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Yerk FTP site
Free downloads of Neon/Yerk Object Oriented Forth.
bigFORTH+MINOS
Native code, 32-bit Forth for Linux or Windows 95/98/NT/2000, with MINOS graphic user interface, and Theseus rapid GUI development editor. GPL, on SourceForge.
kForth
Programming language and environment; implements large subset of ANS Forth, and extensions; can be standalone computing environment or object code can be linked to other programs to be a customizable language for that program.
Holon Lite
Free, full function demonstration version of Holon-86, which builds target programs on DOS platforms. You can use it for real programming.
ficl
Forth Inspired Command Language, ANS Forth interpreter in C. Use: scripting language to embed in other systems as object-oriented command/macro/development prototype language. Descriptions, many documents, downloads. [SourceForge]
FIJI ForthIsh Java Interpreter
Written in Java, full GPL source. Runs in command line or AWT window. Accepts syntax like Forth language and uses reference stack to push and pop all parameters to its functions. Can create Java objects and call methods on them from FIJI stack.
ciforth
Forth implementation for Intel microprocessors.
eForth: Linux, FreeBSD
Unofficial eForth for Linux 2.0.x and FreeBSD 2.0.5, using Wil Baden's pinhole optimizer.
iForth FAQ
Very fast, multi-platform, full 32-bit Forth: 4 GByte flat address space, subroutine threading, runs on any Intel compatible CPU '386+'387 or more, and on DOS, Linux, Windows NT.
mxForth
Very efficient Forth compiler, source code loosely based on Bill Muench's bForth. For Linux, Windows NT. Generated with the META program, a free metacompiler written in Forth. Free with iForth.
tForth FAQ
Forth with parallel facilities for the INMOS range of Transputers. An overview, or FAQ of sorts.
HYPE
Very simple object oriented Forth implementation, by Helge Horch.
lpForth
Runs on Linux OS, similar to eForth. Goals: simple, easy to understand first, speed and elegance later; able to call functions (procedures) in dynamic linked library (.so files). Download, development forum.
PLForth
An implementation of Forth on the Power Macintosh. The interpreter is available as plain text source code and many example programs exist.
4IM
Standalone Forth (neither ANS compliant nor ColorForth) for PC.
Abundance
Forth-based, data-entry, data-base, screen-handling language. Automatically handles routine housekeeping that usually accounts for 90% of interactive application code. All Abundance programs can jaunt (run backward in time).
Enth
The n'th Forth: experimental Forth written as stand alone system for 80386 PCs and above, tested on some Pentium and Athlon desktops, laptops; from Sean Pringle 'The State of Flux' website. Basis for Flux variant of colorForth.
myForth Java Applet
Online forth interpreter implemented as Java applet.
Portable Forth Environment: PFE
Based on ANSI Forth Standard, fully multithreaded, has module system, can load C objects at runtime to extend dictionary, best for embedded uses. Descriptions, history, links. [Open Source, LGPL]
Pygmy Forth; 3-instruction Forth
Two Frank Sergeant implementations. Pygmy Forth: small, for IBM PCs, full source code. 3-instruction Forth for 68HC11, FORML 1991 with updates.
Forth Script
Server-side web scripting engine based on Forth.
guiforth
Customized version of pForth that provides bindings to the FLTK library.
SP-Forth
ANS compliant Win32 multithreaded Forth system. Released under GPL on SourceForge.
ForthCMP
Tom Almy's Forth compiler for x86 targets. Not interpreted: compiles to machine code (built-in assembler), written in Forth; very compact, fast, mature, stable.
Timbre
Script driven translator engine: uses rules and rule sets to set how to transform input into output; used for language translating, target and meta-compiling, code verification, binary viewing, code documentation, RTF parsers and reformatters.
Delta Forth .NET compiler
Forth compiler for the .NET platform. [Open source].
ficl/ecos: ZOG
C version of ficl (Forth Inspired Command Language), runs on eCos OS; eCos and Forth can be small, ZOG is under 150K with author setup: i386, floppy booting. Added words: inb, outb. Tiny description, downloads: source, floppy image.
dsForth
By DELOSOFT.COM. Supports: all Win32 (CE/9x/ME/NT/2000, CE emulators), Intel/MIPS/SH3/StrongARM CPUs. ANS'94 compliant, current language standard. Multithreaded core. Compatible with SP-Forth/3.x and libraries. Self-hosted development: compiler and console run directly on target platform (a portable device), needs no PC for WinCE development.
Dragon Forth
ANS Forth 94 translator for PalmOS.
SwiftX
By FORTH, Inc. Integrated cross-development environment for embedded systems. Runs on Windows, supports many target CPUs, custom versions available often in days.
SwiftForth
By FORTH, Inc. Very fast ANS compliant Forth development environment fully integrated with Windows 95/98/NT. Capable of as much real-time performance as Windows can support. 32-bit subroutine-threaded with direct code expansion for speed.
ColdForth Kernel
For Motorola ColdFire chips. [Open source, Artistic/GPL]
ForthCAD
By Bureau d'Etudes (engineering and design department) Melice SPRL. ForthCAD-3D (French), 2D/3D Computer Aided Design software. ForthCAD-Pager (English), simple, accurate, reliable, low cost 2D editor, comes with new modular 3D CAD product line, evaluation/upgrade download.
