But anyway I digress, in many ways the old BASICs with line numbers and older forms of machine code were perfect languages for learning in and this is article is my attempt to explain why.

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

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central ...

"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Unlike many BASICs to come, Dartmouth BASIC was a compiler, which meant that it converted your entire program in one fell swoop into machine code that the computer could understand, rather than ...

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.

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