Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Microsoft has officially open-sourced its 6502 BASIC. The version published today is BASIC M6502 8K Version 1.1.

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

Microsoft announced that it has open sourced the source code for 6502 BASIC, one of first ports of its original BASIC.

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a disk-based operating system as we would know it today, these systems invariably ...

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

Nearly half a century after Bill Gates first began writing software that would launch Microsoft, the company has made that ...

The code Microsoft has released is version 1.1, which apparently contains fixes to the garbage collector identified by ...

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600.

In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.