[Coco] Microsoft released BASIC for the 6502 on github

[R. Allen Murphey]

On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 19:07 +0000, John Guin via Coco wrote:
> https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502
> I always thought this would be a good idea – “see how it all started” and
> stuff like that.  Maybe, just maybe, the 6809 version will get posted as
> well.

According to some who have asked Microsoft contacts over the years, the exact
sources for BASIC-69 and the Color BASIC etc from it have not been found to
share.

But, your wish has been already granted in effect as Duncan Smee, David
Linsley, and a cast of conspirators rebuilt Dragon BASIC from the original
sources on print outs - it's a fantastic piece of work and an great story of
Duncan flying to Washington state to hand courier the source code from
Microsoft back to Wales for DragonData to start building ROMs from.

The DragonBASIC github repository is here
https://github.com/davidlinsley/DragonBasic

Enjoy and happy SepTandy!

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R. Allen Murphey <exile at weylan-yutani.com>
Weylan-Yutani Corporation