Now online: "Applesoft II Basic Programming Reference Manual"

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

Hello all,

thanks to Ali Ross, another Apple manual is online as PDF: The 1978 
"Applesoft II Basic Programming Reference Manual". It's an early, but 
fairly thorough discussion of Applesoft, including much information on 
quirks and unexpected behaviour of certain commands in unusual 
conditions. It seems to have been written before the Disk II drive and 
the Apple II+ became available, and thus doesn't refer to them; it 
covers both the RAM version of Applesoft and the "firmware card" version 
residing on a card in Slot#0 though, and the latter is functionally 
identical to the version that later appeared on the II+ motherboard.

Of course the manual doesn't cover the small changes to Applesoft made 
in the 2e, 2c and 2gs; other than that it probably tells you more than 
you ever wanted to know about the language. A working knowledge of 
programming in general and of BASIC in particular is assumed in the 
manual; it's not very helpful for total beginners.

You can find it here:

> http://apple2.xbolt.net/

Be sure though to download the *Reference* Manual! The one without 
"Reference" in the title is a self-teaching tutorial on Integer BASIC.

--
Linards Ticmanis