FORTH is one of these languages (like Lisp) that goes to an extreme with minimalism and has a base of practioners who swear by it. While I appreciate its interesting aspects, I've never really fully understood its appeal. I've been having fun recently making small games in PICO-8, and I thought an interesting way to understand FORTH better would be to create a quick and dirty fantasy console based on it.

Live version here: https://jbush001.github.io/ForthConsole

Keyboard mapping: Arrow keys: up/down/left/right Z : A button x : B button

Develop and test locally

Install NodeJS:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
(reopen shell)
nvm install node

To run tests:

npm test

To run in browser:

npm start

Open a web browser to http://localhost:3000/index.html