On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:14 AM, dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
?The one thing I found is that the BASIC on the Apple
is really
slow. It is about the slowest I've ever used. How people put
up with it I don't know.
Apple Integer Basic was decently fast for the time. Check out say Little Brick Out or
Apple Trek.
Yeah Applesoft was mostly a step backwards :-)
Beagle Bros did a lot of cool things in nominal Applesoft BASIC but you know they were
peeking and poking and calling machine language routines for most of the cool stuff :-)
If you ever get a chance... Beagle Bag rules :-). "Card Scanner" and
"Plenty Questions" were (and are!) my favorite!
Tim.