Re: Floating Point

[Cyrus Roton <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us>]

On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Mikael Axelsson wrote:

> I've got a problem often when I shall test a new game or something there
> comes a dialouge where it says that floating point i'nt installed.
> 
> So what is floating point and how can I install it?????
> 
What machine are you using? The Apple II+, and all subsequent Apples, 
have floating point built in. What we are refering to here is "APPLESOFT 
BASIC" , which is contained in ROM, and which can perform floating point 
math.

The old Apple II (before the II+) had integer BASIC in ROM. The DOS 3.3 
master disk contains floating point BASIC which can be loaded into the 
"language card" (the memory expansion card). This must be done before you 
can run software which requires floating point BASIC.

Cy Roton