In 1977, Commodore licensed BASIC for $25,000 as a one-time payment, securing perpetual use without royalties.

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

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 ...

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

Microsoft publishes the original 6502 BASIC source code from 1976 for the first time as open source – a milestone in the ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...

Rocket Software is introducing the Rocket MV BASIC for Visual Studio Code 1.6.0 extension, now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Rocket MV BASIC for VS Code (MVVS) allows BASIC ...

Why Johnny can’t code BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming.