April 27, 2005

Chuck Moore's colorForth


Overview of colorForth design methodolologies.

  • Home and basics at www.colorForth.com
    • colorForth main page
    Download/Install
    Trouble shooting
    User guide
    Programmer guide
    Register usage/op-code primitives
    Pre-parsing and colors
    Early bindings and program design
    Huffman character encoding
    Keyboard layout and usage
    IDE sample source code
    colorForth Status
    Philosophy/Legal/License
  • Background and theory at Ultratechnology.com
    • Dated Index
    In historical order:
    Color Forth
    Color Forth Update
    Fireside Chat 1998
    Dispelling the User Illusion
    1x Forth
    Fireside Chat 1999
    Fireside Chat 2000
    the Best of Chuck Moore on Forth
    OKAD Reference Page
    The following sites have much more than that which is listed

  • John Smith's colorForth index at strangegizmo.com
  • colorForth to HTML at http://www.thelma-louise.net/
  • Public forum at Kris Johnsons's colorForth wiki not responding
  • Neal Bridges colorForth Public Forum at quartus.net wiki
  • 2.0 Color blocks in HTML at Merlintec.com
  • XcolorForth and 2.0 source/binary in linux GNU Assembler at Mark Slicker
  • NASM colorForth 2.0 + networking block source from Tim Neitz
  • First steps from Bernd Beuster
  • colorforth for Windows from Roman Pavlyuk
  • colorforth for Windows from Richard Collins
  • Current email list archive at www.strangegizmo.com
  • Old email list archive at Ultratechnology.com
  • Latest source & binary at Ultratechnology.com

    • Zipped UDP blocks and HTML viewer kit:

    udp.tgz - 2.0 image w/UDP networking.

    Zipped MASM build kits:

    colorForth 1.0 with only modified DMA floppy I/O. 7/21/01, thanks Kris.
    colorForth 1.0 with modified DMA floppy I/O and 800x600 AGP video. 7/25/01
    colorForth 2.0 with modified 800x600 AGP video. 8/06/01

  • Download MASM32 at Hutch's Home Page

  • MASM tools on the net

  • Other Color Forths:
    • Jeff Fox's F21 aha flowcharts and source
    Sean Pringle's Enth and Flux
    Tom Novelli's, now Charles Childers NASM VGA ASCII retro4
    Terry Loveall's study of various DOS color forths

    Many thanks to all who made the above available.

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