My first experience with a GUI was the MacPlus. I worked on one for more than a year doing what was then a new thing known as WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get. It was a big…
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Last fall I bought one of those mini netbooks. It is very small with a 7″ monitor and cost less than $45. My hope was to run AppleWin but it would not run on Windows CE. Using an sd card…
Saturday
I visited with an old friend today. He used to live with two other guys in a three bedroom apartment on the other side of town from me. One of the friends owned an Apple IIe with two disk II…
Friday
It’s Friday night and when I started to write this I had no idea of what to write. I laid down and checked the usual message boards and came up with no new ideas, so I took a short nap.…
MACHID, Follow-up and ZBasic
When working on MACHID I learned a lot. I remembered a little. I never wrote any programs that looked at system information. That provided a little challenge. Anybody who actually does this stuff, can look at my code and see…
MACHID, Finished
I cleaned up the ZBasic and Applesoft versions of MACHID. I put them onto the disk image MACHID.DSK and uploaded it. The disk image is a boot disk. I’ve added the driver for the no slot clock which will work…
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MACHID, Continued
While writing the MACHID program, that sidetracked me from mapper, I learned a bit. The MACHID byte has some information on the model of the computer, but not all is very specific. It will identify the amount of memory the…
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Drift
Last night I was reading comp.sys.apple2 and ran across a post by Daniel Kruszyna where he mentioned a an Apple II music disk he collaborated on called Drift. (In the interest of giving proper credit I stole the next sentence…
New Page, New User Kit
I’ve added a new page to the new user kit today, Useful Modern Hardware For The Apple II. Please feel free to suggest additions. — 52/53
Inform? No.
As I suspected, there is not a version of inform for the Apple II, either compiler or interpreter. Apparently, there was a version for the //gs, but I don’t have one. I’m looking for something that when all is said…
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