The Raspberry Pi is a fine machine that appears in many a retrocomputing project, but its custom Linux distribution lacks one thing. It boots into a GNU/Linux shell or a fully-featured desktop GUI ...

[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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Do you, like me, recall playing with some of the first personal computers? Of course we had machine code and assembly language to work with, but the first “high-level” language of any note was some ...

Feature A generation of gray-haired IT folks learned computing using BASIC on 1980s home computers. Every pro since then holds it in disdain. What happened?… Fifty years ago, the Altair 8800 computer ...

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 ...