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What a nice surprise! 
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I remember look at some Forth code the guys were writing for an Atari 400/800 at the game company I was working at years ago. I was coding 6502 assembly for the C64 on a separate game. Forth seemed completely unintelligible. While my first "computer" was an HP calculator and I loved RPN, the programming (all 49 instruction spaces) was still linear. Funny that, now that I think about it.
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I tried for a while the Forth programming language on my ZX Spectrum, then I discarded it in favour of the Z80 assembly.
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I'm pretty sure HP calculators used RPN purely to prevent anyone borrowing them off you more than once... 
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That game seems oddly familiar... Memory is vague...
I did own a C64 back in the day though 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I did own a C64 back in the day though
I didn't think you were that old! I wrote that back in 1982 or so. Sadly, HESWare folded right after (like within days) of it going to market. I eventually received a royalty check for a dollar and change. 
Marc
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Well, I'm not THAT old actually, I'm from '87.
When I was about 6 years old I got an uncle's old C64 with a whole lot of floppy disks and I think your game was one of them.
What are the odds?
I remember my favorites were Donald Duck's Playground[^] and Robin of the Wood[^].
It didn't last very long as we got a Windows 95 computer when it came out.
And I occasionally played on my dad's DOS computer (Prince of Persia and Titus the Fox mostly), but not a lot since that was also his work computer.
Good old times
Since I've played your game once or twice I could give you another dollar to soften the pain 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I got an uncle's old C64 with a whole lot of floppy disks and I think your game was one of them.
What are the odds?
Fascinating. I remember vaguely writing the copy protection scheme, basically fairly easy to defeat, but changing the number of sectors on the specific tracks of the disk that would make standard floppy copying impossible. 
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You didn't distribute it on floppy in the first place?
My uncle isn't exactly a computer genius, so I doubt he'd be able to defeat your copy protection himself 
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Since when do they have two users?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I have had some dealings with Forth in the past. In seemed like a write-only language to me. I could never fathom what was going on from just reading it.
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I thought Forth had more bridges than users!
As Monday's headline should have read: Queen Elizabeth the Second opens Scotland's third Forth bridge to Fife
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No spoilers please, just Good or Not! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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If you call that a spoiler... I will tell you if the end is good or not!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Season 2 wasn't quite as good as season one - it is always thus - but season 3 will hopefully pick up when it comes out next year.
I'll give you no spoilers, but it's worth watching season 1 right to the bitter end! 
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Craftsmanship exhibited by lad in The Barmy Army (7)
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
modified 6-Sep-17 5:37am.
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MASONRY?
Craftsmanship exhibited by
lad SON
in
The Barmy Army ARMY (anag)
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We have a winner.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Bugger!
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It's not a problem, it's an opportunity!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: It's not a problem, it's a single knocker, we're told! (11)
FTFY!
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Doesn;t surprise me at all - and while Apple get 33.33% of that for letting scammers do their thang, it isn't going to stop soon either ... or am I being a cynical old fart again? I'm sure Apple would take it down and refund all monies the instant they found out about it.
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