— Mapper — I’ve been working on the routines to add a room. I’m not doing something right. I run the program and add several rooms and the map file changes size. However, when I run it again the record…
Yearly Archives: 2013
More Mapper
Today was another productive day on mapper. So far my source code is up to 9 blocks. I designed the file structure which is very simple at this time. The first record is a control record. At this time all…
Mapper plus
— Mapper — While working on Mapper, I have made some up front choices. Zbasic allows you to work in immediate mode just like in AppleSoft. To add or change lines you just type a line number and then then…
Change of Venue
Tonight’s post and for the next few days, is a little different than other posts I have done. I’m writing from an island seven miles of the coast of Maine in Penobscot Bay. It is called Isle Au Haut,…
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Apple //c
If you have used an Apple //c you notice some things. It really is compact. That was one of the things I liked about it. I remember looking at the //e and the //e seems much bigger. All then features…
GUIs
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…
Old on New
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…
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