Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer,comp.sys.apple2,comp.lang.misc Path: blue.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!eff!wariat.org!malgudi.oar.net!chemabs!lvirden From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) Subject: The Apple II Programmer's Catalog of Languages and Toolkits Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <1994Aug26.153305.21697@chemabs.uucp> Followup-To: comp.sys.apple2.programmer Summary: An attempt at a historical look at the Apple II programming environment Originator: lvirden@cas.org Keywords: programming languages, Apple II, Apple II+, Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Apple IIc+, Apple IIgs Sender: lvirden@cas.org Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Organization: /home/lwv26/.organization Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 15:33:05 GMT Lines: 2776 Xref: blue.weeg.uiowa.edu comp.sys.apple2.programmer:2994 comp.sys.apple2:75118 comp.lang.misc:13630 The Apple II Programmer's Catalog of Languages and Toolkits Archive-Name: AppleIICatalog Version: 3.0 Last Updated: August 26, 1994 ------------------------------ Introduction ------------------------------ I would appreciate the following information from those of you out there who know the answers. Please send electronic replies to "Larry W. Virden" . Product name: Language: Hardware requirements: Operating system requirements: If applicable Company name: Company address: Company phone number: Company email address: Electronic file access info: Otherwise: Author name: Author address: Author phone number: Author email address: Electronic file archive host access (ftp, email, commercial, etc.) info: Legend: (+) = share/freeware [available via FTP]) ------------------------------ Current 8 bit based programming languages ------------------------------ APEX (+) Product name: APEX System Builder Language: APEX502 Hardware requirements: 64k Apple II or 128k Apple //e, //c, IIGS Operating system requirements: ProDOS Company name: MicroGram Systems Company address:PO Box 252, La Honda, Calif, 94020-0252 Company phone number: (415) 747-0811 Company email address: pending Electronic file access info: Notes: APEX is an operating system for the Apple IIs with installable device drivers. Included an assembler, editor, and at one time, XPL, a high level programming language. Was developed on the 6502 prior to the Apple II and was ported to it when the Apple first appeared. Developed at the Colorado School of Mines by Peter Boyles. Currently it is at least at version 502. A128k is a high level language derived from APL. Apex502 brings the capability of graphic, mouse driven program development to the Apple II. It supports all Apple II graphics modes where available, although support for IIGS graphics is minimal. A128k.System includes lots of editor enhancements, too. Apex System Builder for the Apple II series is now freely distributable. The publisher, MicroGram Systems would appreciate a notice announcing that a greatly enhanced IBM version is available from MicroGram and that Apex programs created on the Apple II can be transported to the IBM version. Assembly 1. HyperC (+) ftp from calvin.sfasu.edu:/pub/apple2/hyperc*/* or cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/8bit/hyperc HyperC has a rather complete assembler supporting include files, macros, library creation and post linking of files into the program. Output is of course compatible with the HyperC C compiler. 2. Lisa (+) ftp from cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/8bit/lisa/* Author: Randall Hyde Originally sold by: Laser Systems and then HAL Labs. Last Contact info: HAL Labs 18942 Dallas Perris, CA 92370 I have been told that Brian Fitzgerald (909) 780-3328 has lots of copies of Lisa 2.5 documentation. 3. Merlin 8/16 Plus, Merlin 16 Plus (version 4.08) by Glen Bredon Commercial, sold by Southwestern Data Systems (Roger Wagner). Merlin 8 - DOS 3.3 Merlin 8 - ProDOS, //gs, 128k //e, Laser 128, or 128EX Merlin 16 - ProDOS, 65802/65816 + above Merlin 16 Plus- GS/OS, IIgs Can assemble code for 6502, 65c02, 65802/65816. Macros, conditional assembly, file inclusion, full screen editor. Linkers allow large programs to be assembled. Assembly is done in memory or to disk for large single module programs. Libraries can be used. Relocation of code is easy. Merlin 16(Plus) uses 65802/65816 code to run faster. Merlin can generate code for 6502,65c02, 65802, and 65816 chips. Company: Roger Wagner Publishing Inc Address: 1050 Pioneer Way, Suite P El Cajon, CA 92020 USA Phone: +1 619 442 0522 Customer Service/Tech Support Cost: US $99 from Resource Central (RW-002). Merlin to ORCA/M Source Converter available from Resource Central: BW-008 cost: $18 . Orca to Merlin conversions are handled by a utility in the Merlin 8/16 package. Additional utilities - Sourceror (a co-resident disassembler), Applesoft source listing generator (which uses the ROMs in your computer), cross-reference listing generator. Archimedes(+) is an 8 bit Merlin enhancement utility by J. Kindall. It is available from GEnie Library 8 as file 592. 4. ORCA/M (version 2.0.4) This is a commercial package, sold by The Byte Works. Company: Byte Works, Inc. Address: 4700 Irving Blvd. NW Suite 207 Albuquerque, NM 87114 Owner: Mike Westerfield Phone: (505) 898-8183, 8am-5pm, Mountain Time Email: America Online: mikew50 GEnie: BYTEWORKS Internet: mikew50@aol.com Online Forums: America Online: Keyword Byteworks GEnie: A2Pro, Cat 36 I have been told that to date the America Online address is a preferred one - of course now that those are being cancelled, it remains to be seen what will be done. The Byte Works has an extensive line of software and self-study courses as you will see throughout this catalog. You can either order these packages through The Byte Works or through any of the major mail order houses which carry Apple II products. The Byte Works also is quite good about letting customers know about new releases, and often run special packages or upgrade discounts. Surely someone can provide me with more specifics about ORCA/M - what the package includes, etc.! Cost: $75 Also available is the MON+ Symbolic Debugger at $30, the ORCA/M O/S Source at $40 and the Floating Point libraries at $40. 5. Product name: ProDev 6502 Debugger Hardware: Apple //e or IIgs ProDev P.O. Box 162 Lasalle, Michigan 48145 1 (313) 848-4012 Price: $149.95 6. Mini-assembler/disassembler Originally available as a part of Apple's Integer BASIC ROM package. No labels - but was usable. On an ENHANCED ][e, IIgs and perhaps other models, enter the Monitor, and type a '!' to enter it (no $F666G call needed!). On any 64k ][ under DOS 3.3, or any Apple ][ (NOT ][+/e/c/gs) with ProDOS or DOS 3.3, simply enter Integer BASIC, then call the Monitor, then use the $F666G call. ------------------------------ BASIC 1. Applesoft (built-in to your computer!). This version of BASIC was written by Microsoft. The first version of this BASIC appeared in cassette form in 1977. In 1978, numerous bugs were fixed and new commands added to Applesoft BASIC, resulting in version two of the software. It appeared in cassette, floppy, firmware card, language card and mother board ROM formats. Applesoft II was distributed on the motherboard of all Apple IIs since the Apple II+ in 1979. Additional bug fixes and enhancements were made for the Applesoft II that appeared on the Apple IIe, IIe enhanced ROMs, IIc, and IIgs. This can be extended with several commercial and non-commercial applications. To speed Applesoft up, Beagle Compiler, available through Quality Computers. This compiles the Applesoft interpreted file into a faster, though larger, file. To add commands to Applesoft Glen Bredon's ProCMD (required ProDOS 8). Kitchen Sink Software, Inc.'s MicroDot jbush@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu or gforsyth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Apple IIe (unenhanced or higher), 64k. Subsequent Apple II models. ProDOS 8. Canam Software's AmperPlus (+) Available on Compuserve's Apple Programmer library. Uploaded by 76475.204@compuserve.com Source code is in Merlin assembler format. I cannot tell whether program is truly freely distributable or not. Doublestuff! Plus. Contains a language-card version of Applesoft, modified to provide commands for using the double-hi-res Apple ][e screen. Modifications include drivers to get drawings to look right, and upgrades in syntax to allow commands like "HCOLOR=15:HPLOT 0,0 TO 559,192". Author: Unknown Availability: Unknown RADE: Real-time Applesoft Debugging Environment runs under ProDOS-8 or GS/OS and provides Applesoft debugging capabilities. Contact the Morgan Davis Group for more details. Note that a demo is available for free - it is available on GEnie Library 8 as file 2995. SuperBASIC(+): a command extension set for Applesoft. Author: T Zuchowski. Available on GEnie Library 8 as file 3267. BPU(+): an 8 bit Applesoft Pre-Compiler. Author R Cain. Available on GEnie Library 8 as file 2023. ProBASIC(+): Applesoft command enhancement. Author Gary Utter. Available on GEnie Library 8 as file 2882. 2. Micol BASIC Micol Advanced BASIC Apple IIe/c version 4.5 $59.95 Micol Systems 9 Lynch Road Willowdale, Ontario Canada M2J2V6 (416) 495 6864 Still actively supporting the Apple II product. A new upgrade is now available and at least one more upgrade is being developed. Features a 200 page 8.5 x 11 inch manual. ------------------------------ C 1. HyperC (+) ftp from calvin.sfasu.edu:/pub/apple2/hyperc*/* or cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/8bit/hyperc K+R C - Any II with an 80-column card. (out-of-the box only generates native code for a 6502. 65c02 translation available, this and other support is all user-contributed.) Requires Prodos 8. any version. Producer was WSM Group, Tucson, Arizona, which now appears to be defunct. Copyright status == shareware, but it's state is somewhat questionable as there is no known address where one can send shareware fees. Heavy Usenet support -- hyperc-l@calvin.sfasu.edu for questions and discussion. To join, send email to hyperc-request@calvin.sfasu.edu. Articles also appear in comp.sys.apple2 (and comp.sys.apple2.programmers now)occasionally. Source code and binaries appear in comp.