March 2025
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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09:33

Start of the Meeting - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman

Video (3:05)

09:33

Announcements - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman
Rumors, gossip, old computers, book stuffer

09:36

Exploring the Merge Sort in Forth - Bill Ragsdale
Building on his last month's presentation, Bill will offer his version of a merge sort.

Video (30:53)

Slides

Sorting algorithm - Wikipedia

Which Sorting Algorithm is Best and Why? - GeeksforGeeks

Sort Contest Results - Forth Dimensions - page 29

10:09

Discussion of Forth Applications & Projects - Kevin Appert and all attending
"I'd like to go around the 'room' and have each of us name a product or project with Forth inside. You don't need to know anything about it other than the name or a vague description."

Video (1:05:20)

Forth Success Stories

Naked Milli - single board16-bit TTL CPU for ATM applications - circa 1973

11:12

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.

Video (53:37)

12:06

End of Meeting

Future

Metaprogramming VAMP in KYRA, a Next-gen Forth-like language - Onat Türkçüoglu
A fresh language and philosophy for coding CPUs / GPUs from scratch will be presented along with many inventions, design decisions, tradeoffs, and hurdles. Topics include discussing the essence of Forth, questioning the current understanding of it and visions about the future of software and hardware. VAMP is an interactive tiling video player using Vulkan, SDL and FFMPEG, all including SPIR-V shaders coded in KYRA from scratch.

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

tForth, a Transputer Forth

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

Rise and Fall of Radio Shack and Heathkit

Retro Computing

The Computer That Took Man to the Moon

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other