Retro Programming

My programming sins are too numerous to count, but there are two which keep coming back to haunt me over and over: version control - while ...

However elegant a programming language, some fool will always find a way to write ugly code. Here's a word I recently implemented in For...

The Forth programming language has a set of functions (or words) called primitives. These are traditionally written in the language of the h...

Back in 1981 Silas Warner created a game for MUSE Software which would go on to spawn an entire army of clones. Silas is probably better kno...

Back in the 1980's I owned a couple of computers, a Commodore 16 and a Spectrum +2. However, this didn't stop me wanting to own a wh...

An exe packer is a utility to reduce the size of executable files. It compresses a program and creates a new program with the compressed dat...

While lurking in the #forth  channel on irc.freenode.net I was pointed to an interesting problem from the Gforth tutorial. The problem is to...