August 2023
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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Zoom Chat

09:30

Start of Meeting

09:33

An Inside View of VALUE and TO - Bill Ragsdale
Bill will provide insight into how VALUE and TO can be used in Win32Forth..

Video (21:41)

Slides

09:35

Trying to Meta-compile - Brad Nelson
"I've never successfully written a Meta-compiled Forth! Despite a few attempts, I always manage to confuse myself and give up, falling back on other techniques. I've got one cooking again, this time trying to build an x86-64 subroutine threaded Forth. I'll present my current strategy and progress."

Video (32:30)

Slides

Actually Portable Executable

10:27

VolksForth Renovation - Philip Zembrod
“The old VolksForth is in the process of a major renovation, with the goal of automating its build, unifying the code bases of the different platforms, and, eventually migrating all towards ANS. I will give an overview of the ongoing effort.“

Video (23:36)

Slides

10:52

CORE I Update - Don Golding
Don will provide an update on CORE I activities.

Video (2:42)

LinkedIn AI & Robotics Group

10:54

Accounting - Bob Armstrong
Bob will present accounting-useful vocabulary & methods in CoSy.

Video (27:25)

11:20

A Review of Soft Core Forth Processors - Christopher Lozinski
Chris will practice this presentation in preparation for FPGA World Stockholm Conference.

Video (33:34)

Slides

11:55

End of Meeting

Coming

A Day at the Vintage Computer Festival West - Dave Jaffe
"I will present a photo review of the exhibits at this year's West Coast Vintage Computer Festival."

What I'm Currently Working On - Samuel A. Falvo II
"A quick jaunt through Shoehorn and the project I'm using it on and a recap/status of ForthBox:20AE project.”

ForthBox

Building GUIs in Forth, without the Gunk - Xuyang Chen

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.”

Fiji Language - Jack J. Woehr

The Game of Bridgit - Bob Armstrong

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

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

The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Retro Computing

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

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