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                 Altair Basic Programs
            Compiled By Michael O'Malley
                   (March 2002)
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This Apple 2 disk image contains a bunch of ancient Basic 
programs for the 1975 Altair Computer - the first easily 
affordable Personal Computer.

In March 2002, I went through a bunch the old Altair programs 
I had collected off the internet, and adapted these for the 
Apple 2 computer, debugged them, tidied them up, improved 
the screen I/O, and uploaded them to an Apple 2 disk image 
for use with Apple 2 emulators.

Almost all of these old Altair programs were riddled with 
dozens of errors - logic, run time, and syntax errors !

N.B. These were errors - and NOT differences
     between the Apple 2 and Altair Basic !!

I fixed many dozens of errors in these programs, but I 
do not believe for a second that I fixed them all.

I didn't want to spend days doing this.

So, it is highly likely that these programs are still far 
from perfect !!

I have never owned or used a real Altair.

But, I still thought the programs were worth preserving.

I have many other Altair programs, but these are the best.
Most of the rest are too Altair specific to make them worth
transferring.

I have included the text files containing the final
Apple 2 Basic code inside the distribution ZIP file.

I would like to thank the authors of the Apple Oasis
emulator which made transferring these files to an 
Apple 2 disk image so easy.  Thanks guys !!

Enjoy !

Long Live the Apple ][ !!  (and the Altair !!)

 Mike "Moose" O'Malley
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 Moose's Shareware & Arcade Emulation Valley - since July, 1996.
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