{"id":15227,"date":"2025-09-16T17:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15227"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:41:29","slug":"microsoft-basic-for-6502-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15227","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Basic for 6502 is free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft has released the version 1.1 source code of \u201cMicrosoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor\u201d on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=111346X1569483&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/BASIC-M6502&amp;xcust=2-1-2898698-1-0-0-0-0&amp;sref=https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2898698\/microsofts-first-ever-programming-language-was-just-open-sourced.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GitHub<\/a>, which means you can freely view the assembly code and download it if you want. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2898698\/microsofts-first-ever-programming-language-was-just-open-sourced.html#\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2898698\/microsofts-first-ever-programming-language-was-just-open-sourced.html#\">PCWorld<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s wild is that the entire source for BASIC is a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/BASIC-M6502\/blob\/main\/m6502.asm\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/BASIC-M6502\/blob\/main\/m6502.asm\">single 6955 line long 6502 assembly file<\/a>. Also bonus points for back-dating the checkin so it says it was checked in 48 years ago &#8211; long before github was even a glimmer in SVN&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released the version 1.1 source code of \u201cMicrosoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor\u201d on\u00a0GitHub, which means you can freely view the assembly code and download it if you want. [PCWorld] What&#8217;s wild is that the entire source for BASIC is a single 6955 line long 6502 assembly file. Also bonus points for back-dating the checkin so it says it was checked in 48 years ago &#8211; long before github was even a glimmer in SVN&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3XB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15231,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions\/15231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}