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 Applesoft, and presto, your program has been converted. After Conversion, list it out and note all the lines that need to be changed […]
Category: Applesoft
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 make a choice of whether you want Integer BASIC or APPLESOFT to be called with Control-B after you […]
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 file names of six disk programs, start recording on tape and hit return. SAVE will then […]
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 our feelings on the failings of Disk II and A/S ROM· {I’ve got a feeling […]
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 CATALOG’:END Note: In line 400 after the first quote, hit the Control key and the “D” key at the same […]
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 Applesoft ROMs should follow within two or three weeks. Well worth waiting for! Please follow and like us:
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 HM = the value of HIMEM: for your Apple. This should be done after loading & prior to […]
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 statement with which you wish to fill the page. 100 PRINT” “:GOSUB 400 400 IF PEEK(37) < 18 THEN […]
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 this time like to extend a special welcome to our first overseas member, Paul Moortgat […]
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. 400.7FF Screen display area for text or color graphics. 800. 2FFF APPLESOFT BASIC compiler. (Cassette Tape Version) 800. XXX User Program (ROM version – A2B0009X installed) where XXX is […]
