TECHNOLOGYMay 24 · 13:16 UTCHACKER NEWSGTP

Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025)

Microsoft has open-sourced its historic 6502 BASIC interpreter, a foundational programming language from the 1980s, as part of its 2025 open-source initiatives. The code is now available on GitHub, marking a significant step in preserving computing history.

Nexus surfaces and summarizes. The full story lives at the source.

Mentioned

Microsoftorganization6502 BASICtopicGitHuborganizationopen sourcetopiccomputing historytopic

Spot something wrong with this article?Report a problem →

Forward this

Related Signal

Adjacent reporting

TECHNOLOGYApr 11 · 17:34 UTC
The APL Programming Language Source Code (2012)
TECHNOLOGYMay 24 · 01:21 UTC
Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
TECHNOLOGYMay 11 · 14:54 UTC
Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life
TECHNOLOGYApr 14 · 05:46 UTC
MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres
TECHNOLOGYApr 28 · 15:58 UTC
Warp is now open-source
TECHNOLOGYApr 29 · 12:13 UTC
Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00