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Basic Games, Disk Image

In the past whenever I needed a directory added to a disk I just booted up the utilities and created one.  I knew there was a way to do it under ProDos, but never bothered to look it up. While

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Murphy’s Law, Challange Accepted

As you can see I challenged Murphy’s Law by saying I was back at it.  Challenge Accepted, I lost.  Eighteen days without a post. I haven’t had a minute to even turn on my Apple II in the last two plus

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Animal, Observations

I have couple of observations about the animal program.  It is fairly short, about 70 lines. It was designed to be used with the caps lock on (or only upper case input).  To clean up this version I will need to either

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Animal Debugged

I finished debugging to the book. It was asking the “Is it a ” question, but displaying the question for the animal instead of the animal name.  It took a while before I found the problem. In line 190, I

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Games Past, Animal, Entry and Debugging

I finished typing Animal in today.  When I was typing it in the only changes I made were to the text that was displayed.  I changed it from all upper case to upper and lower case.  The second half of

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Unboxing Videos

I was reading another vintage board, cctalk, and ran across a video of somebodies new computer and it got me to thinking of videos I had seen on YouTube. They are called unboxing videos, where the person receives a computer

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After THE Weekend

So the big black Friday weekend is over and things slow down a little.  I have a bit of time for the Daily Apple. I checked out csa2 and there is some commentary added to the announcement of Lamb Chops,

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Sunday

I had a little time to try out Lamb Chops today.  It seems to take a long time to load up. but I like the graphics once it started. Today I’m running it on AppleWin using Authentic Machine Speed. The

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Saturday

I work retail logistics and this week has been incredibly busy with a very strange schedule in preparation of and recovery from Black Friday.  After this weekend, I’ll be back to a more normal schedule, which I’m looking forward to.

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Projects, Etc.

I’ve been spending about two or three hours a day working on these posts since I started in April and this past weekend I just didn’t have that kind of time to work with the Apple // and come up

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