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APPLE ASSEMBLY LINE (ANOTHER RELEASE OF THE LOST CLASSICS PROJECT OF THE
APPLE II ROUNDTABLES ON GENIE):  IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Welcome to A2Pro's release of Apple Assembly Line, the outstanding assembly-
language programming newsletter written and published by Bob Sander-Cederlof
from October 1980 through May 1988.  These programming magazines are now
available to all members of A2Pro on GEnie for only the cost of a download,
including all source code disks and all articles!

If you wish to become a part of the Lost Classics project, visit the Lost
Classics headquarters in the A2 RoundTable (p. 645) on the GEnie Information
Service and check out the Lost Classics Bulletin Board Category (#7).  This is
a continuing effort, and we wish to embrace the entire Apple II community.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated, and by helping Lost Classics you help
all Apple II users everywhere!

The author, Bob Sander-Cederlof, retains full copyright and its protection
for the product known as Apple Assembly Line. This product can be neither
bought nor sold, nor may it be modified, converted to other computer
platforms or operating systems without prior permission.  User groups may
make it available for a nominal fee, but may derive no special income from
its distribution. In other words, you may charge a few dollars for the disk
and postage, but no charge for the program itself.  This is not to discourage
the use of the code and techniques presented here in your own programs, but
is instead intended to protect the author from knock-off clones where the
same programs are distributed as someone else's work with only one or two
things changed, or a different user interface and a feature or two added
to the same code.

Should you have any questions about the distribution restrictions, you may
contact the A2Pro RoundTable (A2PRO.HELP) on GEnie for more detailed
information.

THESE ARTICLES AND PROGRAMS MAY NOT BE UPLOADED TO BULLETIN BOARDS OR ONLINE
SERVICES.  THE APPLE II PROGRAMMERS' ROUNDTABLE ON GENIE IS THE EXCLUSIVE
SOURCE FOR ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF APPLE ASSEMBLY LINES.  Violating these
distribution agreements is an infringement of copyright.  A2Pro on GEnie has
exclusive license to distribute these articles and programs and they may NOT be
distributed via any other modem-based service without the express written
permission of the A2Pro Head Sysop.

NOTES ON FILES AND ORGANIZATION

Until July 1985, all Apple Assembly Lines source code and articles were created
and delivered exclusively on DOS 3.3 disks.  To help alleviate difficulty in
retrieving the information, we have used the DOS 3.3 FST in GS/OS to transfer
all files to ProDOS disks.  We've also renamed the files accordingly so you can
easily unpack, read and enjoy them.

Starting in July 1985, Apple Assembly Lines was delivered (to those
subscribers who also purchased the disks) on "hybrid" DOS 3.3/ProDOS disks.
These disks contain both ProDOS and DOS 3.3 catalogs.  The ProDOS side
usually included ProDOS versions of the source code and programs, and would
occasionally include ProDOS-specific code or discussion.

Each issue in A2Pro's release of Apple Assembly Lines contains up to three
folders:

  ARTICLES:  Text files with the articles as printed in AAL that month.
             Articles were written using Apple Writer and still have some
             Apple Writer formatting commands in the files.
  DOS3.3:    Source and object code files from the DOS 3.3 parts of disks,
             copied to ProDOS disks and archived
  PRODOS:    Source and object code files from the ProDOS parts of disks,
             when available.

Some of the information may be duplicated, but we prefer to bring it to you as
it was mailed to subscribers.

ABOUT THE SOURCE CODE

Nearly all source code supplied is for the S-C Macro Assembler (also written by
Bob Sander-Cederlof).  The S-C Macro Assembler used a BASIC-like file format to
store source code, including line numbers and simple compression of repeating
characters.  It "stole" the Integer BASIC file type (in both DOS 3.3 and
ProDOS) to store its source files, making them not very useful to those without
the S-C Macro Assembler.

To help the code look as it did in the magazine, we've converted all the files
to ASCII text files, including their original line numbers, so you can follow
the descriptions of the code in the articles.  The conversion was done through
a custom command for the Davex eight-bit command shell.  The command ("sclist")
is available separately in A2Pro's library.

We chose not to increase the archive sizes by including the original files as
well as the text file versions.  If you have need for any unmodified files from
an original Apple Assembly Line disk, please let us know in the A2Pro bulletin
board and we'll do what we can to make it available.

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A2Pro and Lost Classics are pleased to bring this long-gone programming
information back to Apple II programmers around the world.  If you have any
suggestions or comments, please come talk to us in the A2Pro bulletin board
on GEnie (menu option #1 on page 530), or send GEnie mail to A2PRO.HELP (from
internet, A2PRO.HELP@genie.geis.com).

Enjoy the Apple Assembly Line!

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