I downloaded 007 Goldfinger from Apple2Online. Other than the title, I didn’t know anything about it.
I booted it up in AppleWin and it is an Angelsoft Interactive Fiction from Mindscape. I lost pretty quickly. As I try again and again, I don’t seem to gain any ground. No matter what I’ve typed, the game goes through the same steps to a loosing end.
It’s been a year since I started this blog. In that year I’ve posted 294 articles which is short of my intended goal for daily posts. That means I’ve missed about 2 and a half months of posts.
In addition to the posts I’ve added several things I hope will be helpful for Apple II users, such as a list of links and several pages with instructions or helpful hints.
Aside from the usually helpful comments I have had a stunning amount of spam comments, quite often as many as one hundred per day.
There is still quite a bit of Apple II related stuff I wish to do in the coming year. I’ve never been to Kansas Fest, but would love to make one at some point.
I’m afraid the reality of my Daily Apple is more a case of every day and a quarter. I’m going to try harder in the coming year.
The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan.
I started this post last May (05-May-13) and never could write what I felt was a thorough and fair review. I didn’t have any thing against the book, quite the opposite, there is so much in this book that is useful, I didn’t feel I could do it justice.
Today I figured out what to say. The best way to review this book is to say, “I never put this book away. It a always laying within arms reach, with a couple of hands full of bookmarks scattered throughout.”
I would recommend you get a copy for your self. (Like the political commercials say, “My name is Dana Bowen and I approve this message”. This is not a paid ad either.) I say this even though I have a very complete set of Apple II books both printed and in .pdf.
I’ve been looking for a free telnet program for Windows, that had the ability to upload and download files using Xmodem, Ymodem or Zmodem. I wanted this in order to move files from my Windows PC to my Apple //c.
I found one this morning. It is called ExtraPutty and is a branch off the original Putty program that adds Xmodem, Xmodem 1K, Ymodem as well as ftp. I’ve added ExtraPutty to the links.
In the past I have had to resort to moving the files and the ADTPro cable to my Linux PC and then move the file over to my Apple //c. Now I can just use ExtraPutty to transfer the file or files to the Apple //c using the ADTPro cable as is.
I have enjoyed playing Taipan and Taipan+ so much I went back to Asimov looking for similar games. There is so much there it is hard to pick one.
The things that attracted me to this type of game are numerous. The first is simple set up. In this case you just run the program and start playing. I like trading simulations such as star merchant or stock market.
Many of the games require some form of instructions that would have come with the original game. Important things like knowing what to type when to make things work. Many games use the keyboard to control movement, while others expect a joystick or paddles
There a quite a few games that will take some time to set up and play and when I run into some that are interesting, I’ll post about them here.
I have been playing Taipan for a couple of days and went back to download a copy for the simulator on my tablet. There was another one called Taipan+, so I downloaded both. Looking to see what the difference was, I noticed the first, Taipan, was a binary file while the second, Taipan+, was Applesoft and Taipan+ had two other games, Bally’s Spy Hunter and another called Swashbuckler.
I tried listing Taipan+ and due to some memory moving (I presume), all I was able to get was this:
10 POKE 103,1: POKE 104,64: POKE 16384,0: GOTO 10
The catalog shows a size of 117, so its a fair guess, I’m not getting it all. Interestingly enough the other version is also cataloged as 117.
I played the Taipan+ version for a while today and did fairly well. I was able to retire after 2 years 11 months with 4.05 million and a score of 810 which was in the second lowest ranking.
The following post titled “Desperate for help on transferring stuff from ProDos on Apple IIe to a Mac” from “Prof. Dr John Warwick Montgomery”:
I am new to ProDos and badly need help. I have an Apple System Disk 3.1 (ProDos) for booting my Apple IIe. My external 3.5″ disk drive is a UniDisk 3.5, with a Liron card in slot 4. I want to be able to save my Pascal programs to 3.5 floppies so as to be able to transfer them to one of my later Macs (either a Performa 5320 with divided HD and OS 7.6 and OS 8.0–or to a PowerMac 7600 running OS 9.2)–and then perhaps to a MacMini with OS 10.6.8 (though that isn’t essential).
My problem is that I have no ProDos formatted 3.5 floppies–only 800 Kb DSDD floppies, and these do not apparently work when inserted into the UniDisk. Where does one obtain ProDos formatted floppies–or must one format them oneself (and, if so, HOW?).
I understand that it is also possible to transfer data using serial ports (the SuperSerial/Liron card has a serial port). But to do this, I would apparently need a “null modem” connection and special cabling to the more recent Mac. If so, (1) how would I obtain the null modem and the cable(s), and (2) what would be the steps for doing the transfer of a Pascal program I’ve written on the Apple IIe to the 7600 (or to the Performa, if easier)–or even to my Mac Mini running OS 10.6.8? Could my existing 3.5″ floppies be used in this connection?
What I need is a step-by-step procedure to transfer programmes I’ve written on the Apple IIe–using the simplest method possible. (I am really new to all of this and am in France in an area without specialized help for antique Apple and Mac computers!)
was on comp.sys.apple2 today.
It was good day to get responses, with 13 replies from several different approaches, within hours, including one to physically help him out. It all depends on the way you read the posting and where you put the focus, what does he really want? Does he want disk images to store as backup? Or does he want the Pascal program files transferred to his Macs so he can work on them and compile mac versions?
It sounded (read) to me like he wanted the files to work with. Not having worked with the later Macs, I would have suggested using a null modem cable and communications programs to transfer the actual files. My understanding now is that with the right feature installed, newer Macs can read ProDos diskettes. Good to learn and glad I didn’t suggest my way. That being the case he should be able to format a ProDos diskette, copy the files onto it, and move them right to his Macs.
I was looking at some tweets that I follow and noticed one from Steve Wozniak that he was arriving on flight UA 6502 (March 21). I just thought there was some irony there.
I’m still playing Taipan. It reminds me of Star Merchant, except for the graphics and the time period.
I like the game. It plays well and the interface is fairly clean. One thing I noticed, playing on the color screen was harder, due to the colored text. I didn’t notice it when I first tried it on AppleWin, because I had the video set for monochrome. When I moved it to my //c with the color tv screen, it was more noticeable.
If you like trading simulations you should definitely try it out.
I discovered this game online called Taipan at www.taipangame.com which is based on a game of the same name written on a TRS-80 and later ported to the Apple II. It is a game based on the China trade of the 1800s, to quote their own web page.
I played a few rounds online and found it interesting. I went to Asimov and downloaded it for the Apple II. The Apple II version seems to be just a little tougher than the online version. The first couple of rounds were fairly short with pirates getting me. I played some more and started to make more money and live longer.
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