A typical text adventure revolves around a pretty simple model: A. Display description (data base). B. Get and execute commands (parser). Repeat A and B until done. One thing I learned way back on the PDP 11/70 was text adventures…
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Text Adventures, Part I
For years I have wanted to write a text adventure. Actually decades might be more accurate. The first time I played ADVENT on the PDP 11/70 at school had me hooked. Later we got DUNGEO (ZORK I, II, and III)…
ProDOS Program Selectors, Sneeze, Followup
I liked Sneeze when I tried it on my emulators. I downloaded it to my Apple //c, which only took three tries to find a diskette that would work. The first two seemed to download fine, but when I went…
No Slot Clock, Daylight Savings Time
Just a quick note for those of you that have a No Slot Clock, Daylight Savings Time was this past weekend. The No Slot Clock does not automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time so if you have one and are…
ProDOS Program Selectors, Sneeze
On csa2, under Name That Program, Sneeze was suggested (by gld…@sasktel.net). I went to Asimov and downloaded a copy to try out. Sneeze 2.2 comes on a diskette image with an assortment of programs. The READ.ME.FIRST TXT file calls this…
Spring Thing 2014
Once again I have missed entering the Spring Thing. For several years I have thought about entering, but always seem to miss the deadline. The Spring Thing is an annual Interactive Fiction competition. I had forgotten about it until I…
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ProDOS Program Selectors, Big Red Computer Club, Continued
MENU2 reminds me of AppleWorks, visually. When you run it it draws a file tab across the top of the screen with the prefix on the tab. If you choose a sub-directory it draws another tab under that tab with…
ProDOS Program Selectors, Big Red Computer Club
On MacGUI, I searched for program selector and right near the top was a disk image from Big Red Computer Club (235 ProDOS Menu Programs), full of program selectors, 10 in AppleSoft and one .SYSTEM program. There is one that…
ProDOS Program Selectors, Selector 1.0
Looking through Asimov, you kind of have to go by file name and guess if the file is what you are looking for. On csa2 there was one direct suggestion, so I downloaded that one, select10.gz, to try out. It’s…
ProDOS Program Selectors
I was reading csa2 yesterday and somebody called Harry Potter was asking about a ProDOS program selector. It started me thinking. In the past, if I wanted a program selector, I wrote a quick and dirty Applesoft program and saved…
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