{source,binaries}.apples occasionally as well. The Hyper C manual itself is pretty good, and a fair amount of user-contributed improvements are available. Contains some bit-set and other Pascal-ism extensions. Work currently being done to support 65c02, 65802, and 65816 transparently. A portion of the product is an interpreter which works in native mode. All file and device I/O works in an emulation mode for compatibility. Some of the products being developed are an 8 bit QWK reader, a standard library, and a high resolution graphics library is currently available - a double high resolution graphics library may be available in the near future. An alternate runtime operating environment to Hyper C's OPSYS runtime module is also being developed. It is called Opix. It requires at least a 65C02. Opix 1.01 should be available at the various Apple II ftp sites. Source code for the shell, libraries, etc. are available. An assembler (see above) is also included. This product does not support floating point numbers in the standard C tradition, but does have a pre-processor and libc replacement to aid in performing floating point operations. An optimizer is supported by Anthony J. Stuckey Code to create ProDOS SYS files was written by Gary Desrochers and Andy Werner. 2. Aztec C65 DOS 3.3 and Prodos 8 versions available. K&R compatible. Product name: Aztec C65 Apple Commercial Language: C Hardware requirements: Operating system requirements: ProDOS or DOS 3.3 Company name: Manx Software Systems Company address: P.O. Box 980, Freehold, NJ 07728 Company phone number: (800) 221-0440 (orders only) (201) 542-2121 (inquiries) Package appears to still be available, but no further modifications are planned by the company. As of 1992/01/24, the pricing was $199.00 + $5.00 S&H for the ProDOS version. Anyone have any pricing updates? ------------------------------ Communications related packages 1. METAL+ (Mega Extensive Telecommunications Applications Language), 1989 Language: assembled via Merlin 16 Plus Assembler Hardware requirements: Apple IIe, c, or gs w/128k and at LEAST 800k disk storage. Operating system requirements: ProDOS 8 Company name: Wilson Wares Original Author name: TC Wilson Now available from ftp site aho.cba.csuohio.edu. Send email to thompson@umdsun2.umd.umich.edu and read alt.bbs.metal for more details. METAL is a telecommunications application compiled language. Main purpose is to run BBS software, but can be used to write terminal programs, program launchers, and database software. The METAL compiler can compile ACOS, MACOS, and LLUCE code with little modification needed. One of the primary pieces of software written in METAL is the FutureVision BBS system. 2. ModemWorks Language: written in assembly, can be accessed by either BASIC or Assembly Language. Hardware requirements: Apple IIe or newer, modem Operating system requirements: ProDOS-8 Toolkit which allows the programmer to easily interface with the modem. Company name: Morgan Davis Group Company address: 10079 Nuerto Lane, Rancho San Diego, CA 91977 Company phone number: Tel 619/670-0563, Fax 619/670-9643 Company email address: mdavis@mdg.cts.com Electronic file access info: MDG BBS 619/670-5379, forums on America Online, BIX, and GEnie. 3. ProLine Internet BBS Hardware requirements: Apple IIe or newer, hard disk, modem, clock Operating system requirements: ProDOS-8 Company name: Morgan Davis Group Company address: 10079 Nuerto Lane, Rancho San Diego, CA 91977 Company phone number: Tel 619/670-0563, Fax 619/670-9643 Company email address: mdavis@mdg.cts.com Electronic file access info: MDG BBS 619/670-5379, forums on America Online, BIX, and GEnie. 4. Talk is Cheap! Has a programmable script language which some have used to write front ends to services such as Compuserve. This is a commercial package sold by Quality Computers. Thanks to ddkilzer@iastate.edu for the following blurb. ------------------------------ FORTH 1. GraFORTH (+) (DOS 3.3 only) Available on GEnie Library 8, file 3299. Written by Paul Lutus. 2. Mad Apple Forth (+) ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/system/apple2/Lang/Forth/* 3. Purple Forth (+) ftp from cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/8bit/source 4. Q Forth (+) version 2.0 Alpha 1.0, by Toshiyasu Morita, ftp from ftp.uu.net:/systems/apple2/languages/forth Author email address: tm@netcom.com. It is a small integer Forth. ------------------------------ FORTRAN 1. Cabot FORTRAN 77 Runs on Apple I(?), IIgs, Mac, MS-DOS, CP/M and Unix boxes. Claims the 'worldwide software license (sic) for software products developed by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Address: The Vicarage Stoke View Road Fishponds Bristol BS16 3AE England UK Telephone: 00 44 272 586644 Fax: 00 44 272 586023 BBS: 00 44 272 583023 Compuserve address: 100014,241 ------------------------------ Logo 1. LCSI LOGO, LCSI Apple LOGO, LCSI Terrapin LOGO Information needed. How does LCSI Terrapin LOGO differ from the Terrapin LOGO below - or does it? LCSI apparently still has this available, with generous site license agreements. 2. LOGO PLUS Language: LOGO Hardware requirements: 128K Apple II family, IIgs Operating system requirements: ProDOS Price: $120 (upgrades, quantity discounts, site licenses available) Company name: Terrapin Software, Inc. Company address: 400 Riverside Street, Portland, ME 04103-1068 Company phone number: 1-800-972-8200 (FAX 1-207-797-9235) Company email address: Electronic file access info: Date of info: Terrapin catalog Winter/Spring 1993 issue 3. Terrapin LOGO/Apple Language: LOGO Hardware requirements: 64K Apple II family Operating system requirements: DOS 3.3 Price: $100 (quantity discounts, site licenses available) Company name: Terrapin Software, Inc. Company address: 400 Riverside Street, Portland, ME 04103-1068 I also was told that this was the address: Terrapin, Inc. 380 Green Street Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 492-8816 Company phone number: 1-800-972-8200 (FAX 1-207-797-9235) Date of info: Terrapin catalog Winter/Spring 1993 issue 4. LogoWriter More info needed. An intro to Logo for LogoWriter on the Apple II is available at which is a MSWord 4.0 Mac document written by dkresse@cpt.org (Dave Kressen). ------------------------------ Pascal 1. Cabot Pascal Runs on Apple I(?), IIgs, Mac, MS-DOS, CP/M and Unix boxes. Claims the 'worldwide software licence (sic) for software products developed by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Address: The Vicarage Stoke View Road Fishponds Bristol BS16 3AE England UK Telephone: 00 44 272 586644 Fax: 00 44 272 586023 BBS: 00 44 272 583023 Compuserve address: 100014,241 2. Kyan Pascal Product name: Kyan Pascal Language: ISO standard Pascal Hardware requirements: Operating system requirements: Company name: Kyan Software Inc Company address: 1850 Unio Street #183, San Francisco, CA 94123 Company phone number: (415) 626-2080 Company email address: Electronic file access info: Date of info - 1986 3. Apple Pascal Apple Pascal version 1.1 was released in 1980. Version 1.2 was released in 1983. Version 1.3 was the last release back in 1985. This language had its own unique operating system. It came with a compiler, a very good assembler and a linker. Various toolkits were available for this language. For instance, one package was called Applegraphics which provided a set of routines for creating high resolution graphics from any of the UCSD environment's languages. Apple Pascal 1.3 is still being sold by Resource Central. Resource Central P.O. Box 11-501 Overland Park, KS USA 66207 Phone: (913) 469-6502 Fax: (913) 469-6507 DA-024 Apple: Apple II Pascal v1.3 $69.00 DA-032 Pascal LabPak (10 3.5 disks, no docs) $69.00 AW-037 Seiter/Weiss: Pascal for Basic Prgmrs $12.95 DA-044 Apple: Pascal Technical Notes $4.00 DA-003 Apple: Apple II Pascal Desktop Toolkit $30.00 DA-001 Apple: Apple Filecard Toolkit $19.00 DA-024 includes 5 5.25" and one 3.5" floppy disks, and 6 large manuals, so air-mail postage will be quite expensive. The given price includes surface mail postage. ------------------------------ Shells 1. Davex (+) - Prodos 8 shell environment, which permits limited shell programming. Executable available on most Apple FTP archive sites. Author: David Lyons, dlyons@apple.com Also, there are numerous additional commands which have been written for this environment. The ROBCMDS.BXY(+) file on GEnie library 8 which contains additional commands for Davex. PHADE's DAVEX two utilities(+) - posted to comp.binaries.apple2 as DAVEX00.GZ. 2. ECP 8 (+) - Prodos 8 shell environment, which permits limited shell programming. Source and executable available on most Apple FTP archive sites. Author: Don Elton, delton@pro-carolina.oau.org 3. Proton Command Shell (PCS) (+) Language: Shell (very limited), Proton Programming Language, Assembler Hardware requirements: any Apple II, 80 col, 64K (128K or HD recommended) Operating system requirements: Prodos 8 Shareware: $20 Author name: Brian D. Campbell Author address: 7656 W. Wagoner Rd, Glendale, AZ 85308 Author phone number: (602) 866-1011 Author email address: campbell@agcs.com Electronic file archive host access info: N/A Notes: PCS is a shell environment and provides many tools: 6502 Assembler (8080 cross assembler available on request) P-code Compiler for the Proton Programming Language Full Screen Editor Directory navication and file maintenance commands File/directory copy/concatenate/split File compare and search UU format encode/decode Send file to slots. Sort file by record column key Display file in ASCII or Hex Simple shell batch script capability On the IIgs, there is also ROM Toolbox programming support. Graphics conversion and display facilities (GIF,etc) Super Hi-Res Games and Demos ------------------------------ Word Processing packages 1. TimeOut UltraMacros (AppleWorks oriented add on macro language) Sold by Quality Computers, requires AppleWorks (not AW GS). 2. Ultra 4, 1.1 (AppleWorks extended UltraMacros package) Originally by JEM, rights have been transferred to Quality Computers. 