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ProDOS Program Selectors, Sneeze

On csa2, under Name That Program, Sneeze was suggested (by gld…@sasktel.net). I went to Asimov and downloaded a copy to try out.  Sneeze 2.2 comes on a diskette image with an assortment of programs.  The READ.ME.FIRST TXT file calls this

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ProDOS Program Selectors, Big Red Computer Club, Continued

MENU2 reminds me of AppleWorks, visually.  When you run it it draws a file tab across the top of the screen with the prefix on the tab.  If you choose a sub-directory it draws another tab under that tab with

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ProDOS Program Selectors, Big Red Computer Club

On MacGUI, I searched for program selector and right near the top was a disk image from Big Red Computer Club (235 ProDOS Menu Programs), full of program selectors, 10 in AppleSoft and one .SYSTEM program. There is one that

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ProDOS Program Selectors, Selector 1.0

Looking through Asimov, you kind of have to go by file name and guess if the file is what you are looking for. On csa2 there was one direct suggestion, so I downloaded that one, select10.gz, to try out. It’s

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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

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Lemonade Stand

I have been going through old Basic games in past posts.  I’ve also been studying Pascal, Kyan Pascal in particular.  I wanted to do something in Pascal and needed a small project. Lemonade Stand is such a program.  The problem

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Retro Fever

Following comp.sys.apple2, I saw another announcement from the creator of Lamb Chops, which I mentioned in November.  He has released a new game called Retro Fever.  It is an arcade style game along the lines of Lamb Chops. I’ve posted

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Pascal Progress

One of the benefits of having worked with Pascal before is it comes back to you. I have worked through the basics of the program structure, constants, variables and creating formulas.  I’ve also worked through getting input, writing output and

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Pascal Progress

When last I thought about relearning Pascal, I was just going to jump in, in a half hazard manner.  This time around I’m going to take the time to plug on through using the three books I have. I’ve been

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Relearning Kyan Pascal

Now that I have a working diskette, I’m going to relearn Pascal, in specific Kyan Pascal. I have a little Pascal background, but it was mostly a very long time ago and I was not very advanced.  I started learning

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