Re: Apple Pascal Maze Creator

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 10:41:17 PM UTC-6, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, retrogear wrote:
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> > Since we seem to be on the subject of homebrew games, a long time ago I 
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> > wrote a Pascal program that would generate elaborate mazes in text that 
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> > could be printed out for kids to trace. I used to hand them out in my 
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> > Sunday school class when the kids got bored.I have the disks for Apple 
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> > Pascal 1.3 which I purchased back then and the source somewhere. Can 
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> > those be posted on Asimov or are they still being sold somewhere? Also, 
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> > does ADTPro handle Pascal disks?
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> > Larry
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> Pascal lowlevel disk format is same as DOS 3.3 and ProDOS.  It should work 
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> fine.
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> -uso.

ADTPro can handle them.  The format is slightly different than DOS 3.3 though, in the sector skewing.  Pascal and ProDOS are the same though.

Pascal disks tend to use a volume number of 1 instead of 254 though, so if transferred from real floppy to .dsk image, they may not work right off.  Would need to convert to .2mg and set the volume number to 1 (CiderPress can do this).


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