Updates (Page 5)

July 5th

ARGGH! THWARTED again! No blog update today either. Had to go and get some stuff for going to college... Therefore -> No Progress (FAIL). Best of luck to my fellow participants. Over and out. P.S. Will make page 5 tomorrow and move this there. Maybe in lieu of succesful progress, I will try playing Bard's Tale or Prince of Persia tommorow (the eBay seller who I bought the Apple IIe kindly sent those on the disks he included and ADTPro on a disk as well -- it has been very useful.)

July 7th

Terrible time keeping up with entries and my lack of progress. Yesterday it didn't happen, no RetroChallenge related anything period. I did however recieve my copy of 300 Baud Magazine - Issue #2 yesterday which was a bit exciting and a fun (if short) read. Interesting to see the names of some of the RetroChallenge participants in there, hope to see that continue (if a third issue will be coming...) Also, I purchased a second floppy drive for the Apple IIe (a Unidisk 5.25" like the one I have) off of eBay as USD $20 w/free shipping seemed like an acceptable price. I felt that I would need that to be able to have less disk swapping in the future (less than with my short play with AppleWorks 3 for the Apple II -- fair bit of disk swapping involved since I currently only have one drive). While searching yesterday for a blank audio tape to use with my recently acquired tape player (an old sanyo thing, I have a kiddie tape player too somewhere) I did find probably the last new black ink cartridge in the house for my (well, it's mine now) Canon BJC-2010 (5ppm, wow.). We've had that printer for a good 7 years at least (computer stuff that enters the house usually doesn't leave, leastways not once I get my hands on it). I'm just glad I've been able to find all the new cartridges it needs for the moment in the house, without expenditure. Means I can use it again if I want too (now where did the paper feed tray go...). I will play those games today, if I can remember too. It'd be fun to take video of it, but we'll see. If I was trying to be really retro, I'd go buy a video cassette for my parents camcorder (Canon ES190), but I'm not that crazy. Besides I doubt it would be cheap to get a cassette for it. Need some audio ones anyway though, to play with. Never enough money to satisfy the desires of anyone, probably a good thing or the house would be a computer junk heap despite my parents' protests. Anyway, enjoying catching up on other RetroChallenge entrant's pages. Another update later if there is any actual progress today, over and out.

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