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cc65/ProDOSi/Text Adventure file buffer issue

Submitted by Harry Potter on November 21, 2022 - 10:57am

Hi!  I have cc65 and am working on ProDOSi and thinking about porting some text adventure skeleton code to the Apple2.  I want to have the last be a system program and use the space between $0800 and $2000 for extra code and data and I/O buffers.  I only need two (or maybe one) files to be open at a time.  How do I use ProDOS to set the buffers?  ProDOSi so far can open and close files, and I'm currently working on read/write access.

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Screenshots from GSPlus emu?

Submitted by Harry Potter on November 21, 2022 - 10:17am

Hi!  I can now take screenshots from the AppleWin emulator but didn't do it yet.  :(  I also want to take screenshots of Apple2GS games.  I am using the GSPlus emulator but don't know the version.  How do I do it?

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Need help getting SCSI CDrom working in GS-OS for Apple IIgs

Submitted by Verault on November 20, 2022 - 1:26pm
I have an Apple IIgs with a Scsi card and I want to get a Cdrom working with it. This computer has a scsi harddrive with GS-OS 6.0.4 it boots to. I have a known working External Apple 300 CDrom drive I am trying to use but I also have a couple 3rd party external scsi cdroms as well. I loaded the Media Control panel and here is a photo.
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Apple ][/II+/IIe I/O Controller aka Apple ][ 5.25" Disk Controller - info needed

Submitted by LaserMaster on November 19, 2022 - 6:04pm

So there is no confusion, the Apple part number for this controller is 655-0101-B that I recently purchased to be used with a recently purchased DuoDisk and hopefully the Floppy EMU hack drive.  I have no cable for the DuoDisk but can make one or buy one.

 

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ORCA C docs.?

Submitted by Harry Potter on November 19, 2022 - 11:57am

Hi!  I really want to program for the Apple 2GS.  I just found and downloaded the ORCA C compiler but not its docs.  Where can I find the docs.?

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(IIgs) SS RAM-GS expansion chips

Submitted by Elvovirto on November 18, 2022 - 7:26pm

Hey all -

 

I've recently started to get back into my IIgs and that includes opening them up and re-aquainting myself with what's installed.

 

My ROM 3 GS has a RAM expansion from Sequential Systems, (c) 1991, one of the cards without the RAM-GS silkscreening.  It's a 2MB card with the open row of sockets available for expansion.

 

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printtok/cc65 update: ideas?

Submitted by Harry Potter on November 18, 2022 - 10:38am

Hi!  I'm working on an update of my printtok.c module that will use a modified version of Infocom's ZSCII technique and tokenization to compress text.  The current version only uses tokenization, is inferior and only helped a text adventure's text by about 13%.  While I'm working on it, does anybody here have any ideas on how I can better compress text such that each string doesn't have to reference a previous string?  

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DOS 3.3: which file to download?

Submitted by Harry Potter on November 17, 2022 - 3:37pm

Hi!  I just Googled and found Apple DOS 3.3 disks at APPLE2.ORG.ZA - Mirrors.  I want one for future projects including an Apple2 port of my text adventure codes.  I am looking for an empty DOS 3.3 disk image on which I can put DOS 3.3 programs.  Unfortunately, the site has several DOS 3.3 disk images, and I don't know which one to download.  Which file should I choose?

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Copies of "The Applesoft Tutorial"

Submitted by mabalmer on November 16, 2022 - 3:45pm

I have found myself teaching a computers class (something that falls outside my regular purview) as a result of staff shortages at my school, and I'm wanting to introduce coding to the kids using BASIC. The trouble is, there really was never a good curriculum to follow for something like this because BASIC as a language isn't commonly taught anymore and I feel like most of the teachers that WOULD have taught BASIC all created their own stuff anyway.

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Cross-platform Apple2/Windows users: Template Creator

Submitted by Harry Potter on November 14, 2022 - 11:21am

Okay.  I apologize for the SPAM--the administrator here can remove this message--but I have a program called Template Creator.  It is a program that creates, handles, organizes and uses templates.  There are versions for DOS, Windows and the C64.  The C128 version currently doesn't work, and I want to port it to the Apple2.  It is located at tmpcreat - Manage Files at SourceForge.net.  I have some templates for it.  It has little for the Apple2 user, but I am accepting donations in the form of Apple2-emulation-related templates,

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