The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore's computers.

Microsoft has released “BASIC for the 6502 microprocessor version 1.1” on Github under license from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Almost half a century after Bill Gates created ...

Nearly half a century after Bill Gates first began writing software that would launch Microsoft, the company has made that code public. In early September, it placed the assembly source for its 6502 ...

This is my C++ implementation of the MOS Technology 6502 CPU. The code is written to be more readable than fast, however some minor tricks have been introduced to greatly reduce the overall execution ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...

The MOS Technologies 6581, or SID, is perhaps the integrated circuit whose sound is most sought-after in the chiptune world.

Microsoft publishes the original 6502 BASIC source code from 1976 for the first time as open source – a milestone in the history of the company and its software Microsoft has officially released the ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Microsoft has released 'BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1' on Github, under the MIT license. Now anyone is free to go and download, modify, share, and even resell source code originally ...

Microsoft has released the source code for its 6502-based BASIC interpreter—BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor Version 1.1—under the MIT licence, inviting developers, historians and retro-enthusiasts to ...