TASC (The AppleSoft Compiler)

[tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Tom Kelly)]

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>From: tdiaz@hypermall.com (Tony Diaz)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
>Subject: Re: piracy, Asimov, you, and me
>Date: 5 Aug 1996 05:28:31 GMT
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>Tom Zuchowski (cd003508@interramp.com) wrote:
>: dmcclain@runet.edu (Dennis McClain-Furmanski) wrote:
>: >Tell you what. I'll follow up on my long postposed promise to contact 
>: >Microsoft regarding TASC. I've alreadt converted it from DOS 3.2 to DOS 
>: >3.3. It would need to be patched for ProDOS. Given the compiler itself to 
>: >work with (it was used to compile itself) finding the necessary places to 
>: >patch and making them shouldn't be beyond a few programmers still around.
>
>: Please let us know how you do. If anybody in the universe knows the status 
>: of their copyrights, MS will.
>
>: My money says that you get nowhere, but I sincerely hope I'm wrong. TASC 
>: is a great product.
>
>TASC was updated to a ProDOS 64 & 128K version, as well as the prior DOS
>3.3 versions, Original 48K & 64K and a newer 128K version for DOS 3.3
>
>I upgraded my copy in 1988 to the latest one, MicroSoft still had some. It
>cost $25.00, had to be done through the mail. But the cool thing about it
>was, I no longer had the actual original disk, so sending them a copy of
>a disk with TASC 48K DOS 3.3 worked just fine. They sent me the whole package.
>
>Another interesting tidbit about TASC, It was run on itself.
>
>I've allways toyed with the idea of a TASC Decompiler, ever since I lost
>the source to my T-Net BBS login module.. I wanted to change to the 
>ProDOS T-Net, but that kept me from it for almost a year..
>
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>tdiaz@hypermall.com
>xenon_knight@space-bar.admin.fnet.org
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If anyone is interested, I have TASC for sale all original disk and docs.
I believe it is DOS 3.2, but conversion is no problem.
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