Forth on the Atari

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1. goatinaboatOct 2019
   The greatest Forth book is Forth on the Atari - Learning By Using by Winfried Hofacker. It’s an old book, published in 1983 in Germany, but the concepts it embodies are timeless. Available as a PDF http://www.atarimania.com/documents/FORTH-on-the-Atari-Learn... but I have an original copy :-)
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2. colandermanApr 2016
   All those and no mention of the classic "Forth on the Atari: Learning by Using Forth"? http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/09/14/reimagining-programmin...
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3. mwexlerNov 2024
   ValForth from Valpar was one of the first cross platform FORTH implementations in the Atari ST ecosystem, and it had some clever extensions for games.

   https://www.atarimagazines.com/rom/issue1/jumping_forth.php

   But like the post mentions, even the 8-bits had FORTH from Elcomp, and books like https://www.atarimania.com/documents/FORTH-on-the-Atari-Lear.... Leo Brodie's "Starting FORTH" is still a great intro.

   While we all learned BASIC, these alt languages helped us learn that there actually are radically different metaphors to program the device

   Mind expanding to a kid in the 80s!

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4. guenthertJun 2021
   Forth on Atari w/o mentioning https://atari8bit.net/db/?d=cd&g=Books&f=FORTH-on-the-Atari-... Yep, those were the times.

   FORTH is all fun and such (well, the stack counting gets old after a while), but I have difficulties seeing it in larger, multi-person projects (were there any?). A good idea who's time came and went.

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5. lunchablesSep 2019
   Anytime I hear about Forth I will forever be reminded of this:

   http://www.atarimania.com/documents/FORTH-on-the-Atari-Learn...

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