Sudoku puzzle solver for Apple II

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Scott Hemphill and I recently collaborated to create a Sudoku puzzle
solver for Apple II computers.  The machine language solver is Scott's,
with some adaptations by me, and I wrote the interactive Applesoft
front-end.

SUDOKU runs on any Apple II with 80-column firmware and a 65C02
processor, which includes the IIc, the IIc+, the Enhanced //e, and
the IIgs.

It is amazingly fast!  Most Sudoku solvers run on modern PCs thousands
of times faster than a 1MHz Apple II, and take seconds to solve a
puzzle, but Scott's solver is so time and space efficient that it
solves puzzles in seconds *running on an Apple II*!

Check it out at:

http://members.aol.com/mjmahon/Sudoku.html

It is available both as a ShrinkIt disk archive and as a .dsk image.

Enjoy!

(BTW, the execution profile referred to in the paper has not yet
been uploaded, so for the time being, that's a 404. ;-)

-michael

Fast Sudoku solving for Apple II's!
Home page:  http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

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