[HN Gopher] Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video]
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Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video]
Author : netten
Score : 43 points
Date : 2025-11-17 12:26 UTC (1 days ago)
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| delish wrote:
| Posting a quick TL;DW. A minute into the video Chuck Moore says
| that Windows updates (on 11 and 10) have caused colorForth to
| crash, with Chuck thinking it's a graphical problem. I may
| comment more, but I wanted to post this because I don't see it
| mentioned as a youtube comment.
| remexre wrote:
| I wonder how well Proton would work for it...
| jz_ wrote:
| It looks like colorForth runs in qemu or bochs according to
| documentation, so Proton/wine wouldn't be required.
| aaron_m04 wrote:
| I could've sworn I saw something in the last month or two about
| BITBLT or DirectX changes on Windows.
| atherton94027 wrote:
| Very impressive to see Chuck Moore still going at it at the age
| of 87. I hope at that age I'm able to handle the minutiae of
| programming!
| cess11 wrote:
| Seems like a legend might be leaving the craft due to MICROS~1.
| casey2 wrote:
| TBH I thought he was dead, very surreal to click the video an
| have him confirm it.
| 7thaccount wrote:
| It is sad to see. I understand where he is coming from though. He
| is 87 and doesn't think recoding a super niche' software tool is
| the best use of what very well may be his last few years of life.
| He still seems super sharp though and is a major inspiration.
| abraae wrote:
| What would be the best use of his last few years? Sitting in an
| easy chair by the pool?
|
| Using your last few years to exercise your brain and ward off
| cognitive decline might be the best way to ensure those last
| few years are fulfilling and not just marking time before the
| end.
| anyfoo wrote:
| That's quite a dichotomy here. He can exercise his brain and
| ward off cognitive decline without working on Colorforth
| specifically...
| abraae wrote:
| Some people have trouble doing meaningless intellectual
| pursuits like crosswords, sudoku etc.
|
| Working on Colorforth might be the greatest meaning in his
| life.
| Jblx2 wrote:
| Isn't that part of the Forth mantra though, to be written to
| the lowest level possible, eschewing portability,
| interoperability, hard coding fonts, etc., to achieve the
| simplest, most minimal implementation possible?
|
| https://www.ultratechnology.com/forth.htm
| nostrademons wrote:
| I wonder sometimes if there's an earlier level of technology that
| society could basically "checkpoint" at and freeze, and then
| build off of. Capitalism today feels like it's hit the Red Queen
| Paradox - it goes around and around to keep the money flowing,
| but with very little actual progress. Indeed, most people seem to
| feel like the world is getting _worse_ for all that work, and
| that many of the innovations of the last ~10-15 years are
| "fixing" things that weren't problems to begin with while
| creating new problems. And yet because all the substrate is
| shifting around, even if _you_ don 't break something someone
| else will. Could we go back to a world of redundant
| interchangeable parts where if somebody breaks something, you
| just cut them off and use a substitute that works just as well?
|
| Or maybe that's well and truly gone and we're just fated to
| another dark age. I'm reminded of the Smarter Scrubber
| documentary that found that basically the whole supply chain was
| gone and it was impossible to make something useful in America.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY
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