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Re: Integer BASIC manual?

Subject: Re: Integer BASIC manual?
From: dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:13:47 +0000 (UTC)
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Sean Fahey wrote:
> On Mar 28, 3:07ï¿½pm, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> 
>> There wasn't ever an Integer BASIC reference manual published by Apple,
>> mostly because the language was superseded by Applesoft after not too
>> long
>> (cassette release was in 1977). I'd be surprised if one could find even
>> very
>> many 3rd-party books on it.
> 
> The "Apple II BASIC Programming Manual" doesn't count? I also
> recommend "Intimate Instructions in Integer BASIC" by Brian Blackwood
> (Howard Sams Pub)
>

It certainly counts, but not as a reference manual. For Applesoft, there's
the Blue Book, as well as the Applesoft II Reference Manual. Then there's
the Applesoft Tutorial.

For integer BASIC, there is no explicit book that is labeled as the
"reference manual."

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