My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, with all of 48 kilobytes of RAM, and as long as it lasted I obsessively typed in BASIC programs to see what I could get it to do. It was powerful (at least to a ...

The Commodore 64 emulator application for iPhone was pulled from the App Store by Apple in September 2009 for leaving its BASIC interpreter intact and accessible via a backdoor hack. This week, the ...

A BASIC interpreter stored in a read only memory chip that is available to the user at all times. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Microsoft publishes the original 6502 BASIC source code from 1976 for the first time as open source – a milestone in the history of the company and its software Microsoft has officially released the ...

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.