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02/22/2008

Diaperglu is a Forth script interpreter developed by Jim Norris in C/C++ that can host dynamic html pages. It has many features such as an error stack, memory management, dll/shared object library access, and even both isapi and cgi support.

11/16/2007

Starting Forth online
This contains most of Marcel Hendrix's updates, plus a few edits provided by Forth Inc.. They have restored most of Leo Brodie's original, brilliant illustrations.

03/09/2007

Scanned versions of FIG-Forth Implementations with OCR capabilities have been added

03/01/2007

The scanned versions of Forth Dimensions now offer text search and OCR capabilities.

12/19/2006

Forth Dimensions Volumes 7 to 20 have been scanned.

12/19/2006

New Want Ad listing.

12/01/2004

PicForth by Samuel Tardieu is an optimizing Forth cross compiler hosted on gForth.

11/15/2004
Two articles by Charles Curley from Forth Dimensions - 1993
Optimizing FastForth: Optimizing in a BSR/JSR Threaded Forth
Optimization Considerations (Life in the FastForth Lane)

10/18/2004

graspForth by Bernard Mentink is a non-ANS 32-bit Forth in C that supports all 32-bit micros that GCC cross-compiles to.

04/05/2004

A link to Tom Zimmer's F-PC Version 3.6 used in Ken Merk's GPS Vehicle Tracker (February 2004) and Wireless Vehicle Tracking - Forth-Based Speech Synthesis (March 2004) projects published in Circuit Cellar. Here is a link to the Forth code in zip format.

03/27/2004

Glen B. Haydon of The Forth Source has obtained considerable FIG inventory including issues of Forth Dimentsions, other Forth publications, and other merchandise. They are being inventoried and are available for purchase.

03/08/2004

Indexes to Forth Dimensions

03/05/2004

DLLForthWin32 compiler by Jim Norris - Supports core word list and search order extensions, implements string stack and buffer managements, and permits testing of and access to Win32 DLLs.

 

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