Yearly Archives: 2014

Kegs IIgs Emulator

Today, I was looking on Google Play for an Apple II Emulator for my Android Tablet.  I was thinking, if I had an emulator I could keep on puttering with Apple II stuff in my spare time when away from

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Lemonade Stand

I have been going through old Basic games in past posts.  I’ve also been studying Pascal, Kyan Pascal in particular.  I wanted to do something in Pascal and needed a small project. Lemonade Stand is such a program.  The problem

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Name That Game

A couple of days ago I dropped off some stuff at the Good Will Store and swung around the electronics area like I usually do when I get a chance. I found a UPS in the box with all the

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Retro Fever

Following comp.sys.apple2, I saw another announcement from the creator of Lamb Chops, which I mentioned in November.  He has released a new game called Retro Fever.  It is an arcade style game along the lines of Lamb Chops. I’ve posted

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Pascal Progress

One of the benefits of having worked with Pascal before is it comes back to you. I have worked through the basics of the program structure, constants, variables and creating formulas.  I’ve also worked through getting input, writing output and

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Pascal Progress

When last I thought about relearning Pascal, I was just going to jump in, in a half hazard manner.  This time around I’m going to take the time to plug on through using the three books I have. I’ve been

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Relearning Kyan Pascal

Now that I have a working diskette, I’m going to relearn Pascal, in specific Kyan Pascal. I have a little Pascal background, but it was mostly a very long time ago and I was not very advanced.  I started learning

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Backups? Nope! (Part 2)

This morning I started over and created a new Kyan Pascal diskette. I booted AppleWin using the diskette I started the other day and then went into settings and chose to use another blank diskette as a second hard drive.  I

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Backups? Nope! (Part 1)

Backups are important.  When you don’t have one they are really important. I went to use Kyan Pascal, which I had set up on a 3 1/5″ diskette and my diskette didn’t work.  Did I have a backup?  Nope!  When I’m

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Supplies

I wanted to download some software for my Apple //, but when I went to get some diskettes, I didn’t have enough.  It was time to order some more, but couldn’t readily find my notes on what to buy.  For

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