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Power Supplies, Exerciser

I wrote a very short AppleSoft program, which just repeatedly does a catalog of each of the diskette drives.  The initial test I did was ten loops, cataloging each of my four diskette drives.  It took about two minutes seventeen

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Power Supplies

Over the years I have acquired two extra power supplies for my Apple //c, so I thought I would sell one on eBay. The thing is, I wanted some way to test them first.  I can’t in good conscience sell

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Border Zone

There are two diskette images in the Border Zone package. Border Zone is an Infocom text adventure.  I don’t think I ever played it before, which is kind of weird, because I own a copy.  It is part of Infocom’s

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Blitzkreg – Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg is a simple arcade style game.  It is simple, but entertaining. You control a gun on the right side of the screen, trying to protect your gun and the land across the rest of the screen from planes flying

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Blade of Blackpoole

Blade of Blackpoole is a graphic text adventure on a single diskette image. The graphics are not what I would call impressive, but the area where you interact with the parser is much larger at eight lines rather than the

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No Documentation?

In the last eighteen posts, I’ve been trying out different Apple II games. Most of them have no instructions.  No documentation on the diskette. In many of the games you can figure out the keyboard commands fairly easily, by trial

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Bandits

Bandits is an arcade style game that reminds me of Galaga.  It is not a copy of Galaga, it just reminds me of it, even though there are a lot less ships to shoot. You have one gun that can

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Asteroid

Asteroid is a version of asteroids.  It can be played with either the keyboard or paddles. To use the keyboard use the following keys: D – Turn counter clockwise F – Turn clockwise Left Arrow – Thrust Right Arrow –

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Ardy the Aardvark

Ardy the Aardvark is a cute little single disk graphics game.  The object is to control the tongue of Ardy the Aardvark down through the tunnels of an anthill. Gobbling up the goodies, while avoiding the guard ants you move

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Arcade Games, Diskette 3

Arcade Games, Diskette 3, contains three games which according to the splash screen require a joystick. The games are Ball Blaster, Big-Mac Attack and King Tut’s Revenge. I tried out Ball Blaster and found it was a pin ball machine

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