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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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More Suggested Disks

I had another idea for disks for your Apple II.  If you have an Apple IIe, //c, or //c+, you can get images for the introductory software that Apple supplied with these Apple II’s.  These images are Masters, Model Specific. 

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New User Kit, Part 3

I spent quite a bit of time looking for and working with .shk files today.  In the process, I made some notes and added a page to my New User Kit.  I called it Extracting .shk Disk Images on Windows.

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New User Kit

The other day when I was rebuilding my working disk, I had trouble finding original disks to do it with. Yesterday, I had some time, so I set up one of my Macs to try out the printer.  Turns out I

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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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More on Apple II Stuff

I moved my Apple //c around and made some changes which you can read about below (or not).  I connected my mouse to the Apple //c and found that by moving the adjustment on the left side of the monitor

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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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Odds and Ends

Yesterday, I received the first of my orders of diskettes, a box of 3 1/2″. Today I put together some new project diskettes.  I created a new work diskette for ADTPro and another copy of my writers diskette with AppleWorks

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Tomorrow.. Tomorrow..

Today I didn’t get much done on my Apples.  I worked my seventh day in a row, came home and took a nap. I tried to order some diskettes and ended up buying a ten pack through eBay.  I should

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Diskette Failure

Today, I went to update my ADTPro boot diskette and it would not boot after the update.  I had notched it for double sided use, so I figured I’d try the other side.  When I flipped it over, I noticed

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