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Want to build on Bill Gates? Microsoft open-sourced the original code written by the company founder - now it's over to you

Microsoft has released 6,955 lines of BASIC assembly code from 1976 Bill Gates and Ric Weiland adapted BASIC for the MOS 6502 Commodore licensed Microsoft BASIC in 1977 for $25,000 worldwide Nearly ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

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 ...
Kotaku

Compilation of 10 Line Basic games

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Compilation of 10 Line Basic games Find 2 exclusive games coded in 10 lines of Basic Locomotive! They demonstrate the power and effectiveness of this ...
Computerworld

Bill Gates’ early BASIC code for MOS 6502 released as open source

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...
Ars Technica

The BASIC programming language turns 60

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...
Los Angeles Times

Anthropic accidentally leaked thousands of lines of code

Anthropic inadvertently released internal source code behind its popular artificial-intelligence-powered Claude coding assistant, raising questions about the security of an AI model developer that has ...