3. WPL (+) (word oriented language internal to DOS 3.3 and ProDOS AppleWriter) ProDOS AppleWriter 2.1 is available as a freely distributable download on GEnie. ------------------------------ Misc 1. CEEMAC (+) Author: Brooke W Boering Date: Jan 1982 Company: Vagabondo Enterprises 1300 E Algonquin -3G Schaumburg, IL and later in 1986 or 1987, 135 Stephen Rd Aptos, CA 95003 Software put into the public domain 3/18/87. A DOS 3.3 graphics language which is a part of a graphics/sound program. It was an early Electronic Arts program according to one correspondent (Richard McCusker). Later correspondents correctly pointed me to Brooke Boering and Vagabondo Enterprises. The basic concept in CEEMAC was the programmer wrote scores of graphics and sounds which were then performed. The language used tables of values (sin, cos, tan) to create curves, and it also allowed the programmer to use shapes. There were macros that produced dots, boxes, color, sound, and more. It allowed you to anchor a curve at one end and move the other end around. It also allowed you to set the symmetry of the 'score'. Here is a sample score: SCORE: KT :FIRE ORGAN KEY T SPEED [0,0] : - BUT 0 0 CLEAR [0,0] XY1 = $80;$80 : MAIN LOOP F :FORGND SYMMETRY 0-3 VC = RND3 ORA 3 : SAVE FORGND ROTATION VD = ROTEZ :FORGND COLOR COLOR = NXTCOL I believe this is on some of the Internet archives. There are several related disks here. 1. An application written in CeeMac by the author called Fire Organ. 2. the CeeMac disk itself. 3. Maestro 4. A 'third party' disk of CeeMac programs called Sparkee. There was also a CEEMAC newsletter. Any more info that you might have would be appreciated. 2. KeyLISP For the Apple ][ (64K required) Company: XPrime Corp Author: Gerard P. Michon Address: 10835 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90025-4656 Tel: (310) 470-4663 ISBN: 0-937185-00-0 For Book and Software Package ($149) ISBN: 0-937185-01-9 For Reference Manual Only ($39.95) Works on all versions of the Apple from 64k Apple ][ through Apple IIgs. The reference manual, with index, is 410 pages and is quite complete. Retail: $149 w/book $110 w/o book Sale: $50 w/o book Book: $39 (It is the manual and as such is needed) 3. make (+) Product name: make (rmake v1.0.1) (+) Language: a development tool for automating compilation for hyperC. Hardware requirements: 8-bit Apple II (should work with IIgs) Operating system requirements: Prodos 8 Author name: P. Douglas Reeder Author address: 1718 Birch, Richland, WA 99352, USA Author phone number: Author email address: Electronic file archive host access info: Most major Apple ftp sites. The main package for v1.0 is commonly under the name MAKE.PACK.SHK. The v1.0.1 update consisting only of "README" and "make" files is commonly under the name make101.shk Thanks to G. Devin Reade for this make info. 4. Product name: MICRO DYNAMO Hardware requirements: Apple II+, //e ..., two drives Operating system requirements: Pascal Operating System Company name: Addison-Wesley Apple II version of Dynamo simulation language. Runs under the Pascal System. More information needed. 5. Product name: MICRO PROLOG Language: Prolog. (AI Language) Hardware requirements: Apple II (+,e,c,GS) Company name: Logic Programming Associates (defunct?) Prolog interpreter for 3 syntax: Micro, Simple, Mitsi. With interactive program editor, tracer/debugger, optimizing (tail recursion), error handler, graphics and sound. Still sold in 1990. 6. Product name: Object Module Manager Language: supports BASIC and/or Assembly Language Hardware requirements: Apple IIe or newer Operating system requirements: ProDOS-8 Company name: Morgan Davis Group Company address: 10079 Nuerto Lane, Rancho San Diego, CA 91977 Company phone number: Tel 619/670-0563, Fax 619/670-9643 Company email address: mdavis@mdg.cts.com Electronic file access info: MDG BBS 619/670-5379, Special forums on America Online, BIX, and GEnie. 7. pidgin (+) ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/system/apple2/Lang/pidgin/* Published in Dr. Dobbs Journal. 8. Product name: Apple SuperPILOT Language: PILOT (Author's Language for Computer Assisted Instruction) Hardware requirements: Minimum: Apple II or II+, 48K, one disk drive for Lesson mode or two disk drives for Author mode Operating system requirements: Pascal Operating System (?) Company name: Apple Computer Apple SUPER PILOT is an improved version of Apple PILOT, with changes in the Graphics Editor, the Lesson Text Editor (lowercase), the Utility Programs, language extensions and operating system extensions. It is sold by Resource Central: DA-004 Apple: Apple II SuperPILOT $69.00 9. tinman (+) Published in Dr. Dobbs Journal, by the author pidgin. One of these was a macro language. One of the two languages was used to implement the other. I will have to dig out the details on these. 10. ProDOS 8 Company name: Apple Computer, Inc. Now sold by Resource Central. Hardware requirements: Apple II+, IIe, IIc, IIgs. DA-002 Apple: ProDOS 8 System Disk v4.0.1 (5.25 & 3.5) $14.00 11. MINT Documented in the Academic Press book ISBN 0-12-286982-6 . MINT is a threaded language which uses infix notation rather than Polish notation like Forth. The book contains the complete source code of both the kernel as well as the compiler and several utilities. This information was provided by Richard King who can provide more information regarding this language. 12. XINU (+) This is actually not for an Apple II from Apple, but for some kind of Apple II clone with strange bank-switching scheme. If someone can provide me with more info, I certainly will add it to the FAQ. XINU is an operating system. ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au The info on XINU was provided by Paul Guertin . ------------------------------ GS specific languages. ------------------------------ Assembler 1. Cabot Software Systems Assembler Power System, Cabot Software Ltd., England 65816 macro set and ProDOS 16 GS/OS 2. Merlin 8/16 Plus Sold by Roger Wagner A set of macro files for System 6 were written by uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric Shepherd). At one point, he had planned to post them to Usenet, so perhaps they are available on ftp site. 3. MPW IIgs assembler Macintosh Programmer Workshop package which allows cross-development for the Apple IIgs. Available from Resource Central: DA-037 Apple: APW/MPW Interfaces for System 6.0.1 $20.00 DA-019 Apple: MPW IIgs Tools v1.3 $50.00 DA-016 Apple: MPW IIgs Assembler v1.2 $99.00 DA-017 Apple: MPW IIgs C v1.0.2 $99.00 DA-018 Apple: MPW IIgs Pascal v1.1 $99.00 4. ORCA/M GS Macro assembler available through The Byte Works. Upwards compatible with the Apple II product. Requires a IIgs, 1.125 meg of RAM and at least one 3.5" floppy. For large programs or desktop programs, 1.75 meg ram is recommended. A hard drive is necessary to get full use of the tool. Cost: $125 Also available is the ORCA Subroutine Library Source (2.0.1) at $25, the Merlin to ORCA translator at $40, and the Utility Pack #1 for $25. Byte Works also offers programming books such as: System 6.0 with Release Notes, Interfaces $30 Programmer's Reference for System 6.0 and 6.0.1 $50 ------------------------------ BASIC 1. ORCA/Integer BASIC compiler (1.0.1) Available from The Byte Works, Inc. This runs on the IIgs and produces IIgs code. Includes source code and a small book on compilers that explains the Integer BASIC compiler. Cost: $30 2. MD BASIC, v2.x Company name: Morgan Davis Group Company address: 10079 Nuerto Lane, Rancho San Diego, CA 91977 Company phone number: Tel 619/670-0563, Fax 619/670-9643 Company email address: mdavis@mdg.cts.com or mdavis@mdg.com or mdavis@cts.com Electronic file access info: MDG BBS 619/670-5379, Special forums on America Online, BIX, and GEnie. Product name: MD-BASIC Language: Applesoft Hardware requirements: IIGS, 1.5MB RAM Operating system requirements: GS/OS 6.0 or newer A preprocessor for Applesoft BASIC. The resulting BASIC code can run in non-GS Applesoft environments. This is NOT a BBS specific language. Besides preprocessing, it does optimization and allows better syntax, such as long variable names, while loops, etc. 3. Micol Advanced BASIC GS (version 4.2 supposedly available now) Version 5.0 supposedly in development. See above for address, phone number. Note that this package is carried by Quality Computers. List Price: $159 4. AC/BASIC Product name: AC/BASIC Language: microsoft BASIC compatible Hardware requirements: Apple IIGS 512k RAM Operating system requirements: GS The cost was advertised at $125 a few years ago. Company name: Absoft Corp. Company address: 2781 Bond Street Company phone number: (313)853-0050 Company email address: Electronic file access info: The AC/BASIC package includes an ORCA editor and a 16 bit compiler. It is MicroSoft BASIC compatible and I have verified this with source code from MicroSoft BASIC for the Macintosh. ACSIC supports windows, buttons, colour graphics and sound. It works best from a RAM or hard drive, but requires 3.5" drive minimum. The manual includes plenty of example code which is also included on the system disk. Absoft Corp is still in business but support for ACSIC is limited to whatever the tech support person can offer when you call -- they do not have a GS set up and will not research any problem. There is a patch available for ACSIC to make it compatible with GS. ------------------------------ C 1. ORCA/C (version 2.0.3) available through The Byte Works. Requires a IIgs, 1.125 meg of RAM and at least one 3.5" floppy. For large programs or desktop programs, 1.75 meg ram is recommended. A hard drive is necessary to get full use of the tool. This is the only version of ANSI C available for the Apple II line. Only generates 65816 binary code. Cost: $95 Also available from Byte Works are the Learn to Program C Self-study course at $50 and Toolbox Programming in C Self-study Course at $75 2. MPW IIgs C compiler Macintosh Programmer Workshop package which allows cross-development for the Apple IIgs. This is a version of K&R C. Information needed. 3. lcc816 (+) This is a C compiler front end from ATT/Princeton University which has had a 65816 code generator written for it. It uses 32-bit ints and currently runs on Unix boxes or MS-DOS machines. It doesn't run on the IIgs itself yet since it can't compile itself yet. At the time I received info about it, it was missing floating point support and most of the libraries. It is available at ftp://ftp.winternet.com/users/tmp/ in the lccsrc.taz, lccdoc.taz, lccexe.taz, and lcclib.taz files. It is being developed by Toshi Morita . ------------------------------ Editors 1. MicroEmacs (+) GS/OS text editor which has programmable scripting language. ------------------------------ Pascal 1. Complete (formerly TML) Pascal, 2.0 I have gotten an email from one user who documents a number of problems attempting to get an update of this product. I have yet to be able to get other information about it. I would recommend avoiding this product until further info is available. 