Windows/Mac/Linux: The programming language that probably introduced more people to infinite loops than any other, Microsoft BASIC 6502 for the Commodore 64, is now available as a scripting language ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

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.

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 in a ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source Your email has been sent Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under an open ...

Last year, Retro Games announced the C64 Mini, a small version of the classic Commodore 64 PC, that comes pre-installed with 64 games. The device launched in March, but the company announced today ...

Can you believe it? The BASIC programming language is 50 years old this month. As you may know, BASIC was created in 1964 by Dartmouth College professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz as a system to ...

Fans of the original Commodore 64 will be pleased to know that the C64 Mini is coming to the US on the 9th of October 2018. The C64 Mini will come pre-loaded with a range of Commodore 64 games, these ...