January 2021
Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:57 |
ueForth - Brad Nelson
"Riffing on Dr. Ting's
approach to EForth in C, I've been able to produce an EForth variant with bare
bones minimum C code. Less than 300 lines of C code are combined with Forth
source embedded in strings. Windows, Linux, and ESP32 via Arduino are
supported, including dynamic calls into Win32 and X11 APIs."
"Arduino has extra lines of code as each imported C function
requires an explicit binding, due to lack of dynamic linking."
- ESP32forth
- Video (28:52)
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10:25 |
Jeforth 4.03 - CH Ting
"I updated Jeforth to
draw pictures like Brad Nelson's Haikus and play Bach's polyphonic music. All
Forth words are now self-sufficient objects. There is no need for a global
memory array like the dictionary in conventional Forth systems."
- Bach Cantatas
Website
- Slides
- Video (22:45)
- jeforth613 - zip file (with
jsBach.js)
- Latest
version of eforth613 on GoogleDrive
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10:48 |
Silicon Valley FIG Challenge Roshambo - Bill
Ragsdale - Moderator
This month our programming challenge is the game
"Rock Paper Scissors". Level One is to program the game for manual inputs.
Level Two is create a learning strategy for Betty.
Allen picks Rock 50% of the time, Paper 25% and Scissors 25%.
Betty picks them equally. Will they have a significant difference in their
outcomes? Develop a learning strategy for Betty to win more often.
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Rock Paper Scissors
Lizard Spock
- Presenters:
- Brad Nelson - used ueforth
- Dave Henderson
- Bill Ragsdale
- Video (32:19)
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11:20 |
Remembering Randy Dumse - Kevin Appert -
Moderator
Randy Dumse of New Micros passed away in November of 2020. We'll
share memories of this great Forth practitioner.
- Minutes of special GEnie Forth RT Guest Conference. Special
guest: Randy Dumse, owner of New Micros Inc. Randy's Topic: 'Forth as a
Standalone O/S'
- In Memory of Friends
and Colleagues
- Video (7:35)
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11:28 |
Quantum Tail Wags Cat - Jack J. Woehr
"In the
past I have opined to the point of tedium that Quantum Computing (QC) would
lead to re-evaluation of fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics. It's happening now:
QC lends experimental weight to the proposition that quantum leaps are not
instantaneous."
- Quantum Computer
links
- Video (37:15)
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12:05 |
End of Meeting |
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Scheduled for February
- websent - Brad Nelson
- Leon Wagner
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Other items:
- Forth
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- Forth Programming Books
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Products in Forth
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- Raspberry Pi
Pico Microcontroller is just $4
- Chips
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Space stuff
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Other Books and Magazines
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Happy
Birthday Gordon Moore: One of the Founding Fathers of Silicon Valley
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Retro Computing
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- Flash
Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
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