I’m back. I have no special reason or excuse for not posting, I just haven’t posted in a day under a month. I signed into Daily Apple to find 2,308 comments, or more accurately spam. After spending about twenty minutes manually deleting the first 300 I signed up for Akismet. It kind of choked on the pile of spam but after several tries finally took care of it. The whole process took a little over of thirty minutes.
Anyhow, suspecting my Apple //c has memory problems, I dug out my Apple //e.
If you’ve had occasion to use both a //c and a //e you will know there is quite a bit of size difference. Mine is about 4 inches wider and 6 inches deeper. Add to that the //e does not have an internal diskette drive, my two duodisk drives add 6 inches to the height. After working on my little //c the //e seems huge.
I ran Master Diagnostics //e on both the regular memory and the extended memory and both times it stopped at F000-F800, just like it did on my //c. Maybe the //c doesn’t have a memory problem.
The last game I tried on the Apple //c was Flapple Bird. I tried it on the //e and it runs beautifully. I don’t know why it doesn’t run on my //c but this is the same diskette that I tried on the //c and it works on the //e. I am glad the //c may not have a memory problem as I would miss the storage capacity of the two 800K drives.
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