Applesoft BASIC in JavaScript
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23
Not my first BASIC (which was on calculators: The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)), but the first BASIC on a machine with a real keyboard was Applesoft BASIC on an Apple II:
- Live: [Wayback/Archive] Applesoft BASIC in JavaScript
- Source: [Wayback/Archive] inexorabletash/jsbasic: Applesoft BASIC in JavaScript
- Readme: [Wayback/Archive] jsbasic/README.md at main · inexorabletash/jsbasic
- Documentation: [Wayback/Archive] Applesoft BASIC Reference
- Screenshot:
[Wayback/Archive] 267924446-38507c04-0826-4efd-b2aa-49353c10ac40.png (1249×639)
Intermezzo my dads first BASIC based programmable calculator that got me into programming also got an emulator! Many links on the PocketEmu which also emulates a truckload of other old programmable calculators:
- [Wayback/Archive] Sharp PC 1210 pocket emulator – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ Sharp PC-1210 / 1211 / 1212 emulators
- [Wayback/Archive] PockEmul – A vintage Pocket Computers and Calculators emulator
- [Wayback/Archive] PockEmul (online emulator page)
- [Wayback/Archive] PC-1211 – PockEmul
- [Wayback/Archive] Demos – PockEmul
- [Wayback/Archive] PockEmul (@PockEmul) / Twitter
- [Wayback/Archive] PockEmul – Forward to the Past – Apps on Google Play
Moar links related to Applesoft BASIC:
- Tutorial: [Wayback/Archive] Programming in BASIC: the absolute beginner tutorial
- Official documentation: [Wayback] Applesoft II BASIC Programming Reference Manual.pdf
- Local emulators:
- Windows:
- Linux:
- [Wayback/Archive] audetto/AppleWin: Apple II emulator for Linux
- [Wayback/Archive] linappleii/linapple: Apple 2e emulator (also an AppleWin fork)
- MacOS:
- [Wayback/Archive] sh95014/AppleWin: Port of AppleWin Emulator with Native macOS UI
- [Wayback/Archive] Virtual ][, the best Apple II emulator for macOS even does Matrix Printer Emulation (allowing save to .pdf file)
- (at the time of writing) defunct Twitter based emulator that hopefully will one day evolve into a Mastodon based one: [Wayback/Archive] Apple II BASIC Bot (@AppleIIBot) / Twitter
- [Wayback/Archive] paleotronic/dskalyzer: DSKalyzer Apple II disk image management tool
Classic mac related:
- [Wayback/Archive] InvisibleUp/uvmac: µvMac – cleaned up fork of the Macintosh emulator Mini vMac
- [Wayback/Archive] Mini vMac – early Macintosh emulator
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] apple II start basic – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] emulators · GitHub Topics
- [Waybacksave/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@hanskruse @scrumtuous 10 PRINT “Hallo” 20 GOTO 10 RUN
calormen.com/jsbasic“
10 PRINT "Hallo"20 GOTO 10RUN
--jeroen
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