I made no progress with my printer challenge today. I still haven’t figured out why I can’t get beyond eighty columns. I’m practically positive it can be done, but I’m missing something. The TV is still working out really well…
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Saturday
Its almost boring without the somewhat tedious spam maintenance. I have nothing new directly on the Apple II front from me. — In my frequent runs of usenet groups I ran into another interactive fiction mapper program called ifmapper. They…
Mapper and ZBasic
I decided to use ZBasic for writing my IFComp entry and so I will use it for my mapping program. I’ve been doing some reading in the manual. I’ve mentioned before about some of the features of ZBasic. It is…
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Interactive Fiction Mapper
When I was in high school, we had a DEC PDP 11/70 running RSTS/E Version 6. We had a copy of adventure (ADVENT), that quite a few of us were playing and later we had a copy of dungeon (DUNGEO),…
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Inform? No.
As I suspected, there is not a version of inform for the Apple II, either compiler or interpreter. Apparently, there was a version for the //gs, but I don’t have one. I’m looking for something that when all is said…
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Inform?
In addition to doing some looking around various websites for information about Inform for the Apple II, I posted a message asking for the same information on several different message boards. It doesn’t look promising, so I’m not going to…
IFComp Entry
Having a little less than two months to put together my entry for IFComp, I once again went looking for an Inform set up that would run on an Apple II. I still didn’t find anything. I was hoping to…
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IFComp 2013
At the end of June, the 26th, IFComp 2013 opened for business. This is the 19th annual interactive competition. IFComp is a competition for fairly small interactive fiction entries. Check the IFComp website for rules, but the short of it…
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Eamon
I started at the beginning last night and downloaded the two main hall disks. I made then both bootable by deleting the player manual and copying prodos and basic.system to them. I used the Graphics Main Hall for a quick…
Today.. Today..
Well first off, life in general happened today. All the little projects that did not get done during the last week, needed attention, so I didn’t have as much time to play as I expected. I did hook up my…
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