September 2016 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

SVFIG on Google+ Hangout: long url - tinyurl

SVFIG on Google+ - SVFIG on YouTube - SVFIG on YouTube Live

Videos: morning (1:26:19) - afternoon (2:17:46)

Photos - 590 Kb pdf file

10:15

Creole Forth for Excel - Joseph M. O'Connor
Joe will discuss Creole Forth’s history and architecture as well as describe why he uses it and how he develops applications with it. Finally, he’ll compare it with other Forth implementations.

Slides - 136 Kb pdf file

Code on GitHub

11:30

Lunch
We ate at The Treehouse.

13:00

Introductions, Gossip, New Things

13:20

86eForth v5.2 on Visual Studio - CH Ting
"I have moved 86eForth to Visual Studio and assembled it in the 32-bit flat mode. I hope to make 86eForth available on a modern platform for people to experiment with it. I am currently using it to re-write eForth and Zen. I will explain the process in great detail."

Slides - 167 Kb pdf file

13:50

WiFiBoy - Sam Chen
Sam Chen (Taiwan FIG Chairman) just arrived in San Jose with several WifiBoy IoT Game Dev Kits which he will demonstrate.

WiFiBoy photos and information

WiFiBoy video (2:38)

14:00

Break

14:15

Forth on Sockpuppet - Robert Sexton
“I'll be presenting my work on the Sockpuppet interface for the Cortex-M with MPE Forth, including a tutorial on how to port it to other chips.”

“There have been many developments since I last presented on this topic in 2012 including porting it to several new chips and implementing advanced features such as:

• User / Supervisor privilege separation for reliability
• Memory protection for clear recovery from stack overflow
• Forth->C interfaces via AAPCS calling convention
• C->Forth via Forth task controls
• Atomic operations with native primitives”

“I'll be demonstrating the Sockpuppet environment with MPE Forth for the Arm Cortex-M and showing how to port it to a new environment. The interface was recently integrated into MPE Forth and presented at Euroforth 2016.”

“If you have a Cortex-M board that you would like to use, please bring it to the meeting and I'll help you get it going. Here are the prerequisites:

• A Cortex-M based dev board with a C compilation environment
• MPE Forth running on your computer (The 'lite' version should work.)
• Working bidirectional serial communications, such as a version of hello_world() that echoes every character
• A tool for loading binaries into your board, and access to suitable (i.e., unix-like) tools for working with raw binaries so that executables can be concatenated"

More information on GitHub

Robert's Repositories

Riscy Pygness for the Cortex-M3

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

gforth - GNU Forth for Android

Forth Interpreter

Frtm (FoRTh Modoki)

Yet Another Forth For Arduino

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Forth CPUs

Forth Articles and Blogs

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Neil Bawd’s Ugly Home Page

Misc Forth Stuff

Computers

Chips

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

Hardware

Intel Joule Module

USB Typewriter Bluetooth USB Conversion Kits & Assembled Units

Other Books

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Usage share of operating systems

Engineering Dead-Ends: A Gallery of Perpetual Motion Machines

Apple iPhone 7 Teardown

Plenty of Platform Choices for Embedded Designers

What Is Inside an IoT Chip?

Have Chip Vendors Taken Over Where Heathkit Left Off?

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Forth game engine

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors

Vintage Computing -

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

Dennis' spreadsheet for conferencing(+) apps

YouTube Live

Zoom

OBS Studio

Updated websites:

MPE

FORTH, Inc.