In the Eastern Time Zone, where I am, its just minutes after 9 pm. I’m not going to be awake for midnight as I have to work at 4:30 am. I would like to say thanks for reading and commenting…
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Vintage Mac Blog
Yesterday I started up a new blog over on MacGui, the Vintage Mac Blog. I’ll be using it for my Macintosh writings keeping the Daily Apple for the Apple II. I have a project or two for my Vintage Macs…
Basic Games, Disk Image
In the past whenever I needed a directory added to a disk I just booted up the utilities and created one. I knew there was a way to do it under ProDos, but never bothered to look it up. While…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Programming, Projects Tagged with: Apple //c, Apple IIe, Applesoft, Programming, Projects
Murphy’s Law, Challange Accepted
As you can see I challenged Murphy’s Law by saying I was back at it. Challenge Accepted, I lost. Eighteen days without a post. I haven’t had a minute to even turn on my Apple II in the last two plus…
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Animal, Observations
I have couple of observations about the animal program. It is fairly short, about 70 lines. It was designed to be used with the caps lock on (or only upper case input). To clean up this version I will need to either…
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Hour of Code
The set of examples I went through was the tutorial for beginners. In it you write code by placing program blocks in the proper order. As you go through each example the different programming concepts are explained and you get to…
Grace Hopper
Today’s Google doodle reminds us about Grace Hopper’s birthday, she would have been 107. She was not directly involved with the Apple II, but was very important to computers in general. Below the search is a link for a video…
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Animal Debugged
I finished debugging to the book. It was asking the “Is it a ” question, but displaying the question for the animal instead of the animal name. It took a while before I found the problem. In line 190, I…
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Games Past, Animal, Entry and Debugging
I finished typing Animal in today. When I was typing it in the only changes I made were to the text that was displayed. I changed it from all upper case to upper and lower case. The second half of…
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Games Past, Animal
I’ve decided to try to recover some of the games from my past. These games were written in basic and I’ll be using AppleSoft. David Ahl’s Basic Computer Games was published in several different editions. The first I saw was…
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