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Modern C64 Forth

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2019-09-03 · latest 2026-08-20

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  1. C64: https://github.com/jkotlinski/durexforth It's impressive what you can do in the C64 with just Forth instead of C64 Basic. For Speccy/ZX80/ZX81, I'm pretty sure they ported the Jupyter ACE one, boosting up the available RAM in the 48k…
    comment by anthk · 2026-08-20 · in Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020)
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    Show HN: Code garden deep-dive: my Forth C64 tetromino game
    story by ekipan · 2026-04-23 · 1 comment
  3. If you’re into this you may also like durex forth: https://github.com/jkotlinski/durexforth A modern C64 variant, as well as CollapseOS which is a Forth based 8-bit OS: https://collapseos.org/
    comment by codezero · 2021-02-18 · in RetroForth 2021.1
  4. Here's a very nice forth implementation for the C64 (not z80-based, it's 6502, but close): https://github.com/jkotlinski/durexforth
    comment by enneff · 2019-10-08 · in Collapse OS
  5. …alternative. That's when I stumbled into Forth. There's an actively developed Forth for C64 ( https://github.com/jkotlinski/durexforth ) which even included a Vi implementation. So I could get a nicer, faster language and an editor in one…
    comment by fpgaminer · 2019-09-03 · in Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017)