Editing Applesoft BASIC (section)

==Related BASICs==
Several [[compiler]]s for Applesoft BASIC exist,<ref name="byte198209">{{Cite magazine |last=Taylor |first=Joseph H. |last2=Taylor |first2=Jeffrey S. |date=September 1982 |title=A Comparison of Five Compilers for Applesoft BASIC |url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-09/page/n438/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=2024-12-30 |magazine=BYTE |pages=440-464}}</ref> including TASC (The Applesoft Compiler) from Microsoft in 1981.<ref>{{cite book |url = https://archive.org/details/TASC_The_AppleSoft_Compiler_Manual/page/n1 |title = TASC (The AppleSoft Compiler) User's Manual |year = 1981 |publisher=Microsoft Consumer Products |location=Bellevue, WA}}</ref>

[[Coleco]] claimed that its [[Coleco Adam|Adam]] home computer's SmartBASIC was source-code compatible with Applesoft.<ref name="coleco19830928">{{Cite AV media |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg_I9TGYM-w | archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211122/gg_I9TGYM-w |archive-date = November 22, 2021 |url-status = live |title = Coleco Presents The Adam Computer System |date = May 3, 2016 |via = YouTube |orig-year = September 28, 1983 |time = 31:55 |quote = Everybody who knows Applesoft BASIC will also know Adam SmartBASIC. All the same commands, all the same controls for this BASIC, this interpreter, are available. In fact, we're going to show you a program which uses Applesoft graphic commands ... executed through Adam. ... As far as we're concerned, when we're in BASIC, and we're not PEEKing or POKEing ... anything below the BASIC interpreter, we are source-code compatible. }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Microsoft licensed a BASIC compatible with Applesoft to [[VTech]] for its [[Laser 128]] [[Apple II clones|clone]].<ref name="grevstad198612">{{cite news |url = https://archive.org/stream/inCider_86-12#page/n59/mode/2up |title = Laser 128 / An Affordable Compatible |work = inCider |date = December 1986 |access-date = April 24, 2017 |last = Grevstad |first = Eric |pages = 58 }}</ref>