https://pokepeek.com/Recent content on pokepeekHugoen-ushttps://pokepeek.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://pokepeek.com/about/<p>pokepeek is a build log for <a href="https://github.com/readyprompt/anticforth">anticforth</a>, a Forth written from nothing on bare metal.</p> <p>The name is two Commodore BASIC keywords. <code>PEEK</code> and <code>POKE</code> were how you got past the interpreter and reached the machine — which, in Forth, are spelled <code>@</code> and <code>!</code>.</p> <p>ANTIC was the Atari 8-bit display coprocessor. It worked by executing display lists: a stream of instructions fetched and interpreted by dedicated hardware. Threaded code in silicon, a few years before anyone put it in a Forth.</p>