April 2024
Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:30 |
Start of Meeting - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program
Chairman.
- Video (2:35)
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09:32 |
The Hana 1 Soft Core Forth Processor - Christopher
Lozinski
The most famous soft core Forth processor is the J1. Mecrisp
Ice gives it more instructions, a timer, data io, an interrupt, and a large
number of libraries, both in Forth and Verilog. The Hana 1 processor builds on
Mecrisp Ice, makes it a lot smaller, and gives it more memory. This makes it
possible to build a many-core Forth processor on an ICE40 FPGA. Risc-V ha? not
yet done that.
- Video (23:46)
- Slides
- Mecrisp Ice
Unofficial Documentation
- pico-ice
Documentation
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09:56 |
Omni*Chat: Creating a Forth Shell within Java-based
BitTorrent Client BiglyBT Decentralized Chat (BBDC) - Liang Ng
- Video (24:32)
- Slides
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10:21 |
Programming Rock-Paper-Scissors with Strategy- Bill
Ragsdale
Bill spoke about programing, testing, and developing a winning
strategy.
- Video (17:21)
- Q&A Video
(3:43)
- Slides
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10:40 |
Sunday Morning at the Electronics Flea Market - Dave
Jaffe
Dave reported on the activities and merchandise offered at the
Electonics Flea Market held at West Valley College in Saratoga, CA.
- Video (14:42)
- Slides
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10:56 |
Fun with Forth Recognizers - Brad
Nelson
"Belatedly inspired by Leon Wagner's Forth Day presentation on
adding Forth Recognizers to SwiftForth, I finally got around to giving them a
try. While Forth is very good at allowing applications to refine nearly every
aspect of the system, Forth Recognizers fill a glaring hole, allowing
applications to define new types of literals. I'll demo an implementation of
Recognizers added to uEforth / Esp32Forth, discuss how they affect
bootstrapping the system, and explore some applications."
- Video (36:49)
- Slides
- Forth Recognizers
in SwiftForth
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11:34 |
Forth, the Critical Use Case for Space Systems - Don
Golding
Don explained why Forth is the only solution for space computers
that are reprogrammable in orbit.
- Video (40:37)
- Slides
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12:15 |
End of Meeting |
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Future |
Getting Started with arrayForth - Greg
Bailey
"I will present a video on the simple process of downloading,
installing, and using arrayForth 3"
AI on CORE I LLMs - Don Golding
Don plans to
speak about Large Language Models CORE I basics, features, RISC V, and CORE I
circuit board status.
Direction Finding - Andrew Korsak
Andy is
planning to present this application on Forth Day.
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
- XMODEM
Tutorial
- An
Improved Modular Addition Checksum Algorithm
- CRC Polynomial
Zoo
- Space Applications
- Space stuff
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Daakro
FNIRSI DSO152 Handheld Small Oscilloscope Portable Digital Oscilloscope -
200KHz
- 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
Lisa Computer’s Fortuitous Failure
- The Rise and
Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk
- Fifty
Years of the Personal Computer Operating System
- Retro Computing
- Atari The400 Mini
Review
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- PWM-Based
Analog Calculator Provides Four-Quadrant Multiplication, Division
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