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ProDOS Program Selectors, Big Red Computer Club, Continued

MENU2 reminds me of AppleWorks, visually.  When you run it it draws a file tab across the top of the screen with the prefix on the tab.  If you choose a sub-directory it draws another tab under that tab with

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ProDOS Program Selectors, Big Red Computer Club

On MacGUI, I searched for program selector and right near the top was a disk image from Big Red Computer Club (235 ProDOS Menu Programs), full of program selectors, 10 in AppleSoft and one .SYSTEM program. There is one that

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ProDOS Program Selectors, Selector 1.0

Looking through Asimov, you kind of have to go by file name and guess if the file is what you are looking for. On csa2 there was one direct suggestion, so I downloaded that one, select10.gz, to try out. It’s

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Kegs IIgs Emulator

My Android tablet is a fairly inexpensive one.  It is an iRulu 7″.  The package contained the tablet, a carrying case that has a small keyboard that plugs into the micro USB slot and a charger.  I normally don’t use

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Games Past, Lem, Part 5

Working on debugging this program has been a challenge. In order to debug it to the book I have been trying to recreate the run that is shown in the book.  The first column of the actual play at the

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Games Past, Lem, Part 4

Part of yesterdays project, reorganization, was to let both my Apple computers be close enough to the printer to share it. I’ve been trying to debug from one screen to another, which quite often is enough.  I’m finding with Lem,

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Games Past, Rocket

I slowly working my way through Lem with the debugging.  The fuzzy print of the scans is making it slower, so I’m hoping I can find my copy of Basic Computer Games and the print will be clearer. In the

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Games Past, Lem, Part 3

I started on debugging today. I ran the program as shown in the book answering no to having flown before and metric to system measurement.  The directions scrolled past like lightning, so I missed most of them as they scrolled

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Games Past, Lem, Part 2

I finished typing in Lem today.  Debugging is going to take a little longer because of the size.  It is more than twice the size of Lunar and the scans are a little fuzzy.  I should be done tomorrow and

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Games Past, Lem

After typing in Lunar and getting it debugged, I have looked at the other two versions and realized, Lunar is probably the closest version to the one I played in high school. I started working on Lem today, and it

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