This afternoon my two Pascal Books came in. They came in packed in one of those plastic bag type sealed envelope making you wonder what kind of shape they were going to be in. They were in fine shape. Pascal…
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Hamurabi, Applesoft
In my last post about the Applesoft version of Hamurabi, I noted the spacing problem and the tedious fix of retyping each of the lines that had issues. There is a way to edit lines using escape codes, but I always found…
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Hamurabi, Applesoft
So after doing yesterday’s post, I thought a little more about doing Hamurabi in Applesoft. I decided it would make sense to do as a base line. It took about an hour and a half of one handed hunt and…
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Hamurabi Pseudo Coding
I didn’t work on Hamurabi today, so I won’t be writing about that. In fact, I won’t be writing any actual code for it until the books on Pascal come in. I will be starting on some pseudo code. When…
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Pascal Project, Part Two
In the first part of the post, I told you about starting this project. I have Kyan Pascal set up and running. I picked out my program, Hamurabi. Then I did my Hamurabi, Hello World program. I got screen captures…
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Pascal Project
I found the perfect starter project to translate to Kyan Pascal. In Creative Computing’s Basic Computer Games there is a game starting on page 78, called Hamurabi. The features of Hamurabi, that make it useful to this project is the…
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Old Computer Books
One nice thing about being hooked on vintage computers like the Apple II is most of the books are all old. That sounds like a strange thing to say, but old books are most likely going to save some you money. …
Pascal
When I was first interested in Pascal for the Apple II, my major concern was probably money. If I remember correctly you had two choices for Pascal; Apple Pascal and Kyan Pascal. Apple Pascal at the time was considerably more…
Kyan Pascal
I decided last night to dig out my copy of Kyan Pascal and play around with it. It has been years since I’ve written anything in Pascal, so I thought I’d start with something that has already been done. I’m…
Writers Block?
Yesterday’s post was not really what I was aiming at. I’ve started two posts for today, both were interesting, but required a lot of research, before I go ahead and post them. It turns out, I have a little case of…
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