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MacBASIC

Macintosh BASIC, also called MacBASIC, is an implementation of BASIC developed at Apple Computer for the early Macintosh computers. In September 1981, Donn Denman joined the Macintosh team to begin work on a native BASIC interpreter for the new Mac platform. Denman had previously collaborated with Randy Wigginton to port Applesoft BASIC to the Apple III. In spring 1982, Bryan Stearns was brought in to assist Denman for about six months. As the the ship date for the Macintosh 128K approached, Den

A beta version of MacBASIC 0.335 was released in early 1984 to universities such as Dartmouth College, where it was used in a programming class at the computer science department. However, Apple abruptly put MacBASIC "on hold immediately" and unsuccessfully attempted to retrieve all the beta copies, which became widely pirated. Version Build date Notes 0.29 February 9, 1984 Earliest known development version.0.335 March 15, 1984 Released to universities and withdrawn.1.0 June 3, 1985 Delivered to Microsoft and shelved.

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