2. ORCA/Pascal 2.1 The Byte Works, Inc. (see previous address info). Requires a IIgs, 1.125 meg of RAM and at least one 3.5" floppy. For large programs or desktop programs, 1.75 meg ram is recommended. A hard drive is necessary to get full use of the tool. Up to version 1.4, ANSI/ISO Pascal with extensions such as string handling. As of Version 2.0, some object-oriented abilities were added. Cost: $95 Could someone provide more info regarding this package? Also available from Byte Works are the Learn to Program Pascal Self-study course at $50 and Toolbox Programming in Pascal Self-study Course at $75 3. MPW IIgs Pascal Macintosh Programmer Workshop package which allows cross-development for the Apple IIgs. Information needed. 4. Pegasus Pascal This isn't really a Pascal. It is a preprocessor for Orca Pascal. On the other hand, it only costs $50, comes with doc, and providesa number of development features that the developers swear by. It is currently at version 2.1. Contact Ken O. Burtch Pegasoft R.R.#1 Honsberger Ave. Jordan Station, ON, Canada L0R 1S0 or the Tiamet Line at (905) 562-4745 login: pegasoft ------------------------------ Misc 1. ORCA/3D Logo GS , Byte Works Requires a IIgs, 1.125 meg of RAM and at least one 3.5" floppy. For large movies, more memory and a hard disk will be needed. Shipping Aug 93. This is source compatible with HyperLogo GS (and HyperLogo Mac and 3D Logo Mac?). 3D Logo GS can create 3D graphics - one pair of 3D glasses come with the package. Cost: $95 2. ORCA/Debugger (1.1.1) , Byte Works Requires a IIgs, 1.125 meg of RAM and at least one 3.5" floppy. For large programs or desktop programs, 1.75 meg ram is recommended. A hard drive is necessary to get full use of the tool. A text based source level debugger which works with any language that supports the ORCA-style intrusive COP debugging method. This is a GSBug-like source code debugger. Cost: $30 3. Design Master , Byte Works Requires a IIgs, 1.125 meg of RAM and at least one 3.5" floppy. For large programs or desktop programs, 1.75 meg ram is recommended. A hard drive is necessary to get full use of the tool. This is a Graphical User Interface-based prototyping tool which allows you to create Apple IIgs GS/OS 5.x/6.x resources interactively. It does not allow one to modify existing resources. Cost: $95 4. ORCA/Disassembler , Byte Works Requires a IIgs, 1.125 meg of RAM and at least one 3.5" floppy. For large programs or desktop programs, 1.75 meg ram is recommended. A hard drive is necessary to get full use of the tool. This software reads plain binary or OMF files and produces assembly language text file as output. Can disassemble ROMs. Cost: $30 5. ECP 16 (+) - Prodos 16 shell environment, which permits limited shell programming. Source and executable available on most Apple FTP archive sites. Author: Don Elton, delton@pro-carolina.oau.org 6. FORTRAN to C conversion Language: FORTRAN (to C) Hardware requirements: Memory and disk space.:-) Operating system requirements: System 6.0 and beyond. Software requirements: Some IIgs C compiler. Author name: Gary F. Desrochers Author address: 17752 W. 14th Ave. Apt #3 Golden CO 80401 Author phone number: 303-279-7948 Author email address: gdesroch@slate.mines.colorado.edu Looking into legal issues right now. Also fixing many (many) bugs. 7. Product name: Foundation This is not a language as such, but instead a development tool (resource editor) for those programming in various languages under GS/OS. Company: Lunar Productions Address: 1808 Michael Drive, Waukesha, Wisconsin 53186 Phone number: 414-549-9261 Price: $79.95 retail Foundation has something called 'native editors. These are editors written to manipulate specific resources in a GUI manner. For resources which do not yet have native editors, one uses a `script editor' to edit the various parameters in a non-graphical manner. The current set of native editors is limited. Rumors lately are that this package has turned freeware and is available for ftp from GEnie. Is anyone reading this an expert on this subject? Rumors also indicate that someone called the Phoenix Foundation (spelling?) has the source codes for this software and are attempting to continue development. Anyone have more info? 8. GS 16 FORTH II, Version II (+) ftp from cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/source/GS16Forth.shk Also available on GEnie Library 18 as file 2124. A description of it is available on GEnie Library 18 as file 2125. And a demo of GS Forth , by D. M. Holmes, is available on GEnie Library 18 as file 691. Author: Warren Stone, GSF (?) Hardware requirement: Apple IIgs, 768k Operating system requirement: GS/OS 5.0 A 16 bit FORTH implementation able to make use of the GS Toolbox. Includes assembler, full screen editor. 9. GScheme (+) This is Scheme for the IIgs. Author: Jawaid Bazyar Company name: Procyon ftp from cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/source/gscheme05b.shk and pindarus.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/apple2/lang/gscheme.shk 10. GS/OS - also sometimes referred to incorrectly as ProDOS 16. Company name: Apple Computer, Inc. Now sold by Resource Central or available via ftp://ftp.apple.com/pub/dts/ or from Compuserve/America Online/GEnie/and perhaps elsewhere. Hardware requirements: IIgs. DA-006 Apple: GS/OS System v6.0.1 (disks only) $24.00 DA-047 Apple: System 6 Users Manual $34.95 DA-013 Apple: GS/OS System v6.0.1 bundle (disks & manual) $49.95 DA-029 Apple: System 6 Golden Master CD ROM $99.00 DA-035 Apple: AppleShare SetUp Disk for GS/OS v6.01 $15.00 11. HyperCard GS, 1991 Apple's Apple II version of the popular Macintosh application. Published by Apple. Current version is 1.1. Part number A0027LL/A Cost: $69 Contains a programming language called HyperTalk. This is a IIgs implementation which is quite source code compatible to the Macintosh HyperCard's HyperTalk. There are also a few programming kits for HyperCard GS. Available through Quality Computers, etc. There is a tool available on the Mac side to help convert stacks back and forth from Hypercard Mac to Hypercard GS. I don't recall ever hearing of a IIgs version of this tool. From Resource Central you can get the following. AP-002 HyperCard IIgs v1.1 $69.00 AW-042 Apple: Hypercard IIgs Script Guide $23.99 AW-034 Apple: Hypercard Stack Design $16.95 DA-030 HyperMover (Mac and IIgs disks) $15.00 DA-034 HyperCard IIgs Developer's Kit $15.00 DA-045 Apple: HyperCard IIgs Technical Notes $3.00 Apparently the software portion of this package is available for download from major online services. 12. HyperStudio GS, 1989 Roger Wager, Inc.'s popular hyper application for the Apple IIgs. Contains a programming language. There are also a few programming kits offered by other companies for HyperStudio GS. ByteWorks is also selling a HyperLogo language which allows one to extend the HyperStudio GS application. Resource Central sells these items: RW-005 HyperStudio for the IIgs $109.95 BW-015 HyperLogo for the IIgs $59.95 13. Pecan Power Systems FORTRAN, 1987 (Pecan bought out by Cabot Software Ltd. See above.) Ran under ProDOS 16 (GS/OS), but its UCSD file system was implemented within a single ProDOS file. More information needed. 14. Product name: make (cmake v1.0) (+) Language: a development tool for automating compilation for any language. Hardware requirements: Apple IIgs Operating system requirements: GS/OS, Orca shell Comments: Cmake makes heavy use of scripts to achieve its aim, rather than an actual make program. Its makefiles are scripts and as such have no resemblance to Unix makefiles. Author name: Brian Clark Author address: 1005 Darius Lane, Naperville, IL 60565-2766, USA Author phone number: Author email address: InterNet: bclark@pro-harvest.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-harvest!bclark Electronic file archive host access info: Most major Apple ftp sites. Commonly under the name make.(bsq/shk/bxy), sometimes archived with fmake 15. Product name: make (dmake IIGS v1.0) (+) Language: a development tool for automating compilation for any language. Hardware requirements: Apple IIgs Operating system requirements: GS/OS, Gno shell Comments: dmake is currently in alpha testing and is expected to go beta after the release of Gno v2.0. Gno v2.0 will likely be required for the beta and final releases. Dmake is a full-fledged Unix make utility. This is a port of dmake v3.4, the original written by Dennis Vadura, dvadura@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca, CS DEPT, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada. The port was initiated by James Brookes. Author name: G. Devin Reade Author address: 305 2303 119 St, Edmonton, AB, T6J 4E2, Canada Author phone number: Author email address: glyn@cs.ualberta.ca or glynr@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca Electronic file archive host access info: will be uploaded to ftp sites and posted to cba2 upon release. 16. Product name: make (fmake v1.0) (+) Language: a development tool for automating compilation for any language. Hardware requirements: Apple IIgs Operating system requirements: GS/OS, APW or Orca shell Comments: the most Unix-like make currently available for the IIgs (not including dmake, coming Real Soon Now). It has a rudimentary macro handling ability, some internal implicit dependancies, but is missing a lot of common Unix functions such as user-defined implicit dependantcies. Most Unix makefiles will require extensive modification before use. Author name: Blank Felix Author address: Endeweg 1, W-8000 Muenchen 60 FRG Author phone number: Author email address: Electronic file archive host access info: Most major Apple ftp sites. Commonly under the name fmake.(bsq/shk/bxy), but sometimes stored as make.* or dokumake.* for the documentation only. 17. Product name: make (gsMake v1.3) (+) Language: a development tool for automating compilation for any language. Hardware requirements: Apple IIgs Operating system requirements: GS/OS, APW or Orca shell Comments: uses dependancies, but the macro language is different than that of the common Unix makes -- therefore its makefiles bear no resemblance to Unix makefiles. Author name: Jason Blochowiak Author address: 3342 N. Shepard Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211-2925, USA Author phone number: Author email address: Electronic file archive host access info: Most major Apple ftp sites. Commonly under the name GSMAKE.SHK Note: The above make file info was original provided by G. Devin Reade . 