Great news!
The full source code of GW-BASIC (as of 1983) has been officially released by Microsoft to the public. The assembly-language source code is now available in GitHub under the MIT license. https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
I think PC-BASIC can probably benefit from this too.
Hi Wengier, thanks for posting the link! It's certainly good news for software preservation. It might help future development in PC-BASIC (perhaps to work out how string allocation/de-allocation is approached exactly) though the fact that it's assembly code is quite a barrier.
Also this is an early version of GW-BASIC so will not have the full feature-set we're targeting with PC-BASIC. Nevertheless, it's great that MS are releasing this.
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Great news!
The full source code of GW-BASIC (as of 1983) has been officially released by Microsoft to the public. The assembly-language source code is now available in GitHub under the MIT license.
https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
I think PC-BASIC can probably benefit from this too.
It looks just like I purchased 1981
How will this help
Dave
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Hi Wengier, thanks for posting the link! It's certainly good news for software preservation. It might help future development in PC-BASIC (perhaps to work out how string allocation/de-allocation is approached exactly) though the fact that it's assembly code is quite a barrier.
Also this is an early version of GW-BASIC so will not have the full feature-set we're targeting with PC-BASIC. Nevertheless, it's great that MS are releasing this.
Thank you Rob H.
It old software witch still have my cope from the 1980's
Dave