ForthOS
Begun as Andy Valencia eForth x86 port, 32-bit mode, was runnable under DOS DJGPP 32-bit extender; stalled for years then resumed to adapt to GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB), environment was improved to give ForthOS. Description, download, links.
Pet4th
Petrus Prawirodidjojo's Forth based on eforth for DOS and Windows.
F68KANS
By HARDCODE Development; portable Forth development system for Motorola 680x0, supports ANSI; includes source, documentation, tools; free download.
pbForth
Programmable Brick Forth, by Hempel Design Group; replacement firmware for Lego Mindstorms: FAQ, mail list, GUI interface, and tutorial in pdf format.
Holon
By Wolf Wejgaard Forth Engineering. New, Forth-based instant programming tool and interactive programming method that lets you build reliable programs in very little time; merges all parts of a powerful development tool: browser, editor, assembler, compiler, linker, debugger, interpreter.
Power MacForth
Highly optimized programming environment for any Power PC running Macintosh OS: high-speed execution, flexible internal multitasking, RISC assembler gives direct access to native CPU architecture for top speed.
Pocket Forth
By örg Langowski, MacTutor Editorial Board. Article and example sources.
MMSFORTH
By Miller Microcomputer Services. Forth virtual machine; standalone total software environment; traditional Forth features: compactness, flexibility, speed; many extensions with source code; unusual smoothness, support. And Forth software, books, links.
Abundance package; BBL Forth
Downloads: 3 programs, 1 library.
Misty Beach Forth
Written in Java, so its interpreter can be embedded in a WWW HTML page and launched as an applet, to show that almost any programming language can be implemented in Java and not suffer unacceptable performance losses; documentation, downloads as a Forth Java applet.
QED Forth
By Mosaic Industries, Inc.: interactive interpreter, compiler, assembler, debugger speeds programming, testing. Resources callable from Forth/C: automatic system initialization, multitasking executive, heap memory manager, libraries of device drivers and interrupt support routines.
MPE Forth
By MicroProcessor Engineering, Ltd. Runs on Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000, targets embedded systems; VFX optimizing code generator on selected targets; flexible target memory management; standalone PowerForth target with its own compiler, interpreter.
ProForth VFX
Very fast ANS standard Windows Forth. By MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd.
Mops
A public-domain programming system for Mac OS X. It is a native code dialect of ANS Forth with significant enhancements to the OOP model employed in Neon/Yerk.
Quartus Forth
Was PilotFORTH; for 3Com PalmPilot and IBM WorkPad handheld PDAs: 16-bit on-board native-code ISO/ANSI compliant Standard Forth subset compiler, compiles directly to machine language, giving far faster code than traditional threaded implementations. Full support for Palm GUI resources, seamless access to all 828 Palm OS ROM routines. Registered version allows creating fast, compact stand-alone executables, PRC's, no run-time module needed.
Embedded Forth Compilers
Forth systems for AVR, PIC and MSP430.
PicForth
Forth compiler for the Microchip PIC 16f87x microcontrollers family.
Simtel.net: DOS: Forth
About 20 downloads, 9 different Forth implementations for DOS.
HMSL: Hierarchical Music Specification Language
Object oriented set of extensions to Forth, for experimental music composition and performance. For any Macintosh, and 1 Meg RAM.
JForth: SoftSynth.com
By Delta Research, subroutine threaded Forth for Amiga, originally a commercial product now released as freeware: register and download, technical support, applications, review by Jack Woehr, links.
pForth
Portable, public domain, ANS Forth based on kernel written in ANSI C for portability: for x86 PC, Mac, Amiga; Linux, BeOS; Sun, SGI Indys; Nokia Communicator; 3DO ARM and PowerPC, WebTV, Hitachi SH4, OpenTV prototypes, internal Lucent projects.
Compilers
Forth compilers, dozens, FTP downloadable, at Taygeta Scientific, Inc.
hForth - A Small, Portable ANS Forth
Article of Wonyong Koh. Originally published inForth Dimensions XVIII/2, 30.
TDS-PC
By Triangle Digital Services. Forth development environment for embedded computer PROMs, for use with TDS2020; DOS and Windows versions; causes PC to emulate a terminal, source code displays in multiple windows, is passed to serial link.
aha
An expression used to convey an epiphany felt on the sudden manifestation of the essence of meaning of something. Heuristic architecture; holistic approach using hardware and software methods developed by Moore: descriptions of compiler, system, optimizing editor for F21.
JaxForth; VWin4th
Three Jack J. Woehr implementations. JaxForth/Jax4th: ANSI Standard Forth for Amiga, Windows. VWin4th: 1994 tiny demo Forth written in Digitalk Smalltalk for Windows, source only. Also, author's book and many good links.
4tH compiler-interpreter
The friendly Forth compiler/interpreter: detects virtually every error and reports what and where they occur, but is still fast and compact. Uses only signed 32 bit numbers. DOS, Windows, Unix.
ForthOS
TUNES project Wiki page; many links, little description, on Forth OSs.
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