The S-C DocuMentor for Applesoft provides the most complete documentation of Applesoft internals available anywhere. You will find the information educational, entertaining, and extremely helpful.
The information contained in the comments and labels has been gleaned from many sources over the years since 1978. (There has been no direct involvement of Apple Computer, Inc., in this project.) I have tried my best to provide meaningful, helpful comments and labels throughout. Nevertheless, there may be some mis-interpretations. If you find any errors or have suggestions for improvements, please send them to me.
Many of the label names are deliberately made the same as those published in "Applesoft Internals", by John Crossley. This article first appeared in Volume 1, No. 1, of the Apple Orchard (magazine of the International Apple Corps). It has been re-printed since by various clubs, including Call A.P.P.L.E. in their book "All About Applesoft".
I have flagged about a half dozen bugs in the listing, and several areas of very "improve-able" code. These are marked with "<<<" and ">>>" at each end of the comment lines.
For many years there was only one version of the Applesoft code, as it was distributed in ROM in the Apple II, IIplus, and IIe computers. When the IIc and enhanced IIe were introduced, changes were finally made to the Applesoft ROMs. The IIgs includes still more changes. None of these changes are reflected in the source code included here. Primarily the changes involved removing cassette tape support and adding 80-column support.
You can determine what code is different by comparing the binary object file produced by assembling the DocuMentor code with the code in ROM:
The source code is in 26 separate files, named for the corresponding address in the Applesoft ROM. The S-C Macro Assembler uses .IN operators to include source files, and I use a file named S.ACF to hold all the .IN lines. [In the original S-C Documentor, a .PG line came after each .IN line, so that the assembly listing would start a fresh page for each included source file. I have omitted the .PG lines below, to shorten this page.] Click on a file name below to see the assembly listing of that file.
1000 *SAVE S.ACF 1010 .TI 76,APPLESOFT............COMMENTS BY BOB SANDER-CEDERLOF..... 1020 .OR $D000 1030 .TF B.FP 1040 .IN S.DEFINITIONS 1060 .IN S.D000 1080 .IN S.D260 1100 .IN S.D365 1120 .IN S.D52C 1140 .IN S.D766 1160 .IN S.D912 1180 .IN S.DACF 1200 .IN S.DCF9 1220 .IN S.DD7B 1240 .IN S.DEF9 1260 .IN S.DFE3 1280 .IN S.E1B8 1300 .IN S.E3C5 1320 .IN S.E597 1340 .IN S.E7A0 1360 .IN S.E913 1380 .IN S.EB72 1400 .IN S.EC4A 1420 .IN S.ED0A 1440 .IN S.EE8D 1460 .IN S.EFEA 1480 .IN S.F1D5 1500 .IN S.F3D8 1520 .IN S.F49C 1540 .IN S.F5BA Assembly Symbol Table
Several enterprising authors have written excellent articles recently giving credit to the S-C Documentor as one of their information sources.