March 2012 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

09:45

Coffee and a Chat

10:00

eP16 and eP32 on the Brevia2 FPGA - CH Ting
The eP32 Forth project was ported from the ispLEVEL IDE to the newer Diamond IDE and has been successfully synthesized and programmed for the Lattice XP2 Brevia2 FPGA Development Kit. Ting has been asked to produce a 16-bit version of the eP process. Ting spoke about the process and gave us a demo of the software working on the Brevia2.

11:45

Lunch
We ate at the Treehouse.

13:15

Introductions, announcements, rumours, and gossip - All assembled
Each attendee introduced themself.

13:45

Bootable Gforth - John E. Harbold
John described his efforts to make a bootable Gforth for x86/x86 64-bit machines.

14:15

Break

14:35

The Tang Poems - CH Ting
Ting has embarked on a project to put the famous 300 Tang Poems to music. He discussed the project and played a few of the tunes.

Three Hundred Tang Poems - Wikipedia entry

15:55

Clean Up

16:00

Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

Computers

Software

Abundance

Abundance programming language

Abundance package download

BBL-Forth

99 bottles of beer in Abundance

Retro Forth

Java version as an Android APK

Itsy-Forth: The Outer Interpreter of a 1K Tiny Compiler

Creole Forth on Github

FICL

Hardware

Forth Programming Books

Articles

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Software Test Development Engineer - Seagate in Longmont, CO

Lectures

People

LinkedIn Forth Group

GreenArrays

Website

arrayForth Institute

GreenArraysTech Blog

GA144-related article

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Books

Other

Misc links