I miss my friend Dave DiOrio. He was a chip designer in the 1980’s, which made him one of the true wizards back then. We met my first day when I started at Commodore Business Machines, though my ...

The idea of using the Apple II home computer for digital photography purposes may seem somewhat daft considering that this is not a purpose that they were ever designed for, yet this is the goal that ...

For Jim Scherrer, founder and president of the Compuseum, the 6502 microprocessor chip made Montgomery County’s MOS Technology the “vanguard of personal computing.” The 6502 chip was created by MOS ...

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 ...

The passing of American processor developer, Charles (Chuck) Ingerham Peddle (Nov. 25, 1937 to Dec. 15, 2019), reminded me of a video interview I conducted with Dominic Pajak, ARM's embedded ...

Microsoft has released the source code of Basic 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor on GitHub. The page with the code says the assembly language source code represents one of the most historically ...

PragmatIC Semiconductor’s recent announcement about developing a flexible version of the 6502 processor takes tech history buffs on the road to nostalgia. The 8-bit processor and its variants became ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.… As the software colossus explained in a Wednesday post, Microsoft ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on GitHub. Microsoft has finally open-sourced one of its oldest products: 6502 ...

The BASIC source code was fundamental to the early era of home computing as the foundation of many of Commodore’s computers. Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under ...