Every now and then I get a little nostalgic and go looking for old games. There was a game I found in a magazine, Nibble I believe, that I painstakingly typed into my Apple //c. My kids played it for…
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Color
Ultima I still has my interest. I’ve really been enjoying playing it on the color screen. It’s a minor thing, the color, but it increases the enjoyability of the game quite a bit, although the sound effects are kind of…
Less
I made no progress with my printer challenge today. I still haven’t figured out why I can’t get beyond eighty columns. I’m practically positive it can be done, but I’m missing something. The TV is still working out really well…
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Printer, Problem?
I worked on Mapper today in kind of an indirect fashion. When I was working on Mapper before, I was having a problem with setting up the printer to print more than eighty columns. I’ve been writing Mapper with ZBasic.…
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Ultima I and Lord
I spent quite a while playing Ultima I today. Compared to today’s high resolution graphics Ultima I is on the very low end of the scale. The sound is not even that good, but altogether the game play is actually…
Mapper, Print Map, Paused
I worked briefly on Mapper and ran into a slight problem. I changed the size of the type for the header to a bigger type size (9 cpi) and the type came out bigger. Further down the page I changed…
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Mapper, Print Map, Continued
I worked on the Print Map routine today. The first thing I accomplished was to solve the fuzzy characters on my new TV/display. I manually changed the display by pushing the menu button on the screen and pressing select, which…
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Mapper, Print Map
I have a pretty good idea of how I want Print Map to come out. I just have to type it in and do some testing. If I remember right I can use multiple type sizes on the same page. …
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General Stuff
Well, I’ve had today off, so I am getting some things done around here. Those changes I made a few days ago to my wordpress setting are having the desired results. Spam has dropped from over a hundred a day…
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New Monitor/TV
The other day I went into the local Goodwill store, where quite often I find some good deals. There is a section where they keep computer stuff and Stereo type stuff in one isle, so I usually check that. There…
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