September 2023
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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09:30

Start of Meeting

09:30

A Slightly Different Forth Compiler Design - Joseph M. O'Connor
The Creole Forth compiler has several unusual features which include the lack of a STATE variable. This presentation will discuss its design features and their advantages.

Video (10:47)

Slides from Forth Day 2020

09:45

Forth Day is Coming - Kevin Appert
Kevin asked, "What will you talk about?"

09:52

Eight Win32Forth Demonstrations - Bill Ragsdale
"I will present eight demonstrations written in Forth ranging from high speed graphics, 16-way multitasking, video player to chess with an opening book."

Video (39:31)

10:32

A Day at the Vintage Computer Festival West - Dave Jaffe
"I will present a photo review of the exhibits and activities at this year's West Coast Vintage Computer Festival."

Video (40:37)

Slides

VCF 2023 Program Book

10:52

Forth Running on an FPGA - Christopher Lozinski
Chris gave a very brief Mecrisp demonstration.

Video (20:28)

11:55

End of Meeting

Coming

What I'm Currently Working On - Samuel A. Falvo II
"A quick jaunt through Shoehorn and the project I'm using it on and a recap/status of ForthBox:20AE project.”

AI on CORE I LLMs - Don Golding
Don plans to speak about Large Language Models. CORE I circuit board status: "they were setting up to assemble the boards yesterday, will get them by Wednesday next week. Next meeting I can give a demo of the board if I didn't make any unfixable mistakes."

CORE I Applications - Don Golding and Demitri Peynado
“Demitri and I would like to give a quick 15 minute update on CORE I then discuss the possible uses for a CORE I / Forth Computer.”

Direction Finding - Andrew Korsak
Andy is planning to present this application on Forth Day.

Building GUIs in Forth, without the Gunk - Xuyang Chen

Fiji Language - Jack J. Woehr

The Game of Bridgit - Bob Armstrong

Other items:

Forth

Forth2020 Zoom Meeting - 09/2023 (3:44:28)

My4TH - A discrete Forth computer (13:11)

The Forth Scientific Library

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

Products in Forth

Misc Forth Stuff

Computers

My4TH single board FORTH computer building kit

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

Hardware

Other Books and Magazines

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Synertek SYM Model 1

Retro Computing

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

Timsort

Matrix Operations

Beyond the Little Blue Box - John T. Draper

MyNOR

6502 Song (3:49)