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tschak909

Member Since 24 May 2006
OFFLINE Last Active May 25 2012 5:41 PM

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Memoirs of an X register > Making tools in fig-FORTH, an ANTIC Disassembler

Posted 17 March 2012

Afternoon, :)

I've made a series of 4 YouTube videos describing in detail the conceptual work, and the creation of words to implement an ANTIC disassembler tool in FORTH to compliment the ANTIC assembler that I wrote.

This basically demonstrates how FORTH can quickly be used to make useful tools that can be intermingled with the development of...
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Memoirs of an X register > APX Extended Fig-Forth: Writing a Full Screen Editor

Posted 11 March 2012

Hello everyone, progresssing on fig-FORTH. :)

As part of my work, I am hammering away on tools that I will need to write the game. One of the tools I absolutely want, is a full screen text editor, it will have very simple requirements:

split a 64 character fig-FORTH screen line into two 32 character windows, which when the cursor moves, will be...
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Memoirs of an X register > Paring it all down, why FORTH is interesting to me now.

Posted 03 March 2012

Hello everyone,

I've been putting little bits of musings on FORTH, as I use the fig-FORTH implementation on the Atari 800 to write a graphics demo that I am working on.

Because FORTH isn't a language, it's an environment with a way of life radically different than anything else out there, It has seriously caused me to reexamine my perspective...
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Memoirs of an X register > Learning Fig-Forth Videos

Posted 26 February 2012

Hello everyone. I am creating a series of tutorial and exploratory videos chronicling my journey through learning FORTH and applying it to the Walking Life demo that I am working on in FIG-FORTH.

You may subscribe to my channel on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/tschak909/ to see them, and to start off, and I...
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Memoirs of an X register > APX Extended Fig-Forth: Doing a full load

Posted 19 February 2012

I am roughly halfway through with reconstructing the screens on the APX Extended Fig-Forth disk. There is enough here to be able to use the Debugging Aids (DUMP, CDUMP, etc.), the EDITOR words for manipulating FORTH screens, and the 6502 FORTH ASSEMBLER.

If you want all three of these tools, an 18 LOAD is sufficient (provided of course you are in DECIMAL...
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