Alphamation

Alphamation is joke language.

Memory

Alphamation uses a counter, which is an integer and which is initialized to zero.

Syntax

Each character in an Alphamation program is its own command, except for @; the number of @s before a command changes its meaning (there can be up to three before a single command).

Commands

Command	No @s	1 @	2 @s	3 @s
&	Execute a Mirror-machine	Nop	Nop	Nop
+	Print Hello,world!	Print hello world.	Exit the program	Print !dlrow,olleH
-	Execute a cat program	Execute a reverse cat program	Read a line of input and discard it	Set the console's foreground to gray, and execute a reverse cat program
*	Set the console's background colour to white and its foreground colour to white	Set the console's background colour to white and its foreground colour to red	Set the console's background colour to magenta and its foreground colour to dark red	Set the console's background colour to dark yellow, write Ç to the console, and then set the console's foreground colour to black
/	Reset the console's colours	Set the console's background colour to white and its foreground colour to green	Set the console's background colour to blue and its foreground colour to cyan	Set the console's background colour to green and its foreground colour to dark green
;	Increment the counter	Double the counter	Set the counter to 255	Multiply the counter the counter by four, then increment it
:	Decrement the counter	Halve the counter	Set the counter to 65535	Floor-divide the counter by four, then increment it

All other characters (including ones prefixed by 1-3 @s), as well as instances of four consecutive @s, are ignored.

Examples

Hello, World!

+

Cat

-

Reverse cat

@-

Implementations

• Alphamation source code