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I present Nictoforth: a space-and-pedagogy-constrained art Forth. It's carefully crafted to be read top-to-bottom:

• The repo README sets the stage. Boot sector, serial IO via BIOS.
• The assembly source is packed with narrative, rationale, and cross-reference. Search for:
  • "[0]" architecture if you want to dig in.
  • "[5]" interpreter, the heart of a Forth.
  • "[7]" the lovely straightforward compiler.
  • "[8]" the extremely wacky bootstrap. It's full of character but damn dense!
• If you clone the repo you can do make terse | bat -l nasm or | less to cut away all the asides and just read the code.
• An example demo session log. See it working.

u/s1nical posted their Milliforth fork the other day so I figured why not post mine too. It was lots of fun to write and educational besides!