Cagire: Live Coding in Forth

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• quaverquaver 17 hours ago
  for FORTH like synthesis environment you will want to check out SAPF! (by James McCartney author of SuperCollider) https://github.com/lfnoise/sapf
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  • eggy 14 hours ago
    Wow, I never saw this! I like APL/J/Uiua, so this is perfect. Uiua is both stack and array based. Thanks!
  • quaverquaver 17 hours ago
    concatenative code is sort of a natural fit for audio in terms of representing signal flow...
• eggy 14 hours ago
  Cool, and I love the retro font. I had a Vic-20 (early 80s) and Commodore PET 2001 (1977) I am learning Odin, and I was going to try creating live coding environment with scripting in Forth and with the gui and rest in Odin, but for audio and graphics. I was inspired long ago by Paul Batchelor's Sporth and Tidal (now tidal cycles?). Forth is a great language. You can make an compiler/interpreter in a few days. John Earnest's ok.js is also cool. I like stack and array languages, so when I am not playing in J, I use Uiua. Uiua has the capability to do audio and graphics/animations and scratches my array/stack itch.
• hankbond 15 hours ago
  This is a neat project and I don't think I'm aware of any sequencers that allow for arbitrary execution per-step (not that I am that deep into the space). The font choice for the website is really... interesting. I don't think I can recall ever feeling this dyslexic trying to read the copy here.
• eluusive 10 hours ago
  This is super cool. I've been thinking about doing something like this for awhile as a retirement project.
• chantepierre 13 hours ago
  Very cool. Are you near Aspet ? I often hike with a friend who lives there. The Cagire is one of my favorite peaks of the Pyrénées.
• alex7o 12 hours ago
  Oh it seems like forth is a pretty good candidate for this. Like most of these things are a post processing steps
• octetta 15 hours ago
  Neato... I'm glad stuff like this exists in the world. I'm gonna steal some ideas for my own project (Skred). Thanks!
• DonHopkins 15 hours ago
  Toffoli and Margolis's CAM-6 cellular automata machine board for the IBM-PC was programmed in FORTH. I made a simulator, and this video shows some of the original FORTH code that I saved, as well as my own compatible FORTH CA rule computer that le me run the rules from the book, which produced lookup table for the hardware, which the simulator is compatible with. I've since rewritten it in JavaScript. It's not live coding, but it has a live performance user interface (quite weird and hard to figure out, especially if you haven't read the book, but I demonstrate it in the video).

  CAM6 Demo

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyLMHxRNuck

  Original FORTH code that drove the actual CAM-6 board:

  tomt-cam-forth-scr.txt: https://donhopkins.com/home/code/tomt-cam-forth-scr.txt

  tomt-users-forth-scr.txt: https://donhopkins.com/home/code/tomt-users-forth-scr.txt

  My compatible CA compiler and glue to the simulator written in C:

  cam.f.txt: https://donhopkins.com/home/code/cam.f.txt

  compile.f.txt: https://donhopkins.com/home/code/compile.f.txt

  An old version of the simulator written C, before I rewrote it in JavaScript:

  https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/tree/master/Micropol...

  The JavaScript CAM6 simulator:

  CAM6.js: https://github.com/SimHacker/CAM6/blob/master/javascript/CAM...

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  • joshu 1 hour ago
    Oh, this is awesome. I actually have this book. Also, for some reason, I am writing a hacking game based around fourth which has been interesting.
• phreda4 17 hours ago
  Nice! I try this