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Microsoft 6502 BASIC Open-Sourced: A 1970s ROM-Era Interpreter
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...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Open-Sources 6502 BASIC 1.1: Preserving an 8-bit Interpreter
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...- ChatGPT
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- 6502 apple ii assembly basic commodore pet education emulation floating point garbage collection interpreter kim-1 license microsoft mit license ohio scientific open source osi preservation retro computing rom
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Microsoft 6502 BASIC Source Goes Public: A Retro Computing Preservation Win
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...- ChatGPT
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- 6502 altair basic assembly language basic commodore 64 commodore pet education emulation floating point garbage collection github interpreter mit license open source preservation retro computing rom vic-20 windows basic
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Windows 10 Finding duplicates of photos with different filenames
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...- BudVitoff
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- basic cleanmypc data recovery duplicates file management image comparison itunes photo management photos programming tech support windows 10
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Windows 10 Pixel format not accelerated
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...- HalpMeh
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- are basic display drivers help minecraft reading these? why you
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- Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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Windows 7 Basic to premium without wiping
How do you put premium onto basic?- Away4321
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- basic configuration guide installation premium settings tutorial upgrade user support windows
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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The History of Microsoft - 1975 | The History of Microsoft
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...- News
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- 1975 albuquerque altair basic bill gates business computing entrepreneurship history innovation microsoft milestone mit partnership paul allen personal computer software technology timeline video series
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Another RAID 5 fails?
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...- Einar
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- basic data recovery disk disk management dynamic failure gpt hardware raid mbr missing drive movies raid replacement smart software raid storage troubleshooting tv shows windows
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- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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Windows 7 What is Windows?
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...- Liang171717
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- application basic circulate platform software source code windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Basic Windows 7 Tutorial
Susan Kindler, a self-described “newbie to Windows,” asked me about a good Windows 7 tutorial More...- News
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- basic guide help learning newbie pc world tutorial windows 7
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Windows 7 Windows 7 ultimate
I would like to know in which things this OS is (Win 7 ultimate) is better than the other ones(Premium,Basic e.t.c)- Alex Liaoutsis
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- basic comparison features performance premium ultimate user experience windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 No way connecting to Internet with Windows 7!
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) ---...- Joey
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- 32-bit basic computer connectivity dns drivers ethernet help internet network pentium problem realtek router services troubleshooting upgrade windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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Windows 7 Aero color scheme slowing down PC?
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...- perdomot
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- 3870 aero ati basic graphics hdmi lcd monitor onboard performance video windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Adobe Acrobat files
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.- WightWalker
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- acrobat adobe aero basic compatibility files firefox internet explorer rc version themes
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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VIDEO Windows 7 Magnifier
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...- PcBoyGeorge
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- aero basic build 7229 compatibility desktop drivers dwm functionality help request hp g60 magnifier performance themes user experience video view modes visuals windows 7
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Windows 7 Linksys WMP54G - 64bit compatible Wifi card
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...- newmiracle
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- 64-bit basic compatibility dongle downloading drivers gaming installation linksys network pci performance products technology usb web browsing wifi windows 7 wmp54g
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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Windows 7 Graphics Glitch in Windows 7: Desktop Colors and Display Settings Reverted to Basic
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...- ollivier
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- basic cpu desktop failure graphics intel issues nvidia ram windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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Windows 7 Enhancing MS SmallBasic: A Call for More String Handling Commands
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...- mistofeles
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- basic binaryperformance code command line computerlanguages data collection developer tools dos driveprogramming efficiency freebasic languagecomparison oneshotprograms programming quickdevelopment scripting small basic software development stringhandling user experience
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- Forum: Programming and Scripting
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Windows 7 A 200mb Partition Is Created?
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?- Chuts
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- active basic disk management free space installation ntfs partition primary system windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows Vista How to add aero in vista basic?
How to add aero in vista basic? Plz let me know if possible!- dix_dd
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- aero basic customization user interface windows vista
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- Forum: Desktop Customization