The Raspberry Pi is a fine machine that appears in many a retrocomputing project, but its custom Linux distribution lacks one thing. It boots into a GNU/Linux shell or a fully-featured desktop GUI ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC.… The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft has finally open-sourced one of its oldest products: 6502 BASIC. The source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor is now available on the Redmond giant's GitHub ...

Do you, like me, recall playing with some of the first personal computers? Of course we had machine code and assembly language to work with, but the first “high-level” language of any note was some ...

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 ...

Computer enthusiasts, programmers and hobbyists may be interested to know that the discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language, Altair BASIC has been published to GitHub. The ...

I must be kidding, right? No, I’m not. I’m just suggesting that we take another look at the old programming language known as BASIC. The language has a great deal going for it, particularly that it’s ...