August 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

09:30

Announcements - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman
Discussions included:

• The upcoming Maker Faire Bay Area.
• Speaker and suggestions for Forth Day
• Video (3:30)

09:34

Crypto-Metaprogramming: An alternative to the conventional Model-View-Controller Architecture - Liang Ng
“I will continue from the previous presentation to establish Crypto-Metaprogramming as an alternative to the conventional Model-View-Controller architecture. In conventional MVC, front end to back end communications employ public key cryptography but the key pair is not available at the disposal of the user or programmer. I change this scheme, with many benefits, starting with simplifying designs of a large range of applications.”

Video (31:40)

Slides

10:05

Screenshot

10:06

Heading towards a Wordle Solver - Andrew McKewan
"I started writing my first Forth program in years, a Wordle solver. It doesn't solve Wordle yet and I don't intend to walk through it all, but there are some interesting things I am rediscovering, like how hard it is to manage > 2 stack items."

• Video (40:10)
• Software on GitHub

10:46

Vintage Computer Festival Slide Show - Kevin Appert & Dave Jaffe
"Kevin & I will present a photo review of the exhibits at this year's West Coast Vintage Computer Festival."

• Slides
• Vintage Computer Festival West 2025 Program Book
• My First Vintage Computer Festival - VCF West Highlights - video by Jesse Petrilla (6:14)
• VCF T-shirt
• Video (48:20)

11:34

CoSy Update- Bob Armstrong
“Breaking paradigms is hard to do.”

Video (27:57)

12:02

End of the Meeting

Future

Windows Shell Support in Win32Forth - Bill Ragsdale
Bill will examine the three levels of direct user's Forth interface to a Windows based PC.

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

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

Retro Computing

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

Introducing Forth poems - video by Kay Lack (9:58)