Monthly Archives: March 2014

UA 6502

I was looking at some tweets that I follow and noticed one from Steve Wozniak that he was arriving on flight UA 6502 (March 21).  I just thought there was some irony there.  

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Taipan 2

I’m still playing Taipan.  It reminds me of Star Merchant, except for the graphics and the time period. I like the game.  It plays well and the interface is fairly clean.  One thing I noticed, playing on the color screen

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Taipan

I discovered this game online called Taipan at www.taipangame.com which is based on a game of the same name written on a TRS-80 and later ported to the Apple II.  It is a game based on the China trade of

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Inform 7

I had some internet connectivity issues and while I was getting them straightened out, I started looking at Inform 7. It turns out, I didn’t need to hunt down a separate copy of Inform 6 to create my .Z5 game

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Kegs

Today, I downloaded Kegs for Windows. I downloaded another version of Kegs earlier in the month called GSPort.  I did that because GSPort was supposed to go a step further and allow printing from the emulated GS to the host

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Text Adventures, Part VII (Conclusion?)

After spending quite a while trying to find a Windows program that would let me transfer a file from my Windows PC to my Apple II using x or y modem, I had a thought. I moved the ADTPro cable from my

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Text Adventure, Part VI

My goal with my text adventure project is to be able to play the same game on several different systems.  In particular, I wanted to run it on my PCs, my Macs and my Apple IIs.  As a test, I

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Text Adventure, Part V

At this point I have not found a compiler the will run on the Apple II line of computers. I do have Inform version 6.32 which will work on Windows 7 and have compiled a sample file.  Over the next

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Text Adventure, Part IV

I made a first pass through, attempting to remove the interpreter from Cutthroats.  My understanding of what was going on was imperfect to say the least, and the instructions were more for someone who knew what was going on. Years

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Text Adventures, Part III

In my internet travels, yesterday, I stumbled across a couple of things. The first is a set of diskette images containing the Lost Treasures of Infocom for the Apple //gs, from the Big Red Computer Club.  Included are two interpreters

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