Re: Apple ][ Forth

["John" <zzzjoki@yahoo.com>]

Robert Spykerman wrote:
> John wrote:
> > I have qforth & Uniforth installed on the Oasis 2e emulator. However I
> > haven't used them much.
> >
> > qforth has prodos words, graforth specializes in graphics
> >
>
> Managed to get Graforth, but it really seemed very foreign as a forth
> dialect.
>
> Then again, I only started learning forth this year, really on nice 32
> bit machines, and I expect things would have changed very much thru'
> the years.
>
> Will look for the rest. I don't believe I saw qforth on Asimov though.
> What's your recommended ftp site for these forths?
>
> > The most modern and extensive Apple 2 FORTH I've tried is GS FORTH. It
> > has a nice tutorial, graphic words, maybe fp too (can't remember).
> >
> > Try them all.
>
> Hmmm... I've been meaning to try a IIGS emulator for a while. Might get
> KEGS and GS Forth and see.

It's been a while - Ground is down I guess (that had qforth and
uniforth).

qforth is more "Forth like" than Graforth, but no floating point, and
few compiling words (like >DOES), there is a 2.3 (think) someplace with
a few more words than 2.2.  Uniforth's WORDS output shows a more
complete set, like Forth 79, including floating point. I don't know a
thing about it - it could be great or unusable.

I've got qforth and unforth I can email you, if you'd like.