December 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

• Video ()

09:32

State of the Software Universe 2025 - Jack Woehr
In an annual tradition, Jax reports on developments in Quantum Computing and announced his move into AI.

• Video ()
• Slides

10:13

A Syntax and Design for Matrix Forth - Bill Ragsdale
Expanding on Dr. Julian Noble's work of the 1980s, Matrix Forth has been brought up to date using Win3Forth with Object Oriented Programming.

Video ()

Slides "Living in the Matrix"

Win32Forth Guide

10:43

Screenshot

10:44

Forth on a Homebrew TTL CPU - Bill Buzbee
Bill will discuss the implementation and performance analysis of a Forth-like language for the Magic-1 HomebrewCPU.

Video ()

Slides

Moving Forth - Brad Rodriguez

11:10

The Advent of Code - Andrew McKewan
"I’ve been working through the Advent of Code (24 programming puzzles). I will share an interesting puzzle or two."

Video ()

Advent of Code 2025

11:26

Space Invaders Clone in DurexForth - Samuel A. Falvo II
Sam will provide a progress update on his Space Invaders clone on the Commodore 64 in DurexForth.

Video ()

Forth for the VIC-20 - Commodore Software - V-Forth 5.0

14:43

CoSy Update - Bob Armstrong

Video ()

12:06

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

How the RESISTORS Put Computing into 1960s Counter-culture

Retro Computing

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

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