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VolksForth Readme
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Version 1.0
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10. August 2005 (cas)
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VolksForth is a 16bit Forth System produced by the german Forth Gesellschaft
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e.V. Main development of this system was done between 1985 until 1989. The
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VolksForth Project was revived in 2005 with the goal to produce a managable
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Forthsystem for computer systems with restricted system resources.
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Some modern Forth Systems were influenced by or were derived from VolksForth
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(GNU-Forth, bigForth).
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The current Version of VolskForth is 3.81. Work on Version 3.90 has started.
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At this time VolksForth is available for this Systems:
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VolksForth MS-DOS (Intel x86 Architecture i8086-ia64)
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VolksForth 6502 (Commodore 64, Commodore Plus 4)
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VolksForth Z80 (CP/M, Schneider CPC)
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VolksForth 68000 (Atari ST)
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Copyright
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The VolksForth Sources are made available under the terms of the
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BSD Lizenz - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
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The Handbook is Copyright (c) 1985 - 2005 Forth Gesellschaft
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e.V. ( Klaus Schleisiek, Ulrich Hoffmann, Bernd Pennemann, Georg Rehfeld
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and Dietrich Weineck).
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The Handbook, binary Files and Sourcecode for VolksForth as well as Information
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about Forth Gesellschaft are available on the Forth Gesellschaft Webserver at
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http://www.forth-ev.de/
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(most of the Information is still in german. We are planning to provide future
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versions with englisch documentation)
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Information and Help about the Programming Language Forth can be found in the
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Internet, starting with the Website of the Forthgesellschaft, or in the Usenet Forum
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de.comp.lang.forth (via Google Groups: http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.lang.forth )
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Details on VolksForth 68000 (Atari ST)
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* Requirements
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Atari ST with at least 520 KB RAM, Floppy or Harddisk
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* Files
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This is list of VolksForth Files in this Distribution. Shadowscreens
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with additional Information are marked with (*).
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ASSEMBLE.SCR the volksFORTH-83 Assembler.
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RELOCATE.SCR * Relocator to adapt the System to use more or less
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Diskbuffers and therefor more or less memory for the
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Forth Dictionary
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ALLOCATE.SCR * contains OS-Libraryroutines to allocate and free
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memory
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DIVERSES.SCR * small, often used definitions
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FORTHKER.PRG contains the Forth-Kernel including the Fileinterface.
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EDIICON.SCR Definitions for the Editor-Resource; created with the
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Resource Construction Set
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EDITOR.SCR * the GEM-Editor.
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EDWINDOW.SCR * the window for the editor
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STRINGS.SCR * Basic String-Operations
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STARTUP.SCR Loadscreen to create a work-system
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TOOLS.SCR Decompiler and Tracer.
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INDEX.SCR * Definition of the Word "INDEX".
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PRINTER.SCR * Printer-Interface.
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FORTH_83.SCR Sourcecode of the VolksForth 3.81
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DISASS.SCR the Disassembler.
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FILEINT.SCR * the File-Interface.
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LINE_A.SCR * the Basic Words for Line_A Graphic.
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DEMO.SCR Graphic-Demos with Line_A Graphic.
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TASKER.SCR the Multitasker.
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RAMDISK.SCR * With this RAM-Disk free RAM outside the Forth System
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can be used for Diskbuffers
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TUTORIAL.SCR A short Tutorial for the Editor
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ERRORBOX.SCR * reroutes Errormessages into Alter-Boxes. Example for
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the use of Alert Boxes from Forth
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Subdirectory GEM
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BASICS.SCR Basic Words, Definition of Arrays etc.
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VDI.SCR the VDI-Library.
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AES.SCR the AES-Library.
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GEMDEFS.SCR Definitions for Windows Parameters and Labels
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SUPERGEM.SCR * useful words to ease the use of GEM
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* Installation
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Copy the Diskimages to Atari Disks (360KB) or copy the files from the "Harddisk"
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directory to harddisk or on Disks. Start the Program File "4th.prg" from TOS.
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* Emulator
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VolksForth Atari ST 3.81 has been tested in the Atari ST Emulator "HATARI"
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(hatari.sourceforge.net) with EmuTos (emutos.sourceforge.net). VolksForth 3.81 has
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some display problems with screen resolutions above 640x480. We try to solve this in
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later versions.
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The Forth Live-Linux CD-ROM (available in the Downloadsection of the Forth
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Gesellschaft Website) includes the current Versions of VolksForth direct usable
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without Installation including the Handbooks as PDF-Files.
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Have fun with VolksForth
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the VolksForth Team
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