Applesoft BASIC is a dialect of Microsoft BASIC, developed by Marc McDonald and Ric Weiland, supplied with Apple II computers. It supersedes Integer BASIC...
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Applesoft is a name used by Apple Inc. for: Applesoft BASIC, a programming language interpreter built into Apple II computers the division responsible...
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Release 3.3 also improves the ability to switch between Integer BASIC and Applesoft BASIC, if the computer has a language card (RAM expansion) or firmware...
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I. It became Integer BASIC when it was ported to the Apple II and shipped alongside Applesoft BASIC, a port of Microsoft BASIC which included floating-point...
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Apple II Plus (section Onboard Applesoft BASIC)
could thus load Integer BASIC into the language card from disk and switch between the Integer and Applesoft dialects of BASIC with DOS 3.3's INT and FP...
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Apple III (redirect from Apple Business BASIC)
introduced a number of new or improved features over Applesoft BASIC. Both languages replaced Applesoft's single-precision floating-point variables using 5-byte...
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to what Apple had done with Applesoft BASIC. This increased the size of Atari's version to around 11 KB; AppleSoft BASIC on the Apple II+ was 10,240 bytes...
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MS-DOS as an example game to accompany his article about his GraBASIC, an Applesoft BASIC add-on, for the UpTime disk magazine. The object of the game is...
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language in the early 1980s. At least two versions of Chinese BASIC were modified Applesoft BASIC that accepted Chinese commands and variables. They were built...
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licensed an Applesoft-compatible BASIC to VTech for its Laser 128 clone. Tangerine Microtan 65 Spectravideo SV-318 and SV-328 Known variants: NCR Basic Plus...
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Microsoft BASIC was highly compatible with contemporary BASICs like Applesoft BASIC and Commodore BASIC, in contrast to their own Atari BASIC which was...
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Microsoft BASIC, and as such it shares many characteristics with other 6502 BASICs of the time, such as Applesoft BASIC. Commodore licensed BASIC from Microsoft...
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Garbage collection (computer science) (section BASIC)
collector for Applesoft BASIC by Randy Wigginton identifies a group of strings in every pass over the heap, reducing collection time dramatically. BASIC.SYSTEM...
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some problems and restrictions in early implementations; for example, Applesoft BASIC allowed variable names to be several characters long, but only the...
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design rather than copying it, and licensed an Applesoft BASIC-compatible version of Microsoft BASIC. Apple carefully studied the Laser 128 but was unable...
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programming tips about the Apple II system, many in the form of short Applesoft BASIC programs that took advantage of undocumented or unexpected behavior...
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Coleco Adam (section SmartBASIC)
SmartBASIC interpreter was delivered on a Digital Data Pack tape cassette; this version of BASIC was designed to be mostly compatible with Applesoft BASIC...
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dimensions of the text window (as opposed to the graphics window) in Applesoft BASIC. The POKE command and the PEEK function (adapted from machine code...
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GW-BASIC IronRuby IronPython JScript Microsoft Liquid Motion Microsoft BASIC, also licensed as: Altair BASIC AmigaBASIC Applesoft BASIC Commodore BASIC Color...
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time to modify Integer BASIC for floating point support. Apple instead licensed Microsoft's 6502 BASIC to create Applesoft BASIC. Disk users normally purchased...
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AppleScript Applesoft BASIC Arc Atari Assembler Editor AutoLISP AviSynth AWK BASIC Basic Assembly Language Ballerina BCPL Beatnik Befunge BETA Blitz BASIC Brainfuck...
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Like the Sinclair Spectrum, BASIC commands were typed by pressing a single key. The BASIC dialect was similar Applesoft BASIC. The GEM 1000 Junior Computer...
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feature of the MPF-II was its Chinese BASIC, a version of Chinese-localized BASIC based and compatible with Applesoft BASIC. Versions of the machine sold in...
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instance, running the Byte Sieve in BASIC took 3960 seconds in TI BASIC, while the same test in Applesoft BASIC on the Apple II, ostensibly a much slower...
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Softporn Adventure (category BASIC software)
ones. Softporn Adventure was originally written for the Apple II in Applesoft BASIC in 1981 by programmer Chuck Benton. Benton programmed the game as an...
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[citation needed] BASIC-PLUS on the DEC PDP-11 uses the ampersand as a short form of the verb PRINT.[citation needed] Applesoft BASIC used the ampersand...
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simpler constructs such as semaphores on the more complex basis. In Applesoft BASIC, integer arithmetic was implemented on top of floating-point arithmetic...
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1980 Applesoft III Apple Computer Applesoft II BASIC 1980 Apple III Microsoft BASIC Microsoft Microsoft BASIC 1980–81 CBASIC Gordon Eubanks BASIC, Compiler...
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concerned that their design was not going to be possible using the Applesoft BASIC programming language on an Apple II like the rest of the game as it...
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screens; in Applesoft BASIC, either one could be initialized, using the commands HGR for the first screen or HGR2 for the second. The Applesoft BASIC ROM contained...
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