Subject: Re: REQ: for the disassembly of the AppleSoft language interpreter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer
From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 01:37:28 +1200
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"Todd Nathan" <tan.nospamski.@laplaza.org> wrote:

> Hi there, here is something that I have wanted to look
> at for a while.  While working at Call-Apple tech support
> in the summer of 1982, I got my hands on a disassembly
> (fully commented) which was laying around, and made
> copies of it.  I have since misplaced it, lost it or
> GOD just got back at me for making a copy of the pages
> that I wasn't supposed to have.  Now, is this assembly source
> availalbe online somewhere, or does someone have it?

If you bought the Merlin Pro or Merlin-8/16 assembler, it included a
program called "Sourceror.FP", which generates a disassembled listing of
Applesoft BASIC.  (According to its documentation, it uses the ROM image
to get the code, and gets the comments from archive files included with
the program.)  The resulting disassembly cannot legally be distributed.

My copy was certainly well thumbed.

Applesoft itself is still under copyright (for both Apple and
Microsoft), so it is not legal to distribute a ROM image or disassembly
of it.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand