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Scans of Forth Dimensions

Grant — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:17:55 +0000

Here are scans of the hard-copies of every Forth Dimensions magazine ever published.

(via LtU)

S24 FORTHdrive

Grant — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:26:10 +0000

This article led me to IntellaSys, which offers this tiny little 24-core CPU that runs Forth code!

colorForth

Grant — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:44:54 +0000

colorForth is a redesign of [Forth] for the 21st century. It also draws upon a 20-year evolution of minimal instruction-set microprocessors. Now implemented on modern PCs, it runs stand-alone without an operating system. Applications are recompiled from source with a simple optimizing compiler.

It is the child of Chuck Moore, the creator of Forth.

Why you should learn Forth

Grant — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:27:20 +0000

One mans vision, alternately it could be called “A Teaser for Forth”!

Forth and Lisp sound philosophically quite similar, though in Lisp you can’t do things as wild as redefining the number one!

This is a yet another great read that will make you want to learn Forth.

Why you might want to learn FORTH

Grant — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:58:06 +0000

You may or may have not heard about the programming language Forth, but if you have heard about it, you are very likely to have heard about it from some very happy, passionate Forth developers!

The best advocacy/introduction/tutorial I’ve ever read about Forth is located in the beginning of source code for this Forth interpreter!

After reading this, it is hard not to get excited about the programming language Forth.

Unlock Forth on the OLPC XO

Grant — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:11:56 +0000

A week or so ago I ended up on “Luke’s Weblog” reading an article about Forth on the OLPC XO.

The OLCP Wiki has got Forth Lessons for everyone to enjoy. Forth is a pretty neat language!

You may have noticed that although access to the Forth shell is explained on this page, it doesn’t work. The reason can be two-fold. First, you can only access the Forth shell if the firmware security is disabled. Second, on newer machines you access the Forth shell by hitting the escape key at boot time.

This page explains how to gain access to the Forth shell on machines that have got the firmware security enabled (G1G1 owners, that means you). You need a developer key to unlock your firmware, the request takes less than 24 hours to be fulfilled. Please read the page closely (disable-security twice!) and heed their advice of disabling firmware security (you can always enable it later).