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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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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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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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Simple Startup, Problem and Fix

I turned on my Apple //c with my work disk in it.  When it booted up and the startup menu appeared, I accidently typed in 4 instead of 3 to start AppleWorks 3.0.  AppleSoft came back with: ?BAD SUBSCRIPT ERROR

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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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Simple Startup, Part 1A

While working on yesterdays program and post I found a need to include a listing.  This brings up two problems. My printer is among the missing, as I moved a few years ago and it got separated from my Apple

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Simple Startup, Part 1

When using my /PRODOSWRITER disk, I found it a little tedious to startup either AppleWorks or the System Utilities programs.  The path to start them is twenty one characters long.  This is not much but in this day and age

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