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From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Applesoft Basic -> Mac ?
Message-ID: <1990Jan24.150340.27112@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 90 15:03:40 GMT
References: <662@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <662@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> eac@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (E Clinton Arbaugh) writes:
>Does anyone know where to find a program to convert Applesoft Basic programs
>(from the old Apple II) to something a Macintosh Basic compiler can look
>at? 

[ stuff deleted ]

>I have loaded the files on the Mac using Apple File Exchange, but it appears
>they are in some sort of binary format...
>

Can't help with the BASIC translation part (I gave up on BASIC and switched
to C when I got my Mac and retired my Apple ][ 4 years ago :-), but it should
be easy to get the program into a mac text file.  Hook your Apple ][ up
to the Mac with a null-modem cable (or modem cable, depending on your
serial card configuration).  Fire up your favorite terminal emulator
program on the Mac, and set it to capture ASCII text.  I have found that
my (very old - S/N ~4000) Apple ][ couldn't do this reliably at any more
than 2400 baud.  Anyway, assuming you have a Super-Serial Card in slot #1
on the Apple ][, type a PR#1, which will cause all output to go to the Mac.
Now just type LIST, and your BASIC program listing will be dumped to the
Mac.  For extra fun, you could also type IN#1 from the Apple ][ and now
you can use your Mac as a terminal to edit and run BASIC programs on the
Apple ][ (pointless, but interesting... :-)

I would guess that a little searching and replacing of the Applesoft-specific
keywords using your favorite Mac text editor would yeild a workable Mac
BASIC program.  Good luck!

Oh yeah, another alternative would be to use one of the Apple ][ emulators
on the Mac to directly run the programs.  I have used one called "Mac + //"
and heard of one called "// in a Mac".  I sort of doubt that these will
run on a Mac II series machine, though - maybe someone else can answer
this?

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