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Flapple Bird – Memory?

I went to the Flapple Apple github website and downloaded the latest version.  I moved a copy through ADTPro to my Apple //c and tried that again today. I was thinking after the last post that maybe I was having

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Flapple Bird – Retry Again

In my last post, I went back to ADTPro 1.2.8, downloaded Flapple Bird and tried running it, only to have it lock up. Since that didn’t work, I downloaded ADTPro 2.0.0 and redownloaded Flapple Bird.  That didn’t work either. With that

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Flapple Bird – Retry

The last time I had a chance to try Flapple Bird, I downloaded it using ADTPro 2.0.0 both in the 140 K image and the 800 K image and both images would boot ProDOS 8 v1.8 and stop at the

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Flapple Bird

I’ve seen several postings announcing Flapple Bird, an arcade style game for the Apple II.  I looked at the posted video and was intrigued. I downloaded it to my Linux laptop and tried it in AppleWin and liked it.  I

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Robotron 2084, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’

Robotron 2084 was downloaded from MacGui as well.  I tested it in AppleWin and one of the early screens shows the keyboard commands. I downloaded it to my Apple //c using ADTPro 1.2.8 onto a disk I have used before. 

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Galaxians, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’

Prompted by a posting on MacGui ,’New Apple 2c user needs help plz’. I downloaded Galaxians from MacGui to my Windows PC.  It is a .GZ file, so I extracted the disk image with 7-Zip. Starting up AppleWin, I booted Galaxians,

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Borg

Borg is an arcade style game playable using paddles, joystick or keyboard. You control your character, a stick figure which starts on the left side of the screen, using the A key to go up, the Z key to move

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Power Supplies, Next Two Tested

This morning I dug out my other two power bricks.  I was going to test them with my simple test. One was still wrapped up in bubble wrap, from when I got it.  I plugged in the other one and checked

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Power Supplies, First One Tested

I came to a decision about the testing.   I would do it in steps. I touched the power supply to get a feel for its temperature.  It felt a little warmer than body temperature, my guess would be 99 to

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Power Supplies, Next?

So now that I have a program to access the diskettes and draw a little power, what next? How do I measure the results?  Do I run it for a period of time and if the power supply survives, it’s

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