[Coco] Another FORTH

[Kandur]

Art, the full article is this, where the fragment was snipped from:
http://os9projects.com/CD_Archive/PRODUCTS/FHL/SoftNews_N01.pdf 
Look in the idex for, 'Fort Thoughts'.
He had done the Stars Spangled Banner and O, Canada.
Like Bill said, it would be nice to find the source code for these.
I like Forth, because the RP notation is getting rid of parenthesis.

Kandur

Sunday, January 4, 2015, 3:36:49 PM, you wrote:
> It's not entirely clear from that fragment of a description that his
> program (if it ever was finished) in fact generates the harmony, rather
> than being simply a player program that has 4-part harmony input to it.  He
> notes to his friend the difficulty of doing the harmonization
> intelligently, but doesn't say whether he in fact wrote a program that does
> so.

> Art

> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:


>> Kandur, It would be nice to see the sources for that utility. I would love
>> to see how he handles "implied" harmony from a medoly line. Especially
>> since there's several types of harmony. Of course he states he was in a
>> "Barbershop Quartet" so he would most likely have implemented that
>> particular type of harmony which is one of the more interseting types. My
>> older brother sang in a barbershop quartet and so I heard that style a lot.
>> It's unique that in the 60s-70s, we added several "harmony types" to the
>> vast list..
>> Beatles 4 part harmony
>> Eagles 5 part harmony
>> Beach Boys 4 & 5 part harmony
>> Each with it's own distinctive chord structure and sound. There were
>> others but most were based on those 3.
>> Uriah Heep actually had a very unique harmony structure in that they used
>> minor dissonate downtones to create "dis-harmony" against distorted guitars
>> and a wailing Hammond B-3 organ.
>> Then there was Freddy Mercury and "Bohemian Rhapsody" :-)


>> Bill Pierce
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
>> To: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>; CoCoList for Color Computer
>> Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sun, Jan 4, 2015 5:40 pm
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Another FORTH


>> Guess, you'll like it's musical aspect.
>> http://tinyurl.com/p3n5ywd

>> Kandur

>> Sunday, January 4, 2015, 1:45:03 PM, you wrote:

>> > Actually, I found the PDF manual to Forth09 and that's by D.P.Johnson.
>> There
>> > was also an implementation of Forth09 done by someone in the OS9UG as I
>> have source set in "C"  for that.
>> > I don't remember "eForth" being advertised by Frank Hogg, but I missed a
>> lot
>> > of later Rainbow issues too. I also wasn't interested in Forth so I
>> wasn't
>> > looking for it and could have every well overlooked it.
>> >

>> > Bill Pierce
>> > "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>> >

>> > My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
>> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
>> > Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
>> > http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>> > E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com


>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
>> > To: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>; CoCoList for Color Computer
>> Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> > Sent: Sun, Jan 4, 2015 4:24 pm
>> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Another FORTH


>> > It was called eFORTH
>> > http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=473

>> > Kandur

>> > Sunday, January 4, 2015, 1:07:29 PM, you wrote:

>> >> Yes, the one by Frank Hogg you refer to is Forth09 isn't it? Or was
>> that by Microware?
>> >>

>> >> Bill Pierce
>> >> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>> >>

>> >> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
>> >> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
>> >> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
>> >> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>> >> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com


>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
>> >> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> >> Sent: Sun, Jan 4, 2015 3:44 pm
>> >> Subject: Re: [Coco] Another FORTH


>> >> Thinking Forth, By Leo Brodie
>> >> http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=473

>> >> Kandur

>> >> Sunday, January 4, 2015, 10:45:08 AM, you wrote:
>> >>> Actually Charles E. Eaker wrote eFORTH for the Color Computer,
>> >>> distributed by Frank Hogg Laboratory in Syracuse.

>> >>> Kandur

>> >>> Sunday, January 4, 2015, 9:03:59 AM, you wrote:
>> >>>> Along with  Willard Goosey in 2005, I'm asking,
>> >>>> "Frank Hogg had a FORTH system...
>> >>>> I know he dumped all his old FLEX stuff into the PD, what about his
>> coco
>> >> stuff?"
>> >>>> I paid good money for Frank's FORTH for the Coco. It was worth every
>> penny of
>> >> it.
>> >>>> Just an example, in the insert mode, the cursor became a vertical
>> line |
>> >>>> positioned between 2 characters where the new character(s) would be
>> inserted.

>> >>>> Just curious, was such a scheme implemented somewhere else too?
>> >>>> The screen layout and the color scheme was also exceptional.
>> >>>> Wish, I could find it!

>> >>>> Kandur

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