Cosmic-Conquest-1982
(Historic) Resurrecting one of the first real time strategy (RTS) games from 1982. Written in Forth. (by RickCarlino)
TaliForth2
A Subroutine Threaded Code (STC) ANS-like Forth for the 65c02 (by scotws)
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Cosmic-Conquest-1982
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cosmic-Conquest-1982.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-16.
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Playing Cosmic Conquest, a old-style real-time strategy game, on my breadboard 6502
Cosmic Conquest was a challenge on r/Forth to get an old Apple II game written in Forth running on modern hardware. u/rickcarlino spearheaded the effort, documented in his GitHub. I thought it would be a nice project to try out on my new Forth system. It gave my system a workout and enabled me to identify a few bugs I hadn't seen before..
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Enhanced version of Cosmic Conquest (a Forth based game from 1982)
I've been having fun getting Cosmic Conquest, the 1982 real-time strategy game written in Forth, to run on my 6502 SBC. This has been discussed here and here. Thanks to /u/rickcarlino and /u/erroneousbosh for their work on the GForth version of this project. You can find the raw source code of my version here. Note that my version has 16 bit cells. You might need to make minor modifications where FLEETS and F use ! and @ to get my version running on a Forth with larger cells.
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Type-in FORTH code from 1982 - would it work ?
Sounds good. I went ahead and created a Github repo for my progress: https://github.com/RickCarlino/Cosmic-Conquest-1982
- An attempt at resurrecting Cosmic Conquest (1982). PRs welcome. I expect a challenge on this one.
TaliForth2
Posts with mentions or reviews of TaliForth2.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.
- Alternative to WozMon
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Adding a separate debug window to the py65 6502 emulator
Note that I've coded the debug window to work with my hardware binary which supports interrupts. As such it's somewhat specialized to my build and likely wouldn't work with your build without modification. Let me know if you're interested and I could point out changes needed for you build. Alternatively, I could fork the py65 GitHub and prepare a working version with my build's binary. As an added benefit you could play with my Forth operating system (though if your main interest is that then I'd recommend some better tested versions for the 6502, like Tali Forth 2 for example).
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Playing Cosmic Conquest, a old-style real-time strategy game, on my breadboard 6502
For a command line program I started out with getting WOZMON working and then began adding more capabilities similar to the Apple II system of old. I got tired of adding one-off functionality and discovered Forth when looking at programming languages suited for systems with limited resources. Look into TaliForth2 to get up and running fast on your 6502. The full program requires 24k ROM but can be slimmed down to fit in 16k pretty easily. I was inspired so I wrote my own Forth 2012 Standard version over the summer.
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From breadboard to soldered version
Get Taliforth running on it
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Hey anyone tried to write an assembler for the 6502?
I got tired of creating one-off functionality so I'm now working with Forth which is kind of like an operating system/programming language combined. It's pretty easing to get a version of that running on your 6502. Tali Forth 2 by Scott Stevenson ports pretty easily and has an editor, assembler and disassembler.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Cosmic-Conquest-1982 and TaliForth2 you can also consider the following projects:
6502 - Code for the 6502 microprocessor, mostly for the Replica 1 computer.
of816 - Portable 32-bit Forth for the 65C816.
Cosmic-Conquest - An enhanced version of the 1982 real-time strategy game Cosmic Conquest
abn6502 - Solving the global IC shortage by reusing old stuff!
NES-dev - A simple NES game written in 6502 assembly
derzforth - Bare-metal Forth implementation for RISC-V
appler - Apple ][ emulator for MS-DOS, written in 8088 assembly
lynx_hacking - Collection of Lynx demos, trial.
py65 - Emulate 6502-based microcomputer systems in Python
py65_int - Handling 6502 interrupts in py65