MSX Forth

Supporter (3)

28-11-2004, 16:38

I am currently working on implementing Forth on MSX-1. Partly as my Panasonic MSX computer was gathering dust in the cupboard, and most information seems to be available for older chips. MSX has a good technical specification for a Forth system. Has anyone written an MSX Forth previously?

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Par Manuel

Ascended (19466)

28-11-2004, 16:54

AFAIK, there already exists an MSX Forth... written by Kuma software.

Par HansO

Paladin (672)

28-11-2004, 17:02

Indeed, a MSX-1 Forth on cassette was made by Kuma.

There is a small article about using Forth for the Uniface (dutch article) on http:///www.hansotten.com - MSX Magazines - PTC Print 58

Par flyguille

Prophet (3031)

28-11-2004, 17:17

?
forth?

please somebody drop a clue

in spanish forth = "adelante" ....

what is it?

Par cax

Prophet (3740)

28-11-2004, 17:52

Forth is a programming language.
IMHO, stands somewhere between assembler and high-level languages.

Par Manuel

Ascended (19466)

28-11-2004, 19:07

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_programming_language

Par mikepom

Supporter (3)

30-11-2004, 11:32

Forth is fast, compact and interactive (and compiled!). Ideal for MSX-1. Intend to use 28K BASIC RAM for entire Forth system (RAM disk, editor, assembler, interpreter and compiler). My Panasonic has 64K RAM + 16K VRAM (common on MSX-1?). Will try to utillise all available RAM on later version.

Par Yukio

Paragon (1540)

20-01-2005, 11:58

Another Forth language for MSX would be great! Even if I am not using this language, there are some old books with source code available to work with older computers.

Par Bernard

Resident (51)

21-01-2005, 05:30

AFAIK, there already exists an MSX Forth... written by Kuma software.

There also exists an MSX Forth implementation written by a Japanese user. It is downloadable at www.nana.or.jp/~hiramats/hforth/nhforth.html.

Par mikepom

Supporter (3)

22-01-2005, 23:09

In implementing Forth (Cuarto) you can learn alot about computer science. Forth can be implemented in about 3 weeks. Learning about Forth can take alot longer.

Par Grauw

Ascended (10768)

22-01-2005, 23:18

I have a CAS image of Kuma Forth... Vincent van Dam converted it for me, from my original tape.