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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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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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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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KFest, OZ KFest, & IFComp

Kansas Fest has started.  For those of you who are there, you can’t believe how jealous I am.  I understand Woz showed up in time for Randy Wigginton’s presentation.  I saw him speak at the one of the first Macworld

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IFComp 2013

At the end of June, the 26th, IFComp 2013 opened for business.  This is the 19th annual interactive competition. IFComp is a competition for fairly small interactive fiction entries.  Check the IFComp website for rules, but the short of it

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Eamon, Beginner’s Cave, ZBasic

I kept playing with the Beginner’s Cave today.  There’s quite a bit of action packed into this small adventure.  By small, I mean there are only 26 locations or rooms. As I said yesterday, I felt like I was doing

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Hamurabi, Pascal

I spent some time working on the Pascal version of Hamurabi today.  I typed in the pseudo code and quickly converted it to a Pascal shell for Hamurabi. The thing I liked about Pascal is how easy it is to

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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding, Feeding and Planting

Continuing with this project I worked on planting and feeding:     I found a some changes. Under Handle Land Sales, if you try to sell a negative amount of land, complain you messed up and end. Under Handle Land Sales, if

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Simple Startup, Problem and Fix

I turned on my Apple //c with my work disk in it.  When it booted up and the startup menu appeared, I accidently typed in 4 instead of 3 to start AppleWorks 3.0.  AppleSoft came back with: ?BAD SUBSCRIPT ERROR

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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding, Land

Now I’ve moved onto the land handling: Today was another banner day for Spam.  I got 50 Spam comments of which 45 were for drugs, allegedly legal.  I think that maybe they think that with the name Apple in the

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