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MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game 'ChipWits' from 1984 is Now Open Source
Back in the mid-1980s Mark Roth was in 5th grade when the game ChipWits "helped kindle his interest in coding," according to an online biography. ("By middle school, he wrote his first Commodore 64 assembler and by high school he authored a 3D Graphics library for DOS.") And 40 years later, Slash...
Back in the mid-1980s Mark Roth was in 5th grade when the game ChipWits"helped kindle his interest in coding," according to an online biography. ")And 40 years later, Slashdot reader markroth8 writes that the programming puzzle/logic game "inspired many people to become professional coders": ChipWits was first released for Mac in 1984, and was later ported to Commodore 64 and Apple II in 1985. "Our goal for open sourcing the original version of ChipWits is to ensure its legacy lives on," according to the announcement.
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