Re: Write games in Integer Basic

[Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

On Jan 7, 4:12 pm, Immortal Nephi <Immortal_Ne...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> The advanced programmers purchased an original Apple II rev 0 with 4
> kilobytes RAM in old days of year 1977.  Did they use Apple II
> Reference January 1977 book to write games?  The games were written in
> either Assembly or Integer Basic to use low resolution graphics since
> they had sufficient 4 kilobytes RAM.

I remember the salesman telling me I'd need 16K to do anything serious
with my Apple II -- and I believed him. Buying RAM was expensive (it
got more expensive later on) but instead of buying Apple-branded RAM,
they'd unofficially recommend third party RAM at a significant
savings.

The user groups would also have group buys of RAM, and later on,
"generic" Shugart drives and various cards to get a volume discount.
That's how I went from 16K to 48K back in the day.