18. Cabot Software Systems Modula-2, (Was Pecan Modula-2.) Runs on Apple I(?), IIgs, Mac, MS-DOS, CP/M and Unix boxes. Claims the 'worldwide software license (sic) for software products developed by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Address: The Vicarage Stoke View Road Fishponds Bristol BS16 3AE England UK Telephone: 00 44 272 586644 Fax: 00 44 272 586023 BBS: 00 44 272 583023 Compuserve address: 100014,241 19. MPW Tools (1.3) Includes DerezIIGS, DumpObjIIGS, DuplicateIIGS ExpressIIGS, LinkIIGS, MakeBinIIGS, MakeDirectIIGS, MakeLibIIGS, ResEqualIIGS, RezIIGS, BuildMenuIIGS, and CreateMakeIIGS. Information needed. 20. Raven FORTH(+) A fast FORTH system for the IIgs. Author: C. Haun. Available on GEnie Library 18 as file 903. 21. Little Smalltalk (+) Version 3 ported in 1993 to the Apple IIgs by alb@cognos.com (Al Belyea). Available on GEnie Library 18 as file 3290. 22. Talking Tools - licensed through The Byte Works, programmer can add speech synthesis through toolkit calls. Cost: $35 23. XLISP-PLUS 2.1e (+) Language: Lisp Hardware requirements: Apple IIGS, at least 500kB free RAM Operating system requirements: shell program (GNO/ME, ORCA) Author name: David Michael Betz, Tom Almy et al. Author address: Tom Almy 17830 SW Shasta Trail, Tualatin, OR 97062, USA. Author phone number: n/a Author email address: dbetz@apple.com, toma@sail.labs.tek.com Electronic file archive host access info: posted to comp.binaries.apple2. Unix/MS-DOS source available from glia.biostr.washington.edu:/pub/xlisp. and pindarus.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/apple2/lang . Porter: voss@ira.uka.de dbetz@apple.com is no longer an active account. Later in life, DAvid wrote a language called DROOL (Dave's Recycled Object Oriented Language) which apparently was an update to the ADVSYS adventure creation language. The DROOL language was described in a Dr. Dobbs magazine article but further email addresses, etc. are not available to me at this time. 24. ORCA/Modula-2 (1.0), ByteWorks Cost: $95 Can someone provide more info on this? 25. ORCA/HyperLogo GS , ByteWorks Developed in conjunction with Roger Wagner's effort to use Logo in HyperStudio for both IIgs and Macs. 26. ProDOS 16, Apple Computer, Inc. Folks used to get this confused with GS/OS. ProDOS 16 was the first OS for the IIgs to use 16 bits. It was dropped when GS/OS came out. ------------------------------ Other hardware development environments The cards I had in mind listing here would be those for which some advantageous programming environment was provided or anticipated. Thus, I didn't plan on listing all of the serial I/O cards, etc. If you feel programmers would benefit from some hardware card being listed, be sure to send me some detailed information here. You can see that this is just a new idea here and I need help fleshing it out. ------------------------------ 65802 Available for older Apples and Apple clones which were still stuck with the 6502. Software such as Merlin assembler provide some amount of support for the 802 and 816 chips. 6809 1. Stellation Two OS/9 Level 1 was one of the operating systems available. 68000 1. Stellation Two I don't remember if OS/9 or some other operating system was available for this one. 8088 Ability to run MS-DOS gives programmers access to another base of development and application software. 1. Applied Engineering 8088 Card Information needed on availability. Z-80 Ability to run CP/M gives programmers access to another base of development and application software. Once one gets one of these, then many CP/M programs are possible. One problem is getting the software in a format which is READABLE by the CP/M card though! Some companies carried the 5.25" Apple sector format though. 1. MicroSoft Softcard CP/M Card Information needed on availability. Note that FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC were available from Microsoft in Apple 5.25" disk formats. 2. Applied Engineering Z-80 Card Information needed on availability. Note that Applied Engineering's CP/M package, called I believe CP/AM, supposedly ran on any MicroSoft SoftCard work-alike (like AE's Z80+ or Z80c, and the Z-RAM Ultra 3). 3. Clone cards Information needed on availability. Misc 1. Faster Floating Point Cards There were several - someone want to send me details? No unique programming environments but can make SANE processing bearable in some cases. A. Innovative Systems Will Troxell, contact. FPE (Floating Point Engine) PO Box 444 Severn Park, MD 21144-0444 (301) 987-8688 The above address may not be correct. Apple II 68881 math co-processor, speeds up Appleworks, Applesoft and many IIgs applications. B. Applied Engineering FastMath card Information needed. 2. CPU acceleration These are primarily faster 65816 or other similar chips. A programmer's programming environment is not extended, but made bearable. Applied Engineering series of cards Zip series of cards Others? 3. Graphics display cards Would provide programmer with unique visual capabilities. Has there been even one actually shipped? 4. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) cards Has there been even one actually shipped? AIIdsp - being developed by Ken Poppleton. Operates on a Apple IIs with expansion slots, using the DSP 56001. No meaningful programs using it yet. GS/DSP - was being developed by Pete Snowberg. He was using a 34010. 5. Virtual Memory Management card This one was advertised in CALL-A.P.P.L.E for several months, but I don't know if it ever shipped. I don't have the details handy at this time. Can someone help me out here? I know that it provided an enhanced BASIC which had extended arrays, etc. 6. Sound cards Would provide programmer with unique audio capabilities. Some programming packages may take advantage of having one of these boards available. Mockingboard, Phasor, MDIdeas Stereo digitization and synthesis, Sonic Blaster, Audio Animator MIDI - GS will produce MIDI with just a standard MIDI box plugged into a serial port. Sound synthesis Voice synthesis 7. BSR X-10 controller card Would provide programmer control over household management of devices. The BSR X-10 Home Automation Interface, model number CP290 works through a standard Apple II serial card. It comes with a cable that converts the D-25 connector on the serial port into an O connector for the interface module. Also included is the Apple IIe or IIc software. CP290 may be able to be purchased from: X-10 (USA) Inc. 185A LeGrand Ave. Northvale, NJ 07647 (201) 784-9700 or 1-800-526-0027 or X-10 Home Controls Inc. 1200 Aerowood Drive, Unit 20 Mississauga, Ontario CANADA L4W 2S7 (416) 624-4446 or 1-800-387-3346 In some areas, Radio Shack carries much of the BSR X-10 product line. Info provided by "Pierre (P.P.) Blais" 8. Media control devices CD-ROM - can be used on an Apple II or IIgs using one of the standard SCSI card. Procyon makes some software which allows Apple II users to run some of the generic type CD-ROMS. VCR - there used to be an Apple II package to allow you to back up your hard drive to a VCR. I believe there also used to be a package to allow one to drive a VCR for educational purposes. Other - An Apple II Medial Toolkit is now available in the IIgs System 6 and newer packages to control laser discs, etc. ------------------------------ Historical 8 bit based programming languages ------------------------------ Assembly 1. Product name: ALD System ][ Language: 6502 Assembly Hardware requirements: intended for use in Apple ][ computers having 48K of Random Access Memory and an optional Apple ][ Language Card Operating system requirements: DOS 3.3 Company name: Insoft Company address: 259 Barnett Rd. / Unit 3 Medford, OR 97501 Company phone number: (503) 779-2465 Author name: Copyright 1980, P. Lutus best quote: This is the System ][ manual. It won't teach you how to write Assembly Language programs (because it is finite in length). 2. ASM/65 Programma International 3. Big Mac, Big Mac LC Predecessor to Merlin. Used to be available through CALL-A.P.P.L.E. 4. EAT (Edit and Assemble Text) Software Concepts - written in Integer BASIC 5. EDASM An assembler from Apple that came with the Applesoft Programmer's Assistant. It produces relocatable object code rather than B files. Came with its own line based editor. Also was available on the Apple Toolkit disk. A debugger known as BugByter was also sold as a part of various packages. 6. Microproducts Assembler $39.95 back when it was being sold in the late 1970s. 7. Randy's Weekend Assembler, 1978 by Randy Wigginton. Written mostly in SWEET-16 16 bit emulator (package written by S. Wozniak and a part of the Integer BASIC ROM). 8. SC Assembler II 8 bit assembler whose support has ceased due to the closing on the company. (In addition, he published a monthly newsletter, Apple Assembly Line, which was published from 10/80 through 5/88.) Last known address: Author: Bob Sander-Cedarlof Address: P.O. Box 280300 Dallas, Texas 75228 Bob went to work for AE as a software engineer and might still be available at the address/telephone number given above. It would be worthwhile for anyone interested in 6502 assembly language to find the back issues to Apple Assembly Line. They are available for download to GEnie members. In addition to an assembler for the 6502 he offered cross assemblers for: Motorola 6800, 1, 2, 8/6301, 6805 6809, 68HC11, 68000 Mitsubishi 50740 series Intel 8048 & 8051 families, 8080/8085 Zilog Z-80, Z8 RCA 1802EC LSI-11 General Inst GI-1650, GI-1670 Sharp LH5801 Most cross assemblers were available in both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS format. 9. TED/ASM, 1978 by Gary Shannon (and editor by Randy Wigginton) 10. UCSD Pascal Assembler Part of the Apple Pascal package. Was one of the early assemblers with macros, conditional assemblies and able to generate relocatable code. 11. Product name: ProDOS ASSEMBLY TOOLS Language: Assembler Hardware requirements: Apple II, 64K, 1 Disk drive (Minimum) Apple //e, 80 column, printer, second disk drive Operating system requirements: ProDOS Company name: Apple Computer ProDOS version of EDASM. Includes Editor, Assembler, Bugbyter debugger and relocating loader. It was sold by Apple as a Workbench series tool, and later included in the APDA catalog (#K2SPAT), it passed to the Resource Central catalog (DA-005, $35.00, May 1992). It is now obsolete and no longer available from any of these. ------------------------------ BASIC 1. Applesoft toolkits Apple's Applesoft Programmer's Assistant. Product from Apple. Came with an assembler called EDASM. Came with a series of ampersand commands, but a high resolution character generator that let you design your own fonts and display them on the high resolution graphics screen using traditional PRINT statements. Apple Programmer's Toolkit, which occupied the ROM space left unused by Integer BASIC. Originally distributed as firmware as well well as Apple DOS 3.3 boot disks. Product name: SuperGraphics 3-D Display System & Game Tool (by Bill Budge) Language: called via PRINT "%..." from Applesoft or Integer BASIC Hardware requirements: `Required are an Apple II with 48K of RAM and a minimum of 1 disk drive.' Operating system requirements: DOS 3.3 Author name: P. Lutus Author address: Kerby, Oregon Author phone number: There was an Atari 800 version. 