[Blindapple] editing Hello to add Textalker

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

The easiest way is probably the following. Note that I don't think 
there's a way to actually edit an existing program or file on a disk 
with CiderPress.

1. Find the Hello program on the disk. Hit Tab to view its contents. 
Select all, Copy to clipboard, paste into a text editor of your choice.

2. Modify the program as you see fit, pasting in the first lines at the 
top, etc. Save your file as Hello.txt in a folder where you can find it.

3. Back in CiderPress, delete the Hello program.

4. Now, go to the Action menu in CiderPress. The last item should be 
called, Import BAS from Text. Select this option, and open your 
Hello.txt. Choose to save it as Hello on the disk.

That should do the trick, once textalker.ram and textalker.obj are copied.

Hope this helps,

Jayson

On 7/8/2017 12:12 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:
> Jayson,
>
> How can I add lines 0 and 1 which you pasted below to Hello? Is it more
> accessible to add them somehow via CiderPress or within the emulator? If I
> need to use the emulator to add the lines of code, I would of course have a
> talking DOS 3.3 disk in drive 1 and the second disk with Hello which I want
> to modify in drive 2. I would like to add the lines to Hello myself if at
> all possible.
>
> Blake
>
>    _____
>
> From: BlindApple [mailto:blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of
> Jayson Smith
> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2017 11:49 AM
> To: Blind Apple Discussions
> Subject: Re: [Blindapple] editing Hello to add Textalker
>
>   
>
> Hi,
>
> There are several program fragments floating around that do pretty much the
> same thing. If you need help with the mechanics of using CiderPress to
> actually modify the program, please let me know. Otherwise, here's a
> fragment you can use. It assumes the real program starts at line 10, so
> adjust accordingly.
>
> Jayson
>
>   0  PRINT  CHR$ (4),"BRUNTEXTALKER.RAM"
>   1  PRINT  CHR$ (5);: PRINT "C"
>   2  TEXT : HOME : PRINT "DO YOU WANT SLOW SPEECH? PRESS Y OR N.": GET Y$
>   3  IF Y$ = "Y" OR Y$ = "y" THEN  PRINT  CHR$ (5);: PRINT "E": GOTO 10
>   4  IF Y$ = "N" OR Y$ = "n" THEN 10
>   5  PRINT "INVALID RESPONSE, TRY AGAIN.": GOTO 2
>
> On 7/8/2017 9:43 AM, Blake Roberts wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>   
> I'm in communication with a gentleman who created some AppleSoft Dos 3.3
> games when he was a teenager in the 1980's. He still writes games today. A
> couple of years ago he converted an Apple2 ProDos game he wrote in 2010 to a
> modern adventure game language and added screen reader mode to the current
> non-Apple version. Anyway, getting back to Apple2 games... I found a disk on
> asimov containing the author's 5 Dos 3.3 Applesoft Basic games from decades
> ago. How do I edit hello.bas in CiderPress so that I can add Textalker? His
> hello program contains instructions on playing the games in addition to a
> menu. What he wrote in Hello  starts at line 50. I want to simply add lines
> to install Textalker to keep his Hello program as close to the original as
> possible. I prefer  not to replace with Hello from another disk because that
> would erase the author's game instructions and menu in his Hello program.
> Since he is interested in my efforts to make his 80's-era disk talk, I
> anticipate he will not have any problem with me distributing a talking
> version. I will  of course get permission.
>   
> Blake
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