Where were you in 1979? Think about it. In 1979, Voyager was on its way to Jupiter. Jimmy Carter was President of the United States. Apocalypse Now was the current box office block buster. And Applesoft was installed in the Apple II+ computer. In 1979 very few people owned a personal computer, video cassette recorder, or fax machine. The Macintosh and IBM PC were still years away from being released. DeskTop publishing and compact disk players were ideas of the future, and hard disk drives were something that Apple II users could only dream of. It's a far different world today in 1990. Voyager has passed Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. George Bush is President, and Apocalypse Now is shown as a late night repeat. `Fax' and `VCR' are everyday words. Hard disk drives, the IBM PC and the MacIntosh have all become familiar sights to computer users. The Apple II has also changed considerably since 1979. The Apple II+ is no longer sold and has been replaced by the more powerful Apple IIe, Apple IIc, and Apple IIgs. The memory capacity of the Apple II has increased significantly, from 48k on the II+ to 8 megabytes on the IIgs! Double low and double high resolution graphics (and on the IIgs, Super High Resolution graphics) have dramatically increased the Apple II's graphics capabilities. The 65C02 and the 16-bit 65816 have replaced the primitive 6502 CPU found in the II+. Sophisticated ProDOS 8 and GS/OS have evolved out of the primitive DOS 3.2 operating system on the Apple II+. 80 Column displays and real time clocks are standard equipment now. The Apple II certainly has come a long way. Programming languages for micro computers have improved light years in power and capabilities since 1979, too. Structured programming under Pascal, C, and Structured BASIC have become the standard. And user friendly, compiled programming languages have replaced slow, awkward interpreted programming languages throughout today's computer industry. Well, almost throughout today's computer industry. Today's Apple II still comes with the same Applesoft that was fitted into the Apple II+ back in 1979! The computer industry has made quantum leaps in technology since 1979, but your Apple II still uses Applesoft, which has hardly changed a byte since 1979. Applesoft was not designed for, nor can it take advantage of any of the wonderful improvements that have been added to your Apple II in the past 10 years! Applesoft allows you to use only 38k memory on an Apple II which can now have up to 8 megabytes of memory. Applesoft can only access normal `high resolution' graphics, but today Double and Super high resolution have become the standard. The `editor' in Applesoft is crude and often frustrating. The programming languages of today offer far more than 10-year-old Applesoft can. In fact, about the only thing Applesoft has going for itself anymore, is that it comes packaged with the computer. Who would buy it otherwise? Wouldn't it be nice to bring these 10 years of improvements to your Apple II? Well, thousands of smart Apple II programmers have recognized the limitations of Applesoft and have made the switch to Micol Advanced BASIC, and are discovering how much more satisfying programming can really be. Micol Advanced BASIC is the computer language of today designed to replace Applesoft and give you complete access to all of the power of today's Apple II... your Apple II. Micol Advanced BASIC allows you to catch up on all the improvements made in programming languages over the past 10 years. And since Micol Advanced BASIC combines the power and advanced features found in Pascal and C with the familiar Applesoft dialect of BASIC, it's so easy to learn and use. You can get started with Micol Advanced BASIC right away, unlick Pascal and C, which require learning a whole new language just to get started.