2022-06-13 05:35:40 <josuah      > hello! I am writing an article on embedded forth for a nimble online newspaper published on gopher: gopher://bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/ https://gopherproxy.net/bitreich.org/1/tgtimes/
2022-06-13 05:36:37 <josuah      > I thought I would find people much more knowledgeable than me about Forth here
2022-06-13 05:37:45 <josuah      > I have found a few fun things here: https://github.com/corecode/forth-cpu https://www.forth.com/space-shuttle-instrumentation-interface/ http://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/
2022-06-13 05:38:29 <josuah      > if anyone of you feels like sharing an ongoing project, let me know, I'd be happy to list and describe it!
2022-06-13 05:41:04 <josuah      > and of course, forth.chat
2022-06-13 05:42:05 <dave0       > josuah: there is crc's retro forth: https://github.com/crcx/retroforth
2022-06-13 05:54:14 <crc         > josuah: a few interesting things at http://collapseos.org/ https://el-tramo.be/thurtle/?pn=Plant&ar=1 https://github.com/chmykh/apl-life
2022-06-13 05:54:29 <josuah      > nice, thank you both!
2022-06-13 05:54:41 <josuah      > this is going to be a chestfull of forth gold at that pace
2022-06-13 05:59:31 <crc         > https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html isn't a forth, but is a stack machine that's interesting and pretty active
2022-06-13 06:01:42 <crc         > most of my projects aren't open source or published, but I use Forth for most of my programs
2022-06-13 06:42:30 <josuah      > crc: glad to hear about it, is it because of an existing code-base in Forth, or were there certain requirements of the projects that Forth fulfilled well?
2022-06-13 06:48:33 <crc         > I get a lot of freedom to choose the tools I want to work with and find that Forth works well for me
2022-06-13 06:51:15 <crc         > I do have over 20 years of experience working with Forth, which makes a difference; when I was younger I'd often at least start with  a different language (assembly, c, python, pascal, or php), but now I have Forth systems tailored around my needs and projects
2022-06-13 07:15:50 <josuah      > freedom of its own tools is a great way to enjoy its everyday work a bit more
2022-06-13 07:16:15 <josuah      > ah, I remember uxn now... super fun as well!
2022-06-13 07:17:10 <josuah      > and forgot about the name of the collapseos project (thought was it "doom OS?" and could not find it)
2022-06-13 07:30:22 <crc         > others: https://gitlab.com/goblinrieur/spreedsheet/-/blob/main/mini-spreadsheet.fs
2022-06-13 07:30:31 <crc         > some network related stuff I've done:
2022-06-13 07:30:41 <crc         > http://retroforth.org/examples/Casket-HTTP.retro.html (HTTP server)
2022-06-13 07:30:41 <crc         > http://retroforth.org/examples/Atua-WWW.retro.html (serve Gopher content via HTTP)
2022-06-13 07:30:41 <crc         > These are also available via the gopher protocol.
2022-06-13 07:30:42 <crc         > gopher://forth.works:100 is the blocks from my newest Forth implementation, served by a gopher server (blocks 203-205).
2022-06-13 07:31:57 <crc         > https://ribccs.com/candy/ is closed source, but written in vfx forth with over a million lines of code (1.4 I think)
2022-06-13 07:36:47 <josuah      > wow wow wow!
2022-06-13 07:37:13 <josuah      > that article will rock now!
2022-06-13 07:38:20 <josuah      > dave0: looks like you invoked the forth daemon here!
2022-06-13 07:41:58 <crc         > https://github.com/oriontransfer/pl0-language-tools is a PL/0 compiler in Python that can generate ANS or RetroForth code as output
2022-06-13 07:46:37 <crc         > http://sam-falvo.github.io/kestrel/2016/03/29/vibe-2.2 is a vi-style block editor (I used this years ago, prior to writing my own block editors)
2022-06-13 07:49:59 <crc         > https://git.sr.ht/~vertigo/shoehorn is a bootstrap compiler, to be used as part of building the firmware for https://git.sr.ht/~vertigo/forthbox
2022-06-13 07:50:31 <crc         > 
ACTION needs to better organize his list of interesting project links

2022-06-13 07:51:13 <crc         > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight is a game that was said to be mostly written in forth
2022-06-13 07:52:51 <crc         > https://github.com/nnCron/nnCron is a scheduler application written in (iirc) sp-forth
2022-06-13 07:55:19 <crc         > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcx/retro-language/master/library/fiction.rx is an older library for writing interactive fiction in forth; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crcx/retro-language/master/examples/games/cloak-of-darkness.rx is a game using it
2022-06-13 07:57:58 <crc         > http://deathroadtocanada.com/ uses forth as a scripting language
2022-06-13 07:58:35 <crc         > https://github.com/RickCarlino/fbbs2 is a reconstruction of an old bbs software from the mid 1980's
2022-06-13 08:00:08 <crc         > https://github.com/elrzn/forth-orc-battle is another game
2022-06-13 08:00:34 <crc         > https://pmig96.wordpress.com/starflight_home/ has more information on the starflight game
2022-06-13 08:05:28 <crc         > https://github.com/savetz/worms game for 8 bit atari and commodore 64
2022-06-13 08:06:08 <josuah      > I understand that http://retroforth.org/examples/7080.retro.html is a standalone version and http://retroforth.org/examples/Atua-WWW.retro.html is the same thing, but both are doing the same thing?
2022-06-13 08:08:36 <crc         > no, 7080 is a proxy for any gopher site (like gopher.floodgap.com), Atua-WWW serves gopher content from a single server only. (e.g., I run Atua-WWW on forthworks.com to serve the gopher content to HTTP users)
2022-06-13 08:17:20 <josuah      > ah right, one pulls the content from another server, the other pulls content from a local server, go it thanks
2022-06-13 08:58:04 <veltas      > josuah: If it's not already been recommended I'd ask in #mecrisp too, the more active #mecrisp is on irc.hackint.org
2022-06-13 08:58:13 <josuah      > crc: many thanks! I will post the link to the next opus here.
2022-06-13 08:58:18 <josuah      > veltas: let's give it a look!
2022-06-13 08:58:31 <veltas      > They will have some interesting embedded projects probably
2022-06-13 08:59:49 <josuah      > this stated as one of the goal of the mecrisp project after all