(It's on NIB06.DSK.)Īs a somewhat amusing footnote, a slightly modified version of "HELLO AUTO SELECT" appeared in (formerly Hardcore) Computist magazine, issue 77 on page 4 from 1990! You can run it online or download the disks in a zip archive. So a spiritual descendant might be Catsup from the Nibble magazine program index: Catsup Catalog Supervisor Weber, Chuck Express II, V2N7 1981 A few use similar wording or options, but only one other uses almost identical wording, with the same but more options. None of them is a clear ancestor to "HELLO AUTO SELECT". In researching this I saw many HELLO and MENU programs using many different formats and techniques. | NSAUG | NORTHWEST SUBURBAN APPLE USERS GROUP | CATALOG MANAGEMENT | | IAC | INTERNATIONAL APPLE CORE | HELLO IAC | | CAC | CAROLINA APPLE CORE | HELLO FROM CAC | | ABACUS | Apple Bay Area Computer Users Society | HELLO FREEMAN DAVIS | | AAA | APPLE AVOCATION ALLIANCE | HELLO APPLE LOGO | (The earliest is 07/24/78 in "HELLO TITLE DEMO".) Since it's likely that it came from a user group, but lacks any attribution or comments at all, I can only list the groups mentioned on the disks, and perhaps the origin and author can be found by someone who has the groups' disks. Given the above, it seems likely that "HELLO AUTO SELECT" is at least as old as the most recent date given by any other program on the disks, which is "MARCH 1981" in the file "HELLO WAGNER". Each disk also includes a couple of other different minor but presumably newer programs (though none have any dates). To be clear, the books only refer to "HELLO AUTO SELECT", but the disks contain a "HELLO AUTO SELECT I" which is identical to "LEVI", and a newer version of "HELLO AUTO SELECT" which loads a binary routine to get the number of free sectors. Headed by Ron Maleika, was founded in late 1980 and incorporated on 20 Renamed the Computer Learning Center, was a Cheyenne, Wyoming-basedĭistributor of public domain Apple software and a supplier in theĮarly- and mid-1980s of Eamon adventure diskettes. The Apple Avocation Alliance, commonly known as AAA or 3A, and later These disks appear to be derived from AAA HELLO & MENU 166, and according to this source: PDS Disk 166, which is available from a members-only download area at Call-A.P.P.L.E (Apple Puget Sound Program Library Exchange) and CLC HELLO AND MENU 058. It also appears in the sequel: The Best Apple II Public Domain Software, Edition II from 1987.ĭisks containing the program include A.P.P.L.E. The software in this book was compiled from user groups and ![]() This name appears in The Public Domain Exchange disk 166: "Hello and Menu" in The Best Apple Public Domain Software book from 1985, which states: The program appears as " HELLO AUTO SELECT" in various public domain software collections that seem to derive from 1981 or earlier. ![]() I've seen it both with and without line 0, a comment with a date, at the start. ![]() The program was written in Applesoft BASIC. Here's a screenshot when actually running the bottom line scrolls from right to left giving several more numbered actions. Note that here I am interested only in the provenance of this particular BASIC code and the techniques it uses, not in different programs that may have a similar UI. What is the proper name of this program, and what is its history? Where did it come from, who wrote it and when was it written? Was it ever published in any books or magazines? This program is often found as the auto-run HELLO program on diskettes I've also seen it called LEVI (in non-auto-run form). There's a fairly common BASIC program for DOS 3.3 on the Apple II that clears the screen, prints a catalog of the disk, and allows you to select files by letter to run or do other operations on them.
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