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1. a write operation would unnecessarily complicate the program logic complicate testing and all associated code It s just not a clean solution and having explained enough of my reasons that you might understand nuff said Data Disks When saving in ProDOS the volume name on the DATA disks must be the same as the volume name on the program disk The ProDOS volume on the disks that have provided is SILLYPROGRAM In either the DOS 3 3 or ProDOS versions when you are prompted to put the data disk in the drive you can skip this step and save directly to the program disk but you will clutter up your program disk and it will soon fill up since 1000 different Silly Things are possible If you are running SILLY SYSTEM in ProDOS from a hard drive just put the contents of both disks together and skip the changing of disks when prompted Since 1000 Silly Things are possible your data disk will fill up quickly Each BSaved Silly Thing is 8K 8192 bytes in size You will need several clean copies of the Silly Things data disk with PICLIST and BSaved Images removed or considerable space on your hard drive if you are doing a lot of saving On a hard drive the PICLIST will grow quite large and you may find it more practical to run from a floppy disk and let the disk fill up When the disk is full the program will still work except that it won t be able to save to the full disk into drive We You will have sev2. like an older brother called Billy or worse yet a school yard bully called Billy Even worse yet could be a bad Uncle Billy or a bad priest called Father Billy Well you get the point am sure so with some reluctance but a realization that my son is no longer a little guy and we still have our memories of our history together and given my other reasons changed Billy s Silly Things to 1000 Silly Things am sure that both you and Bill can understand why Program Details H L JES LE MENU ESPACE ANGLAIS RHINOCEROS ROBOT CLOW Silly Things runs in standard Apple II HIRES 280 x 192 x 6 colour Mixed 40 column Text and Graphics Mode It is not necessary for your child to read in order to use Silly Things The Menu Commands are very straight forward Note also that Silly Things remembers the last language used and will start up the next time using that language English and French are toggled during game play by pressing the E or the F key respectively Getting Started Lr HIOD 1EHU SFACEBAR FREH IRAGOH ORAGOHW ORAGOH Commands and Navigation The arrow keys and number keys 1 2 3 are used interchangeably toggle the next Silly body part 1 or T or UPARROW Get Next Silly Top 2 or M or LEFTARROW or RIGHTARROW Get Next Silly Middle 3 or B or DOWNARROW Get Next Silly Bottom RETURN or SPACEBAR toggle between full screen mode and mixed screen mode displays the me
3. to view the BSAVED images that 1000 Silly Things creates It is provided as a convenience You can write your own in BASIC or view these in any program that accepts a standard Apple II HIRES BSaved Image The ProDOS version of the ABINLOAD BSaved Image viewer wants a text file called PICLIST for the BSAVED images that are created by SILLY SYSTEM So when SILLY SYSTEM saves a BSaved Image it appends the image name to the PICLIST on the SILLYPROGRAM data disk If the BSaved Image is already in the PICLIST a duplicate image name will not be added If the PICLIST does not exist it will be created If a BSaved Image file is on the disk but not listed in the PICLIST and the filename is entered in ABINLOAD it will still be loaded The reason that ABINLOAD in DOS 3 3 doesn t want a PICLIST is because it calls the DOS 3 3 Catalog routine directly to list disk contents Other than that ABINLOAD PRG in DOS 3 3 is the same program as ABINLOAD SYSTEM in ProDOS 8 Since ProDOS has a 15 character file name rather than the 30 character filename in DOS 3 3 have limited the automatic naming that is used by SILLY SYSTEM to 15 characters when saving On the DOS 3 3 version if a silly thing was called DRAGON CARROT ROBOT the ProDOS equivalent is DRAGOCARROROBOT which is descriptive enough considering the differences between the two systems This is one difference between the two versions that was unavoidable Automatic File Naming The filename is always
4. 1000 Silly Things aka 1000 caricatures farfelues ProDOS Version 2 0 By Bill Buckels May 2008 Written in AppleX Manx Aztec C65 Version 3 2b Windows XP Cross development environment for Apple e ProDOS 8 Available for Download at http www clipshop ca Disklmages 1000SillyThingsP8 zip Program Description SILLY THIHGS Caricatures farfelues Based on a Children s fy les co Derive d une activite du logiciel THE PLAYROOM Designed by Conception Leslie Grimm Dennis Caswell amp Lynn Kirkpatrick Programming by Reolisation Unlimited Software Graphics by Graphisme Don Albrecht amp Michelle McBride Copyright 989 Broderbund Software All rights reserved TOUS droites reserve ra 3 APPUYEZ SUR Be eh UHE TOUCHE Press Any Key 100 ao Children s Play Activity 1000 Silly Things is a bilingual play activity for children from 1 100 It runs in either English or French and language can be changed on the fly during game play This program is based on The Mixed Up Toy game from Broderbund s PlayRoom program Three different sections of the body the head torso and legs spin around and its up to the kids to change the body parts to match the cartoon characters It also offers a BSAVE option to save the Silly Things From the 10 cartoon characters 1000 combinations are possible Graphics Demo From the programming side this is an Aztec C demo program to show how ru
