Microsoft has announced that after open sourcing MS-DOS two years back, the company is ready to open source some more projects from the days past. Released in 1983, Microsoft BASIC is now open for the ...

Microsoft has open sourced GW-BASIC, a programming language developed some 38 years ago. GW-BASIC and variants such as QBasic, QuickBasic and others provided the onramp to computer programming for ...

I've got some old industrial engineering programs that someone wrote in GW-BASIC (probably when I was about 5.) I need to get them running in Win2000. GW-BASIC always locks up when I try to run the ...

Having re-open-sourced MS-DOS on GitHub in 2018, Microsoft has now released the source code for GW-BASIC, Microsoft’s 1983 BASIC interpreter. GW-BASIC can trace its roots back to Bill Gates’ and Paul ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, if you had a personal computer there was a fair chance it either booted into some version of Microsoft Basic or you could load and run Basic. There were other ...

Microsoft has put the original 8088 assembly language sources for its GW-BASIC interpreter from 10th February 1983 on GitHub in a repo marked "Archived". Although released under a MIT(OSI) Licence, ...

Microsoft has uploaded the code for GW-BASIC to GitHub for historical reference and educational purposes. GW-BASIC is a BASIC interpreter, written entirely in assembly language. According to Rich ...