I’ve been having doubts about my Apple //c for months now. After doing diagnostics on my system, I’ve come to realize that my problems were based on bad diskette media. Back in March, when Assembly Lines became available, I downloaded…
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Merlin 8 Working Diskette
Posted in Apple //c, Programming Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, Assembler, books, Programming
Another No Slot Clock
Last night I ordered another No Slot Clock chip for my Apple //e. I had planned to buy one last fall when I got one and tried it out on my Apple //c. This one was about 65 cents cheaper…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, Apple IIe
Pascal Progress
One of the benefits of having worked with Pascal before is it comes back to you. I have worked through the basics of the program structure, constants, variables and creating formulas. I’ve also worked through getting input, writing output and…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Programming Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, Apple IIe, Kyan Pascal, Programming, Projects
Pascal Progress
When last I thought about relearning Pascal, I was just going to jump in, in a half hazard manner. This time around I’m going to take the time to plug on through using the three books I have. I’ve been…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Programming Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, Apple IIe, Kyan Pascal, Programming
Backups? Nope! (Part 2)
This morning I started over and created a new Kyan Pascal diskette. I booted AppleWin using the diskette I started the other day and then went into settings and chose to use another blank diskette as a second hard drive. I…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Programming Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, ADTPro, Apple //c, Apple IIe, Kyan Pascal, Programming
Backups? Nope! (Part 1)
Backups are important. When you don’t have one they are really important. I went to use Kyan Pascal, which I had set up on a 3 1/5″ diskette and my diskette didn’t work. Did I have a backup? Nope! When I’m…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Programming Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, ADTPro, Apple //c, Apple IIe, Kyan Pascal, Programming
An Embarrassment of Riches
Back in the mid 80’s when I bought my Apple //c, all things Apple came at fairly high price for someone like me who was on a tight budget. No we suffer from an embarrassment of riches when it comes…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, Apple IIe, AppleWorks, Games, Printer
Apple II Finds
Every now and then when I go into eBay to search for Apple II stuff the sort comes up with Price + Shipping:highest first. Normally I just quickly switch to a sort by ending date or lowest price. Today I…
Apple //c
If you have used an Apple //c you notice some things. It really is compact. That was one of the things I liked about it. I remember looking at the //e and the //e seems much bigger. All then features…
Mapper
I worked on mapper today. I’m hoping to have it finished this weekend or early next week. I tend to move around my apartment and work on different computers, depending on what I’m doing or what is going on. My…
Posted in Apple //c, Programming Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, ADTPro, Apple //c, Programming, ZBasic
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