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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: MD-BASIC (was:Re: Apple ][ BBS Software)
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Date: 31 May 91 17:55:21 GMT
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unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) writes:
>>@ () writes:

>>>ProLine is written in AppleSoft Basic...actually more like MD-Basic...Morgan
>>>Davis's ORIGINAL creation.

>>Don't forget to mention that MD-BASIC requires an Apple IIgs to run, and
>>adds to the price of the product.  Another fun things is that the code
>>comes in AppleSoft with sequential line numbers, making editing a chore
>>without a renumbering program.

>But you're not supposed to be editing the program in AppleSoft!
>You edit the source file then recompile (or reinterpret or whatever it 
>actually is) it back into an AppleSoft file. It just seems you may be 
>missing the point of MD-BASIC, from what I've read of it.

How can you do that if you can't run MD-BASIC?  That is my point!  If you
don't have a IIgs, you are going to suffer badly.

>/unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu       Apple IIGS Forever!        unknown@cats.ucsc.edu\

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