Yearly Archives: 2013

What can you do?

What can you do with an Apple II? I started this post in May of this year, but put it aside in favor of something else. I’ve used the Apple II to create documents, do spread sheets, and create databases;

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Apple II Finds

Every now and then when I go into eBay to search for Apple II stuff the sort comes up with Price + Shipping:highest first. Normally I just quickly switch to a sort by ending date or lowest price. Today I

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Z-Machine Interpreter

Awhile ago I was looking for a z-machine interpreter for the Apple II. As far as I can tell none exist on their own. There were three that I found, two were for the Apple //gs, but the third was

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Apple II Sites

Sometimes when I’m programming I hit a spot where the code is just not looking right and I have to scrap it. I hit such a spot with the Print Map Subroutine. I scrapped the code I had and just

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Ultima I

Lord Britania claimed my time this evening in exploration and questing. From the Castle of Lord British, I moved on to visit the City of British where I bought additional supplies before I crossed through some woods and over the

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Internet Travels

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

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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

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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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