search

Hack-a-Day / 2018-Supercon-Badge

Retrocomputing badge for the 2018 Hackaday Superconference
https://hackaday.io/project/161859-2018-hackaday-superconference-badge
MIT License
27 stars 8 forks source link

Where did the FORTH on the CPM disk, or the CPM in general, come from? #21

Closed JamesNewton closed 6 years ago

JamesNewton commented 6 years ago

I'm trying to understand and document the FORTH that came on the badge under the CP/M. I've searched high and low and can't seem to find the source of either. As in source (where it came from) or source (source code). It is apparently fig-forth 1.1g for Z80. I was able to find a manual, in Hungarian, which I translated to English. But nothing else.

hexagon5un commented 6 years ago

I'll say that I did almost the same, but without the manual in Hungarian!

I looked up some FIG Forths, and had a play around. Between the strange (to me) dialect and the all-caps, I was beaten and went back to BASIC.

JamesNewton commented 6 years ago

I've made some progress on it: http://techref.massmind.org/techref/language/FORTH/z80fig-Forth1_1g.htm