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VolksForth Readme
Version 1.0
10. August 2005 (cas)
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.
zu stellen.
Some modern Forth Systems were influenced by or were derived from VolksForth (GNU-Forth, bigForth).
The current Version of VolskForth is 3.91. Work on Version 3.90 has started.
At this time VolksForth is available for this Systems:
VolksForth MS-DOS (Intel x86 Architektur i8086-ia64)
VolksForth 6502 (Commodore 64, Commodore Plus 4)
VolksForth Z80 (CP/M, Schneider CPC)
VolksForth 68000 (Atari ST)
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 - 2005 Forth Gesellschaft
e.V. ( Klaus Schleisiek, Ulrich Hoffmann, Bernd Pennemann, Georg Rehfeld
and Dietrich Weineck).
The Handbook, binary Files and Sourcecode for VolksForth as well as Information about
Forth Gesellschaft are available on the Forth Gesellschaft Webserver at
http://www.forth-ev.de/
(most of the Information is still in german. We are planning to provide future versions with englisch documentation)
Information and Help about the Programming Language Forth can be find in the Internet,
starting with the Website of the Forthgesellschaft, or in the Usenet Forum de.comp.lang.forth (via Google Groups:
http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.lang.forth )
Details for VolksForth MS-DOS
* Requirements
(in Arbeit)
* Installation
(in Arbeit)
* Emulator
(in Arbeit)
Details for VolksForth 68000 (Atari ST)
* Requirements
(in Arbeit)
* Installation
(in Arbeit)
* Emulator
(in Arbeit)
Details for VolksForth 6502 (Commodore 64, C16, Plus4, Atari XL, Commodore PET, Apple I, Apple II)
* Requirements
(in Arbeit)
* Installation
(in Arbeit)
* Emulator
(in Arbeit)
Details for VolksForth CP/M (Z80, Schneider/Amstrad CPC)
* Requirements
(in Arbeit)
* Installation
(in Arbeit)
* Emulator
(in Arbeit)
The Forth Live-Linux CD-ROM (available in the Downloadsection of the Forth Gesellschaft Website) includes the
current Versions of VolksForth direct usable without Installation including the Handbooks as PDF-Files.
Have fun with VolksForth
the VolksForth Team