I worked on my challenge for a short time while watching a movie, The Prince of Persia. I thought it was fitting to be working on an Apple II game while watching a movie inspired by iconic Apple II game. It’s funny,…
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Retrochallange 2015/01 Third Post
Posted in Apple //c, Apple //gs, Apple IIe, Emulation, Games, Programming, Projects, Retrochallenge Tagged with: Apple //c, Apple IIe, Applesoft, Eamon, emulation, Games, Interactive Fiction, Programming, Projects
Retrochallenge 2015/01 Second Post
In order to play Eamon you need at least one diskette from the Eamon Library. The Main Hall and Beginners Cave (EAMON001.DSK) is where everything starts, and hopefully ends. In order to create more adventures a second diskette, the Dungeon…
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Retrochallenge 2015/01 (Winter Warmup)
Retrochallenge 2015/01 starts today. To learn more about it use the Retrochallange link under Links & Disk Images. I’ve had a fascination with Eamon ever since I first found it, about twenty years ago. I like the whole concept of carrying…
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No Serial Ports
I haven’t posted in months, six months in fact. I had a problem develop a couple of months ago with AdtPro. It stopped recognizing the serial ports. The problem seemed to be with Java so over time, I uninstalled Java…
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Kansas Fest
This whole week is just me wishing I was there. I anxiously await the Kansas Fest report on csa2 each day. Its not like being there, but as close as I can get at this time. Warren Ernst on csa2,…
Taipan+
I have been playing Taipan for a couple of days and went back to download a copy for the simulator on my tablet. There was another one called Taipan+, so I downloaded both. Looking to see what the difference was,…
Taipan 2
I’m still playing Taipan. It reminds me of Star Merchant, except for the graphics and the time period. I like the game. It plays well and the interface is fairly clean. One thing I noticed, playing on the color screen…
Taipan
I discovered this game online called Taipan at www.taipangame.com which is based on a game of the same name written on a TRS-80 and later ported to the Apple II. It is a game based on the China trade of…
Inform 7
I had some internet connectivity issues and while I was getting them straightened out, I started looking at Inform 7. It turns out, I didn’t need to hunt down a separate copy of Inform 6 to create my .Z5 game…
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Kegs
Today, I downloaded Kegs for Windows. I downloaded another version of Kegs earlier in the month called GSPort. I did that because GSPort was supposed to go a step further and allow printing from the emulated GS to the host…
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