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From: cs374124@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Clark "Crash" Culligan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: FORTHing at the mouth
Keywords: apple
Message-ID: <1269@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 88 12:34:54 GMT
References: <1257@umbc3.UMD.EDU> <7378@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: cs374124@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Clark "Crash" Culligan)
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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In article <7378@well.UUCP> jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
>>   I notice an awful lot of Amiga FORTHs out there... Does anyone have a
>>decent FORTH for the APPLE computers (Please don't everyone flame me at
>>once). I have a IIGS, and I'd like to set up a system-specific screen
>>exchange.
>>
>	That's an interesting question. Do you know of one? Post here
>if you find one. I will meanwhile check the Forth Interest Group Library
>on GEnie, but I don't think there is one there for IIGS. 

   As it happens, I have one: It's GS16FORTH by GSF Inc., a company out
of Florida. (I'll see if I can fish up the address for youse guys) They
have a one year upgrade and technical support policy for registered
users (Anyone that purchases from GSF is registered), and the only
exception I've seen is the $15 I spent to upgrade to v2.0 (It uses GSOS
but it doesn't support MIDI or Audio Compression and Expansion yet. Big
deal: Neither does Apple). It includes a full-screen editor (with source
code, so you can customize it or even- dare I say it- borrow for your
own programs. It also has a bunch of screens so you can save your
compiled FORTH software as PRODos 16 or GSOS applications.
   GS16FORTH has a few irregularities, though: Because a 3.5" holds
800K, a hard sectoring scheme just won't work that well, and besides,
you need to use GSOS in one form or another to use the Toolbox. They got
around that by using screen files which the FORTH system views as groups
of FORTH-like sectors.
   And all of that for about $60 (or $35-75 depending on what you want
in it). So far, I'd say it's done what it's promised, but I'm still
looking for a way to get random numbers without starting up the frickin'
Event Manager!
 

                                   -David Wood
                                    Lowly Student, UMBC

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