Hackaday

Designing A CPU For Native BASIC

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...
MUO on MSN

I picked up basic VBA scripting and Excel suddenly got much better

The best part about using VBA in Excel is that you don't have to write a single line of code if you don't want to. Once ...
GitHub

decalage2/ViperMonkey: A VBA parser and emulation engine to analyze malicious macros.

ViperMonkey is a VBA Emulation engine written in Python, designed to analyze and deobfuscate malicious VBA Macros contained in Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, etc). See the ...
TechRadar

Want to build on Bill Gates? Microsoft open-sourced the original code written by the company founder - now it's over to you

Microsoft has released 6,955 lines of BASIC assembly code from 1976 Bill Gates and Ric Weiland adapted BASIC for the MOS 6502 Commodore licensed Microsoft BASIC in 1977 for $25,000 worldwide Nearly ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
The Verge

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
Computerworld

Bill Gates’ early BASIC code for MOS 6502 released as open source

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...
PC Magazine

So BASIC: Bill Gates Releases Microsoft's Original Source Code

Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released the company's original source code. The two wrote a letter to the company that made the personal computer, MITS, ...
heise online

"My coolest code": Bill Gates publishes source code from Altair Basic

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday these days, and it all started with the Altair Basic program. Bill Gates has now published its source code. 50 years after the founding of Microsoft, Bill ...
TechSpot

Bill Gates releases the source code for Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen ...