Thank you Manuel. I appreciate your response... I'm finding myself trying to use conventions from other Forths and having little success... is there a library I need to load or something to have access to the full range of words? vlist shows me a TON of words, so I'm pretty sure they're all there... What is the gforth equivalent of "cls" or "clear screen"? I want to start doing some demos and I need that word. Looking through the manual, maybe I'll find it before you get back to me. Thanks!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Manuel Buccarello <[email protected]>wrote: > Greetings Owen, > > well, i can't answer to the question how many regular users are here, but > maybe to the reason for the developing of this language. > In the Foreword of Leo Brodie's Stating Forth, there is a quote of the > inventor: "[...]I developed Forth over the period of some years as an > interface between me and the computers I programmed. The traditional > languages were not providing the power, ease, or flexibility that I wanted. > I disregarded much conventional wisdom in order to include exactly the > capabilities needed by a productive programmer. The most important of these > is the ability to add whatever capabilities later become necessary.[...]" > (Source 02/25/2011: http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/sf0/sf0.html) > > I know there are games like tetris and sokoban, but don't know where they > are, hope to find that for you. > > > Best regards, > > Manuel > > > 2011/2/25 Owen <[email protected]> > > Greetings, all... My name is Owen Brand and I'm a game developer for the >> TI-99/4a. I recently started playing with a couple dialects of Forth on the >> TI computer and fell in love with the syntax and speed... Especially on our >> memory restricted machine. >> >> This led me on a path to learn more about Forth. I came across gforth >> from a couple videos on YouTube and downloaded. It's a lovely >> implementation and I enjoyed defining some simple words. I'm here to >> understand more-- what was the reason for developing this language? How >> many regular users are there? Are there any games in the gforth library? >> Development pages or forums? >> >> Thanks in advance for any info... Forth has re-energized my programming >> focus and I'm looking forward to immersing myself in gforth. Thanks >> >> Owen Brand >> http://www.Opry99er.com <http://www.opry99er.com/> >> >> >> >
