Cuneiforth, for real this time!
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Hi again Gopherspace,

It's been several months since my last phlog entry.  This year isn't
off to a great "start" (seriously, it's May?!) on that front.  Of
course I always say something about this being my happy place and
wanting it not to feel like a chore, but I'd be lying if I said it
doesn't weigh on my mind a teensy bit. Particularly as I visit
Logout's Bongusta feed most days and really enjoy reading other
people's posts. This ritual starts to feel like lurking after too
long without saying something in return.

In any case, I've had an excuse.  My last post [1] teased that I was
working on a FORTH for the Nguyen and Kay's Chifir VM, and I was
intent on "releasing" this in the follow-up post.  While it's taken a
bit longer than I thought it would, I'm very happy to report that
"Cuneiforth" is finally "done"; at least to the point where I'm
comfortable asking people to take a shot at getting it to run.

Again, the idea here is that you get a file/disk containing binary
data, together with a brief description (the "label") explaining what
the binary is meant to do (be a FORTH system in this case) and how
extract the information from the binary itself necessary to make it
work.

If any of this sounds interesting to you, go here for the details:

gopher://thelambdalab.xyz/1cuneiforth/

I've included a little guestbook on that page so, if you like, you
can use it to let me know how you got on.  I'd be really keen to hear
anything - especially if you hit a wall, or if you find the
instructions unclear somehow.

Good luck!

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[1]: gopher://thelambdalab.xyz/0phlog/2026-03-28-Cuneiforth.txt