Materion Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Hello, I'm currently learning FORTH and its quite nice language. I have some questions about it regards 8 bit Atari. Which Forth use ? X-FORTH or volksforth ? I wrote some code in X-FORTH and I want to save it as executable - how exactly do it ? If you know how to do it in volksforth share it too :). Thanks in advance for replies :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Maybe, you already know this page: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Forth That wiki has an excellent Forth compilation and both forth mentioned by you. I remember a game done with VolksForth. It could help as a starting point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Materion Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 I saw it - I just wondering which FORTH is better :). And there are no good guide for them for example how to create executable booting disk with your program. I found something here But when I tried to use SAVESYSTEM D:HELLO.COM volksforth dont recognize SAVESYSTEM command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 one of the answers from Cas, I had many years ago : Quote XFORTH will not be deprecated, I will continue working on it, as the XFORTH Memory footprint is smaller. I'll try to make both version compatible, so sourcecode can be exchanged. VolksForth has more features (Multitasking, transient Assembler, HEAP Management ...), but XFORTH is more lean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a8isa1 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 On 3/30/2020 at 8:12 AM, Materion said: Hello, I'm currently learning FORTH and its quite nice language. I have some questions about it regards 8 bit Atari. Which Forth use ? X-FORTH or volksforth ? I wrote some code in X-FORTH and I want to save it as executable - how exactly do it ? If you know how to do it in volksforth share it too :). Thanks in advance for replies :). Sorry, I don't have an answer for you but you might be interested in watching the Atari fig-FORTH tutorials that Tom Cherryhomes produced on youtube some years ago. I can't recall which FORTH he enhanced or why but I recall he wanted to present FORTH in its purist form. I haven't watched the tutorials since they were published. I remember enjoying them quite a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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