Microsoft recently released a newreleaseA historic open source project—the BASIC assembler code co-written in 1976 for the MOS 6502 CPU by Bill Gates—represents not only Microsoft's early days in ...

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.

The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore’s computers. Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC code, originally written by Bill Gates for the Apple II and Commodore PET. This marks a historical release. Microsoft has quietly open-sourced the original ...