After spending quite a while trying to find a Windows program that would let me transfer a file from my Windows PC to my Apple II using x or y modem, I had a thought. I moved the ADTPro cable from my…
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Text Adventure, Part VI
My goal with my text adventure project is to be able to play the same game on several different systems. In particular, I wanted to run it on my PCs, my Macs and my Apple IIs. As a test, I…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple //gs, Apple IIe, Macintosh Tagged with: Apple //c, Apple IIe, Interactive Fiction, Macintosh
Text Adventure, Part V
At this point I have not found a compiler the will run on the Apple II line of computers. I do have Inform version 6.32 which will work on Windows 7 and have compiled a sample file. Over the next…
Text Adventure, Part IV
I made a first pass through, attempting to remove the interpreter from Cutthroats. My understanding of what was going on was imperfect to say the least, and the instructions were more for someone who knew what was going on. Years…
Text Adventures, Part III
In my internet travels, yesterday, I stumbled across a couple of things. The first is a set of diskette images containing the Lost Treasures of Infocom for the Apple //gs, from the Big Red Computer Club. Included are two interpreters…
GSport
Today I downloaded GSport, a front end for Kegs. I downloaded the Windows version, because I have read you could use the Windows printer to print Apple II stuff. I spent several hours with GSport and did not get to…
Mini vMac
Below is a direct copy of my post from my Vintage Mac Blog — I like emulators. I use them as a convenience, not a replacement to the real computer. I have an Apple //e and an Apple //c. The…
Dukedom
I was exploring Macgui.com today in the Apple II download section. I was looking at different adventure games and ran across a Dos 3.3 disk called text adventures. The directory showed what looks like seven different games and a disk…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple //gs, Apple IIe, Emulation, Games Tagged with: Apple //c, Apple IIe, Hamurabi, Programming
System 6
I have a wireless keyboard and mouse from Microsoft. Instead of a little dongle, like the wireless mice have now, they use a big one. It is about the size of an old style wired mouse and the wire is…
Oops!
I had yesterdays post all written and thought I had posted it. Tonight when I came on to work on this post, I found I hadn’t posted it. Now I have. I spent the last couple of hours looking specifically…
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