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Wow, I just saw that other post as well so between reading the file-io, and inferring the word device# sets the default device# I can then say: 9 device# (I presume the default is 8 or perhaps 0) dsave bluemeanies.fs The INCLUDE is a real bonus! I can see how that works as well! You also mention in ...

They're compiled into the dictionary. There isn't a standard word but the remaining space in the dictionary can be printed with >TIB HERE - U. This takes the address of the user variable store and subtracts the next free dictionary address. [edit: my second word then is: : free >tib here - cr u. ; ...

There is a way to do this with no investment required, and nothing but an unexpanded vic with tape. There are also multiple ways to do it...most people here have EVERYTHING for the vic, and forget that some people just plain don't, nor are they willing to spend hundreds of dollars on modern interfac...

I guess a better way to phrase that question, is how do I delineate between the base words and additional words? It would be convenient to have both. For example, if I wanted to be able to load the base library of words, and then switch between applications, or load in small groups of words that I l...

: csave ( sa da lfn addr count -- ) sys-setnam 2dup sys-setlfs 1 sys-open 1 sys-close ; It did something to the tape that resembles saving lol...I'm really not sure how to "view" anything in this editor though. Here is a question: When I write some words, where are they? and how would I ev...

Srowe, the documentation for V-FORTH, quite the contrary to VICE, is sublime! I am now figuring out how to make a TSAVE word hehe. I'll finish that when I wake up.

Ill call the output of that statement -1 :D There is an easy way to test this...Ill just write a program, and attempt to record it. *types 'basic' on his forth computer :D* Well holy crap! I love it when I'm wrong! Datasette functions work perfectly for recording .TAPs! Well, that is probably the fi...

:shock: You just made my year..s...! Mystery solved, and I can use my good old commodore 16k cart! 8k is plenty for me...and for forth. So what do some of those sys-xxxx commands do then. Some are self evident, but that one, sys-writeb, what is that, and why did it make text invisible? What if I mis...

That was going to be my very first suggestion!! Wimbasic lol... Wimbasic with a ram expansion included would be the only thing cooler, although that might crank up the cost too high. I was just thinking that Wimbasic is what the super expander should have been...like without "pseudo coordinates...

Yes, Vice doesn't support writing .TAP files. At least according to their instruction manual, and what I have found in practice: section 5.5 of VICE manual paragraph 4: Supported formats are D64 and X64 for disk images (devices 8, 9 and 10) and T64 for tape images. Notice that T64 support is read-on...

I'm aware of all that. What the desired result was(perhaps counter intuitively), was garbage on the screen. Which I didn't get, which means it did not have the desired effect, and could therefore not create consistent results with that syntax, or is, perhaps, not what I think it is. My question was ...

I realize I'm necro bumping here, but I've searched a bit and not having much luck on what I'm trying to do. First I'm new to the Vic-20 as my wife happened upon one over the summer for about 10$ in the box. Came with an original older model vic-20, working RF adapter, power supply, and what looks ...

Thanks for making it!!! I love commodore basic games and commodore basic in general, and yours are always unique and fun. I learn something cool about commodore basic all the time. The speed you get out of basic is fantastic!

Darn it...I booted it up, and typed 'words', and now I have to buy a 24k cart. I saw all the sys-xxxxx commands you added. I'm trying out
sys-writeb

I tried

240 36869 sys-writeb

and the cursor vanished along with any subsequent text. Would that be the incorrect syntax?

I'm still learning FORTH off and on...I still don't know how to do a manual store of bits and bytes to ram from FORTH, and that is what stops me from writing lots of code in it. Being able to define words to do tasks which control memory & I/O is crucial. With it, one can simply write blocks and...