Applesoft Lite - Why no trig functions?

[tranter]

The port of Applesoft Lite to the replica 1 is pretty cool (http://cowgod.org/replica1/applesoft/). I was wondering why the SIN/COS/TAN/ATN functions were missing. I know that in early Microsoft BASICs they were often optional because of the additional space required. I was hoping that maybe it was just disabled but the source code for Applesoft Lite doesn't seem to have any support there. Does anyone know more about this?

Incidently, I had problems loading the Applesoft Lite RAM hex dump version 0.4 and had to reformat it in the more conventional Woz monitor format with an address on each line of the file. That version loaded fine over the serial port.
If anyone else has this problem I can provide the file.

[cowgod]

Applesoft Lite was originally intended to fit it in EEPROM on the Replica-1, to replace the built-in Integer BASIC. For that to happen it needs to be less than 7936 bytes. (8KB minus 256 bytes for the monitor). Applesoft on the Apple II is 10KB, so some stuff had to go to make everything fit. I suppose it would be possible to build a RAM-targeted verison which is closer to the original. I'll have to dig around and see if I have any earlier revisions of the source files which still had the trig functions.

Tom

[vbriel]

Tom,

Just so you know, Applesoft lite was one of the top 10 things software wise done for the replica 1. Even without trig functions, it is just so cool, and if you happen to have a CFFA1, even better with the built in commands.

Vince

[tranter]

Thanks for the info. It makes sense to pull the trig functions to make it fit in 8K. In fact, just today I recompiled it to run from the EEPROM in the Multi I/O board so I can run either flavor of BASIC out of ROM.

The trig functions are in this version of Microsoft BASIC for 6502, which no one seems to have ported to the Replica 1:
http://www.pagetable.com/?p=46

[tranter]

Since I posted this, I ported this version of BASIC to the Replica 1, at least the OSI version of it.
For details, see http://jefftranter.blogspot.ca/2012/04/microsoft-basic-for-replica-1.html