[Coco] Manual or Code for Forth?

[Neal Crook]

I did an intensive g**gl* for the D.P.Johnson forth a few months back -
particularly because the manual makes it sound like a really nice piece of
work. I even located the original author and emailed him offering to buy a
copy or the rights. I had no reply.

Neal

On 4 Sep 2017 16:50, "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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