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The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983

21 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 1 story, 20 comments · first 2020-05-22 · latest 2025-09-04

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  1. They have already released GW BASIC before: https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC So I think it's likely that more will follow.
    comment by int_19h · 2025-09-04 · in Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1
  2. …;DO NOT CHANGE THESE WITHOUT CONSULTING KNUTH VOL 2 ;CHAPTER 3 FIRST Edit: GW-BASIC, not QBASIC ( https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC )
    comment by stkai · 2025-04-03 · in Microsoft’s original source code
  3. GW-BASIC is open source and should presumably be able to run this code with possibly minimal changes. https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/
    comment by _mlbt · 2024-05-21 · in 40-Year old BASICA utility code for teaching
  4. Fun fact...Microsoft open sourced GW-BASIC under the MIT license a couple years ago... https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC The blog post announcing it is here if you want more information about it...…
    comment by _mlbt · 2024-04-24 · in Akalabeth: Porting from AppleSoft Basic to Gwbasic
  5. …get other software to run. Not sure whether that case would hold up for my entertainment value. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/master/MATH2.ASM
    comment by smokel · 2024-04-05 · in BASIC and the ROMs that changed the world (and then disappeared) (2022)
  6. Someone could take this and try to make it ROM-able in order to "complete" the BIOS: https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
    comment by userbinator · 2023-10-16 · in GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers
  7. …'JMP' instruction. It's amazing how any of such scale software was written in Assembler. See here https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
    comment by bouncycastle · 2022-12-18 · in The Golden Age of BASIC (2014)
  8. Microsoft GW-Basic https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
    comment by xet7 · 2022-07-09 · in Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux
  9. …if ever the source for QBasic leaked QBasic? - Why that modern thing. Just use the proper BASIC: https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC ;)
    comment by johannes1234321 · 2022-03-22 · in Lapsus$ hackers leak 37GB of Microsoft's alleged source code
  10. …even reference "Windows Store app package directories and files"[0]. Very futurist thinking! [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/edf82c2ebf6bfe099...
    comment by colejohnson66 · 2022-03-07 · in Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source Code
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    story by susam · 2022-03-07 · 97 comments
  12. …fully open-source ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14060846 ). Microsoft licensing GW-BASIC ( https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC ) and early versions of MS-DOS ( https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS ) under MIT is... fascinating…
    comment by exikyut · 2022-01-08 · in Unidentified PC DOS 1.1 Boot Sector Junk Identified
  13. Try this one: https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic Or, although not what you asked: https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
    comment by MrYellowP · 2020-08-11 · in Building a Basic Interpreter, '80s Style, Part 2
  14. Here: https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic Or, although not what you asked: https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
    comment by MrYellowP · 2020-08-11 · in Building a Basic Interpreter, '80s Style, Part 2
  15. It does that for "FOR" loops: https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/09ad7bc671c90f0ee...
    comment by tyingq · 2020-06-23 · in Converting GW-BASIC to the Z80
  16. …In Microsoft's released GW-BASIC 1.0 source, it is a no-op and just prints an error message – https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/master/GIOCAS.ASM [EDIT: I just disassembled GWBASIC.EXE version 3.23, I can see the calls to the BIOS…
    comment by skissane · 2020-05-25 · in Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (1999)
  17. …ES register to point to it. BASIC, however, ; expects this block to be at 0 in the code segment. https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/master/BIBOOT.ASM
    comment by jhoechtl · 2020-05-22 · in The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
  18. Perhaps stupid questions but how do they get the commit history to be from 38 years ago at https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
    comment by Brajeshwar · 2020-05-22 · in The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
  19. …say that the GW refers to Bill Gates, as in Gates William but I don't know the details on that. https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/master/GWMAIN.ASM Edit: Forgot to say, I was 3 years old when they wrote this code, wow! and I…
    comment by pan69 · 2020-05-22 · in The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
  20. GWMAIN.ASM ( https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/09ad7bc671c90f0ee... ) BILL GATES WROTE A LOT OF STUFF
    comment by bitpow · 2020-05-22 · in The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
  21. OK, we've changed to that from https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC . Thanks!
    comment by dang · 2020-05-22 · in The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983