Forgive me if my understanding of certain systems is imperfect or a brutal simplification. With the Macintosh and Macintosh Plus era, the LaserWriter had a CPU and the Mac basically said print this, and the LaserWriter took care of the…
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Future?
Sometimes writing this is really easy and everything falls into place. The topic really grabs me and the words flow and I’m off and typing. Other times, nothing. Can’t find a topic and no words to be found. Those are…
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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.…
Checkin
I worked on mapper for a little bit again today, as well as my IFComp entry. I also checked in with csa2 and csa2 programming. Both were pretty quiet. I checked in with a few other message boards I lurk…
IFComp
After my little side trip with MACHID in the last couple of days I’ve come to realize that my plan to write an adventure program for the Apple II had hit a snag. I had originally planned to write it…
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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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
Mapper and ZBasic
I decided to use ZBasic for writing my IFComp entry and so I will use it for my mapping program. I’ve been doing some reading in the manual. I’ve mentioned before about some of the features of ZBasic. It is…
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