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Implementations

The Beginning

The first FORTH

The first Hardware

Free & OpenSource FORTH Systems

Valuable OpenSource FORTHs, named by a FORTH expert in 2021-07 ( in alphabetic Order )

  1. CamelForth.
  2. eForth.
  3. ESP32forth.
  4. ForthWin/Forth2020.
  5. Gforth.
  6. Mecrisp.
  7. noForth / Egel project.
  8. SP-Forth.
  9. Tachyon Forth.
  10. Win32forth.

Free & OpenSource FORTH Systems for BareMetal Systems, in Assembly Language, ( some ) C, ..

CamelForth, an important FORTH Systems originally implemented Assembly Language, then ported to C

CamelForth by Brad Rodriguez
CamelForth in C by Brad Rodriguez
Resources

eForth, an important FORTH Systems originally implemented Assembly Language, then ported to C, then ported to Javascript, C++, Java in the 2020th

bForth & eForth Design Principles
bForth by Bill Muench, eForth by Bill Muench & Chen-Hanson Ting
eForth by Thomas Göppel
Arduino Forth based on eForth
MicroEforth ( µEforth ) & ESP32forth in C by Brad Nelson & Chen-Hanson Ting
jeforth in Javascript, by Cheahshen Yap, Sam Chen and Chen-Hanson Ting
ceForth in truely object-oriented C++, by Chen-Hanson Ting & friends
ooForth in Java, by Xuyang (Shawn) Chen, Brad Nelson, Chochain Lee, and Chen-Hanson Ting
Resources

FORTH-83 Reference Implementations by Henry Laxon & Mike Perry

Downloads
Resources

F-PC by Tom Zimmer & Robert Smith

FORTH Systems in C/C++

4IM
The 4th Compiler
Autodesk Threaded Language Application System Toolkit ( ATLAST )
BForth
bif-c
calForth
C-FORTH: a portable, C-coded figFORTH Interpreter, by Allan Pratt ( 1985 )
cforth
cforth for osx
Chris Curl's FORTH Implementations
cxxforth
embed by Richard James Howe
Ficl
FINF Is Not Forth
Froth
graspForth
kForth-64
Peter J. Knaggs' BaseForth
lbForth
Libforth
Lars Brinkhoff
microforth
MinForth
MiniForth
MiniForth - Tiny Forth Built in a Week
muforth
OneFileForth
pez
pForth
PFE - Portable Forth Environment
SX-FORTH
Tail Forth
This-Forth
TILE Forth by Mikael R.K. Patel
Toy-FORTH
uforth
yForth

FORTH Systems in Java

FORTH in Java
Resources

FORTH Systems in Javascript

Beetle Forth
JeForth
JS-Forth
ricardo-forth
webForth

FORTH Systems in Lua

FORTH Compiler for the Forth language using LLVM

FORTH Systems in PHP

Implementations
Resources

FORTH Systems in Python

FORTH Systems in Ruby

FORTH Systems in Rust

FORTH Systems just for complete Operating Systems ( Windows, Linux, MacOSX )

Delta Forth .NET
ForthWin/Forth2020
Gforth ( GNUForth )
Oforth
SP-Forth ( for Windows, Linux )
StoneKnifeForth
Win32Forth ( for Windows )
Howerd Oakford's Win32Forth6v05H
visualFORTH based on Win32Forth
Win32FX based on Win32Forth 6.01
Mind.Forth based on Win32Forth

WinForth64

FORTH for MacOS prior MacOSX

FORTH for Android OS & Raspberry Pi

Any MSDOS FORTH on Android OS & Raspberry Pi
Any MSDOS FORTH on Raspberry Pi
Native FORTH for Raspberry Pi
Resources

FORTH Systems for ATARI 400/800

FORTH for the BBC Microcomputer

FORTH for Commodore Amiga & AmigaOS

FORTH Systems for Commodore C64, VC20

FORTH Systems for ESP8266

FORTH Systems for IBM-PC & MSDOS

FORTH System for JU+TE-Computer

FORTH System for LEGO MindStorms RCX

FORTH Systems for Microchip / Atmel MCUs

Microchip
Atmel

FORTH System for Parallax MCUs

Propforth
Tachyon Forth
Resources

FORTH Systems for Texas Instruments TI-99/4A console with 32K Memory Expansion ( and Disk System )

