Owen Is your end goal to run under an OS or bare metal?
Matt On 2011-02-25, at 11:26 AM, "Dennis Ruffer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Welcome to gforth Owen! > > > > While you will find that gforth is a powerful version of the language, it > also is one of the few that runs across a multitude of computer > architectures. Therefore, things like clearing the screen are not so simple. > You can find out what codes you need to emit to accomplish that on your > system, but those same codes might not work on someone else's system. For > example, Windows and Linux do not use the same sequence, unless you have > carefully setup both systems to do so, and that is outside the boundaries of > gforth itself. The same can be said for just about every non-trivial > application I've seen or written in gforth. > > > > For source code libraries, you can start at http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/ > > > > For discussion forums, usenet is the most active at: comp.lang.forth > > > > DaR > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Owen Brand > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 7:58 AM > To: Manuel Buccarello; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gforth] New member, new Forther > > > > 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 > > > > >
