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'''Applesoft BASIC''' was a dialect of [[BASIC programming language|BASIC]] supplied with the [[Apple II series]] of computers. It superseded [[Integer BASIC]] and was the BASIC in [[Read-only memory|ROM]] in all Apple II series computers after the original [[Apple II#Apple II|Apple II]] model. It was also referred to as '''FP''' (from "[[floating point]]") because of the command used to invoke it instead of INT for Integer BASIC. Applesoft BASIC was supplied by [[Microsoft]] and its name is derived from the names of both [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] and Microsoft. Apple employees, including [[Randy Wigginton]], adapted Microsoft's interpreter for the Apple II and added several features. The first version of Applesoft was released in 1977 only on cassette tape and lacked proper support for high-resolution graphics. '''Applesoft II''', which was made available on cassette and disk and in the ROM of the Apple II Plus and subsequent models, was released in 1978. It is this latter version, which has some syntax differences from the first as well as support for the Apple II high-resolution graphics modes, that most people mean by the term "Applesoft."
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