cyz wrote:
Hey does Wally have that transcription of the 6502 fig forth yet?
He did that in the 1990's, and then he got my 65816 Forth going on a 65265 and used that in his work for a long time (might still be, but I have not had contact with him in quite awhile) but I think it was Douglas Beattie who contributed the 6502 fig-Forth transcription at
http://6502.org/source/, in the middle of the section called "Monitors, Assemblers, and Interpreters" which is way down the page. Wally is a great guy but his work and interests seem to have changed and unfortunately we don't hear from him anymore. I hope he gets an email that you replied after his post above.
One thing I have on my list of things to put on my
website is to clean up and publish my 65c02 Forth and '816 Forth, which will take a ton of work, especially the '02 Forth. They have a ton of powerful features that weren't on public-domain Forths. I've had this pipe dream of porting it to an available board like one of
Daryl's so the beginner has something that works right out of the box.
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It was based somewhat on Forth as the OS for the little hand held computers.
I originally started with Forth on the HP-71 which was a very powerful hand-held computer for its day, although the Forth module was poorly done. Being Forth though, it of course let you "get under the hood" and improve it a lot, even though its kernel was in ROM.
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I better stop for now this may be a little too much for this topic.
Not at all. We have posts here that are legitimately many, many times the length of yours.