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Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2025-09-03 · latest 2026-09-02

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  1. Here is the 6502 assembly source code for Microsoft Basic: https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502
    comment by davidfekke · 2026-09-02 · in Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]
  2. Even the README here is (erroneously?) timestamped as 1978 https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502 Which is unlikely since it seems to be written by AI
    comment by nextaccountic · 2026-05-25 · in Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
  3. Repo in question: https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2025-10-03 · in Microsoft's first-ever programming language was just open-sourced
  4. …handling processing a FOR statement) from Microsoft's repo, vs. the same code from Steil's repo: https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm... https://github.com/mist64/msbasic/blob/master/flow1.s#L3
    comment by ndiddy · 2025-09-04 · in Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1
  5. https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm...
    comment by gabrielsroka · 2025-09-03 · in Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1
  6. …*.mm.* I could only find this: https://github.com/MonzUn/MightyMooseCore Link to the file: https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/.gitignor... Regardless, thank you Mr. Hanselman. This is great!
    comment by hu3 · 2025-09-03 · in Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1
  7. …THIS IS A SERIOUS BUG IN ALL VERSIONS." Not far off from a comment I might make these days https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm...
    comment by codingwagie · 2025-09-03 · in Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1
  8. If you love that, check out the auto/AI generated issues: https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/issues/5 https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/issues/3 https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/issues/1
    comment by jasonjayr · 2025-09-03 · in Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1
  9. https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm... RETURN: BNE GORTS ;NO TERMINATOR=BLOW HIM UP.
    comment by DonHopkins · 2025-09-03 · in Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1
  10. Definitely nice to see this as an official release from MS. https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502
    comment by tracker1 · 2025-09-03 · in Bringing BASIC back: Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source