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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, 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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General Stuff

Well, I’ve had today off, so I am getting some things done around here. Those changes I made a few days ago to my wordpress setting are having the desired results.  Spam has dropped from over a hundred a day

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Mapper

I’ve gotten an earlier start tonight. Mapper is still my primary project at this time. I have to write the Print Map routine.  Map is probably a misnomer as it’s not really a map as maps go.  It is a series

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Mapper, Update

I finally had time to look into the problem I was having with getting a listing of Mapper.  When I tried to list Mapper on the printer the first line printed at 80 columns and the rest tried to print

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Mapper

I had some time to work on Mapper today and cleaned up the display room routine.  After that was done I updated the mapper diskette image also. The changes I made seemed to have helped.  I only had one spam

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