![]() ![]() Some of the source is marked that it was translated. For historical reasons, you might want to get a copy you could modify, too, for your latest retrocomputer project. You might wonder why they would do this? It is certainly educational, especially if you are interested in assembly language. ![]() They put up a read only GW-BASIC repository, presumably to stop a flood of feature requests for GPU acceleration. Now you can get the once-coveted Microsoft Basic source code for the 8086/8088 directly from Microsoft in the state you would have found it in 1983. There were other versions, of course, especially for very small computers, but the gold standard for home computer Basic was Microsoft’s version, known then as GW-Basic. 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.
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