Collaborate Disseminate
When choosing a low-level language, it’s hard to beat the efficiency of Forth while also maintaining some amount of readability. There are open source options for the language which makes …read more Continue reading Go Forth With This Portable Programmer
In the world of lambda calculus programming languages there are many ways to express the terms, which is why we ended up with such an amazing range of programming languages, …read more Continue reading Forsp: A Forth & Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
Soft cores for FPGAs come in many different flavors, covering a wide range of applications. The Bit-Serial CPU (bcpu) soft core presented by [Richard James Howe] is interesting for taking …read more Continue reading Bit-Serial CPU: Ultra-Tiny VHDL-Based CPU With Forth Interpreter
What looks like a Sinclair ZX81 but runs Forth? If you said a Jupiter ACE, you get a gold star. These are rare because ordinary people in 1982 didn’t want …read more Continue reading Recreating the Jupiter ACE
When you think of a programming language, you probably think of a hefty compiler or interpreter. Maybe its on a bunch of floppies, a CD, or even an EEPROM. But …read more Continue reading Tiny Forth Could be the Smallest
Although BASIC was most commonly used on home computers like the Commodore VIC-20, it was possible to write programs in other languages, such as Forth. Conveniently, all it took to …read more Continue reading Learn Forth On The Commodore VIC-20
If you know anything about he design of a CPU, you’ll probably be able to identify that a critical component of all CPUs is the Arithmetic Logic Unit, or ALU. …read more Continue reading A NOR Gate For An ALU?
Over the decades there have been many programming languages, some of which have flowered briefly, and others that have stuck around despite newer, better, and faster competition. Few languages embody …read more Continue reading Forth Cracks RISC-V
If you have an HP-41 — arguably the best calculator ever made, you might not have noticed that there’s a version of Forth for it. The code was written a …read more Continue reading HP-41C, the Forth Edition
[George Stagg] recently found himself stung by the burden of free time while in lockdown. Needing a project to keep him occupied, he decided to upgrade his 90s Casio CFX-9850G …read more Continue reading Old Casio Calculator Learns New Tricks