— Mapper — While working on Mapper, I have made some up front choices. Zbasic allows you to work in immediate mode just like in AppleSoft. To add or change lines you just type a line number and then then…
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MACHID, Follow-up and ZBasic
When working on MACHID I learned a lot. I remembered a little. I never wrote any programs that looked at system information. That provided a little challenge. Anybody who actually does this stuff, can look at my code and see…
MACHID, Finished
I cleaned up the ZBasic and Applesoft versions of MACHID. I put them onto the disk image MACHID.DSK and uploaded it. The disk image is a boot disk. I’ve added the driver for the no slot clock which will work…
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Mapper
I worked on mapper today. I’m hoping to have it finished this weekend or early next week. I tend to move around my apartment and work on different computers, depending on what I’m doing or what is going on. My…
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Mapper and ZBasic
I decided to use ZBasic for writing my IFComp entry and so I will use it for my mapping program. I’ve been doing some reading in the manual. I’ve mentioned before about some of the features of ZBasic. It is…
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Eamon, Beginner’s Cave, ZBasic
I kept playing with the Beginner’s Cave today. There’s quite a bit of action packed into this small adventure. By small, I mean there are only 26 locations or rooms. As I said yesterday, I felt like I was doing…
Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding, Part Two
The first thing we need to do is make a small correction to the previous post on pseudo coding this project. I reversed the order of the land steps and they should be: Handle land purchase, if any. Handle land…
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Hamurabi, ZBasic from Applesoft, Part Two
I went back and looked at the file sizes of both the Applesoft and Zbasic from Applesoft versions of Hamurabi. The Applesoft version was 8 blocks on the diskette. Add to that 32 blocks for PRODOS and 21 blocks for…
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Hamurabi, ZBasic from Applesoft
I thought I would try to load the Applesoft version of Hamurabi into ZBasic. In the PRODos index to the ZBasic manual there is a section on just this subject. It says to use a procedure like we used to…
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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding
Today, I’m going to start with my version of pseudo coding. I usually just right up a rough outline of the program and the start breaking up each part. First we display some sort of program identification, like maybe the…
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