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This all came to my attention in September 2025 as Microsoft released 6502 Basic under FLOSS terms which was a port of the Altair basic: https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502
Bill Gates released scans of his source print out on April 2, 2025
https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code
No license was provided.
GitHub user MaiZure has a study project
https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-altair-basic/
There's a few versions of the listing
https://github.com/MaiZure/AltairBASIC/blob/main/ALTAIRBASIC30.LST
https://github.com/MaiZure/AltairBASIC/blob/main/ALTAIRBASIC30_ASM_LINES.LST
https://github.com/MaiZure/AltairBASIC/blob/main/ALTAIRBASIC30_ASM_NOLINES.LST
This all came to my attention in September 2025 as Microsoft released 6502 Basic under FLOSS terms which was a port of the Altair basic:
https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502