Microsoft BASIC 1.0 for Mac

Although Microsoft did not invent BASIC, their founding product was a BASIC interpreter for the Altair computer. The descendants below includes Microsoft's BASIC-80 (MBASIC), BASIC-86 (pre-GWBasic), BASIC for Mac, BASIC Compiler 86/88, Basic Compiler for Mac, and Professional Development System 7.x. IBM Personal Computer Basic Compiler, GW-BASIC, QuickBasic, and Visual Basic are listed separately.

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Release notes

Microsoft BASIC Interpreter for the Mac is a GUI based implementation of Microsoft's BASIC product. It can make use of the Macintosh's mouse, graphics, windowing, and more.

This version does not include a compiler. A separate Mac compiler product was released later in 1986.

Installation instructions

This archive contains one 400k disk image in raw sector format.