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{{Implementation|BASIC}}
'''Commodore BASIC''' is the collective name for the various versions of [[:Category:BASIC|BASIC]] developed by [[Microsoft]] for [[Commodore]] 8-bit computers, starting with the [[wp:Commodore PET|PET]] in 1977. There were several versions; see [[wp:Commodore BASIC|Wikipedia's Commodore BASIC page]] for details.
Commodore BASIC is notable for its lack of integer arithmetic; all operations were carried out in floating-point, which made the interpreter slower than some of its peers.
Programs were tokenized into [[wp:bytecode|bytecode]], although many characters were left intact to facilitate printing the source code back out in original form; it's one of the few BASICs of the time that preserved whitespace (though not leading whitespace). Unlike some
The most well-known version is 2.0, which came with the [[wp:Commodore VIC-20|VIC-20]] and [[wp:Commodore 64|Commodore 64]]. Despite the impressive sound and graphics capabilities of the machines, the language had no support for them; machine code was required to take advantage of those features. Later BASIC versions added support, but the later machines that came with those versions never came close to the popularity of the 64.
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