[Coco] Manual or Code for Forth?

[Jim OKeefe]

Leo Brodie wrote "Starting Forth" and the sequel "Thinking forth" as an
employee of Forth Inc. however he is NOT a co creator of FORTH. That honor
goes solely to Chuck Moore.  Starting Forth was almost outdated by the time
it was published as the Forth 79 standard and then Forth83 standard came
into use  which explains its uselessness.  There are many good books on
forth out there,  many written by Elizabeth Rather a cofounder, along with
Chuck Moore of Forth Inc.

On Sep 5, 2017 11:12 AM, "Brett Gordon" <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fwiw:  Hoggs' eforth seems to be *not* related to the Bill Muench/Ting's
> eforth.
>
> On Sep 4, 2017 11:50 AM, "Stephen Pereira" <stephen.m.pereira.sr at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am getting back into my CoCo equipment after taking some months off.  I
> > took a look on the Color Computer Archive to see if there is anything new
> > in the area of the FORTH language for Coco, and I was pleased to see
> > listings for:
> >
> > Forth09 (D.P.Johnson).pdf
> > Forth09 (Dennis M. Weldy) (OS-9).zip
> >
> > eForth (Frank Hogg Laboratory).pdf
> > eForth (Frank Hogg Laboratory).zip
> >
> > I was particularly interested in the Forth09.  However, when I went ahead
> > and tried it out, I found (should have been obvious!) the Forth09
> > (D.P.Johnson) and Forth09 (Dennis M. Weldy) are not the same Forth09.
> So,
> > we have here the manual for Forth09 (D.P.Johnson), and the code for
> Forth09
> > (Dennis M. Weldy).   Does anyone have a pointer to the code for Forth09
> > (D.P.Johnson), or the manual for Forth09 (Dennis M. Weldy)?  I suppose
> they
> > would be there in the Archive if they are around somewhere, but you never
> > know.
> >
> > Next, I went and tried out the eForth (Frank Hogg Laboratory).  Since I
> do
> > not have any real physical CoCo hardware, I am running my CoCo3FPGA
> setup.
> > Alas, the eForth loads and runs, but then for any key I hit on my
> keyboard
> > attached to the FPGA platform, I get a string of gibberish characters on
> > the screen.  SIGH!  I guess eForth must scan the CoCo hardware keyboard
> > directly, or something, and since I do not have that hardware, I get
> > garbage.  Too bad!
> >
> > Thanks for listening, and thanks for any pointers that you may be able to
> > provide.
> >
> > smp
> > - - -
> > Stephen Pereira
> > Bedford, NH  03110
> > KB1SXE
> >
> >
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