Hi folks,

I've written a Hangman game in Forth for my Planck 65C02 system. It's written in Tali Forth 2 and also works in Tali running on py65mon and also in gforth. I think it's a fine example of beginner coding. Any feedback or suggestions for improvement or for writing more idiomatic Forth would be gratefully accepted.

It's on GitHub here: https://github.com/bjchapm/hangman/

Thanks again to all of you for creating these fantastic software and hardware tools.

Best wishes,

Ben

Hi Ben,

This is an excellent little game. I enjoyed playing it. This should run on most forths that support AT-XY and ANSI escape sequences in the terminal for moving the cursor around.

I think Patrick (pdragon) is looking into adding support for KEY? in Tali2, which would let you get better random numbers by asking the user to press a key and use how long it took to seed your random number generator (rather than using HERE). KEY? is in an optional wordset, though, so your current version is probably a bit more portable.

This doesn't really look like beginner Forth. It just looks like regular Forth and is pretty easy to read and follow.

I see your license is compatible with Tali2's Public Domain license. I'd be happy to accept a pull request to add it to Tali2's forth_examples folder (probably in its own subfolder, so you can include your README.md and LICENSE files without having to worry about filename clashes), or I can add it myself with your permission.