Software for Apple I

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
Date: Thu Nov 25 22:43:19 2004

> > 10 HOME
> > 20 GOTO 10
> >
> > Where do I send my mailing address? ;)
>
> There was no HOME command in the original Apple-1 BASIC. The screen was
> not memory-mapped. You would have to print enough carriage returns (16 I
> believe) to push every line of text off the screen to clear it.

This is almost on-topic now ^_^

Could you do a CALL -151 to achieve the same effect? I think that was the
clear screen for Integer BASIC (or maybe it was CALL -868 ... I forget).

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