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 ...

Back in the CPM/CPM86 days a popular business basic was CBasic/Cbasic86. I did a lot of work for small businesses in those basics. These days I use VB for Windows/SQL work when necessary. Commodore 64 ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...

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 ...

Here is an absolutely bizarre discovery, thanks to dedicated reader Paul W., to perk up your Sunday morning: 35 years ago a Christian rock band encoded a Commodore 64 program on a vinyl album, and ...

After a lengthy process that had previously met with rejection, Manomio’s Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch has finally been accepted by Apple. This marks the first time a ...

I assumed there was very little I couldn’t do with my Apple Watch given it has its own well-stocked app store, but Nick Bild has shown me the error of my ways with ...