VolksForth Readme

VolksForth is a 16bit Forth System produced by the german Forth
Gesellschaft e.V. Major development of this system was done between
1985 until 1989. The VolksForth Project was revived in 2005 with the
goal to produce a managable Forthsystem for computer systems with
restricted system resources.

Some modern Forth Systems were influenced by or were derived from
VolksForth (GNU-Forth, bigForth).

The current Version of VolksForth is 3.91. Work on Version 4.00 has
started.

Version 3.9x is based on the Forth 83 standard, Version 4.00 will be
based on the latest 200x Standard (https://forth-standard.org).

At this time VolksForth is available for this Systems:

 * VolksForth MS-DOS (Intel x86 Architektur i8086)
 * VolksForth 6502 (Commodore 64, Commodore Plus 4, Atari XL/XE)
 * VolksForth Z80 (CP/M, Schneider CPC)
 * VolksForth 68000 (Atari ST, Amiga with EmuTOS)

Copyright

The VolksForth Sources are made available under the terms of the
BSD Lizenz - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

The Handbook is Copyright (c) 1985 - 2019 Forth Gesellschaft e.V. (
Klaus Schleisiek, Ulrich Hoffmann, Bernd Pennemann, Georg Rehfeld,
Dietrich Weineck, Carsten Strotmann).

(most of the Information is still in german. We are planning to
provide future versions with englisch documentation)

Have fun with VolksForth
the VolksForth Team
