Show HN: Code garden deep-dive: my Forth C64 tetromino game

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Deep-dive: https://github.com/ekipan/sss/blob/main/Design.md

Repo front page: https://github.com/ekipan/sss

The Silent Soviet Stacker is, in order:

  1. A tinker-toybox I wrote and pick at to relax.
  2. A technical deep-dive writeup, showing Forth by example.
  3. A game that works and you can play.

Try it (<5 minutes):

  1. C64 emulator [1]
  2. Load durexforth cart [2]
  3. Copy [3] contents to clipboard
  4. Edit > Paste in VICE.
  5. Type `help` then `new`.

[1]: https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/

[2]: https://github.com/jkotlinski/durexforth/releases

[3]: https://github.com/ekipan/sss/blob/share-hn/sss.fs

  $ wc README.md Design.md Tinkering.md
     90   445  2928 README.md
    823  4863 27985 Design.md
    182  1029  6512 Tinkering.md
   1095  6337 37425 total

  $ wc sss.fs # docs-to-code ratio >4:1!
   284 1997 8680 sss.fs