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This repository contains the source code for the Dragon 64 versions of the Microsoft 16K BASIC Interpreter for the Motorola 6809 (aka BASIC-69 and Extended Color BASIC).

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2023-06-27 · latest 2025-09-04

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  1. …not the original code (although the original code for 6809 BASIC was recently found, see https://github.com/davidlinsley/DragonBasic ). Similarly, the blog post links a version of 6502 BASIC by Michael Steil on Github that's set up to…
  2. …of Microsoft BASIC were available up to this point (see https://www.pagetable.com/?p=774 and https://github.com/davidlinsley/DragonBasic ) but I believe this is the first public release of the original 8080 BASIC code.
    comment by ndiddy · 2025-04-04 · in Microsoft’s original source code