80s kids became coders with ease because 8-bit computers booted into a simple dev environment running BASIC. Computer mags of the era were stuffed with type-in programs that anyone patient enough ...

Those of us of a certain age can be a bit nostalgic for the BASIC era, the same way we are for rotary dial phones. BASIC was never flashy (pun intended), but it was fun, straight forward, and ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: The programming language that probably introduced more people to infinite loops than any other, Microsoft BASIC 6502 for the Commodore 64, is now available as a scripting language ...

Microsoft just open-sourced 6502 BASIC (BASIC M6502 8K VER 1.1) from 1978. The code powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, and C64, and underlies Applesoft BASIC on Apple II. Download it on GitHub to run, ...

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.

In this tremendously educational video, [Linus Åkesson] takes us through how he develops a synthesizer and a sequencer and editor for it on the Commodore 64, all in BASIC. While this sounds easy, ...

The Commodore 64 Mini is coming out on October 9. The plug-and-play version of the classic PC system is 50 percent smaller than the original. It comes with 64 built-in games (hooray for branding) and ...

You don’t need to go searching for a Commodore 64 on Ebay to relive the vintage PC’s glory days. Avid gamer Petri Wilhelmsen is providing a way to write and run C64 programs on Windows PCs for ...

Retro Games announced today that the Commodore 64 will be arriving in a North American flavor on October 9, including 64 pre-installed games and USB ports for added peripherals, like a keyboard. Last ...

Those of us of a certain age can be a bit nostalgic for the BASIC era, the same way we are for rotary dial phones. BASIC was never flashy (pun intended), but it was fun, straight forward, and ...