Of the 6,998 “normal” disks in the Apple II Disk Corpus, 5,870 of them contain at least one Applesoft BASIC file. As mentioned in a previous post, this amounts to 35,117 Applesoft BASIC files in this subcorpus.

Over time we will study these files in detail but, for now, here are the most common file names for Applesoft BASIC files:

HELLO 4,185
MENU 686
(6 x $08) 165
STARTUP 96
START 88
CREDITS 72
INTRO 71
BOOT 70
PRINTER SUPPORT 70
COMMON.LIB 68
(empty) 67
HELLO2 64
DEMO 63
(7 x $08) 55
LOGO 52
INSTRUCTIONS 50
HI 50
COPYA 49
MAIN PGM 49
END 47