These archives contains original disk images of Microsoft BASIC
Interpreter, versions: 1.00, 2.00 and 3.0.
Plus; Microsoft BASIC Compiler v1.0.

> ### Microsoft Macintosh Basic Version 2.0
>
> More Mac support and true parameter-passing subprograms
>
>  Author's note: This article describes?a prerelease copy of the
> software?does not include any evaluation of the software's
> performance.
>
>  Microsoft Corporation released a version of its BASIC for the Apple
> Macintosh computer shortly after the machine's release. Although
> this version used few of the Macintosh's special features (windows,
> pull-down menus, etc.) it became popular, largely because it was the
> only BASIC available. (Apple's Macintosh BASIC, as of this writing,
> was still not available.)
>  Microsoft recently introduced Microsoft BASIC version 2.0 (I'll
> abbreviate Microsoft BASIC for the Apple Macintosh as MBASIC 2.0 to
> contrast it with Apple's product, called Macintosh BASIC). Because
> most people are familiar with the generic Microsoft BASIC (which is
> similar to MBASIC version 1.0 for the Macintosh), I'll limit this
> description to those features that are new...
>
> To read this article in full, see: ?[BYTE Magazine, 1985 January,
> pp.155?162][1]

 * DL #1: MS BASIC Interpreter full versions: 1.00, 2.00 and 3.0,
   plus; Microsoft BASIC Compiler v1.0 ? zipped archive of 400Kb disk
   images . No Macintosh resource forks retained in this zip file.
   Mountable only on a host machine by dropping the image files into
   a running Mini vMac window.

 * DL #2: MS BASIC Interpreter v1.0 as Disk Copy 4.2 and DiskDup
   floppy disk image files, enclosed in a StuffIt v3.0.7 ".sit"
   archive. Either types are mountable in Mini vMac or writable to
   400k floppy media. From early 1984.

 * DL #3: MS BASIC Interpreter v2.0 as Disk Copy 4.2 and DiskDup
   floppy disk image files, enclosed in a StuffIt v3.0.7 ".sit"
   archive. Either types are mountable in Mini vMac or writable to
   400k floppy media. From mid to later 1984.

 * DL #4: MS BASIC Interpreter v3.0 as Disk Copy 4.2 and DiskDup
   floppy disk image files, enclosed in a StuffIt v3.0.7 ".sit"
   archive. Either types are mountable in Mini vMac or writable to
   400k floppy media. From early 1986.

 * DL #5: MS BASIC Compiler v1.0 as Disk Copy 4.2 and DiskDup floppy
   disk image files, enclosed in a StuffIt v3.0.7 ".sit" archive.
   Either types are mountable in Mini vMac or writable to 400k floppy
   media. From mid to late 1986.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

400Kb floppy disk media. These are not suitable for use in Mac System
7.0 and later and would be better suited to running in Macintosh
Systems produced before System 6.0.

 * DL #2's disk image is bootable. It has on-board, Macintosh System
   Software (System file v.97) from 1984, This was the original
   operating system that shipped with the first 128K Macintosh.

 * DL #3's disk image is bootable. It has on-board, Macintosh System
   Software (System file v1.1) from April 1984, This was the
   operating system that shipped with the "FAT Mac" 512K Macintosh.

 * DL #4's disk image "MS-BASIC 3.0 D1" (either the .image or .dsk
   copy) is bootable. It has on-board, Macintosh System Software v0.7
   (System file v3.0) from Jan 1986, This was the operating system
   that shipped with the original Macintosh Plus.

 * DL #5's disk image "MS-BASIC Compiler" (either the .image or .dsk
   copy) is bootable. It has on-board, System Software v1.1 (System
   file v3.2) from 1986, This was the original operating system that
   shipped with the 512Ke Macintosh.

 * The earliest disk image (DL #2) will require either an original
   128K Mac or later or a Mini vMac variation build and a suitable
   ROM to act as a startup disk. Otherwise mount as a secondary disk
   in a later (pre System 7.0) Mac or Mini vMac. DL's #3 to #5 all
   appear to start up and run in a standard Mini vMac Plus, OK.

  [1]: https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_10-01_1985-01_Through_The_Hourglass/page/156/mode/2up