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From: thomson@utah-cs.UUCP (Richard A Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: FORTH for the Apple ][ series
Keywords: forth apple
Message-ID: <5491@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 88 23:19:43 GMT
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Reply-To: thomson@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Richard A Thomson)
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <9689@cisunx.UUCP> jlfox@cisunx.UUCP (James L Fox) writes:
>I've seen FORTH implementations for the Apple ][ GS but not
>for the //+, //e, or //c.  Can anybody point me at a
>"6502 FORTH?"

I have documentation for "Metacrafts FORTH for Apple II".  Their address is:

    Metacrafts, Ltd.
    144 Crewe Road
    Shavington
    Crewe CW2 5AJ
    England

Here's the table of contents for the manual:

    I	Intallation Guide
    II	Development Tools
	1. COPY
	2. DOCUMENT
	3. DECODE and DUMP
	4. Screen Editor
	5. DEBUG
    III System Description
	1. Word Sets
	2. Internal Details
	3. Vocabulary Mechanism
	4. Execution Vectors
	5. Overlays
	6. Buffer and Heap Management
	7. Language Card
	8. Local Variables
	9. 6502 Assembler
	10. Strings, Graphics and Game Controllers
    IV	Glossary


    "Metacrafts FORTH is a high performance implementation of the FORTH
    language and operating system for the Apple II/IIe computers.  It is
    fully compatible with the 1979 definition of the language as documented
    by the FORTH standards team."

					-- Rich
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