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No Slot Clock

In my travels on the internet today, I stumbled across some notes and articles about the No Slot Clock. The one thing I always missed on the Apple II was the presence of a clock/calendar function. The No Slot Clock

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What can you do?

What can you do with an Apple II? I started this post in May of this year, but put it aside in favor of something else. I’ve used the Apple II to create documents, do spread sheets, and create databases;

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Apple II Finds

Every now and then when I go into eBay to search for Apple II stuff the sort comes up with Price + Shipping:highest first. Normally I just quickly switch to a sort by ending date or lowest price. Today I

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Ultima I

Lord Britania claimed my time this evening in exploration and questing. From the Castle of Lord British, I moved on to visit the City of British where I bought additional supplies before I crossed through some woods and over the

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Mapper Map

The overall structure for the print map routine of Mapper is in place. I cycle through the rooms collecting the information for three rooms at a time. Once I have three rooms worth of data loaded I print the diagrams

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Contact and Mapper

In my travels of usenet yesterday I ran across a reference to a user group newsletter from Apple called Contact. Scans of them have been uploaded and you can access them from the Apple Archives. I’ve added a link them

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My Apple //c

My Apple //c sits quietly on its desk, where it has been since I bought the desk earlier this year. Today I barely booted it up, before I shut it off again as I had to run off and do

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Mapper

I went back to work on Mapper again today. I was startled when the printer only printed 80 columns. It took me a while to fix it, but it was actually simple to fix. After you change the configuration in

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More Eamon

The other day when I was looking for Bunny, I found two games that interested me, today, I went back and tried out #182, Farmer Brown’s Woods.  One thing I meant to mention the BOOTD3.DSK was not the one needed

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Printer Progress

I tried adding the control codes to allow a width of 255 characters that I mentioned yesterday to my ZBasic program.  At the beginning of the report I added an LPRINT CHR$(9);”255N” to no good end. Then I remembered there

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