Sometimes when I’m programming I hit a spot where the code is just not looking right and I have to scrap it. I hit such a spot with the Print Map Subroutine. I scrapped the code I had and just…
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Mapper Map
The overall structure for the print map routine of Mapper is in place. I cycle through the rooms collecting the information for three rooms at a time. Once I have three rooms worth of data loaded I print the diagrams…
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Contact and Mapper
In my travels of usenet yesterday I ran across a reference to a user group newsletter from Apple called Contact. Scans of them have been uploaded and you can access them from the Apple Archives. I’ve added a link them…
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My Apple //c
My Apple //c sits quietly on its desk, where it has been since I bought the desk earlier this year. Today I barely booted it up, before I shut it off again as I had to run off and do…
Mapper
I went back to work on Mapper again today. I was startled when the printer only printed 80 columns. It took me a while to fix it, but it was actually simple to fix. After you change the configuration in…
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Printer Progress
I tried adding the control codes to allow a width of 255 characters that I mentioned yesterday to my ZBasic program. At the beginning of the report I added an LPRINT CHR$(9);”255N” to no good end. Then I remembered there…
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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…
Less
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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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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Mapper, Print Map, Paused
I worked briefly on Mapper and ran into a slight problem. I changed the size of the type for the header to a bigger type size (9 cpi) and the type came out bigger. Further down the page I changed…
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