The next program in my games past series is actually a set of three programs presented in Basic Computer Games. They are Lunar, Lem and Rocket. They are different versions of the same game. The object of these games is…
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Basic Games, Disk Image
In the past whenever I needed a directory added to a disk I just booted up the utilities and created one. I knew there was a way to do it under ProDos, but never bothered to look it up. While…
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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…
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Animal, Observations
I have couple of observations about the animal program. It is fairly short, about 70 lines. It was designed to be used with the caps lock on (or only upper case input). To clean up this version I will need to either…
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Animal Debugged
I finished debugging to the book. It was asking the “Is it a ” question, but displaying the question for the animal instead of the animal name. It took a while before I found the problem. In line 190, I…
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Games Past, Animal, Entry and Debugging
I finished typing Animal in today. When I was typing it in the only changes I made were to the text that was displayed. I changed it from all upper case to upper and lower case. The second half of…
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Games Past, Animal
I’ve decided to try to recover some of the games from my past. These games were written in basic and I’ll be using AppleSoft. David Ahl’s Basic Computer Games was published in several different editions. The first I saw was…
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Dynasty, Hamurabi, Spyglass
One of my PC’s died a couple of weeks ago and a replacement I bought a week ago arrived today. That cut into my free time for the Apple II. I didn’t really have time to work on any of…
Printing Progress
I posted a question about my printing problem on comp.sys.apple2.programmer yesterday and not much later in the day I had two replies from Bill Buckels and Hugh Hood pointing me to useful information that solved the problem. I was trying…
Printer, Problem?
I worked on Mapper today in kind of an indirect fashion. When I was working on Mapper before, I was having a problem with setting up the printer to print more than eighty columns. I’ve been writing Mapper with ZBasic.…
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