Description
II Workshop is a collection of Applesoft and Integer BASIC program routines designed to make the programmers life a bit easier.
In late 1977, early 1978, printer interfaces were not available for the Apple II, hence the only way to examine a program was listing it on the screen. At the same time there was no routine available for stopping the listing, which made working on a complex program like checkbook, with its multitude of GOTOs and GOSUBs, nearly impossible.
As a consequence, one of the first programs we wrote was “list by page”, a routine planned to overcome the foregoing problem. This was followed shortly by a routine, suggested by Bob Huelsdonk, to convert an assembly program to Basic POKE statements.
These two routines then, became the basis for what today is known as PROGRAMMERS WORKSHOP. The first Workshop, known then as “utility routines” was clumsily written and occupied over 9K of RAM, a far cry from todays fast, streamlined and compact Workshop of just over 4K (in Integer).
Contributors to this library include Steve Wozniak, Val Golding, Ron Aldrich, Darrell Aldrich, Don Williams, S.H. Lam, Bob Huelsdonk and others.
The package includes the full PDF manual and the Apple II DSK format emulator ready disk image.
