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A technical breakdown of the 8-Bit Guy’s ultra-short BASIC maze trick for the Commodore 64, detailing three speed optimizations and the hardware-scroll bottleneck, anchored by the creator’s YouTube subscriber data.

Microsoft open-sources historic 6502 BASIC (8K VER 1.1), detailing its origins, licensing (including a $25,000 Commodore license in 1977), and lineage to GW-BASIC/QBASIC, with release hosted on GitHub and tied to ongoing open-source governance.