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Micro-Soft Altair BASIC 3.2 source

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2020-08-10 · latest 2025-04-04

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  1. A recent disassembly of, I think the same code. https://github.com/option8/Altair-BASIC/blob/master/BASIC%20... I checked in a few places at the start and towards the end (the sin function) and they matched.
    comment by djmips · 2025-04-04 · in Microsoft’s original source code
  2. I don’t want to spoil your efforts, but I think the source is already online: https://github.com/option8/Altair-BASIC
    comment by johndoe0815 · 2025-04-04 · in I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
  3. …also has notes on the design. [2] is a z80 BBC BASIC interpreter. [0] http://altairbasic.org/ [1] https://github.com/option8/Altair-BASIC [2] https://github.com/jblang/bbcbasic-z80
    comment by tjalfi · 2020-08-10 · in Building a Basic Interpreter, '80s Style, Part 2