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'''The Automatic Proofreader''' by Charles Brannon is a series of checksum utilities published by COMPUTE! Publications for its COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!'s Gazette magazines and various books. These programs allow home computer users to detect errors when entering BASIC type-in programs. They display a checksum for each line which can be compared against the one printed in the magazine.

It was initially published for use with the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 but was later made available for the Atari 8-bit computers, Apple II, IBM PC, and IBM PCjr.

C16/Plus4 compatiblity was added in issue 32 of COMPUTE!'s Gazette and removed after issue 78.

The first version used a byte-sized numeric value. The later Atari and Apple versions used two letters.

'''The New Automatic Proofreader''' introduced in 1986 was designed to run on any 8-bit Commodore (including the C16, Plus/4 and C128) and replaced the decimal display with two letters, could catch transposition errors and took spaces into account if they were within quotes.

== Sample Output ==
[[File:The Automatic Proofreader - C64.jpg]] For the C64

[[File:The Automatic Proofreader - Atari.jpg]] For the Atari

[[File:The New Automatic Proofreader.jpg]] The New Automatic Proofreader

== See also ==
* [[MLX]] - COMPUTE!'s checksum utility for machine language listings

== Links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Automatic_Proofreader Wikipedia]
* [https://archive.org/details/1984-08-computegazette/page/n131/mode/2up?view=theater How To Type In COMPUTE!'s GAZETTE Programs] (COMPUTE!'s Gazette Aug 1984 pg 130)
* [https://archive.org/details/1984-10-compute-magazine/page/178/mode/2up?view=theater COMPUTE!'s Guide to Typing In Programs] (COMPUTE! Oct 1984 pg 179)
* [https://archive.org/details/1983-10-computegazette/page/n49/mode/2up?view=theater The Automatic Proofreader] (COMPUTE!'s Gazette Oct 1983 pg 48)
* [https://archive.org/details/1983-11-computegazette/page/n149/mode/2up?view=theater The Automatic Proofreader - Improved Version] (COMPUTE!'s Gazette Nov 1983 pg 149)
* [https://archive.org/details/1984-03-compute-magazine/page/n61/mode/2up?view=theater The Automatic Proofreader for VIC, C64, and Atari] (COMPUTE! Mar 1984 pg 60)
* [https://forums.atariage.com/topic/255635-your-favorite-magazine-checksum-type-in-program/ Atari version of PROOF.BAS on .atr disk image]
* [https://archive.org/details/1984-10-compute-magazine/page/182/mode/2up?view=theater IBM Proofreader] (COMPUTE! Oct 1984 pg 183)
* [https://archive.org/details/1985-07-compute-magazine/page/74/mode/2up?view=theater Apple Automatic Proofreader] (COMPUTE! Jul 1985 pg 75)
* [https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue73/feedback_proofreader_checksum.php Modify Apple Proofreader to not use reverse video]
* [https://archive.org/details/1986-02-computegazette/page/108/mode/2up?view=theater The New Automatic Proofreader] (COMPUTE!'s Gazette Feb 1986 pg 108)
* [https://www.atariarchives.org/ecp/appendix_a.php Alternate copy] ([https://www.atariarchives.org/ecp/software/ECP.ATR ATR version]) (Electronic Computer Projects for Commodore and Atari Personal Computers)
* [http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Proofreader C16 and Plus/4 .prg at Plus/4 World]
* [https://github.com/xopowoparvo/C64-type-in-programs/tree/main/Type-in%20utilities/Automatic%20Proofreader%202 Automatic Proofreader 2 as BASIC and PRG]
* [https://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/2021/06/30/how-did-computes-automatic-proofreader-work/ How did Compute!’s Automatic Proofreader Work?]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8IWYauT-MU Hackerbun: The Automatic Proofreader]
* [https://github.com/TheIndustriousRabbit/TheAutomaticProofreader-Decompiled The Automatic Proofreader Decompiled]
* [https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/dissecting-three-classic-automatic-proofreaders/ Dissecting Three Classic Automatic Proofreaders]

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