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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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Apple //e Stuff

There was a listing on eBay for a “CFFA3000 With Remote For Apple IIe, Apple IIgs” card.  First bid was for $1 and ended at $250.  If it wasn’t out of my price range I’d have been right in there

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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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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding Recap and Spam

I typed my notes and Pseudo Code in AppleWorks and printed them out for a recap: Today was a record day for Spam here at Daily Apple.  I had 16 Spam comments mostly about drugs.

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BBS Software

I spent time looking for some BBS software for the Apple II.  By time, I mean I spent several hours. Most of the systems I found had little or no documentation.  Without the documentation I will be lost.  So far, I

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Simple Startup, Part 1A

While working on yesterdays program and post I found a need to include a listing.  This brings up two problems. My printer is among the missing, as I moved a few years ago and it got separated from my Apple

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