MLX (software) - Other Versions of MLX

Other Versions of MLX

Although they were not as widely used as the Commodore versions, COMPUTE! also released MLX for the Atari 8-bit family and Apple II family. Atari MLX was based upon the earliest Commodore version and released alongside it in the December 1983 issue of COMPUTE! . Like its Commodore counterparts, its lines consisted of six decimal numbers each plus a checksum. Apple MLX, introduced in June 1985, was the first MLX version to use the 8-byte-per-line hexadecimal listing format that would later be employed on the revised Commodore MLX. Although the lines appeared similar to those of their Commodore counterparts, the hash algorithms were different, presumably to prevent entry on the wrong system.