May 2025
Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:30 |
Start of the Meeting - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program
Chairman
- Video (2:00)
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09:30 |
Announcements - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program
Chairman |
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09:31 |
REPRESENTing Floats - Bill Ragsdale
Bill will
discuss REPRESENT, a powerful word from the ANS Standard which integrates the
CPU Floating Point processor, the stacks, memory, format conversions, and
ASCII.
- Video (25:30)
- Slides
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09:55 |
Screenshot |
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09:58 |
Compiling and Defining Words in Creole Forth - Joseph
M. O'Connor
Joseph will review the concepts of compiling and defining
words in both Forth and its specific implementation in Creole Forth.
- Video (17:30)
- Slides
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10:14 |
More Jotblk - Brad Nelson
Brad will describe
Jotblk features, specifically creating Forth blocks online and hooking in
uEforth.
- Video (27:20)
- Slides
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10:41 |
MINT – Forth’s Kid Brother - Ken
Boak
Ken introduces MINT, a lightweight Forth.
- Video (49:48)
- Slides
- Forth - A New
Synthesis
- eForth - CH
Ting
- Tytzyme - Ward
Cunningham
- SIMPL
- STABLE
- MINT - Z80
- MINT -
6502
- CMINT
- Minimalist
Computing
- MINT
Documentation
- MINT
Examples
- eMINT
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11:27 |
Everyday CoSy - Bob Armstrong
Bob will speak
about the everyday use of CoSy, why it was instantly compared to
Evernote,
but with the linguistic power of APL or K, but open all the way down to the
chip level as uniquely possible in Forth.
- Video (35:15)
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12:02 |
MINT Demo - Ken Boak
Ken demonstrates MINT, a
lightweight Forth. |
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12:07 |
End of the Meeting |
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Future |
Creole Forth and Picar-X, Part 2 - Joseph M.
O'Connor
Joseph will continue his presentation of Creole Forth for
Python which he used to develop commands for the Picar-X robotic car.
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
- Malware is switching to
obscure languages to avoid detection. Forth, anyone? - Security Now,
Episode 1019 at 1:35:10
- Security
Now, Episode 1019 Notes - see page 12
- 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
- The TRS-80
Model 1
- Retro Computing
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- Reinvent
the Wheel
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