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Retrochallange 2015/01 Third Post

I worked on my challenge for a short time while watching a movie, The Prince of Persia.  I thought it was fitting to be working on an Apple II game while watching a movie inspired by iconic Apple II game. It’s funny,

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I’m Back

I’m back.  I have no special reason or excuse for not posting, I just haven’t posted in a day under a month.  I signed into Daily Apple to find 2,308 comments, or more accurately spam.  After spending about twenty minutes

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Flapple Bird – Memory?

I went to the Flapple Apple github website and downloaded the latest version.  I moved a copy through ADTPro to my Apple //c and tried that again today. I was thinking after the last post that maybe I was having

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Flapple Bird – Retry Again

In my last post, I went back to ADTPro 1.2.8, downloaded Flapple Bird and tried running it, only to have it lock up. Since that didn’t work, I downloaded ADTPro 2.0.0 and redownloaded Flapple Bird.  That didn’t work either. With that

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Flapple Bird – Retry

The last time I had a chance to try Flapple Bird, I downloaded it using ADTPro 2.0.0 both in the 140 K image and the 800 K image and both images would boot ProDOS 8 v1.8 and stop at the

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Flapple Bird

I’ve seen several postings announcing Flapple Bird, an arcade style game for the Apple II.  I looked at the posted video and was intrigued. I downloaded it to my Linux laptop and tried it in AppleWin and liked it.  I

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Robotron 2084, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’

Robotron 2084 was downloaded from MacGui as well.  I tested it in AppleWin and one of the early screens shows the keyboard commands. I downloaded it to my Apple //c using ADTPro 1.2.8 onto a disk I have used before. 

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Galaxians, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’

Prompted by a posting on MacGui ,’New Apple 2c user needs help plz’. I downloaded Galaxians from MacGui to my Windows PC.  It is a .GZ file, so I extracted the disk image with 7-Zip. Starting up AppleWin, I booted Galaxians,

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Borg

Borg is an arcade style game playable using paddles, joystick or keyboard. You control your character, a stick figure which starts on the left side of the screen, using the A key to go up, the Z key to move

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Border Zone

There are two diskette images in the Border Zone package. Border Zone is an Infocom text adventure.  I don’t think I ever played it before, which is kind of weird, because I own a copy.  It is part of Infocom’s

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