Looking through Asimov, you kind of have to go by file name and guess if the file is what you are looking for. On csa2 there was one direct suggestion, so I downloaded that one, select10.gz, to try out. It’s…
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ProDOS Program Selectors
I was reading csa2 yesterday and somebody called Harry Potter was asking about a ProDOS program selector. It started me thinking. In the past, if I wanted a program selector, I wrote a quick and dirty Applesoft program and saved…
MACHID, Continued
While writing the MACHID program, that sidetracked me from mapper, I learned a bit. The MACHID byte has some information on the model of the computer, but not all is very specific. It will identify the amount of memory the…
Posted in Apple //c, Apple IIe, Posts, Programming Tagged with: 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, Apple //c, Apple IIe, Applesoft, AppleWin, PRODos, Programming
Drift
Last night I was reading comp.sys.apple2 and ran across a post by Daniel Kruszyna where he mentioned a an Apple II music disk he collaborated on called Drift. (In the interest of giving proper credit I stole the next sentence…
New User Kit and Programming
I’ve been working on the New User Kit for the last couple of days. The focus has been on ProDos, because, that’s what I have used. I changed the P8-Utilities Disk page to remind the user to store the original diskette.…
New User Kit
The other day when I was rebuilding my working disk, I had trouble finding original disks to do it with. Yesterday, I had some time, so I set up one of my Macs to try out the printer. Turns out I…
Posted in Apple //c, Connection Tagged with: 3 1/2" Diskette Drive, 5 1/4" Diskette Drive, ADTPro, Apple //c, DOS, New User Kit, PRODos
ProDOS
I was going to call this DOS vs ProDOS, but I won’t argue the DOS side. I know that there are hundreds, possibly thousands of programs written for DOS. By the time I bought my Apple //c, in December of…
BBS Software
I spent time looking for some BBS software for the Apple II. By time, I mean I spent several hours. Most of the systems I found had little or no documentation. Without the documentation I will be lost. So far, I…
A Quick Review, Part Two
The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan Roughly, the last third of the book consists of nine appendices, a glossary, and the index. Appendix B contains a summary of commands and functions for DOS, PRODos, Applesoft and Integer…
A Quick Review, Part One
The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan. My copy came in from Amazon almost a week ago. I haven’t had time to read it, just skim through it. My first impression is, it’s a huge paperback, 774 pages. …
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