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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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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

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Posting on the Dash

This afternoon we have been experiencing multiple power outages, so I am leaving my Apple //c powered off.  We have had two or three long ones and several short ones. I managed to squeeze in about 45 minutes of Zork

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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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Mapper, Print Map, Continued

I worked on the Print Map routine today. The first thing I accomplished was to solve the fuzzy characters on my new TV/display.  I manually changed the display by pushing the menu button on the screen and pressing select, which

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Mapper, Print Map

I have a pretty good idea of how I want Print Map to come out.  I just have to type it in and do some testing. If I remember right I can use multiple type sizes on the same page. 

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