Appending Applesoft
By Val J. Golding Here are simple routines that will allow you to append programs in both version of Applesoft. While appending can be done under program control in App. II, it is really simpler to do...
View ArticleApplesoft II Workshop
We will have available sometime within the next month the Applesoft II version of Programmers Workshop, with most of the same routines, Append, Renumber, Examine Basic, Pick a Base, Poke writer....
View ArticleHIRES Capabilities and Limitations
By Darrell Aldrich While written for Applesoft II, this article is also applicable to Integer Basic HIRES graphics mode. The High Resolution Graphics screen is composed of 280 vertical bars (X...
View ArticleRoutine to Format Decimal Numbers
10 REM ROUTINE TO FORMAT DECIMALNUMBERS ROUNDED OFF TO TWO PLACES AND RIGHT JUSTIFIED BY BOB HUELSDONK 15 REM 4/27/78 20 REM APPLE PUGETSOUND PROGRAM LIBRARY EXCHANGE 6708 39TH AVE SW SEATTLE, WA....
View ArticleApplesoft II Pointers & Tokens
By Val J. Golding Applesoft & Applesoft II store in memory from the bottom up, unlike Integer BASIC, which is just the opposite, storing from the top down. Although pointers and characteristics of...
View ArticleConverting Applesoft I to II
A complete program listing is given below to convert a program written in Applesoft I so it will load in Applesoft II. This program is available from the club library, as is a version of Applesoft I...
View ArticleBytes From The Apple
As usual, we are down to the wire again as it comes time to write this column. We are still receiving applications from all over the country as we pass the 110 mark in membership, and we would also at...
View ArticleBASIC Programming Classes
Don Williams will be our instructor again for two levels of Integer Basic Programming classes available to our members. Beginning and Intermediate classes will be available, with the beginning class...
View ArticleRoutine to find page length
This handy little subroutine can be used in two manners; to fill a screen page with repetitive material or to determine the length of a screen page of print statements. Assume line 100 is a print...
View ArticleRoutine to Print Free Bytes
By Bob Huelsdonk Only line 30001 is required for less than 32K of Memory. The first GOTO 30000 shows result with greater than 32K of Memory. The second GOTO 30000 shows the result with less than 32K...
View ArticleA Patch For Double Loops
By Bob Huelsdonk When inputting to a double loop by row, then jumping out to a double loop to total by column, it is necessary to revers the subscript order. This will not work in Applesoft BASIC...
View ArticleProgram to Initialize a Diskette
100 CALL -93.6 :PRINT ” (insert your name, address and phone)” 200 PRINT “THIS DISK CONTAINS INTEGER BASIC PROGRAMS” (or game programs, etc.) 300 FOR 1=1 TO 1000:. NEXT I: CALL -936 400 PRINT “Dc...
View ArticleA Disk Utility Program
By Val J. Golding Perhaps this may be the first disk program published for Apple’s new Disk II. If so, a feather for our cap! The “SAVE” program, listed in column two will ask the user to input the...
View ArticleThe Program They Said Couldn’t Be Written
The Aldrich brothers strike again. Remember, folks, you read it first in Call-A.P.P.L.E.. “Convert”, by Ron Aldrich using the disk, will create a text file from an Integer BASIC program listing, call...
View ArticleThree Ideas: Handy Tools for Business BASIC
Text by Dave. Lingwood Programs by Brian Matthews (Action-Research NW) BASIC COMPARISONS Most Apple /// Business BASIC users also work with Applesoft, either from earlier ][ days, or through emulation...
View ArticleWrite Applesoft Basic in Virtual Basic
A new way of writing Applesoft Basic programs has been created by Andres Lozano, known in the Apple ][ world as Loz. Virtual Basic is a complete BASIC with all of the same operators and commands as...
View ArticleVirtualGS Book Now Available in iTunes Book Store
T. C. Lim has been working on a book about Pascal programming for the Apple II gs for the past several weeks, releasing preliminary versions along the way. The book includes a number of programs his...
View ArticleLatest in the Apple II World
What’s been going on in the Apple II world these past few days? Let’s take a look: 1.) Steven Weyhrich is asking about the Applesoft Firmware card in comp.sys.apple2 for his upcoming Apple II history...
View ArticlePeersoft 1.5.6 Released
FROM THE CSA2 This message to advise the community that an update of Peersoft has been posted on my Web site. This is version 1.5.6 which is a preview of version 1.6 due to be released this...
View ArticleThe 2018 BASIC 10 Liner Contest now being held
The annual BASIC 10 liner programming contest is now under way. This contest allows users to write 10 line BASIC programs on any platform that they choose. The lines must conform with one of the...
View ArticleTimeOut Edit BASIC 5.4 Released
Hugh Hood, Longtime Apple II fan and programmer has announced a new TimeOut series product, TimeOut Edit BASIC 5.4 for Appleworks 5.1 Users TimeOut series products have long been the defacto go-to...
View ArticleProgrammer’s Corner
Loading and Saving Graphics Screens on the Apple II Series Part 2 While last months article covered some nifty graphics manipulation techniques, I missed making a few points about some extremely...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases GW BASIC then Closes it to modifications
Microsoft released the source code to GW-BASIC this past week and then promptly made it un-modifiable announcing that the source code was for historical purposes only. No build scripts were included...
View ArticleBasic Computer Games in The Real World
A few days ago, I read a post from a fellow programmer, Eric Clippert, and his blog post mentioned a weird little project that piqued my interest. Jeff Atwood and Eric Clippert have run through the...
View ArticleThe Usborne 1980’s Computer Books
Many kids in the 1980’s began programming computers using the USBORNE computer books, which were very colorful, step by step books that were appropriate for any age in reality. These books took you...
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