December 2021
Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:30 |
Start of Zoom Session |
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09:31 |
Simulating a Java / Forth Virtual Machine - CH
Ting
"I have a JVM / FVM synthesized on the Quartus II IDE, but I do not
have a FPGA kit to test or verify its operation. To test the outer interpreter,
I implemented a soft UART consisting of a Terminal Input Buffer and a Terminal
Output Buffer residing in the main memory. It runs at the speed of the master
clock for ease of simulation.”
- Slides
- Video (37:00)
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10:08 |
ForthBox Update - Samuel A. Falvo II
“Work
on the Kestrel-1 redesign continues, albeit slowly. Since I last gave an
update, the development emulator is now working and the subroutine-threaded
Forth-subset cross-compiler seems to be working as well, but more testing is
required."
- Slides
- Video (34:00)
- Link to the
archived repository for the historic Kestrel-1 Proof of Concept:
- Link to the
development emulator for the ForthBox / Kestrel-1 Finished Product:
- Link to the
lib65816 library which powers the above emulator:
- Link to the
development bootstrap cross-compiler I intend on using to port Forth to the
ForthBox:
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09:53 |
Intro CoSy via Zoom - Bob Armstrong
"I'm
starting introductory lessons in CoSy. I also have a few comments on Big
Rationals."
- Intro
CoSy
- Video (48:00)
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11:10 |
Participant Introductions and Presentation Suggestions -
All in attendance |
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11:30 |
A Forth Challenge for December - Bill
Ragsdale
"Compute (approximately) 100! (100 factorial) using Forth's
integer math, using your favorite method and, if available, check your result
with floating point math. For extra credit, compute 100! exactly. For even more
credit, how would you calculate the number of trailing zeros?"
- Video (34:22)
- Participants:
- Brad
Nelson
- A. Vidovic (from Japan) - slides - text
- Bill Ragsdale
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12:05 |
End of Session |
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Coming in January - Jax presents the annual Quantum
Computing Roundup! |
Other items:
- Forth
- GForth Transpiler -
by Henry Strickland
- 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
- H&D Base -
DdBase II work-alike written in Forth
- Misc Forth Stuff
- The
Proceedings of the First Australian Forth Symposium
- Computers
- AcheronVM
- A Reconfigurable 16-bit Virtual CPU for the 6502 Microprocessor
- Chips
- Components
- AliExpress
Development Boards
- 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
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- How the US
census inspired the personal computer
- Programming in FORTH
on Commodore 64 (video 32:58)
- durexforth - Modern C64
Forth (Direct-threaded)
- Restoring
the Heathkit ES-400 Analog Computer
- Retro Computing
- The Most Powerful
Computers You've Never Heard Of (video 20:12)
- An
Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- The Scope Clock -
from Cathode Corner (video 13:37)
- The Scope Clock
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