January 2024
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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09:30

Start of Meeting - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman.

Video (04:46)

09:40

Forth & PHP - Marc Petremann
Marc spoke about highlighting of Forth source code.

Video (14:44)

Slides

ESP32 Forth

Forth.php code

09:49

Quantum Computing and Other Miscellaneous Jax Adventures - Jack J. Woehr
“Quantum Computing is big business and you and I have been watching it from early on. Also, I will discuss what IBM z/TPF and Forth have in common.”

Video (42:55)

10;32

The Forth Archives - Bill Ragsdale
“I'll be presenting how to approach Forth resources as a research resource with some history and some examples.“

Video (25:20)

Slides

10:57

Winter Haikus + Emergency Spring Cleaning - Brad Nelson

• “I'll present some seasonal Forth Haikus and talk about upgrading Forth Haiku to the latest AppEngine runtime."
• "Forth Haiku is 12 years old and has been running on an AppEngine runtime of nearly that vintage."
• "I'll describe my frantic dash to upgrade after learning support for this version is being dropped on January 30th, 2024.”

Video (32:58)

Slides

11:30

AI, Robotics + IOT - Our Future World! - Don Golding
Don will complete and expand upon his Forth Day talk to include CORE I Project update including basics, features, RISC V, and FPGAs."

Video (57:39)

Slides

CORE_I_DG

AI-Robotics

Programmable Logic IC Development Tools ECP5 Evaluation Board

12:27

End of Meeting

Future

Getting Started with arrayForth - Greg Bailey
"I will present a video on the simple process of downloading, installing, and using arrayForth 3"

AI on CORE I LLMs - Don Golding
Don plans to speak about Large Language Models CORE I basics, features, RISC V, and CORE I circuit board status.

CORE I Applications - Don Golding and Demitri Peynado
“Demitri and I would like to give a quick 15 minute update on CORE I then discuss the possible uses for a CORE I / Forth Computer.”

Direction Finding - Andrew Korsak
Andy is planning to present this application on Forth Day.

Building GUIs in Forth, without the Gunk - Xuyang Chen

Fiji - Jack J. Woehr
Fiji
Fiji Language

The Game of Bridgit - Bob Armstrong

Other items:

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

Try This Brand New Analog Computer

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

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

This long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection

40 Years of Macs: A Look Back

A Visual History of the Apple Computer

Retro Computing

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

Forth on SourceForge

amforth is an extendable command interpreter running on AVR ATmega and TI MSP430 microcontrollers. The Risc-V and ARM architectures are ascending. Turnkey actions for IoT workloads are possible as well. The command language is close to the Forth 2012 standard.

colorForth is, in Chuck Moore's own words: "A dialect of Forth that uses color to replace punctuation. Includes its own operating system. Produces extremely compact programs. Instant compile from pre-parsed source."

FlashForth is a standalone Forth system for the Microchip PIC 18, 24, 30, 33, and the Atmel Atmega series of microcontrollers. A Forth system with interpreter, compiler, assembler, and multitasker is provided.