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Subject: Forth and Hobbies
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Date: 14 Mar 90 00:34:48 GMT
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 Date: 03-13-90 (02:23)              Number: 3019 (Echo)
   To: MARC HAWLEY                   Refer#: NONE
 From: GENE LEFAVE                     Read: NO
 Subj: TETRAX                        Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Marc,

 I took the liberty of modifying your code for polyFORTH.  It
 is a neat little game that I won't admit to playing as long
 as I did.   I'm not real sure what the board size was from
 your code.  It seemed in some places to be 20 wide and in 
 others to be 10 wide.   I used 20.   I also used a random
 number for the next shape and where it started at.   I also
 used some code words, and some defining words to shorten
 the code and eliminate a lot of the stack ops.   Finally,
 I used a background task for the music, and used the 
 "Entertainer" for the background melody.   It alternates
 between your song and the "Entertainer"   I've never used
 a Nintendo machine so I have no idea what the original is
 like.  

 Thanks for an entertaining weekend,  

 Gene
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