
In my travels of usenet yesterday I ran across a reference to a user group newsletter from Apple called Contact. Scans of them have been uploaded and you can access them from the Apple Archives. I’ve added a link them…
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My Apple //c
My Apple //c sits quietly on its desk, where it has been since I bought the desk earlier this year. Today I barely booted it up, before I shut it off again as I had to run off and do…
Mapper
I went back to work on Mapper again today. I was startled when the printer only printed 80 columns. It took me a while to fix it, but it was actually simple to fix. After you change the configuration in…
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More Eamon
The other day when I was looking for Bunny, I found two games that interested me, today, I went back and tried out #182, Farmer Brown’s Woods. One thing I meant to mention the BOOTD3.DSK was not the one needed…
Printer Progress
I tried adding the control codes to allow a width of 255 characters that I mentioned yesterday to my ZBasic program. At the beginning of the report I added an LPRINT CHR$(9);”255N” to no good end. Then I remembered there…
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Printing Progress
I posted a question about my printing problem on comp.sys.apple2.programmer yesterday and not much later in the day I had two replies from Bill Buckels and Hugh Hood pointing me to useful information that solved the problem. I was trying…
Eamon and Power
I mentioned some Eamon games I found the other day while looking for a game from a magazine. Today I had a chance to play one of them, #181, The Eamon Sewer System. To say I played it, would be…
Posting on the Dash
This afternoon we have been experiencing multiple power outages, so I am leaving my Apple //c powered off. We have had two or three long ones and several short ones. I managed to squeeze in about 45 minutes of Zork…
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