I found some additional information on the No Slot Clock. I was looking through the Apple II Documentation Project and there is a directory for Chips and the the No Slot Clock. You can check the link under Apple II…
Yearly Archives: 2013
AppleWin on Ubuntu, Followup
Apparently I lied. In the last step of yesterday’s post I said you could simply right click on the wine icon on the launcher and lock it to the launcher. You can, but that only locks wine and not AppleWin. …
AppleWin on Ubuntu
I’ve read notes here and there about running an Apple II emulator on a Linux machine several times over the last few years. I’ve been doing it for several months on my second laptop without any problems. I thought I…
Mapper, Debugging
I spent some time working on Mapper, starting on the debugging process. I figured the best way, was to actually use it. I chose to put the map from Eamon’s The Beginners Cave into the Mapper. I started finding problems…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Printers, Programming Tagged with: Apple //c, Apple IIe, Printer, Programming, Projects, ZBasic
Dynasty, Hamurabi, Spyglass, Followup
I had time to try out Dynasty, the Hamurabi derivative. It has certain features that Hamurabi lacks, like in game directions and a running total of statistics. I’m not crazy about the added sound effects and the use of inverse text. …
Dynasty, Hamurabi, Spyglass
One of my PC’s died a couple of weeks ago and a replacement I bought a week ago arrived today. That cut into my free time for the Apple II. I didn’t really have time to work on any of…
I opened a Twitter account for the DailyApple and added a link for it in the links. Additionally, I updated the contact page to mention being on twitter.
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No Slot Clock, Arrived and Works
Today the chip came in. It is a Dallas DS1216E I purchased it on eBay for $6.50 with $4.00 for shipping and it took about nine days to arrive in a box slightly larger than a deck of playing cards.…
Get Lamp
That’s the name of a documentary about text adventures or interactive fiction by Jason Scott. He’s also done a documentary BBS: The Documentary. I had heard about them both some time ago, but had not decided to get either one. …
No Slot Clock, Shipping Update, Plus
The chip I ordered for the No Slot Clock has left China and passed through New York yesterday afternoon. My guess is it will arrive in the next day or so. I’m really looking forward to trying it out. If it…
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