5. S 3 3 and then finally again for ProDOS 8 long ago lost the original code and the program But with the resurrection of my Aztec C compiler decided that it would be nice to recreate this program for a graphics demo and of course for any kids that you might be kicking around first created an Apple II DOS 3 3 Version which is functionally identical to this one However was asked to provide a ProDOS version so with a few changes did the ProDOS version as well Both versions behave the same way but the ProDOS version has some characteristics of its own While creating the French Version Billy s Silly Things became 1000 Silly Things This happened for several reasons From the production side of things did not want to complicate the programming by asking the child user to enter their name to personalize the program and did not want the program to become rebranded and redistributed with the last user s name could also see that young children might be stuck with someone else s name simply because it was too complicated to enter their own name or worse yet they or someone else could enter garbage or bad words At the same time a boy s name is not gender inclusive and my son s name is not even culturally recognizable in most of the world even though English or French may be understood The third thing that did not want was to make the child feel that the program is for someone else Billy besides themselves
6. eral options when the data disk fills up and you can no longer save and some of these are listed below 1 Ignore the problem The program will still work well otherwise 2 Use a fresh data disk with PICLIST and BSaved Images removed 3 Remove unwanted BSaved Images from the data disk and PICLIST The PICLIST a text file can be edited manually to remove or add images to but this option may be too much work for you The APPLEVU Slide Show program can also be used with the PICLIST Licence Agreement All my work is copyrighted and belongs to me wrote this program from scratch However this program is a derivative work in pretty much every way That notwithstanding this is also a programming demo for an obsolete computer and a vanished market The original Copyright remains in place and is displayed on the title screen when the program loads herewith grant you a non exclusive and conditional licence to use this program the source code and the output files it produces for whatever use you deem fit provided you do not take credit for my work and that you leave the copyright notices intact in all of it If you augment or otherwise use my work you must always also include your own personal copyright notice but it may never be a GNU public licence or anything else that resembles fascism or totalitarianism and world domination or a commercial or educational licence either You can use my stuff commercially or for GNU with my conditions i
7. in English regardless of language In the case of recognizing the saved French files afterwards DRAGON DRAGON ROBOT ROBOT CAROTTE CARROT CAROTTE will gain a second R RHINOCEROS RHINO truncates to RHINO ELEPHANT ELEPHANT CLOWN CLOWN FEE FAIRY unrecognizable SOURIS MOUSE unrecognizable POISSON FISH unrecognizable LICORNE UNICORN somewhat recognizable While this compromises the French in 60 of the set this is a programming consideration to avoid a number of potential problems and to make programming easier 1 The initial compressed image fragments require a relatively large amount of disk space despite the fact that they are compressed It is not practical to add 60 more image fragment files additional duplicates that are named in French so that our loader uses a differently named file It serves no purpose except that a French person looking at the disk would see the extra files in French They would still see the English files so doing this would serve no real purpose and also would add unnecessary code to the program without improving the user experience 2 Adding 6 files would increase the number of combinations from 10 x 10 x 10 1000 to 16 x 16 x 16 4096 and would also result in potential duplicates of 3096 files if the program was flipped between English and French And 4096 Silly Things does not have the same ring to a child s ear as 1000 Silly Things A potential elegant workaround for most of th
