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Comment on Applesoft Basic? by Ruby Blye

Ruby Blye — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:57:07 +0000

@D.D.

Did you say fortune? Tell me more. I would gladly trade the tapes for a fortune.

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Comment on Applesoft Basic? by D.D.

D.D. — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:09:51 +0000

@Ruby Blye

Thank you so much for the kind correction, Ruby.

I searched many pages about Applesoft but didn’t get the clear answer, Your correction is so helpful!

I was astonished that you still keep so many tapes！WOW, that’s a kind of fortune!

Comment on Applesoft Basic? by D.D.

D.D. — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:59:29 +0000

@ The Hawg!
IT History is short one, But it changes so quickly! We are easy to forget many things.

Comment on Applesoft Basic? by Ruby Blye

Ruby Blye — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:17:29 +0000

That BASIC tape was for the Apple I. The Apple II had BASIC in ROM or on a language card - either Integer or Applesoft. The Apple II did also use tapes for input and storage. I still have the original Apple tapes that came with games and simple apps. (We called them programs back then.) I also have about 20 tapes from Performa Software with more complicated games and programs. Complicated, that is for a state of the art 48K machine.

Now that I am mentioning the tapes, I wonder if there is an Apple emulator that has the ability to load the tapes. I think most of them would still be readable. I remember that a couple of the programs required a chip to be added to the motherboard and most of the Apple ones were in Integer. Many of the Performa programs were Applesoft. So I think a lot of them would run.

I’ll have to check that out sometime.