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I got the Forth C64 cartridge[0], but my fascination with programming languages was, alas, at that age not yet equal to my — whoa is that a party? Now that I’m
by biztos 4y ago
I got the Forth C64 cartridge[0], but my fascination with programming languages was, alas, at that age not yet equal to my — whoa is that a party?
Now that I’m less easily distracted I often feel a vast nostalgia for those early-ish days of personal computing, specifically for how nobody knew which paradigm, if any, would gain traction.
I still peruse the Byte classifieds in a few old keeper issues whenever I visit $HOME.
[0]: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/64_Forth https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/64_Forth
- SoftTalker 4y agoI had a TI-99/4a and had a Fourth implementation for it. I didn't have any manuals or guides for a beginner however. Whatever instructions it came with were like reading a foreign language. At that age I needed a progression of simple examples starting with "Hello, world" and of course there was no internet to easily find stuff like that.
- retrocryptid 4y agoHah! I too had that TI FORTH setup. I remember you had to have both a memory expansion and a disk drive, so... thankfully I had them both. I had one of Leo Brodie's books, but it was slightly off from TI-FORTH. Good times...
- benj111 4y agoIs $HOME the same as ~ ?
- squarefoot 4y agoOn Unix, yes.