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#+Title: VolksForth Readme
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VolksForth is a 16bit Forth System produced by the German Forth
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Gesellschaft e.V.
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Major 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
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managable Forthsystem for computer systems with restricted system
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resources.
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2019-04-22 20:08:52 +00:00
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Some modern Forth Systems were influenced by or were derived from
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VolksForth (GNU-Forth, bigForth).
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2022-03-13 20:53:11 +00:00
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On most platforms the current version of VolksForth is 3.8x.
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Versions 3.9.x are interim versions towards compliance with the
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2012 Forth standard, and at the same time towards a unification
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(as far as feasible) of the sources of the different platforms.
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Also included in 3.9.x versions is the transition from block files
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to stream files as primary source format, and an introduction of
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make-based build and test automation.
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So far the 6502/C64 VolksForth (C64/Plus4/X16) is on a 3.9.x version.
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Version 3.8.x is based on the Forth 83 standard, Version 4.00 will be
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based on the current 2012 Standard (https://forth-standard.org).
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At this time VolksForth is available for this Systems:
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* VolksForth MS-DOS (Intel x86 architecture i8086/i186/i286/i386/i486 etc)
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* VolksForth 6502 (Commodore 64, Commodore Plus 4, Commander X16, Apple 1, Apple ][, Atari XL/XE)
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* VolksForth Z80 (CP/M, Schneider CPC)
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* VolksForth 68000 (Atari ST, Amiga with EmuTOS)
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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 - 2020 Forth Gesellschaft e.V. (
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Klaus Schleisiek, Ulrich Hoffmann, Bernd Pennemann, Georg Rehfeld,
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Dietrich Weineck, Carsten Strotmann).
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(most of the Information is still in german. We are planning to
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provide future versions with englisch documentation)
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Have fun with VolksForth
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the VolksForth Team
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