Yearly Archives: 2015

Merlin 8 Working Diskette

I’ve been having doubts about my Apple //c for months now.  After doing diagnostics on my system, I’ve come to realize that my problems were based on bad diskette media. Back in March, when Assembly Lines became available, I downloaded

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Clean Up

Earlier this year, I lost the directory where I kept my downloadable diskette images.  These images were ones I created for this blog. I had no direct backup for this directory so I spent some time going over my computers,

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Diskettes

I had a package of 25 diskettes I bought last July. They sat for a long time without me checking them out. When I finally got around to trying them I had several of them that I couldn’t use. I

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Diagnostics

I’ve downloaded several programs for my Apple II’s and had problems with them.  They seem to run fine on AppleWin, but when I try to run them on the Apple II’s I have problems. I figured it was time to

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Retrochallange 2015/01 Third Post

I worked on my challenge for a short time while watching a movie, The Prince of Persia.  I thought it was fitting to be working on an Apple II game while watching a movie inspired by iconic Apple II game. It’s funny,

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Retrochallenge 2015/01 Second Post

In order to play Eamon you need at least one diskette from the Eamon Library.  The Main Hall and Beginners Cave (EAMON001.DSK) is where everything starts, and hopefully ends. In order to create more adventures a second diskette, the Dungeon

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Retrochallenge 2015/01 (Winter Warmup)

Retrochallenge 2015/01 starts today.  To learn more about it use the Retrochallange link under Links & Disk Images. I’ve had a fascination with Eamon ever since I first found it, about twenty years ago.  I like the whole concept of carrying

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