> Cool!  I guess that must be the Integer Basic, which I think was included
on
> the ROM? (as opposed to AppleSoft Basic)

Integer Basic was in the ROM on the II, AppleSoft on the II+.  The ROM the
changeset recommends is the  II+ one - so that's Applesoft running.  You can
also tell because the prompt is ']' - Integer Basic used '>'.  So you've got
floating point math there, bucko!

> This brings back memories of when I was a kid in the early 80's playing
> around with an Apple II+, and my older brother brought a strange book
> called _Computer Lib/Dream Machines_ home from college.  The game
> of "Life" was one of the things covered in the book, and my brother
> helped me write a version of Life in AppleSoft Basic, which ran at the
> astounding speed of about one generation per minute, in lo-res graphics
mode.

I remember that book well - it was quite a mind expander.  Given the funky
layout and randomness of information scattered throughout, it's no shocker
that Ted Nelson apparently has some sort of attention-span disorder.  The
biggest problem I recall with owning that book was that if you lent it to
anyone, you wouldn't get it back.  Which is what happened to my copy.

> A couple of years later, I figured out how to re-write Life in 6502
machine
> language (without an assembler), which ran at a more reasonable one
> generation per second.  With the exception of that program, though, I've
> always tended toward using higher-level languages. :)

It's amazing what people used to do in 1 MHz machines with total memory size
of your average web page or JPEG file.....

-- Duane