October 2017 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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Videos: morning (0:44:07) - afternoon (2:13:25)

10:30

Forth Haiku Vision - Brad Nelson
Forth Haiku now has eyes! You can use your laptop or cell phone camera and a few simple words to transfigure a live video feed. Possibilities include fun-house mirrors, image filters, and interactive art. More information about this will be presented next month at Forth Day.

Slides

11:30

Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at The Treehouse.

13:00

Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip

13:20

Book of the Month - Andreas Wagner
Forth on the Atari - Learning by using Forth

Book cover

13:30

SL5: The Kestrel-2DX Filesystem - Samuel A. Falvo II
“When raw block I/O is no longer sufficient, it's frequently desirable to be able to associate a name with one or more related blocks. SL5 is how I originally chose to accomplish this task with the Kestrel-2, and now it's back and better-than-ever with the Kestrel-2DX.”

Kestrel 2DX Repository

SL5 Forth code

SL5 Filesystem wiki

14:05

Break with T-Shirt Sales

14:30

4pac: Forth Package Manager - Andreas Wagner
Andreas proposed 4pac, a Forth package manager for Forth words with properties similar to the Nix Package Manager.

Slides - 83 Kb pdf file

A Simply Arited Concatenative Language

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Esobsc

14:30

Ramdom Access
We’ll flip through comp.lang.forth and browse to a few Forth websites.

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

Forth-eV Eiki

Dutch Forth website: ciforth - Albert van der Horst

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

ArrayForth Tutorial - Leon Konings

Forth CPUs

Forth Articles and Blogs

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Misc Forth Stuff

Computers

Want a more powerful Raspberry Pi? Choose from these 20 alternatives

Raspberry Pi not powerful enough? Check out these 20 beefy boards

Chips

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

How to Convert a PDF File into an Editable Text Document

Hardware

Other Books

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Where have all the parts stores gone? Conspiracy Theory

Meetings

Forth Programming Language Day 2017 - 11/18/2017 - St. Charles, IL

Videos

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other