Nearly half a century after those first keystrokes on primitive terminals, Microsoft has made public the assembly-language source for its 6502-targeted BASIC interpreter — a compact, remarkable artifact of early microcomputer engineering that is now available on GitHub under a permissive MIT...
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Microsoft has published the assembly source for “BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor — Version 1.1” on GitHub under a modern permissive license, making the exact code that powered a generation of home computers readable, buildable, and reusable by anyone — hobbyists, historians, educators, and...
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Microsoft's decision to put the original 6502-targeted Microsoft BASIC source into the public eye is both a tidy act of software preservation and a reminder of how much of modern computing grew from tiny, highly optimized assembly programs—code once written by Bill Gates and his earliest...
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My daughter is running Win10 on a Dell laptop. Because she has four kids, she has thousands of photos and the list keeps growing. Thanks to some difficulties with downloading photos from her iPhone in the recent past, she has many duplicate photos and, unfortunately, many descriptive filenames...
Hello there. Im having an issue with Minecraft. Whenever i try to start it it displays the following crash log
---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// Who set us up the TNT?
Time: 1/10/16 3:53 PM
Description: Initializing game
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at...
Thirty-four years ago, a nineteen year old kid and his twenty-two year old business partner sold their first program to a little computer company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program was called BASIC, and it was the start of this company we call Microsoft.
Today, we’re beginning a brand...
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i have googled the web but could not come up with any answers. I have a windows softwareraid "5" (yes plz hate me for this) with 3x3TB disks, one disk recensently failed. I have just replaced the bad disk with a new one. But i have still no way to add the new disk to the "old" raid, and the bad...
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I think Windows is just one platform that can place the order to application software for start or stop its application software, and I think Windows have its source code, and that source code is simple figure, that simple figure have two kind of circulate, large one and small one, and source...
Hi everybody,
After doing upgrade from Vista basic to Windows 7 basic 32, I had very bad luck to connect to internet.
I tried numerous solutions I found on this forum:
- Reload previous Windows version --- doesn't work
- Uninstall Ethernet card / Reinstall new drivers (Realtek 8169) ---...
I have a pc with 3 monitors, 2 connected to a ATI 3870 card and one connected to the onboard 785G HDMI connection. The HDMI one is a 32inch LCD TV. When I put a video to play on the big tv, a popup appears saying that window is performing slowly and recommends shifting from aero to basic. I...
Don't seem to be able to read acrobat files with either IE8 or Firefox 3.5 when using Aero Themes; if I switch to Basic Themes, I can read the acrobat file with no problem.
Is this a problem with the pre-release RC version.
Hi, I am using Windows 7 Build 7229.
When i go onto magnifier and select docked mode it disbles aero on my pc and goes to the basic theme. I have to exit and close to get back to aero theme. It disables desktop windows manager but i dont know why. It works in full screen and lens mode. But in...
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Hello, all. I was having problems using my U.S. Robotics USB wifi dongle with Windows 7. After some googling I found that the drivers weren't compatible with the 64bit version of Windows 7 (and Vista, for that matter). Futher googling revealed some candidates for compatible PCI cards (since I...
Hello there,
I've got an issue, I think it's the second major one in around 3-4 months of W7 use.
On one Profile my Graphics have failed, not completely but enough to be an issue for use.
ISSUE:
The Graphics have failed.
Everything has reverted back to Windows Basic, but with everything...
MS SmallBasic might be great, if they only add some more commands to it. Now it is just misses some of the most important tools for for example string handling.
Basic is great language, when you want to make something simple fast.
I have allways wondered, why MS didn't make Basic the command...
Anyone else noticed that the installation of Win 7, both 6801 and 6956, creates a 200mb partiton which Disk Management lists as Simple, Basic, NTFS, Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)? And in my case 168mb is free. What is this used for?