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.

A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this code with a couple ...

Microsoft just open-sourced 6502 BASIC (BASIC M6502 8K VER 1.1) from 1978. The code powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, and C64, and underlies Applesoft BASIC on Apple II. Download it on GitHub to run, ...