July 2021
Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:32 |
Program, Test, Program, Test - Bill
Ragsdale
This presentation will cover a method to intersperse testing
and coding. The testing co-resides with the code but is selectively activated.
Once the work is complete, the test cases become mute. If code changes are
made, the testing can easily be reactivated.
- Slides
- Video (19:31)
- simple-tester, a
testing tool for embedded Forth systems
- Annex F, Test
Suite of Forth200x
- Anding /
simple-tester
- Matrix Forth
Wordset
- WIN32Forth
Guide
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09:51 |
True Object Oriented Forth: ooeForth - CH
Ting
"Chochain Lee helped me shorten the Forth source code to 398 lines
to which I added a very simple Windows interface, making it the smallest
Windows Forth! In ooeForth all Forth words, integers, strings, and address
literals are objects and all colon words have linear object lists."
- Slides
- Video (48:14)
- ooeForth203
package
- ooeForth204
package
- Chochain Lee's
GitHub
- nanoFORTH by Chochain
Lee
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10:39 |
Forth Synergy - Brad Nelson
"Forth is
notoriously the language of the lone wolf. Its power to build domain specific
mini-languages means many problems can be expressed beautifully and succinctly.
Unfortunately, it often also yields idiosyncratic code, inscrutable to all but
a single author or comprehensible only after careful study. This makes it a
challenging language for collaborative development, and unheard of in settings
where hundreds or thousands of hands touch a codebase."
"I'll explore some approaches to modules, modularity, data
structures, and data passing that attempt to tame some of Forth's solitary
peril, while retaining the strengths that make it unique."
- Slides
- Video (30:15)
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11:09 |
Remembering the Kestrel-1 - Samuel A. Falvo
II
"This talk will be an attempt to archive what I can recall or find
about my very first Kestrel computer design in 2004, and if time permits, where
I wanted to take that design but never did."
- Slides
- Video (19:31)
- Multiple
Port Serial Card Controller
- Amiga
A2232 - 7 port serial card
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10:39 |
Forth Challenge: Data Structures - Bill
Ragsdale
This month’s challenge is an exercise in creating a data
structure. (That data structure will be applied in next month's Challenge.)
Create a table with four columns with the values for Degrees, Radians,
Sin(ref), and Sin(comp) running from 0 degrees to 360 by 22.5 degree increments
(17 entries). The reference Sin(ref) should be manual entries from a known
source. Sin(comp) is computed (or using system resident capability). Use any
method to express the values, possibly expressed as scaled integers,
ratiometric, floating point, or something else.
- Video (43:44)
- Brad's
Challenge
- Ting's Challenge
- Bill's Challenge will be
posted here
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12:12 |
End of Meeting |
Other items:
- Forth
- Building
a tiny FORTH for an Arduino UNO in one week
- Forth-79
Standard
- Forth-79
- A Publication of the Forth Standards Team - October 1980
- cubed47th -
Phython-based Forth-79 Standard by Scott McCallum -
GitHub
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- Forth Programming Books
- Embedded
Controller Forth for the 8051 Family 1st Edition - William H. Payne
- Amazon
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Products in Forth
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- 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
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Is it live or is it
Memorex? - 1973 (video 1:09)
- How I accidentally
archived hundreds of Apple II Forth source code floppies -
KansasFest 2021 presentation - Kay
Savetz (video 13:55)
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- The
History of Personal Computers by Lou Frenzel
- Retro Computing
- Put
the Classic PDP-8 Minicomputer on Your Shelf
- The
Worst Storage Mediums of All Time
- The
Best Storage Mediums of All Time
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
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