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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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Daily Apple, Near Past and Future

This month so far has been pretty rough with a combination of technical and personal stuff going on.  With just over two weeks of very quick postings, this blog has taken kind of a back seat. Three of the four

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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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Apple //e Stuff

There was a listing on eBay for a “CFFA3000 With Remote For Apple IIe, Apple IIgs” card.  First bid was for $1 and ended at $250.  If it wasn’t out of my price range I’d have been right in there

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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 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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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

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A Strange Connection

I got to thinking today about something I did the other day.  When I created the simple startup program for my /PRODOSWRITER disk, I wrote the original version on my laptop using  AppleWin.  When it was done I used ZLink

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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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