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February 16, 2018 by malfunct

Eamon Porting – Some really ugly BASIC

In my ongoing adventures in porting Eamon Adventures I stumbled on some truely ugly BASIC code:

110 HD = FN A(8):AG = FN A(8):CH = FN A(8)
120 PRINT " HARDINESS--";HD: PRINT " AGILITY --";AG: PRINT " CHARISMA --";CH;"'": PRINT 
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February 6, 2018 by malfunct

Porting Eamon Adventures – First challenges, characters.

In unraveling the code for Eamon the first thing I looked at was the startup procedure which did character selection. There is a bunch of text to give a great flavor which I have so far skipped over, as it …

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February 6, 2018 by malfunct

Porting Eamon Adventures to .Net

In my youth I had some spare money to spend and a public domain software catalog for the Apple II and so I bought a few software titles. Among those titles was the Eamon Adventures Master and a handful of …

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August 23, 2017 by malfunct

Blackjack

Blackjack was my attempt at “real” graphics on the TI-82.

blackjack.zip

BLACKJAC:

\START82\
\COMMENT=Program file dated 01/20/80, 00:00
\NAME=BLACKJAC
\FILE=BLACKJAC.82P
ClrHome
Disp “+————-+”
Disp “! YOU ARE !”
Disp “! PLAYING !”
Disp “! VIDEO 21 !”
Disp “! VERSION …

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August 23, 2017 by malfunct

Slots

I really enjoyed this slot machine implementation because to me it seemed like the scrolling text looked like slot machine wheels spinning. Text of program below and 82p files attached.

slots.zip

Slots:

\START82\
\COMMENT=Program file dated 01/20/80, 00:00
\NAME=ASLOTS
\FILE=ASLOTS.82P…

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August 22, 2017 by malfunct

Basketball

In high school a friend of mine wrote a fun random chance based basketball game. We played a lot of this back in the day. Here is the ascii listings of the programs and attached will be a *.82p file …

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August 22, 2017 by malfunct

Rescuing TI-82 software I wrote in my youth.

I recently grabbed a 486 computer from my parents house and in the process of finding my old dos/windows software to install on the machine I found a backup file for a TI-82 software and wondered if it contained anything …

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May 9, 2017 by malfunct

Power switch for CoCo 3

Last year I purchased a CoCo 3 and accessories and thrown in with the package were two other CoCo 3’s that were “not working”. One of them had a poorly seated GIME chip and the other had a really crusty …

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April 15, 2017 by malfunct

Cyclone and the ESP8266

Today I started trying to figure out WIFI on the Cyclone CoCo. I am using the newly updated version of Cyclone that supports FAT32 formatted SD cards. The first step is to extract the below two files to the root …

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April 7, 2017 by malfunct

Archive.org collection downloader

Archive.org is an amazing resource but it can be tedious to download collections of items from the archive. I wrote this utility when I wanted to download the 4am Apple II software collection and had tired of clicking each of …

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