About
This repository preserves the original 1983 source code for Worms? by David S. Maynard, released under the MIT license from his original floppy disks for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64. It includes the FORTH source split into two Atari disk parts and one Commodore disk, plus the original (non-bootable) disk images; the FORTH source is meant to be loaded and read via the ValForth environment rather than run directly.
Getting started
To read the source, load ValForth on the appropriate disk image and use the `LIST <Screen Number>` command to browse the FORTH screens; the Commodore and Atari FORTH disk images are not runnable/bootable on their own.
History
The source code was provided by original author David S. Maynard to Dave Mackey and released under the MIT license; the repository also links to a scan of the original source, the author's development notes, and a JavaScript reproduction called Darworms.
Additional notes
- Trivia
- `EAFORTH` and `SYSTEM` are noted as fake files, possibly related to a proprietary FORTH variant used internally at Electronic Arts at the time.