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Apple People

When lurking and snooping around the internet, I occasionally run across interesting people.  People, who have been on the Apple II scene for decades or who were there when it started and moved onto other things. In the last couple

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Inform? No.

As I suspected, there is not a version of inform for the Apple II, either compiler or interpreter.  Apparently, there was a version for the //gs, but I don’t have one. I’m looking for something that when all is said

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Inform?

In addition to doing some looking around various websites for information about Inform for the Apple II, I posted a message asking for the same information on several different message boards. It doesn’t look promising, so I’m not going to

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IFComp Entry

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

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New User Kit and Programming

I’ve been working on the New User Kit for the last couple of days.  The focus has been on ProDos, because, that’s what I have used.  I changed the P8-Utilities Disk page to remind the user to store the original diskette.

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New User Kit, Making a ProDos Data Disk, Making a Bootable ProDos Disk

I have added a page of instructions for making a ProDos data disk and another for making a bootable ProDos disk to the New User Kit. — 46/49  

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New User Kit, ProDos 8 Utilities

Today, I have been concentrating on adding pages to the New User Kit.  I’ve started with the ProDos 8 Utilities and given step by step instructions for doing both single and dual drive disk copies.  All the ProDos 8 Utilities

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Daily Apple, Near Past and Future

This month so far has been pretty rough with a combination of technical and personal stuff going on.  With just over two weeks of very quick postings, this blog has taken kind of a back seat. Three of the four

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Eamon & The Last(?) of the Current PC Stuff

I downloaded the ProDos versions of Eamon in order to play them.  Eamon is a text adventure gaming system written in AppleSoft and designed so others may create text adventures.  Donald Brown wrote the original system and a small adventure

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