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Inform 7

I had some internet connectivity issues and while I was getting them straightened out, I started looking at Inform 7. It turns out, I didn’t need to hunt down a separate copy of Inform 6 to create my .Z5 game

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Name That Game

A couple of days ago I dropped off some stuff at the Good Will Store and swung around the electronics area like I usually do when I get a chance. I found a UPS in the box with all the

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Pascal Progress

One of the benefits of having worked with Pascal before is it comes back to you. I have worked through the basics of the program structure, constants, variables and creating formulas.  I’ve also worked through getting input, writing output and

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Games Past, Lem, Part 5

Working on debugging this program has been a challenge. In order to debug it to the book I have been trying to recreate the run that is shown in the book.  The first column of the actual play at the

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Games Past, Lem, Part 4

Part of yesterdays project, reorganization, was to let both my Apple computers be close enough to the printer to share it. I’ve been trying to debug from one screen to another, which quite often is enough.  I’m finding with Lem,

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Cord, Just Too Short

Working with older equipment has one drawback that you wouldn’t think of normally.  Cords. In this day and age or wireless this and that, the cord became my drawback.  I’ve been working with both my Apple //c and my MacSE 

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Games Past, Rocket

I slowly working my way through Lem with the debugging.  The fuzzy print of the scans is making it slower, so I’m hoping I can find my copy of Basic Computer Games and the print will be clearer. In the

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Games Past, Lem, Part 3

I started on debugging today. I ran the program as shown in the book answering no to having flown before and metric to system measurement.  The directions scrolled past like lightning, so I missed most of them as they scrolled

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Games Past, Lem, Part 2

I finished typing in Lem today.  Debugging is going to take a little longer because of the size.  It is more than twice the size of Lunar and the scans are a little fuzzy.  I should be done tomorrow and

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Games Past, Lem

After typing in Lunar and getting it debugged, I have looked at the other two versions and realized, Lunar is probably the closest version to the one I played in high school. I started working on Lem today, and it

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