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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 VolskForth is 3.91. Work on Version 4.00 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).
(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