Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

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

An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a ...