I haven’t posted in months, six months in fact. I had a problem develop a couple of months ago with AdtPro. It stopped recognizing the serial ports. The problem seemed to be with Java so over time, I uninstalled Java…
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Posted in Apple //c, Apple //gs, Apple IIe, Posts Tagged with: ADTPro, Apple //c, Apple IIe, Serial Port Problems
Flapple Bird
I’ve seen several postings announcing Flapple Bird, an arcade style game for the Apple II. I looked at the posted video and was intrigued. I downloaded it to my Linux laptop and tried it in AppleWin and liked it. I…
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
Murphy’s Law, Challange Accepted
As you can see I challenged Murphy’s Law by saying I was back at it. Challenge Accepted, I lost. Eighteen days without a post. I haven’t had a minute to even turn on my Apple II in the last two plus…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Programming, Projects Tagged with: ADTPro, Apple //c, Apple IIe, Applesoft, Programming, Projects
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
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.…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Connection Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, ADTPro, Apple //c, New User Kit
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…
Posted in Apple //c, Connection Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, ADTPro, Apple //c, DOS, New User Kit, PRODos
USB Serial Port
I forgot all about testing the USB serial port yesterday, until late in the day. Today, I spent a little bit of time testing it. I tried it on the Linux laptop first and what I thought was the new…
Printing, Part 2 (and serial ports)
The ribbons came in today. I tried them out and they worked well. I printed a sign and a banner. I loaded up my prodos writing diskette and printed out a listing of the startup program. After printing the listing,…
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