Forth on the AtariEkkehard Floegel
Forth on the Atari
by Ekkehard Floegel · first published 1983
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The greatest Forth book is Forth on the Atari - Learning By Using by Winfried Hofacker. It’s an old book, published in 1983 in Germany, but the concepts it embodies are timeless. Available as a PDF http://www.atarimania.com/documents/FORTH-on-the-Atari-Learn...…
on “My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)” ↗All those and no mention of the classic "Forth on the Atari: Learning by Using Forth"? http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/09/14/reimagining-programmin...
on “Box Art Brut: The no-rules design of early computer games box art” ↗Anytime I hear about Forth I will forever be reminded of this: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/FORTH-on-the-Atari-Learn...
on “Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017)” ↗Forth on Atari w/o mentioning https://atari8bit.net/db/?d=cd&g=Books&f=FORTH-on-the-Atari-... Yep, those were the times. FORTH is all fun and such (well, the stack counting gets old after a while), but I have difficulties seeing it in larger, multi-person projects (were there any?). A good…
on “Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes” ↗…extensions for games. https://www.atarimagazines.com/rom/issue1/jumping_forth.php But like the post mentions, even the 8-bits had FORTH from Elcomp, and books like https://www.atarimania.com/documents/FORTH-on-the-Atari-Lear.... Leo Brodie's "Starting FORTH" is still a great intro. While we all learned BASIC, these alt languages helped us learn that there actually are radically different metaphors to program the device…
on “The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary” ↗