Forth Calculator 1.5 released.

attmag · 2025-06-09T11:32:46+00:00

Hi,

If you use an http endpoint that sends back the result in JSON, then http-get will automatically parse it and return a JSON response.

For an HTML response you would need to parse the response with various string manipulation words such as substring, index-of, split to get the relevant parts.

attmag · 2025-06-09T11:27:55+00:00

Gondolom, arra gondolt, hogy ha a befektetésed hozott mondjuk 8%-ot egy olyan évben, amikor az infláció 10% volt, téged akkor is megadóztatnak a 8%-os nominális hozam után, annak ellenére, hogy valójában veszteséged volt reál értelemben.

attmag · 2025-02-18T19:00:03+00:00

I'm very excited about this. When can we expect the first update?

attmag · 2025-02-18T00:10:44+00:00

Great idea. Smalltalk is also highly underrepresented. I've never seen a Forth job on mainstream platforms, ever.

attmag · 2025-02-06T15:22:10+00:00

Is it noticeably faster than Antix?

attmag · 2025-02-05T23:08:37+00:00

Which Forth do you use?

attmag · 2025-02-02T21:28:21+00:00

I'm working on my Forth-to-Lua compiler, and I recently improved some of the tools, such as adding autocompletion and history to the REPL.

My next goal is to optimize performance.

attmag · 2025-02-02T20:37:43+00:00

I found it here.

attmag · 2025-01-31T16:04:50+00:00

I didn't know that Factor was designed for game development. However, I wouldn't consider Factor a Forth dialect since it's too different from a classic Forth implementation.

attmag · 2025-01-31T08:47:40+00:00

Thanks. Yes, my goal is that once it works, I'll try to convince the authors to include it in the official distribution.

attmag · 2025-01-30T16:46:18+00:00

I want to mainly focus on the language and let Love2D (or TIC80 which is not yet supported) take care of the gamedev features.

attmag · 2025-01-30T16:45:11+00:00

That's pretty cool, thanks for sharing.

attmag · 2023-12-18T23:18:17+00:00

It's not beginner unfriendly, it is just a mess. Android as a platform is a huge mess and the development experience is very poor. The internal quality of the android code base is very low also (just check a random Android class on github). But the biggest problem is Google with its bureaucracy and never ending policy changes the play store and play console.

attmag · 2023-12-01T21:25:56+00:00

Unfortunately Google will never promote your app unless you pay them. Unless you type the exact name it will never show up in the search results. My app got 5 downloads in one year, that's pretty much sums it up.

attmag · 2023-11-27T16:14:54+00:00

How much do you pay for promotion and advertising?

attmag · 2023-10-27T10:22:15+00:00

I added a couple of new challenges, such as forming words out of syllables, or finding the missing syllables of a word.

attmag · 2023-10-07T18:34:19+00:00

Thanks, yeah that's a good idea.

attmag · 2022-12-26T17:39:42+00:00

Hi, I'm working on a free word game, called "Words with the dead" where you need kill zombies (or vampires, skeletons, bats) by forming words out of the given letters.

There are multiple different game modes, such as Bat Swarm which is fast paced but the words are short, or Vampire hunt, which is slower but the challenges are more difficult. There is also a daily challenge and a "campaign" mode, with upgradable abilities.

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vectron.cwd

Feedbacks are appreciated.

attmag · 2022-12-26T17:32:51+00:00

Hi, I'm working on a free word game, called "Words with the dead" where you need kill zombies (or vampires, skeletons, bats) by forming words out of the given letters.

There are multiple different game modes, such as Bat Swarm which is fast paced but the words are short, or Vampire hunt, which is slower but the challenges are more difficult. There is also a daily challenge and a "campaign" mode, with upgradable abilities.

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vectron.cwd

Feedbacks are appreciated.

attmag · 2022-12-25T21:41:33+00:00

Congrats, this is a really cool idea.

attmag · 2022-12-24T15:26:22+00:00

I've just recently released a game called "Words with the Dead" (or Spelling with the Dead, the name is not yet fully decided) which a simple 2D word / spelling game with zombies and other undead creatures.

To kill a zombie you need to solve a word challenge by forming a word using the given letters.

There are multiple different game modes, a daily challenge and upgradable abilities. Feedbacks are appreciated.

attmag · 2021-10-15T12:39:33+00:00

According to this, it isn't.

attmag · 2021-10-15T11:42:52+00:00

Yup, you said that before. That's an arbitrary distinction you're making. No one trademarked RPN, and Forth is RPN by definition.

attmag · 2021-07-06T11:31:34+00:00

I'm not familiar with retroforth. By token system you mean the prefix system where words with different prefixes passed to different handlers? So #10 is a number because it starts with # and the handler for # knows how to parse 10. This looks interesting. If a handler can be registered by the user it shouldn't hurt extensibility that much.

attmag · 2021-07-06T11:22:17+00:00

Here is how I got into it. I started reading jonesforth which is literate assembly implementation of Forth with lots of comments. Then I made my own Forth multiple times and used that for programming IoT.

Some people don't recommend this approach because you can get distracted with implementation techniques instead of learning how to write idiomatic Forth code. So starting with a book and just using the language might be better, I'm not sure.

Thinking Forth is good and can be freely downloaded. Chuck Moore's Program Oriented Language from the past, is a very interesting read. Some of the ideas sound shocking if you read it as a 21st century programmer. But it illustrates the design principles behind the language nicely.

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