Robotron 2084 was downloaded from MacGui as well. I tested it in AppleWin and one of the early screens shows the keyboard commands. I downloaded it to my Apple //c using ADTPro 1.2.8 onto a disk I have used before. …
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Galaxians, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’
Prompted by a posting on MacGui ,’New Apple 2c user needs help plz’. I downloaded Galaxians from MacGui to my Windows PC. It is a .GZ file, so I extracted the disk image with 7-Zip. Starting up AppleWin, I booted Galaxians,…
Borg
Borg is an arcade style game playable using paddles, joystick or keyboard. You control your character, a stick figure which starts on the left side of the screen, using the A key to go up, the Z key to move…
Power Supplies, Next Two Tested
This morning I dug out my other two power bricks. I was going to test them with my simple test. One was still wrapped up in bubble wrap, from when I got it. I plugged in the other one and checked…
Power Supplies, First One Tested
I came to a decision about the testing. I would do it in steps. I touched the power supply to get a feel for its temperature. It felt a little warmer than body temperature, my guess would be 99 to…
Power Supplies, Next?
So now that I have a program to access the diskettes and draw a little power, what next? How do I measure the results? Do I run it for a period of time and if the power supply survives, it’s…
Power Supplies, Exerciser
I wrote a very short AppleSoft program, which just repeatedly does a catalog of each of the diskette drives. The initial test I did was ten loops, cataloging each of my four diskette drives. It took about two minutes seventeen…
Power Supplies
Over the years I have acquired two extra power supplies for my Apple //c, so I thought I would sell one on eBay. The thing is, I wanted some way to test them first. I can’t in good conscience sell…
Border Zone
There are two diskette images in the Border Zone package. Border Zone is an Infocom text adventure. I don’t think I ever played it before, which is kind of weird, because I own a copy. It is part of Infocom’s…
Blitzkreg – Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a simple arcade style game. It is simple, but entertaining. You control a gun on the right side of the screen, trying to protect your gun and the land across the rest of the screen from planes flying…
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