Earlier this year, I lost the directory where I kept my downloadable diskette images. These images were ones I created for this blog. I had no direct backup for this directory so I spent some time going over my computers,…
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Retrochallange 2015/01 Third Post
I worked on my challenge for a short time while watching a movie, The Prince of Persia. I thought it was fitting to be working on an Apple II game while watching a movie inspired by iconic Apple II game. It’s funny,…
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Retrochallenge 2015/01 (Winter Warmup)
Retrochallenge 2015/01 starts today. To learn more about it use the Retrochallange link under Links & Disk Images. I’ve had a fascination with Eamon ever since I first found it, about twenty years ago. I like the whole concept of carrying…
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Inform 7
I had some internet connectivity issues and while I was getting them straightened out, I started looking at Inform 7. It turns out, I didn’t need to hunt down a separate copy of Inform 6 to create my .Z5 game…
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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,…
Cord, Just Too Short
Working with older equipment has one drawback that you wouldn’t think of normally. Cords. In this day and age or wireless this and that, the cord became my drawback. I’ve been working with both my Apple //c and my MacSE …
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…
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