The other day when I was looking for Bunny, I found two games that interested me, today, I went back and tried out #182, Farmer Brown’s Woods. One thing I meant to mention the BOOTD3.DSK was not the one needed…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Printer Progress
I tried adding the control codes to allow a width of 255 characters that I mentioned yesterday to my ZBasic program. At the beginning of the report I added an LPRINT CHR$(9);”255N” to no good end. Then I remembered there…
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Printing Progress
I posted a question about my printing problem on comp.sys.apple2.programmer yesterday and not much later in the day I had two replies from Bill Buckels and Hugh Hood pointing me to useful information that solved the problem. I was trying…
Eamon and Power
I mentioned some Eamon games I found the other day while looking for a game from a magazine. Today I had a chance to play one of them, #181, The Eamon Sewer System. To say I played it, would be…
Posting on the Dash
This afternoon we have been experiencing multiple power outages, so I am leaving my Apple //c powered off. We have had two or three long ones and several short ones. I managed to squeeze in about 45 minutes of Zork…
Bunny?
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…
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…
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