I worked on my challenge for a short time while watching a movie, The Prince of Persia. I thought it was fitting to be working on an Apple II game while watching a movie inspired by iconic Apple II game. It’s funny,…
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Retrochallange 2015/01 Third Post
Posted in Apple //c, Apple //gs, Apple IIe, Emulation, Games, Programming, Projects, Retrochallenge Tagged with: Apple //c, Apple IIe, Applesoft, Eamon, emulation, Games, Interactive Fiction, Programming, Projects
Retrochallenge 2015/01 Second Post
In order to play Eamon you need at least one diskette from the Eamon Library. The Main Hall and Beginners Cave (EAMON001.DSK) is where everything starts, and hopefully ends. In order to create more adventures a second diskette, the Dungeon…
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Retrochallenge 2015/01 (Winter Warmup)
Retrochallenge 2015/01 starts today. To learn more about it use the Retrochallange link under Links & Disk Images. I’ve had a fascination with Eamon ever since I first found it, about twenty years ago. I like the whole concept of carrying…
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I’m Back
I’m back. I have no special reason or excuse for not posting, I just haven’t posted in a day under a month. I signed into Daily Apple to find 2,308 comments, or more accurately spam. After spending about twenty minutes…
Flapple Bird – Memory?
I went to the Flapple Apple github website and downloaded the latest version. I moved a copy through ADTPro to my Apple //c and tried that again today. I was thinking after the last post that maybe I was having…
Flapple Bird – Retry Again
In my last post, I went back to ADTPro 1.2.8, downloaded Flapple Bird and tried running it, only to have it lock up. Since that didn’t work, I downloaded ADTPro 2.0.0 and redownloaded Flapple Bird. That didn’t work either. With that…
Flapple Bird – Retry
The last time I had a chance to try Flapple Bird, I downloaded it using ADTPro 2.0.0 both in the 140 K image and the 800 K image and both images would boot ProDOS 8 v1.8 and stop at the…
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…
Robotron 2084, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’
Robotron 2084 was downloaded from MacGui as well. I tested it in AppleWin and one of the early screens shows the keyboard commands. I downloaded it to my Apple //c using ADTPro 1.2.8 onto a disk I have used before. …
Galaxians, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’
Prompted by a posting on MacGui ,’New Apple 2c user needs help plz’. I downloaded Galaxians from MacGui to my Windows PC. It is a .GZ file, so I extracted the disk image with 7-Zip. Starting up AppleWin, I booted Galaxians,…
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