2. Applesoft compilers Product name: The Einstein Compiler (1983) Language: Applesoft BASIC compiler Hardware requirement: Apple II+, //e, //c Operating system requirements: DOS 3.3 Company name: The Einstein Corporation Author name: D. Goodrow and S. Einstein Notes: You would load your Applesoft program in memory, brun the einstein compiler, and the compiler would create a one line program - 1 CALL 4864 - with the compiled code embedded at the end of the program. The compiler worked fast, but is reported to produce slower code than TASC and could not handle dynamicallyt dimensioned arrays. Product name: Microsoft TASC: The AppleSoft Compiler, version 3.0 Language: BASIC compiler Hardware requirements: Apple II+, //e, //c Operating system requirements: Company name: Microsoft, Inc. It can makes use of auxiliary memory on 128K Apples Was available in 1985. 3. Blankenship BASIC Hardware requirements: Apple II+, IIe, IIc Operating system requirements: DOS 3.3 or ProDOS Author name: John Blankenship Author address: PO Box 47934 Atlanta GA 30362 Price: DOS 3.3: $25 ProDOS: $25 Both: $39.95 1. Real interpreter, not a pre-processor 2. WHILE-ENDWHILE and REPEAT-UNTIL loops 3. True IF-THEN-ELSE-ENDIF (Using WHEN) 4. PRINT.USING, FILE, MERGE, RANDOMIZE 5. PRINT and TAB commands work in HIRES 6. 80 columns supported on IIe and IIc 7. Full Editor witn AUTO-NUM and RENUM 8. Listings are indented automatically 9. Fast SORT, SEARCH and INSTR$ commands 10. BOX, BOXFILE, DRAW.USING and SOUND 11. DISK comand replaces DOS's CHR$(4) 12. DEFINE and PERFORM NAMED procedures 13. 99% Upward compatible with Applesoft 14. All commands entered normally, no &s 15. 100's of satisfied users world wide 16. FREE newsletter available to owners Thanks to Paul Guertin for this information. 4. Integer BASIC This BASIC was in the ROMs of the Apple II' first sold by Apple. When the Apple II+'s with Applesoft in the on-board ROMs started selling, Apple also sold a Firmware card which had Integer BASIC in ROM on them. Steve Jensen sent email indicating that Integer BASIC can be found in a file found on any Apple DOS 3.3 system disk. Steve says that it autoloads when you boot the DOS 3.3 disk. Certainly it can be autoloaded by executing an Integer BASIC program from that disk. Jay Krell followed up with an email that indicates that the DOS 3.3 system master boot disk loads Integer BASIC into the language card if Applesoft is in the ROMs. You can switch to Integer BASIC by issuing the INT command from the Applesoft BASIC prompt. You can switch back to Applesoft by issuing the FP command. There were many articles and books on Integer BASIC published back in the 'olden days'. One of the best sources of information was the Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine, which published a lot of information on the language. A.P.P.L.E. sold a relocatable RAM version of Integer BASIC as Integer BASIC+. ------------------------------ FORTH 1. 6502 Forth 1.2 Programma International. 2. Apple Forth 1.6 Cap'n Software Used a unique disk format. Information needed. 3. FORTH II Softape published this one. Ran on Apple II+, //e, etc. 4. MicroMotion FORTH-79 Language: FORTH (79-standard, with extensions) Hardware requirements: Apple II, 48k, 1 5.25" drive Operating System requirements: n/a (it has its own custom OS) Company name: MicroMotion Company address: 12077 Wilshire Boulevard, #506 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Company phone number: (213) 821-4340 Doesn't seem to be GS-compatible, one at least one GS, it boots part-way, then freezes just before it prints the startup banner. Works fine on an Apple IIe though. There appears to have been a second disk available at an extra cost containing floating-point arithmetic and hi-res graphics commands. 5. MicroMotion MasterFORTH Product name: MicroMotion MasterFORTH Language: FORTH (FORTH-83, with extensions) Hardware requirements: Apple II, 48K, 1 5.25" drive Operating system requirements: DOS 3.3 Company name: MicroMotion Company address: 12077 Wilshire Boulevard, #506 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Company phone number: (213) 821-4340 MasterFORTH also had additional disks containing floating-point and hi-res commands, which appear to have been sold separately. Both of these are fairly old packages...FORTH-79 is copyright 1980, and MasterFORTH is copyright 1984. ------------------------------ FORTRAN 1. Apple FORTRAN, 1980. This compiler package ran under the UCSD environment and required the user to have purchased the run time package as available from the Apple Pascal package. It disappeared from Apple catalogs in 1986. Information needed. ------------------------------ Logo 1. Apple Logo Ran under the UCSD operating system. Information needed. 2. Apple Logo II, 1984 Ran under ProDOS on 128k machines. Information needed. 3. KRELL's LOGO for the Apple ][ Proprietary but DOS 3.3 based OS. Required 48k As of 1983, the address was: Krell Corporation 1320 Stony Brook Road Stony Brook NY 11790 Tel: 516-751-5139 Produced as a part of a NSF grant by Stephen Hain, Leigh Klotz, and Patrick Sobalvarro. Supervised by Prof. Harold Abelson. Krell wrote some tutorials and packaged up their work. This version of Logo was also licensed by Terrapin and others. Contact the MIT Technology Licensing Office ((617) 253-1000) for details on licensing MIT Logo. Info provided by "John Hale" , Patrick Sobalvarro, Stephen Hain, Hal Abelson, etc. ------------------------------ Pascal 1. Apple Instant Pascal Written by Think Technologies, sold by Apple. Ran only on the Apple IIc or 128k IIe machines. This was an interactive Pascal, designed for teaching the language. This Pascal ran under ProDOS. This was available through Resource Central, but is now obsolete. 2. Pecan Power System's Pascal (Pecan bought out by Cabot Software Ltd.? See above) Information needed. 3. Tiny Pascal interpreter Product name: Tiny Pascal Language: Pascal interpreter Hardware requirements: Apple II Operating system requirements: DOS 3.2 Company name: Programma International, Inc. Company address: 3400 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010 This is copyright 1979. Thanks to Nancy Crawford for this info. 4. Tiny Pascal Plus interpreter Product name: Tiny Pascal Plus Company name: Abacus ------------------------------ PILOT 1. Product name: Apple PILOT Language: PILOT (Author's Language for Computer Assisted Instruction) Hardware requirements: Minimum: Apple II or II+, 48K, one disk drive for Lesson mode or two disk drives for Author mode Operating system requirements: DOS 3.3? Company name: Apple Computer System to support program development for Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI), based on COMMON PILOT, with color graphics, sound effects and a character set editor. It operates in two modes: Author, where the instructor creates lessons and stores them on a lessons disk, and Lesson, where the student uses the disk to take a lesson interacting with the computer. Product was replaced by the improved Apple SUPER PILOT. ------------------------------ Misc 1. muSIMP Product name: muMATH-80 Language: muSIMP Hardware requirements: Apple II with 48K Standard disk drive in slot 6. 16 sector disk controller board. Game paddles if graphics are to be used. Operating system requirements: ADIOS - a customized version of DOS. Company name: The Soft Warehouse Company address: P.O. Box 11174 Honolulu, HI 96828 Description: Arbitrary precision math package, includes Lisp like language. Variable number base arithmetic (base 2 through base 36) Algebraic processing: Automatic simplification of expressions Expansion of expressions Factoring of expression Step-by-step equation solving Logarithmic and trigonometric processing Matrix and array processing Calculus operations: Differentiation Integration Taylor series expansion LORES Graphics output User defined functions Microsoft also sold a version of this with their name on the documentation. 2. Product name: P-LISP Version 3.0 Language: Lisp Hardware requirements: Apple ][/][+ Operating system requirements: DOS 3.3 Company name: Pegasys Systems, Inc. Company address: 4005 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Company phone number: (215) 387-1500 (800) 523-0725 Description: P-LISP is a nicely featured dynamically scoped Lisp. Features: car, cdr atom, equal, number, null, quote cons, list, explode, implode, copy, conc append, rplaca, rplacd, apply, mapcar add, sub, mult, div, greater, zero, length, int and, or, not setq, set, put, get, rem read, fread, prin1, print, chr, getchr, save, load call, peek, poke htab, vtab, onerr define, lambda, flambda, cond, prog, progn, return go, eval oblist, remob trace, untrace gr, text, color, plot hgr2, hcolor, hplot, hto, draw, xdraw openseq, appendseq, writeseq, readseq closefile, close, openrnd, writernd, readrnd writefcn, readfcn Includes structure editor. I also had a note about this one and a 'company' called Gnosis. Anyone have any more info about this? Pegasys is supposedly out of business - I don't know who owns this software now. 3. PROMAL Product name: PROgrammers Micro Application Language Language: Written in a mix of assembler and PROMAL Hardware requirements: Apple IIe, Extended 80 col card or a IIc. Versions available for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. Operating system requirements: ProDOS 8. Company name: Systems Management Associates Company address: 3700 Computer Drive P.O. Box 20025 Raleigh, NC 27619 Company phone number: (919) 787-7703 Company email address: N/A Electronic file access info: N/A As far as I can determine, the Apple II version is no longer an active product. Also note that the IIgs was never completely supported. This was a C-like language which was interpreted, came with a shell, and was source compatible for the most part between various architectures. 4. Small C Formerly sold commercially by The Byte Works. Came as source written in ORCA/M assembler. 