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I’m confused about deleting comments and renaming variables unless TASC itself written in Applesoft. Which seems crazy.

> As the author added features, he kept hitting the Apple ][‘s 48KB RAM limit

There was a language card that could replace the upper 16KB of ROM with RAM, but of course, you’d still need to have the interpreter somewhere.

I’ve never heard of TASC before, but Beagle Bros also had an AppleSoft compiler (released in 1986):

https://archive.org/details/Beagle_Bros-Beagle_Compiler

Beagle Bros had an bevy of amazing software in general:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros

I feel bad now that I pirated so much of it as a teenager.

parent js2 4 years ago

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