Microsoft just open-sourced 6502 BASIC (BASIC M6502 8K VER 1.1) from 1978. The code powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, and ...

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

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

The history of basic computer programming languages dates back far. Learn more about the BASIC & C coding languages that got everything started.

To get the basic coding skills to go from beginner to early programmer, Shaw recommends learning four different languages: My current method for training up beginners is to make them learn the ...

Easy-to-use programming language that drove Apple, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. See full article ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

Ah yes, my first programming language on trash-80. I wouldn't go back tho. However, I would take Basic any day over Cobol. I'm getting really tired of migrating old code from the 70s. Same. I ...