Category: Apple II family

Applesoft BASIC was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC supplied with the Apple II series of computers.

It superseded Integer BASIC and was the BASIC in ROM in all Apple II series computers after the original Apple II model.

Apple employees, including Randy Wigginton, adapted Microsoft's interpreter for the Apple II and added several features.

Applesoft II, which was made available on cassette and disk and in the ROM of the Apple II Plus and subsequent models, was released in 1978.

It is this latter version, which has some syntax differences from the first as well as support for the Apple II high-resolution graphics modes, that most people mean by the term " Applesoft.

As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

No provision existed for mixing text and graphics, except for the limited " hardware split screen " of the Apple II ( four lines of text at the bottom of the screen ).

It seems likely that memory constraints were at the root of these differences, as the Apple II ROM had only 10 kilobytes available for the interpreter, and the improved hi-res graphics support was clearly a higher priority.

The Apple II disk operating system, known simply as DOS, thus intercepted all input typed at the BASIC command prompt to determine whether it was a DOS command.

Category: Apple II software

It was announced early in 1983 with a fall introduction at the target price of $ 500 for plug-in AppleNet cards for the Lisa and the Apple II.

Adaptors for Apple II and Apple III were also announced.

By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

By this point Apple had a wide variety of communications products under development, and many of these were announced along with AppleTalk Phase II.

The 1977 Apple II, shown here with two Disk II floppy disk drives and a 1980s-era Apple Monitor II.

At that time MCP did also sell imported home computers like the TRS-80, the Video Genie, ( another TRS-80 clone ), the Luxor ABC 80 and the Apple II.

So they decided to designed a TRS-80 and CP / M software compatible computer system, which ( following the lead of Apple Computer ) they decided to name after a " typical Dutch flower ".

However, as the system was reaching completion, the personal computer revolution was starting with the release of machines like the Commodore PET, TRS-80 and Apple II.

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.

When the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 were all released in 1977, all three had BASIC as their primary programming language and operating environment.

With the Z-machine, Infocom was able to release most of their games for most popular home computers of the day simultaneously — the Apple II family, Atari 800, IBM PC compatibles, Amstrad CPC / PCW ( one disc worked on both machines ), Commodore 64, Commodore Plus / 4, Commodore 128, Kaypro CP / M, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, the Mac, Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga and the Radio Shack TRS-80.

Multiplan was released first for computers running CP / M ; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 100 ( on ROM ), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.

In 1975, early personal computers based on inexpensive microprocessors, such as the MITS Altair and later TRS-80, Apple II and others began to dominate the market for small general purpose computers.

That company adapted the PDP-10 Zork into Zork I-III, a trilogy of games for most popular small computers of the era, including the Apple II, the Commodore 64, the Commodore Plus / 4, the Atari 8-bit family, the TRS-80, CP / M systems and the IBM PC.

The Inform website lists links to freely available interpreters for 15 desktop operating systems ( including 8-bit microcomputers from the 1980s such as the Apple II, TRS-80 and Sinclair, and grouping " Unix " and " Windows " as one each ), 10 mobile operating systems ( including Palm OS and the Game Boy ), and three interpreter platforms ( Emacs, Java and JavaScript ).

Adapting some of its boardgame titles to various platforms ( TRS-80, Vic-20, Commodore 64, Apple II, etc.

Though originally designed for the Apple II, the Koala eventually broadened its applicability to practically all home computers with graphics support, examples of which include the TRS-80 Color Computer, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit family.

The result was the Commodore PET ( RAM, discrete logic graphics ), launched in 1977 – one of three historic home / personal computers to appear that year, the two others being the Apple II ( also 6502-based ) and the TRS-80 ( with a Zilog Z80 ).

Sometimes this modulator was built into the product ( such as video game consoles, VCRs, or the Atari, Commodore 64, or TRS-80 CoCo home-computers ) and sometimes it was an external unit powered by the computer ( in the case of the TI-99 or some Apple modulators ) or with an independent power supply.

Among them were DOS ( as a booter ), Amiga 1000, Apple II, Atari 400 / 800, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari XL, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Sega SG-1000 and TRS-80 Color Computer.

The future sales of BASIC for the Commodore PET, the Apple II, the Radio Shack TRS-80 and others were all fixed-price contracts.

Microsoft also released a version of Adventure in 1980 for the Apple II Plus computer as well as the TRS-80.

* Taipan !, a computer game for the Apple II and TRS-80

The KoalaPad is a graphics tablet produced from 1984 by U. S. company Koala Technologies for several early 8-bit home computers, including the Apple II family, TRS-80 Color Computer ( TRS-80 Touch Pad ), Atari 8-bit family, and Commodore 64, as well as for the IBM PC.

Computer Bismarck was released for the Apple II in January 1980 and for the TRS-80 later in the year.

The Adventure International games were subsequently released on most of the major home PC platforms of the day, including TRS-80, Apple II series, Atari 8-bit series and Commodore PET.

The second incarnation was a much smaller unit the width of two 5¼ " floppy drives stacked on top of each other, and the third incarnation looked like a flattened Apple with a built-in keyboard.

On the Apple II, unlike modern computers that use standardized device drivers to manage device communications, the operating system directly controlled the step motor that moves the floppy drive head, and also directly interpreted the raw data called nibbles read from each track to find the data sectors.

In Rogue, Moria, and Beneath Apple Manor, the dungeon is randomly regenerated when the player begins, creating a new challenge each time.

Up to Darwin 8. 0. 1, Apple released a binary installer ( as an ISO image ) after each major Mac OS X release that allowed one to install Darwin on PowerPC and Intel x86 computers as a standalone operating system.

In the late 1990s Apple was trimming its product line from the bewildering variety of intersecting Performa, Quadra, LC, Power Macintosh and PowerBook models to a simplified " four box " strategy: desktop and portable computers, each in both consumer and professional models.

However, the tradition of honoring the local apple industry persists in the county's annual North Carolina Apple Festival, held each year around Labor Day, and culminating in the " King Apple Parade " attended by tens of thousands of spectators.

The annual Seymour Apple Festival, established in 1973, has grown to one of Missouri's largest free celebrations, with estimated crowds of more than 30, 000 congregating on the Seymour public square each second weekend of September.

The quaint village is the home to the locally well-known " Apple Dumplin ' Festival each year.

* The entire community celebrates its apple growing heritage each fall with a two-day Apple Festival.

On the second Sunday of October each year, the town hosts the Apple Butter Festival which has attracted as many as 70, 000 + visitors.

This license allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on each computer owned or controlled by you.

During its introduction, Apple sold a specialized set of Bose Roommate speakers that were platinum colored with the Apple logo next to the Bose on each front speaker grille.

Apple DOS had three major releases: DOS 3. 1, DOS 3. 2, and DOS 3. 3 ; each one of these three releases was followed by a second, minor " bug-fix " release, but only in the case of Apple DOS 3. 2 did that minor release receive its own version number, Apple DOS 3. 2. 1.

Apple DOS 3. 1 disks used 13 sectors of data per disk track, each sector being 256 B in size.

The process of loading Apple DOS involved a series of very tiny programs, each of which carried the loading process forward a few steps before passing control to the next program in the chain.

* When the Apple II Plus was introduced, it included the ability to scan each expansion slot ( working downward from slot 7 to slot 1 ) for an expansion card ROM with additional boot code, and automatically call it.

The Apple III System Utilities program shipped with each Apple III computer.

The Microsoft Windows code page 874 as well as the code page used in the Thai version of the Apple Macintosh, MacThai, are extensions of TIS-620 — incompatible with each other, however.