Forth invented as a monitor and control system for one of the radio telescopes at NRAO in West Virginia...

So I have a tribal affinity for Color Forth, by original creator of Forth.

Very impressive demos! I did a quick look through the docs- it’s single threaded (in the cpu sense) and not multi process yes?

• phreda4

  yesterday at 11:57 PM

  not for now, just launch many instances!

In the first code example in the readme ("First program"), there's `sdlcls`, `SDLinit`, and `SDLShow`. Is there some significance to the capitalisation?

• phreda4

  today at 12:35 AM

  r3forth is case insensitive

  • thristian

    today at 3:14 AM

    Ah, it might be nice to mention that before the first code example, then. Or just use consistent case in the first example, to avoid distracting people with details that aren't the thing you're trying to demonstrate.

Very nice graphics using SDL2!

So many features-- sprite sheets, etc. Well done!

Very interesting, great work! This reminded me of something. I just checked and to my amazement Mike Hore's Powermops is still around and even has an ARM version.[1]

[1] https://www.powermops.org

• jhbadger

  today at 2:09 AM

  Yes, that's neat -- it is basically a modern Neon, which was an object-oriented Forth for the Mac in the 1980s.