[Mike] sent in a project he’s been working on – a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino. The code is meant to be a faithful port of Tiny BASIC for the 68000, and true to Tiny BASIC form, ...

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.

The Commodore 64 emulator application for iPhone was pulled from the App Store by Apple in September 2009 for leaving its BASIC interpreter intact and accessible via a backdoor hack. This week, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC.… The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Microsoft's founding on April 4, 2025, Microsoft founder Bill Gates reminisced in his blog about the creation of 'Microsoft's first product.' BASIC is a ...

Computer programmer and Minecraft player Seth Bling just did the most meta scheme by creating an interpreter that allows players to write their own BASIC codes inside Minecraft using the on-screen ...