Upon booting up a PowerMac 6500 sitting on Death Row (the only thing saving it from the dumpster, is the long walk), I realized that it would read ProDOS-formatted 800K floppy disks. I found some disks full of source code that was written when I was between ages 11 and 15, on the Apple IIGS. I seem to have primarily been interested in playing with the floppy drive hardware, scrolling text, playing sounds, and not much else. It is un-structured, un-commented, and 15 years later, I can still spot glaring errors in the source code. But reading stuff this old, is like meeting a different person, and anyhow some of this is actually interesting. In this jumbo-entry, I reproduce some of the more interesting stuff.
There are literally dozens of these .S Merlin 16+ assembly source files littering dozens of disks, all containing only a couple hundred lines or so of mostly-uncommented code. As a child, I appear to have been a candidate for ADD medication. But, hey, I was a kid, and I'm not sure I really became much of a developer until about 1999.
The promise embodied in the text string of SSPSCROLL5.S is particularly funny.
-Chris