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I've always been curious if there was any application that used SWEET16. From a cursory look it seems like it was planned to rewrite Integer BASIC with this VM,

I've always been curious if there was any application that used SWEET16. From a cursory look it seems like it was planned to rewrite Integer BASIC with this VM, but time ran out and then Microsoft sold them the floating point BASIC. RENUMBER from Programmer's Aid #1 seems to be the only mainstream thing that used it. Anyone know of anything else?

dwheeler 3y ago
It was used elsewhere. E.g.: https://www.apple2history.org/museum-a-l/articles/byte8501/ https://www.apple2history.org/museum-a-l/articles/byte8501/ says: > BYTE: Isn’t Sweet-16 still used in Apple DOS and ProDOS editor/assemblers? > WOZNIAK: Yes, it’s used in EDASM , mostly in the editor portion. Randy Wigginton wrote EDASM. He’s worked here since before we even had a company. Lately he’s written the Macintosh word processor – MacWrite. He’s done a lot for the company. and he’s used Sweet-16 in several things he’s done. At least some 6502 assemblers included Sweet-16 opcodes, so I suspect many assembler programs included Sweet-16 in the parts where speed wasn't as pressing (simply because it was easy to invoke).