Having a little less than two months to put together my entry for IFComp, I once again went looking for an Inform set up that would run on an Apple II. I still didn’t find anything. I was hoping to…
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Musical 100, (Give or Take)
I looked back over the posts I have done and although yesterday’s post was number 100, on July 23 I did two posts, so today is day 100 of posting. Instead of doing the posting as a musical number, I…
KFest, OZ KFest, & IFComp
Kansas Fest has started. For those of you who are there, you can’t believe how jealous I am. I understand Woz showed up in time for Randy Wigginton’s presentation. I saw him speak at the one of the first Macworld…
IFComp 2013
At the end of June, the 26th, IFComp 2013 opened for business. This is the 19th annual interactive competition. IFComp is a competition for fairly small interactive fiction entries. Check the IFComp website for rules, but the short of it…
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Apple //e Stuff
There was a listing on eBay for a “CFFA3000 With Remote For Apple IIe, Apple IIgs” card. First bid was for $1 and ended at $250. If it wasn’t out of my price range I’d have been right in there…
Playing Games & PC stuff
I’ve always wanted to write a text adventure and have thought about writing one for an older machine. It’s alway been a toss up between the Apple II and the PDP 11/70 I first worked on. Each has some advantages…
Hamurabi, Pascal
I spent some time working on the Pascal version of Hamurabi today. I typed in the pseudo code and quickly converted it to a Pascal shell for Hamurabi. The thing I liked about Pascal is how easy it is to…
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Games
If you go to the Asimov website and look for games to play on your Apple II you will find hundreds of games. They are separated by type to make finding one easier. Most likely if you have an old…
Crash 2 & 3
Have you ever had one of those weeks? My computers are dying all over the place. The CPU fan on my laptop died two days ago. My wife’s laptop stopped functioning on the internet yesterday. It will access the internet…
Apple II Introductory Disks
I downloaded and tried out “Apple presents: The Apple IIe” and “Apple presents: The //c, an introduction”. These disks contain a very basic introduction to the Apple II complete with graphical keyboard examples. I also tried out “Apple presents: The…
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