It’s been a year since I started this blog. In that year I’ve posted 294 articles which is short of my intended goal for daily posts. That means I’ve missed about 2 and a half months of posts. In addition to…
Yearly Archives: 2014
The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan.
The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan. I started this post last May (05-May-13) and never could write what I felt was a thorough and fair review. I didn’t have any thing against the book, quite the opposite,…
ExtraPutty
I’ve been looking for a free telnet program for Windows, that had the ability to upload and download files using Xmodem, Ymodem or Zmodem. I wanted this in order to move files from my Windows PC to my Apple //c.…
Asimov
I have enjoyed playing Taipan and Taipan+ so much I went back to Asimov looking for similar games. There is so much there it is hard to pick one. The things that attracted me to this type of game are…
Taipan+
I have been playing Taipan for a couple of days and went back to download a copy for the simulator on my tablet. There was another one called Taipan+, so I downloaded both. Looking to see what the difference was,…
Desperate for help on transferring stuff from ProDos on Apple IIe to a Mac
The following post titled “Desperate for help on transferring stuff from ProDos on Apple IIe to a Mac” from “Prof. Dr John Warwick Montgomery”: I am new to ProDos and badly need help. I have an Apple System Disk 3.1…
Posted in Apple IIe, Macintosh, Programming Tagged with: Apple IIe, Connection, Macintosh, Programming
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…
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…
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…
Posted in Apple //gs, Games, Programming, Projects Tagged with: Interactive Fiction, Programming, Projects
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