5. DOS 3.3 Company name: Apple Computer, Inc. DOS 3.3 was one of the two most popular operating systems on the Apple II line. It was a flat file system with no ability to create directories. In fact, there was little support for hard disk drives. On the IIgs, there is now a package called the DOS 3.3 Launcher which allows one to run many of the old file based games or even multi-disk based games from ProDOS. Also, Glen Bredon sells a package called DOS MASTER which formats a ProDOS partition as a file and then creates a series of DOS 3.3 volumes (400k max for each volume) within that file. 6. VOC Developer's Kit Company name: Apple Computer, Inc. Contains descriptions on how the Video Overlay CArd works, what the various settings do, more info on things from the toolkit that apply, hardware info for folk trying to use the expansion connector, how to use the IIgs video of the VOC on an Apple //e 7. DrawTools 3.2 Pegasoft R.R.#1 Honsberger Ave. Jordan Station, ON, Canada L0R 1S0 or the Tiamet Line at (905) 562-4745 login: pegasoft This is a graphics and animation toolset, used by Pegasoft for their entertainment software. Contains palette and colour manipulation, high-speed "pixies", fades, wipes, easy file I/O, game and net drivers, all written in assembly language. Comes on 2 disks with examples in Micol Adv. BASIC, Pegasus Pascal, ORCA/Pascal, ORCA/M and Merlin. ------------------------------ Historical GS based programming languages ------------------------------ 1. APW Assembler Was available through APDA, then by Resource Central. written by Mike Westerfield and based on ORCA/M. Then was available thru Resource Central but is now obsolete. 2. APW C Previously available through APDA, then through Resource Central. Now obsolete. This was a version of K&R C. 3. GS-BASIC Apple's beta Apple IIgs BASIC interpreter. Was available through APDA, then Resource Central. Written by John Arkley (spelling?) who went on to write the System 5 Apple 3.5 floppy drivers. This is obsolete. ------------------------------ Unconfirmed or future languages. Please provide more info. ------------------------------ AMACS - formerly commercial, shareware and now supposedly freeware implementation of EMACS. More information needed. Written by a Brian Fox (or is it bfox@prep.ai.mit.edu?). Source available at cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/8bit/source/amacs.shk cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/8bit/source/amacs.gnu.shk ANIX - a shell that appeared with the Lisa assembler. I don't have any details on whether there was a shell language. At one time, the authors were available on GEnie as HAL.LABS. See the entry on Lisa for U.S. Postal Service address. I don't know whether this is freeware, shareware, or what. cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/8bit/source/anix.shk cco.caltech.edu:/pub/apple2/8bit/source/anixcmds.shk APL - the I-APL organization was at one time working on porting their free version of APL to the Apple II (and Commodore 64). Does anyone know if they succeeded? Here is an address: I-APL Limited Attn: Edward M. Cherlin, Co-Chairman 6611 Linville Drive Weed, California USA 96094-9763 1-(916)-938-4684 and I-APL Limited Attn: Anthony Camacho, Co-Chairman I-APL Limited 2 Blenheim Road St Albans, Herts UK AL1 4N4 BASIC Beagle BASIC - see below Pecan Power System BASIC. Pecan appears to have been bought out by Cabot Software Ltd. More info is needed as to whether this product is still available. TML BASIC -- commercially sold IIgs version of BASIC. Product name: Z BASIC Language: BASIC Hardware requirements: Apple ][,][+,//e,//c/IIGS 64K for ProDOS 128K for DOS 3.3 Operating system requirements: DOS 3.3, ProDOS 8 Company name: ZEDCOR, Inc. Company address: 4500 East Speedway Boulevard Suite 22 Tucson, Arizona 85712-5305 Company phone number: (602) 795-3996 (602) 881-8101 (800) 482-4567 (Orders only) Description: Portable BASIC. Scalar Data types: integer +/- 32,767 long integer E +/- 63 single precision E +/- 63 long integer +/- 2,147,483,647 extended double precision E +/- 16,383 string 0 to 255 characters User defined functions and subroutines. Same program can be recompiled with no changes and run under Macintosh, MS-DOS, CP/M/80, TRS-80, Kaypro, Apple ][, ][+, //e, //c, IIGS. This requires buying the compiler for the specified machine. Can someone provide me with info as to whether ZEDCOR is still doing business, as well as info on pricing, versions, etc.? Beagle Brothers: Beagle BASIC - this was different from the Beagle Bros. Compiler. This package put Applesoft into RAM so that you could customize it. You could rewrite error messages, rename Applesoft commands, etc. Support was present for new Applesoft commands such as ELSE, HSCRN , SWAP, TONE, and enhanced features to things like GOTO and GOSUB. It is now available from GEnie's A2 software library and a few other places for free use. There were a number of development packages available from this company in the past. And if I recall, there were even a few spin off companies as well. I assume that folks just are not reading down this far in the list? Otherwise, I would have more info on these. Thanks again to Paul Guertin for this information. Alpha Plot Beagle bros hires paint program Beagle Bag Collection of 12 Applesoft games Beagle Basic Applesoft enhancer Big U ProDOS shell D-Code Programming utility Dos Boss DOS customizer Double Take 2-way scrolling and much more Extra K Use aux 64k memory from Basic Fatcat DOS/ProDOS directory enhancer Flex Type 70-column hires text Font Mechanic Hires font editor Powerprint ProDOS printer utility Pro-Byter ProDOS disk zapper ProntoDOS Fast DOS, compatible with DOS 3.3 Shape Mechanic Shape table utilities Silicon Salad Misc. utilities Tip Disk #1 Mostly BASIC hacks, some useful Typefaces Collection of about 2 dozen hires fonts Utility City Misc. utilities A number of the above packages (mostly DOS 3.3 based) were available at one time on the Quality Computers BBS. Anyone know anything about a package called "The Software Touch"? How about Program Writer and ProBASIC? Software Touch is reportedly Alan Bird's company. Program Writer is an Applesoft editor of some sort. The Byte Works Languages and tools: ORCA/BASIC - Some discussion of this occurred on AOL several years ago, but I do not know if work ever began. ORCA/f2c - Some discussion of a Fortran 77 to C conversion tool becoming available has occurred. C I have heard something about a Small C called CC02 from a company called Folksoft. Anyone have more information on this? Communications related packages ACOS - ProDOS 8 BBS Language LLUCE - ProDOS 8 BBS Language MACOS - a hacked version of ACOS. Edit16 IIgs editor by w.tudor@genie.geis.com (Bill Tudor). Lunar used to sell this. FORTH - C. K. Haun supposedly has written a shareware version of FORTH for the Apple IIgs. Someone reports that this is available on GEnie. Illsys Systems is said to be selling a commercial version of FORTH for the IIe and IIgs systems. Ads were seen in Nibble. An implementation of Fig-Forth was available at one time - can anyone provide me with details? I believe this was freeware. FORTH 79 - Information needed on an Apple II package by this name. I know there were several other packages which implemented FORTH 79 - but I understand there was a package specifically called FORTH 79. FORTH 83 - A version of FORTH available from the FIG chapters. It doesn't work properly on the IIgs. It consists of two sides of a 5.25" disk and uses direct disk access, so would probably be a problem getting it to run off a hard disk or 3.5" disk. It 'appears' to be freely distributable. Info from Jerry Penner . MVP-FORTH - can someone provide me more info on this? TransFORTH - written by Paul Lutus, author of GraFORTH, AppleWriter, etc. wasn't this one sold by ALS? GNO/ME - lots of languages being ported here, such as bison, flex, csh, ksh, gsscheme, xlisp, and perhaps even a c and c++ compiler. No formal list has been submitted to me yet. I did find bison on pindarus.cs.uiuc.edu. Runs on Apple IIgs. Available from Resource Central: PR-001 GNO/ME (Unix-like multitasking) $89.00 Inform A compiler that creates Infocom-compatible ZCODE data files (playable on any computer that has an Infocom interpreter, including the freeware ones on . Inform is at version 4 on the IIgs, which is a version behind the rest of the world. Inform should also be available on the above ftp site. KSH - A Graphical Korn shell which will run on the GS is being developed. More details once the product is available. LISP - there was at least one micro LISP available written in Integer BASIC back in the old days, as well as at least one commercial product. Someone also mentions a "MICROLISP" provided by Apple on one of their early contributed software disks. It was 7k long and has as a part of it's title screen: MICROLISP/16-JUN-78 COPYRIGHT 1978 APPLE COMPUTER INC IT WILL TAKE APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MINUTES TO INITIALIZE THE ARRAYS. LIST ELEMENTS= 3783 ? [The contributor] typed (+ 1 1) at the prompt, and after 2 seconds came the answer 2. But many other valid expressions would just either generate an error or crash the program. It was written in AppleSoft. Product name: App-L-isp included the Winston and Horn LISP textbook. Copyright 1981 by Special Software Systems. Company name: DataSoft Incorporated Company address: 19519 Business Center Drive Northridge, CA 91324 More info needed though. Logo - There was a DOS 3.3 product called Logomation by a company called Software Toolkit or some such thing. More info later. MSHELL - some sort of shell. I don't know how programmable it was, who wrote it, whether it is/was available commercially, etc. MULISP/MUSTAR - MuLisp was a Z-80 based P-Code lisp compiler. MuStar was an Artificial Intelligence Development System, including editor and debugger. Written by Microsoft. Nevada software - there were several packages by Ellis Computing, Inc. which required the Z-80 card to use. These were called Nevada PILOT, Nevada Assembler and Nevada FORTRAN. Basically, they were standard CP/M products, but in a 5.25" Apple disk format. NPL - NonProcedural Language. 