Re: How to make an Applesoft Basic program Brun-able

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:30:50 PM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
> I've searched to no avail, and am wondering if anyone can tell me a nifty way or provide the code to append to an Applesoft file to make it a self-executable BINary file. I remember reading that there is a way, but after 20+ years have forgotten that magical code. The reason is that I want to make self-contained Basic files which will execute from Beautiful Boot, and other similar binary-loading programs. I know location $801 has be modified, and probably location 64 also, but how to sandwitch the machine language code together with the tokenized Applesoft code?
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> I'm NOT talking about an Applesoft compiler!

IIRC, Beautiful Boot doesn't include DOS on the disks, so anything that would rely on use of DOS commands (like from a BASIC program) would have some challenges.