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Dukedom

I was exploring Macgui.com today in the Apple II download section.  I was looking at different adventure games and ran across a Dos 3.3 disk called text adventures.  The directory showed what looks like seven different games and a disk

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Dynasty, Hamurabi, Spyglass, Followup

I had time to try out Dynasty, the Hamurabi derivative.  It has certain features that Hamurabi lacks, like in game directions and a running total of statistics.  I’m not crazy about the added sound effects and the use of inverse text. 

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Daily Apple, Near Past and Future

This month so far has been pretty rough with a combination of technical and personal stuff going on.  With just over two weeks of very quick postings, this blog has taken kind of a back seat. Three of the four

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Hamurabi, Pascal

I spent some time working on the Pascal version of Hamurabi today.  I typed in the pseudo code and quickly converted it to a Pascal shell for Hamurabi. The thing I liked about Pascal is how easy it is to

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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding, Feeding and Planting

Continuing with this project I worked on planting and feeding:     I found a some changes. Under Handle Land Sales, if you try to sell a negative amount of land, complain you messed up and end. Under Handle Land Sales, if

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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding, Land

Now I’ve moved onto the land handling: Today was another banner day for Spam.  I got 50 Spam comments of which 45 were for drugs, allegedly legal.  I think that maybe they think that with the name Apple in the

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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding Recap and Spam

I typed my notes and Pseudo Code in AppleWorks and printed them out for a recap: Today was a record day for Spam here at Daily Apple.  I had 16 Spam comments mostly about drugs.

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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding, Part Two

The first thing we need to do is make a small correction to the previous post on pseudo coding this project.  I reversed the order of the land steps and they should be:   Handle land purchase, if any. Handle land

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Hamurabi, ZBasic from Applesoft, Part Two

I went back and looked at the file sizes of both the Applesoft and Zbasic from Applesoft versions of Hamurabi. The Applesoft version was 8 blocks on the diskette.  Add to that 32 blocks for PRODOS and 21 blocks for

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Hamurabi, ZBasic from Applesoft

I thought I would try to load the Applesoft version of Hamurabi into ZBasic. In the PRODos index to the ZBasic manual there is a section on just this subject.  It says to use a procedure like we used to

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