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Dynasty, Hamurabi, Spyglass

One of my PC’s died a couple of weeks ago and a replacement I bought a week ago arrived today.  That cut into my free time for the Apple II. I didn’t really have time to work on any of

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Mapper’s Map, Unstumped

Today, on my ride home from work, I was thinking about the different things I had tried with the map subroutine. The one thing that struck me was I was able to position a string of characters, ‘XXXXX X XXXXX’

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Mapper’s Map, Stumped

I worked on Mapper’s map subroutine again today.  I spent several hours on it and am beginning to feel kind of stupid. The map file I have been using is just two named rooms with no directions. At this point

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Mapper’s Map

I worked on the map subroutine again today.  I spent several hours on it and am stumped.  If I can’t find the problem  tomorrow, I will post it and see if anyone sees the problem. I print three rooms across

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Mapper’s Map, Continued

The other night I was working on the print map subroutine of Mapper. My printer sits on a TV tray at the end of my desk. The TV tray is sideways and so is the printer with the paper in

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Mapper’s Map, Continued

I spent a bit of time working on the print map routine today. It’s a little slow going with each change requiring a round of compiling and a test print. It is slow going, but it is going, so I’m

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Mapper’s Map

I had run into a mental block with the map on Mapper, so I put it aside to mull it over. I had the data in the map file and could read and write it without any problems. In order

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Z-Machine Interpreter

Awhile ago I was looking for a z-machine interpreter for the Apple II. As far as I can tell none exist on their own. There were three that I found, two were for the Apple //gs, but the third was

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Apple II Sites

Sometimes when I’m programming I hit a spot where the code is just not looking right and I have to scrap it. I hit such a spot with the Print Map Subroutine. I scrapped the code I had and just

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Mapper Map

The overall structure for the print map routine of Mapper is in place. I cycle through the rooms collecting the information for three rooms at a time. Once I have three rooms worth of data loaded I print the diagrams

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