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Re:Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum by colanderman on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @10:43PM (#6723216)
Wow. If this had been available when I was learning Apple II assembly when I was 8, I would have lapped it up. (Heck, I still will for nostalgia's sake.) At least, I had the source code for some games from computing magazines; that was enough to get me started.

That a major operating system today is open-source is a fantastic thing for young budding coders.

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Re:Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum by joeshevland on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:58PM (#6723440)
Brings back memories of getting magazines like inCider [1] and Windfall and attempting to type out the assembler or machine code for little apps or (monochrome ;) graphics stuff. Was much the same as magic to me then.

Then realizing there's a typo in there, somewhere... check digits helped a bit I think if whatever you used supported that.

1. http://apple2history.org/history/ah21/#03

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Re:Apple II DOS source code released by Computer History Museum by laureny on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @12:13AM (#6723492)
"Beneath Apple DOS" by Don Worth and Pieter Lechner was my bible back then. Reading this book absolutely blew my mind and opened up a world of possibilities, not mentioning a much more intimate knowledge of how copy protection worked on the Apple ][.
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