February 2025
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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Zoom Chat     Screenshot

09:30

Start of the Meeting - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman

Video (4:15)

09:30

Announcements - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman
Coffee cups, t-shirts, storage rent, meetup charges, old computers, book stuffer

09:33

Forth as a Micromouse Tool - Duncan Louttit
Duncan will speak about using Forth in a high-performance, competitive, hard real-time environment.

Video (1:04:13)

Slides

Same Execution Vectors

Karel Programming Language

The design of reflected light wall sensors for Micromouse

UK Micromouse and Robotics Society

The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth (25:21)

Micromouse Online Maze Files

10:36

Screenshot

10:38

Simple Sorts - Bill Ragsdale
Bill explored Matrix Sorts and tested some simple algorithms for design and execution times.

Video (16:24)

Slides

Timsort

10:55

Making a YouTube Channel for Forth - Samuel A. Falvo II
“I will provide a quick synopsis of my first video, along with the tools I'm using to capture and edit the video.” KDNY, OBS Studio, DLC

Video (34:36)

Blooper1 (1:15)

11:27

Preview of Upcoming Talks - Ken Boak & Onatto
Laser Target System - Ken Boak
Forth for Video & Music - Onatto

Video (7:30)

11:36

HP Voyagers - Brad Nelson
"I'll discuss the fascinating and beautiful HP Voyager Series of RPN Calculators, looking at various emulators and exploring how variants of the HP-12C continue to be manufactured today."

Video (32:16)

Slides

12:09

End of Meeting

Future

Array Algebra in CoSy, 1th - Bob Armstrong
Bob will present a talk on Array Algebra in CoSy, aiming toward the math of AI through linear pattern discrimination, associative memory, and multidimensional statistics.

Smart Token System - Don Golding
Don will discuss a combination of Color Forth constructs: a packet like structure for the cell.

Getting Started with arrayForth - Greg Bailey
"I will present a video on the simple process of downloading, installing, and using arrayForth 3."

Direction Finding - Andrew Korsak
Andy is planning to present this application.

Building GUIs in Forth, without the Gunk - Xuyang Chen

Fiji - Jack J. Woehr
Fiji
Fiji Language

The Game of Bridgit - Bob Armstrong

Other Items:

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

I Chatted With Bill Gates about How He Became the Ultimate Computer Nerd

Retro Computing

Meet ELIZA: The 1960s Chatbot That Started It All

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other