— Mapper — I knew it was something simple. This morning when I got up, I got right into it. The problem was, I wasn’t reading the control record, which has the record count. I fixed that and things are…
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Home and Working on Mapper
— Mapper — I’ve been working on the routines to add a room. I’m not doing something right. I run the program and add several rooms and the map file changes size. However, when I run it again the record…
More Mapper
Today was another productive day on mapper. So far my source code is up to 9 blocks. I designed the file structure which is very simple at this time. The first record is a control record. At this time all…
Mapper plus
— Mapper — While working on Mapper, I have made some up front choices. Zbasic allows you to work in immediate mode just like in AppleSoft. To add or change lines you just type a line number and then then…
IFComp
After my little side trip with MACHID in the last couple of days I’ve come to realize that my plan to write an adventure program for the Apple II had hit a snag. I had originally planned to write it…
Mapper and ZBasic
I decided to use ZBasic for writing my IFComp entry and so I will use it for my mapping program. I’ve been doing some reading in the manual. I’ve mentioned before about some of the features of ZBasic. It is…
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Interactive Fiction Mapper
When I was in high school, we had a DEC PDP 11/70 running RSTS/E Version 6. We had a copy of adventure (ADVENT), that quite a few of us were playing and later we had a copy of dungeon (DUNGEO),…
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DOS 3.3 Copying, Continued
According to WordPress this is the 100th posting. If this were an episode of a TV series, I would be required to do this posting as a musical. Trust me on this, nobody wants that to happen. First thing this…
DOS 3.3 Copying
Yesterday I spent some time trying to copy the Dos 3.3 diskette I downloaded. I wanted to make a copy so I would know how to do it and put together a page on it for the New User Kit.…
Posted in Apple //c, Emulation, Projects Tagged with: 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, DOS, New User Kit
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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