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Backups? Nope! (Part 2)

This morning I started over and created a new Kyan Pascal diskette. I booted AppleWin using the diskette I started the other day and then went into settings and chose to use another blank diskette as a second hard drive.  I

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Backups? Nope! (Part 1)

Backups are important.  When you don’t have one they are really important. I went to use Kyan Pascal, which I had set up on a 3 1/5″ diskette and my diskette didn’t work.  Did I have a backup?  Nope!  When I’m

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Supplies

I wanted to download some software for my Apple //, but when I went to get some diskettes, I didn’t have enough.  It was time to order some more, but couldn’t readily find my notes on what to buy.  For

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Games Past, Lem, Part 5

Working on debugging this program has been a challenge. In order to debug it to the book I have been trying to recreate the run that is shown in the book.  The first column of the actual play at the

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Games Past, Lem, Part 4

Part of yesterdays project, reorganization, was to let both my Apple computers be close enough to the printer to share it. I’ve been trying to debug from one screen to another, which quite often is enough.  I’m finding with Lem,

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Games Past, Rocket

I slowly working my way through Lem with the debugging.  The fuzzy print of the scans is making it slower, so I’m hoping I can find my copy of Basic Computer Games and the print will be clearer. In the

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Games Past, Lem, Part 3

I started on debugging today. I ran the program as shown in the book answering no to having flown before and metric to system measurement.  The directions scrolled past like lightning, so I missed most of them as they scrolled

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Games Past, Lem, Part 2

I finished typing in Lem today.  Debugging is going to take a little longer because of the size.  It is more than twice the size of Lunar and the scans are a little fuzzy.  I should be done tomorrow and

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Games Past, Lem

After typing in Lunar and getting it debugged, I have looked at the other two versions and realized, Lunar is probably the closest version to the one I played in high school. I started working on Lem today, and it

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Games Past, Next

The next program in my games past series is actually a set of three programs presented in Basic Computer Games.  They are Lunar, Lem and Rocket.  They are different versions of the same game.  The object of these games is

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