Monthly Archives: January 2014

Cord, Just Too Short

Working with older equipment has one drawback that you wouldn’t think of normally.  Cords. In this day and age or wireless this and that, the cord became my drawback.  I’ve been working with both my Apple //c and my MacSE 

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Games Past, Rocket

I slowly working my way through Lem with the debugging.  The fuzzy print of the scans is making it slower, so I’m hoping I can find my copy of Basic Computer Games and the print will be clearer. In the

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Games Past, Lem, Part 3

I started on debugging today. I ran the program as shown in the book answering no to having flown before and metric to system measurement.  The directions scrolled past like lightning, so I missed most of them as they scrolled

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Games Past, Lem, Part 2

I finished typing in Lem today.  Debugging is going to take a little longer because of the size.  It is more than twice the size of Lunar and the scans are a little fuzzy.  I should be done tomorrow and

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Games Past, Lem

After typing in Lunar and getting it debugged, I have looked at the other two versions and realized, Lunar is probably the closest version to the one I played in high school. I started working on Lem today, and it

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Games Past, Next

The next program in my games past series is actually a set of three programs presented in Basic Computer Games.  They are Lunar, Lem and Rocket.  They are different versions of the same game.  The object of these games is

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