1980. A relational database language. "An Introduction to Nonprocedural Languages Using NPL", T.D. Truitt et al, McGraw-Hill 1983. Versions for Apple II, MS-DOS. OS/A+ - Micom OS/A+ system, came with a very nice BASIC (very similar to Atari BASIC in the graphics area). The OS had Applesoft compatibility. Pascal - There is a rumor of a ProDOS based Apple Pascal - anyone know any details? PILE - Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M. "A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83, pp.279-282. PILOT - a text based version written in Applesoft is mentioned in the Apple History files. rEDIT A ResEDIT-like resource editor. Apparently available on Apple II ftp sites, though I haven't located it yet. tooly@zelator.in-berlin.de is the author. SC Macro Assembler IV - a DOS 3.3 macro assembler. SPLAT A debugger sold by Procyon. hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca is supposedly an expert on it. SuperGraphics - SuperGraphics 3D Display System and Game Tool Some sort of PRINT "%" interface. More information needed. Tcl gwl@cpu.com is trying to port Tcl and TclX to the Apple IIgs, but is having problems finding a C compiler which can compile some of the larger modules. Tutor-Tech - a commercial hypertext development system which runs on 8 bit Apple IIs. SHAPE.EDIT - a IIgs Shape Editor. Author: A2.Jay. Available from GEnie Library 15, file 1822. SpeedASM - SpeedASM source. Author: HAL Labs. Available from GEnie Library 15, file 1763. 6809 assembler - source for 6809 assembler. Author: HAL Labs. Available from GEnie Library 15, file 1762. DICED - IIgs desktop icon editor. Author: David Lyons. Email: dlyons@apple.com Available from GEnie Library 15, file 738. Also said to be available on Internet ftp sites. ------------------------------ Current Books and Magazines ------------------------------ SoftDisk SoftDisk GS - These are monthly 'magazines' on disk which provide a variety of programs and electronic text files. These often come with clip art, fonts, desk accessories, utilities, games, etc. A programmer may find useful ideas from these magazines. Also, the magazine publisher is frequently soliciting submissions for publication so a developer might find some financial recompense. Shareware Solutions II - this bimonthly magazine by Joe Kohn, former columist for InCider/A+, contains news of the Apple II world as well as reviews of software, great deals on development software and hardware, etc. The following Apple II related books are currently available from Resource Central. Many are probably available elsewhere as well - RC is the only one from whom I have received specifics. AW-001 Apple: Apple Numerics Reference $29.95 AW-002 Apple: Apple IIgs Hardware Reference $26.95 AW-003 Apple IIe Tech Ref $24.95 AW-006 Apple: Apple IIgs Toolbox Reference, Vol 2 $26.95 AW-008 Apple: ImageWriter II Technical Ref $19.95 AW-010 Apple: Applesoft Tutorial (w/disk) $29.95 AW-011 Apple: Programmer's Intro to IIgs (w/disk) $32.95 AW-014 Apple: Mac Human Interface Guidelines $29.95 AW-018 Apple: Technical Intro to the Apple IIgs $9.95 AW-019 Apple: Apple IIgs Toolbox Reference, Vol 1 $26.95 AW-021 Apple: Applesoft Programmer's Reference $22.95 AW-022 Apple: Apple IIgs Firmware Reference $24.95 AW-025 Apple: ImageWriter LQ Technical Ref $22.95 AW-026 Little: Exploring GS/OS and ProDOS 8 $21.95 AW-028 Apple: LaserWriter Reference $19.95 AW-030 Apple: Understanding Computer Networks $9.95 AW-035 Apple: Inside AppleTalk $34.95 AW-036 Apple: Apple IIgs Toolbox Reference, Vol 3 $39.95 AW-039 Myers: Graphics for the Apple II $9.95 AW-040 Critchfield/Dwyer: Bit of Applesoft $9.95 AW-041 Apple: Apple IIgs GS/OS Reference $28.95 AW-043 Apple: Planning/Managing AppleTalk Nets $18.95 BW-012 ByteWorks: Programmers Ref for Sys 6.0.1 $45.00 CB-005 Gookin/Davis: Mastering the IIgs Toolbox $19.95 CB-007 Gookin/Davis: Adv Prog Tech IIgs Toolbox $19.95 DA-007 Apple: Apple IIc Tech Ref 2nd Ed $30.00 DA-008 Apple: Apple IIc Memory Card Reference $15.00 DA-009 Apple: Apple Memory Card (Slinky) Ref $15.00 DA-010 Apple: Apple SCSI Card Reference $15.00 DA-011 Apple: Video Overlay Card Developers Kit $19.00 DA-012 Apple: Apple II AppleShare Prog Guide $30.00 DA-012 Apple: Apple II AppleShare Prog Guide $30.00 DA-026 Apple: Apple IIgs Firmware Ref 3.0 Update $12.00 DA-027 Apple: GS/OS Device Driver Reference $29.00 DA-041 Apple: Apple IIe/IIc Technical Notes $20.00 DA-042 Apple: Apple IIgs Technical Notes $30.00 DA-043 Apple: Miscellaneous Technical Notes $10.00 DA-046 Apple: Complete Set of Apple Tech. Notes $65.00 IN-002 Hands on AppleTalk $14.95 QS-002 Sather: Understanding the Apple II $14.95 QS-003 Sather: Understanding the Apple IIe $14.95 TB-012 LaBadie: Build Your Own Laser Printer $16.95 ------------------------------ Historical Magazines and Books ------------------------------ 8/16-Central - the electronic back issues of this magazine are available from Resource Central for $3.95 each or $59.95 for the set of 20. ------------------------------ Other ------------------------------ Quality Computers, Resource Central, and The Big Red Apple Club are probably the three primary sources of commercial software for Apple II owners. 1. Big Red Computer Club Big Red Computer Club 423 Norfolk Avenue Norfolk, NE 68701-5234 (402) 379-4680 Membership is $19.95/year U.S., Canada, or Mexico. Other countries are $35.95/year to allow for airmail postage. Visa/Mastercard accepted. You save the membership real quick since most wares are $5 cheaper for members. They have a ton of public domain stuff in addition to the "classics" you asked about. 2. Quality Computers Quality Computers (800) 777-ENHAnce 20200 E. 9 Mile Road (313) 774-7200 (International) Box 665 (313) 774-2698 (FAX) St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 (313) 774-7740 (Technical Support) (800) 364-2623 (Enhance mailing reqs) Internet: jerry@pro-quality.cts.com (Jerry Kindall). tech@pro-quality.cts.com (tech support department) GEnie: QC@genie.geis.com (after July 1, 1993) AOL: QualityCom@aol.com CompuServe: XXXXX.YYYY@compuserve.com (need CompuServe number???) I would recommend checking with these folk to see if any of the commercial products mentioned in this guide are available. Quality Computers not only sells Apple II products, but maintains a list of user groups and publishes an informative newsletter geared towards educators (called Enhance). To get a QC catalog and a free subscription to Enhance, just call or write. 3. Company name: Resource Central Company address: PO Box 11250 Overland Park, KS 66207 (913)469-6502 (913)469-6507 (fax) GEnie Email: A2-Central AppleLink Email: A2.Central Internet Email: A2-Central@GEnie.geis.com Producer of various Apple II related newsletters: A2-Central (general Apple II, paper version no longer published) A2-on-Disk (A2-Central plus freeware, shareware, public domain) Studio City (HyperStudio) Script-Central (HyperCard IIGS) Timeout-Central (Timeout AppleWorks add-ons) Hyperbole (hypermedia, computer based, not computer oriented) They also are the primary seller of all Apple II products formerly sold by APDA. They also provide a sales point for a number of other items. Contact them for details. I have also been told the following are possibilities: Christella Enterprise P.O. Box 82205 Rochester, MI 48308-2205 $2.00 for a catalog and demo disk Caloke Industries Dept. SK P.O. Box 18477 Rayton, MO 64133 $2.00 for catalog and demo disk, refundable with first order. =========================================================================== Also, be sure to check out these Usenet groups for programming discussions relating to Apples. alt.bbs.metal The METAL telecomm environment. alt.emulators.ibmpc.apple2 AppleII emulators on IBM PCs, Amigas, Unix comp.emulators.apple2 AppleII emulators on other platforms. comp.binaries.apple2 Binary-only postings for the Apple II computer. comp.protocols.appletalk Applebus hardware & software. comp.sources.apple2 Source code and discussion for the Apple2. (Moderated) comp.sys.apple2 Discussion about Apple II micros. comp.sys.apple2.comm Apple II data communications. comp.sys.apple2.gno The AppleIIgs GNO multitasking environment. comp.sys.apple2.programmer Programming on the Apple II. Some specialized groups are: bit.listserv.apple2-l Apple II Binary and Source BITNET Mailing List. comp.sys.apple2.marketplace Buying, selling and trading Apple II equipment. comp.sys.apple2.usergroups All about Apple II user groups. pro.apple.user.groups ??. This is a ProLine discussion group pro.apple2.gs Apple IIgs discussions. pro.apple2.misc ??. This is a ProLine discussion group pro.apple2.news ??. This is a ProLine discussion group pro.apple2.tech Apple II technical discussion. pro.comp.apple2.bbs Gateway between comp.apple2.bbs and ProLine systems. sub.sys.apple Apple II/Macintosh. uiuc.sys.apple2 Apple II discussions. Some ftp sites for Apple II software are: calvin.sfasu.edu, grind.isca.uiowa.edu, cco.caltech.edu Apple II Tech Help on GEnie --------------------------- The Apple II Programmers and Developers RoundTable on GEnie is an active forum. There are also many developer oriented notes and tools. payment: Have your credit card number ready Set-up: Half Duplex (local echo) 300, 1200, or 2400 baud Dial: 1-800-638-8369 At connect, enter: HHH At the U#= enter: XTX99020,A2PRO (no spaces) and press RETURN Need help? GEnie customer service (voice) 1-800-638-9636 Apple II Tech Help on Compuserve -------------------------------- Compuserve also has a set of forums for Apple II development discussions. I do not yet have signup details. Apple II Tech Help on America Online ------------------------------------ America Online (AOL) also has a set of forums for Apple II development discussions. I do not yet have signup details. Does Delphi have Apple II development forums? I would be happy to add other mailing lists, Proline conference information, or Fidonet conference type information if someone would submit it to me. ------------------------------ Acknowlegements ------------------------------ Thanks to the following folk for maintaining copies of the catalog on their respective services, fielding and routing questions, etc. Mark Fisher <70751.3127@compuserve.com> - Compuserve. Austin Phelps - Delphi Thanks to David Muir Sharnoff for providing ftp access for this catalog at: idiom.berkeley.ca.us:/pub/compilers-list/AppleIICatalogV.L where V is the major version level and L is the minor version level. This article is Copyright 1994 by Larry W. Virden. Permission is granted for free distribution of this article as long as all information within it remains intact. No commercial use of the article is permitted without specific permission of the author. -- :s Great net resources sought... :s Larry W. Virden INET: lvirden@cas.org :s The task of an educator should be to irrigate the desert not clear the forest.