Routine 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 ArticleApplesoft I Patches
The May 1978 Contact! newsletter from Apple Computer, Inc. contained a number of required patches to repair bugs in Applesoft I. Array Indexing Problem Fix POKE 6331,32:POKE 6332, 168: POKE 6333, 41:...
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 ArticleRoutine 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...
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