8. is would be to rename the initial compressed files on the fly every time the language is changed However there are a couple of reasons why this would not be a good idea 1 If a program was flipped back and forth between English and French duplicate output files could still occur The potential for this happening can t be ignored and since the user experience would not be improved because the filename never appears on screen anyway If the same program is shared between users this might be more likely to happen 2 Whenever disk level commands are done there is both a risk of corruption and error checking code must be added When loading or saving error checking is simple and already in place Yes the program does depend on the initial image fragments all being available to read and there is a risk that this may not be the case but the program will still work with some files missing the way have programmed it and distributed a functional disk image with everything in place and loading files is a read operation not a write operation If start renaming things it s like saving a file Except when a file save goes bad it s because the disk is full or corrupt or because the volume label ProDOS has changed from that of the program disk Program and Data Disks require the same name in ProDOS don t see the benefit in renaming warranting all the extra code that would need to write and also to base the architecture on a rename command
9. n length encoded image fragments can be used to save disk space and increase file load speed since the disk files are smaller and load more quickly than a raw file despite the extra time required to decode the file onto the screen Origin of the Graphics The graphics images were captured from the 1989 MS DOS CGA 4 color version of The PlayRoom then saved to BSaved IBM images using my ClipShop program Following that they were subsequently chopped into the required pieces using a modified version of my Fraggle utility then modified my FragRAG utility to provide a run length encoded version of my RAG format that call the RAX format This format is the same as the RAG format which is an Apple II HIRES native mode format with the exception that the graphics image data following the width and height header is encoded as one chunk using the ZSoft PCX encoding algorithm which is relatively decent and unpacks quickly History This program has a little history attached to it as well Around 1990 when my son was just a little guy would give him Apple II programs to take to school My kids had The Playroom on their IBM PC A ComputerLand Salesman had given me an Okey Dokey Licenced Copy as a gift at one point was purchasing a fair amount of software like compilers around that time So got busy and created Billy s Silly Things since like me my son s name is Bill did so similarly to what have done here and wrote it in Aztec C for DO
10. ntact if they let you they should since copyright is for authors and the public and belong to both groups but you must never copyright my work with any company copyright whatsoever just your own personal copyright like mine and leave mine in place That is the way copyright is intended to work and that is the way that it will work with my stuff unless selectively decide otherwise In addition you must agree that am not liable in any way shape or form for any damage from the use of any of this in any way whatsoever If you do not agree with all of the aforementioned conditions of use then remove all of this from your computer now Bill Buckels bbuckels mts net May 2008 Redistribution This program is distributed with source code You may distribute this software freely providing none of the files are missing and preferably in their original distribution archive Bill Buckels May 2008
11. nu at the bottom of the screen F Run program in French 1000 caricatures farfelues E or A Run program in English Anglais 1000 Silly Things S or C Save Silly Thing ESC Exit A mouse is not used Saving Silly Things are saved using an automatic naming based on the three body parts If the head is from a ROBOT and the middle is from an ELEPHANT and the bottom is from a DRAGON the resulting BSaved image file will be called ROBOTELEPHDRAGO 5 characters from each Silly Thing s Name During saving you will be given the opportunity to put a Data Disk into the drive and then you will be prompted to press SPACEBAR to save The RETURN key and the SPACEBAR can be used interchangeably just as they are during game play See the section below on Automatic File Naming and Data Disks for more details about saving Differences between DOS 3 3 and ProDOS 8 Versions In DOS 3 3 1000 Silly Things is called SILLY PRG and is BRUN from the HELLO program on Side A of the disk or from DOS 3 3 On Side B of the DOS 3 3 disk the BSaved Image Viewer ABINLOAD PRG is BRUN from the HELLO program or from DOS 3 3 In ProDOS 8 1000 Silly Things is called SILLY SYSTEM and runs on startup on side A of the ProDOS disk ABINLOAD SYSTEM runs on startup on side B of the ProDOS disk or either SYS program can be run directly from ProDOS In either DOS 3 3 or ProDOS you do not need the ABINLOAD BSaved Image viewer
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