[druzyek]

OP here. This is a really interesting point. My strategy was to keep the highest level functions/words like DrawTile or DrawMenu while writing the underlying Forth and subwords from scratch focusing on performance. Do you have any suggestions that would make "more sense to Forth" as you say?

[asguy]

Not the GP, but I'd recommend the latest edition of _Thinking Forth_[0]; there's a PDF but the soft-cover is worth picking up. It helped change the way I think about Forth (hah), and really, programming in general.

[0] - http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

[astrobe_]

Although it does not directly help, it gives the general idea:

http://www.ultratechnology.com/levels.htm