FORTH Systems for Texas Instruments MSP430

4E4th
eForth
FASTFORTH
Mecrisp
muforth
noForth
Egel Project

FORTH Systems for ZX81

Metacompilers for Forth

ANS Proposed Standard
bForth, eForth
Chromium 2 Metacompiler by Bradford J. Rodriguez
embed by Richard James Howe
GForth
Metaforth by Jan Vermue and Hans Nieuwenhuijzen
Win32Forth
Resources

Other Programming Languages & Runtime Systems with RPN, but not really FORTH

Other Programming Languages & Runtime Systems inspired by Smalltalk, based on FORTH

Jupyter Notebook for Software Development with FORTH

Online Services for Software Development with FORTH

Using an OpenSource FORTH for commercial Projects to generate a Sales Product

History of FORTH

FIG's & TheFourceSource's History of FORTH

FORTH.Inc's History of FORTH

Forth 200x Standardisation Committee s History of FORTH 1978-2012

Jeff Fox's History of FORTH 1970-2004

TU Wien, Institut für Computersprachen's History of FORTH

Forth Family Tree and Timeline
Gforth's History of FORTH
  1. All early Forth systems were custom-made, usually by Charles Moore, who discovered (as he puts it) Forth during the late 60s. The first full Forth existed in 1971.
  2. The principal architect of microForth was Dean Sanderson. microForth was FORTH, Inc.'s first off-the-shelf product. It was developed in 1976 for the 1802, and subsequently implemented on the 8080, the 6800 and the Z80.
  3. A team led by Bill Ragsdale implemented fig-Forth on many processors in 1979. Robert Selzer and Bill Ragsdale developed the original implementation of fig-Forth for the 6502 based on microForth.
  4. VolksForth was written by Klaus Schleisiek, Bernd Pennemann, Georg Rehfeld and Dietrich Weineck for the C64 (called UltraForth there) in the mid-80s and ported to the Atari ST in 1986. It descends from fig-Forth.
  5. Bernd Paysan wrote bigFORTH, a descendent from TurboForth, an unreleased 32 bit native code version of VolksForth for the Atari ST, written mostly by Dietrich Weineck.
  6. Gforth descends from bigFORTH (1993) and fig-Forth. Of course, a significant part of the design of Gforth was prescribed by ANS Forth.

Resources

Tools & Applications

Applications & Libraries

Complete Application with FORTH as Programming Language

Games

Complete Hardware Application with FORTH as Programming Language ( Applicance )

Compilers built with FORTH

Database Interface

Forth Query Language ( FQL )

Federico de Ceballos

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Graphics with FORTH

FORTH Implementations, FORTH Graphics Libraries

Commercial Documentation

Videos

FORTH Resources

General Resources

Lint for FORTH?

Networking ( TCP/IP Networking, Wireless Communications like WiFi, Internet Access, ... ) & Serial Communications

File Transfer Protocols

MQTT

RS232 Serial Communications

USB Serial Communications

Serial Communications Protocols

TCP/IP Networking

Resources

Operating Systems Stuff ( Multitasking with FORTH, Multitasking Operating Systems with FORTH Integration & Bootloaders written in FORTH )

FORTH with Cooperative Multitasking

Implementations
Resources

FORTH with Preemtive Multitasking

Implementations
Resources

FORTH with Time Triggered Architecture

Multitasking FORTH

C++ 20 Coroutines
Multithreading FORTH in C++

FORTH Bootloaders

Collapse OS
Open Firmware

Simple multi-tasking Operating Systems ( Schedulers ) which might cooperate with FORTH

FreeRTOS
Resources

FORTH with complete FORTH Operating Systems

ForthOS
Kestrel Computer Project
rpiForth
pijFORTHos

FORTH with commercial complete FORTH Operating Systems

Resources

Stack Trace

Packet Manager, Repository

Profiling

Unit Test / Test of Assertions & Debugging

Unit Test Tools

Unit Test Tools in FORTH
Unit Test Tools in Assembly Language, for FORTH
Expert-generated List of FORTH implementations, which are shipped with Unit Test Tools
  1. eForth for ST8 ( in FORTH ).
  2. Gforth.
  3. Win32forth. Not included in the default FORTH kernel, but provided as Forth script file with distribution package.
  4. zedforth ( in Z80 assembly language ).

Unit Test Resources

T{ 1 2 drop }T 1 ==
T{ 1 dup }T 1 1 ==
T{ 2 1 swap }T 1 2 ==

Debugging Resources

Practical FORTH Debugging Session

Resources

Appropriate OpenDirectory Directory Pages


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