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Programming Languages for the Apple //c

On my Apple //c, I have written programs using Applesoft, Zbasic, and Kyan Pascal.  I don’t recall ever using Integer basic.  I have dabbled with assembler enough to know my mind does not work at that level. I’ve tried out

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Hamurabi, ZBasic from Applesoft, Part Two

I went back and looked at the file sizes of both the Applesoft and Zbasic from Applesoft versions of Hamurabi. The Applesoft version was 8 blocks on the diskette.  Add to that 32 blocks for PRODOS and 21 blocks for

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Hamurabi, ZBasic from Applesoft

I thought I would try to load the Applesoft version of Hamurabi into ZBasic. In the PRODos index to the ZBasic manual there is a section on just this subject.  It says to use a procedure like we used to

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Hamurabi, Pseudo Coding

Today, I’m going to start with my version of pseudo coding.  I usually just right up a rough outline of the program and the start breaking up each part. First we display some sort of program identification, like maybe the

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Hamurabi, Applesoft

In my last post about the Applesoft version of Hamurabi, I noted the spacing problem and the tedious fix of retyping each of the lines that had issues. There is a way to edit lines using escape codes, but I always found

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Hamurabi, Applesoft

So after doing yesterday’s post, I thought a little more about doing Hamurabi in Applesoft.  I decided it would make sense to do as a base line. It took about an hour and a half of one handed hunt and

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Hamurabi Pseudo Coding

I didn’t work on Hamurabi today, so I won’t be writing about that.  In fact, I won’t be writing any actual code for it until the books on Pascal come in. I will be starting on some pseudo code.  When

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A Quick Review, Part Two

The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan Roughly, the last third of the book consists of nine appendices, a glossary, and the index. Appendix B contains a summary of commands and functions for DOS, PRODos, Applesoft and Integer

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A Quick Review, Part One

The New Apple II User’s Guide by David Finnigan. My copy came in from Amazon almost a week ago.  I haven’t had time to read it, just skim through it. My first impression is, it’s a huge paperback, 774 pages.  

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Pascal

When I was first interested in Pascal for the Apple II, my major concern was probably money.  If I remember correctly you had two choices for Pascal; Apple Pascal and Kyan Pascal.  Apple Pascal at the time was considerably more

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