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Re: Integer BASIC manual?
"D Finnigan" <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote in
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> Sean Fahey wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 3:07�pm, 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 by Apple, mostly because the language was superseded by Apple-
>>> soft 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."
Although the "Apple II BASIC Programming Manual" isn't label
as a reference manual, it pretty much is one. 8^)
Bill