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durexForth v1.21 (Forth language for Commodore 64)

October 14th, 2012 No comments

Forth, the Language.

Forth is a different language. It’s aged and a little weird.
What’s cool about it? It’s a very low-level and minimal language without any automatic memory management. At the same time, it easily scales to become a very high-level and domain-specific language, much like Lisp. Compared to C64 Basic, Forth is more attractive in almost every way.

It is a lot more fast, memory effective and powerful. Compared to C, specifically cc65, the story is a little different. It’s hard to make a fair comparison. Theoretically Forth code can be very memory efficient, and it’s possible to make Forth code that is leaner than C code. But it is also true that cc65 code is generally much faster than Forth code.

Download: durexForth v1.21 (927)

source: noname.c64.org

Nightfall present a pet 2001/3032 intro called: it could be better

October 14th, 2012 No comments

Present a pet 2001/3032 intro called: it could be better.

Many years have passed since our last release. It’s time to release a demo for the Commodore PET 2001/3032.

Stay tuned, the next demo might be for the Commodore 64 or for other retro computers.

Creditz for this intro go to:

  • Code by xAD/Nightfall
  • Big logo by Lynx/Nightfall
  • Big logo petscii conversion by mike (bitfixer.com)

Video demostration on real hardware:

The archive contains the. PRG and the .TAP and a description in “FILE_ID.DIZ” format.

Download: It could be better by Nightfall (1463)

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