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.

Windows/Mac/Linux: The programming language that probably introduced more people to infinite loops than any other, Microsoft BASIC 6502 for the Commodore 64, is now available as a scripting language ...

In this tremendously educational video, [Linus Åkesson] takes us through how he develops a synthesizer and a sequencer and editor for it on the Commodore 64, all in BASIC. While this sounds easy, ...

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...

The C64 is a full-sized Commodore 64 Reboot for 1980s retrogaming that comes equipped with 64 pre-installed games and that you can program in C64 or VIC 20 BASIC. I tell you, that little scamp James ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a ...

You don’t need to go searching for a Commodore 64 on Ebay to relive the vintage PC’s glory days. Avid gamer Petri Wilhelmsen is providing a way to write and run C64 programs on Windows PCs for ...

I probably don't deserve to write silicon.com's eulogy to the Commodore 64 because I have a shameful secret. A secret, nearly 20 years later, I only now dare tell. I'd had my C64 - a Spectrum ...