Backups are important. When you don’t have one they are really important. I went to use Kyan Pascal, which I had set up on a 3 1/5″ diskette and my diskette didn’t work. Did I have a backup? Nope! When I’m…
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Backups? Nope! (Part 1)
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Games Past, Lem, Part 5
Working on debugging this program has been a challenge. In order to debug it to the book I have been trying to recreate the run that is shown in the book. The first column of the actual play at the…
Games Past, Lem, Part 4
Part of yesterdays project, reorganization, was to let both my Apple computers be close enough to the printer to share it. I’ve been trying to debug from one screen to another, which quite often is enough. I’m finding with Lem,…
Games Past, Rocket
I slowly working my way through Lem with the debugging. The fuzzy print of the scans is making it slower, so I’m hoping I can find my copy of Basic Computer Games and the print will be clearer. In the…
Games Past, Lem, Part 3
I started on debugging today. I ran the program as shown in the book answering no to having flown before and metric to system measurement. The directions scrolled past like lightning, so I missed most of them as they scrolled…
Games Past, Lem, Part 2
I finished typing in Lem today. Debugging is going to take a little longer because of the size. It is more than twice the size of Lunar and the scans are a little fuzzy. I should be done tomorrow and…
Games Past, Lem
After typing in Lunar and getting it debugged, I have looked at the other two versions and realized, Lunar is probably the closest version to the one I played in high school. I started working on Lem today, and it…
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Games Past, Next
The next program in my games past series is actually a set of three programs presented in Basic Computer Games. They are Lunar, Lem and Rocket. They are different versions of the same game. The object of these games is…
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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