Routine to Format REM and PRINT Lines
by Val J. Golding This routine will allow you to format Applesoft REM and PRINT statements on screen without having to worry about the lines being different. One item to take note of: This program...
View ArticleApplesoft II – An A.P.P.L.E. Review
By Val J. Golding APPLESOFT I I Extended Precision Floating Point Basic. $20 from Apple dealers or direct from Apple Computer, 10260 Bandley Drive, Cuptertino, CA 95014. Supplied free with new 16-48K...
View ArticlePrinter Driver Fixes
By Bob Huelsdonk Some protocol is a must if you use a printer with greater than 40 columns with your Apple. This comes about because it tries to write beyond the screen area and into the variables...
View ArticleMemory Map – Apple II with Applesoft BASIC Loaded
MEMORY RANGE* DESCRIPTION ———————– —————————————- 0.1FF Program work space; not available to user. 200.2FF Keyboard character buffer. 300.3FF Available to user for short machine language programs....
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 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 ArticleApple Patch
Here is a patch to correct one of the few bugs found in Applesoft II. The HTAB function will space 2 places further to the right than intended unless corrected with this patch: POKE (HM-28), 202 where...
View ArticleDiscs & Applesoft ROM Delayed
Documentation has been cited by Apple Computer as a cause of delay in shipping both the new ROM board and Disc II. Discs have been rescheduled for shipping during the first week of July, while the...
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 ArticleAn A.P.P.L.E. Editorial
By Val J. Golding The big news story of this issue is obviously the arrival in town of Disk II and Applesoft II ROM. Rather than do a review, we have hidden behind the pretext of an editorial to state...
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 ArticleAnd Now, The ROM…
By Val J. Golding Here is a quickie about setting up the APPLESOFT ROM card. First, as the instructions indicated, this card will function only in Slot #0 of your Apple ][. This card allows you to...
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 ArticleTetris in Applesoft
By Mark Phosis Philip Lord was looking for a basic listing of Tetris in a recent post on Comp.Sys.Apple2 and this was the program listing by Mark Phosis. The program was written in 1992 and could...
View ArticleLeadlight Adventure Version 1.2 Released
Wade Clarke has released an update for his Leadlight Adventure. The game itself is quite the adventure. Your are playing a girl Belinda who’s world is slowly falling apart. According to the Leadlight...
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 ArticleNuInput 2.0 is released
NuInput, the replacement package for Applesoft’s INPUT and GET commands has been updated. Ivan Drucker, the author of NuInput and Slammer has made the latest version 2.0, available for immediate...
View ArticleVirtual String Memory For Applesoft
If one really thinks about it, text files are a kind of virtual memory. You can add strings, retrieve strings. And if the strings are of a fixed length, then you can even replace strings in a text...
View ArticleNew Book is a Modern Day User’s Guide for the Apple II Computer
Lincoln, IL – Jun. 18, 2012 – Author David Finnigan has written and published a paperback book covering the Apple II computer. Before the Macintosh and iPod, Apple Computer became famous for its...
View ArticleIvan Drucker Releases Magic Goto for Applesoft
Ivan Drucker has once again released a plugin for Applesoft on the Apple II computer. His new Magic Goto allows for labels to be used instead of line numbers. Accrding to his posting: Magic Goto is...
View ArticlePeersoft Version 1.5.5 Applesoft Extension Released
Benoit Gilon has announced the immediate release of the Peersoft Applesoft Extensions version 1.5.5. Shown extensively at the recent Apple II Festival France, this extension package allows for user...
View ArticleTurtlesoft – New Manual and ProDOS Version
Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has updated the manual for the popular Apple II graphics programming tool Turtlesoft with a new softcover manual. Originally published in 1983...
View ArticleAnnouncing the TERC BASIC Enhancements
By Sean Nolan This year, Christmas comes in June. The TERC BASIC Enhancements, an Applesoft enhancement package, are being dumped (pardon me, I mean released) into the public domain. The TERC BASIC...
View ArticleHappy Valentines Day — Apple II Style!
What better way to say to those around you that you not only love them, but are totally cool than to express your love Apple II Style. Rogerio Neves has shared a lovely little one-liner that does this...
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...
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