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One month ago I published two programs which may be useful to other Forth programmers: Two Forth source preprocessors and converters for Forth systems that need blocks files. Now I announce them here because I've added support for QL SuperForth. They allow to edit and mantain a Forth source almost w...

Hi Tom, we are already in touch in the Forth on Sinclair (and Z80) computers email list . Nice to see you here. I am fairly new to the language, just learning its grammar. I hope you already learned it well, since it's almost unexistent ;) Interesting concept is that of files being stored in 1024B b...

SuperFORTH at boot time looks for BLK1, on default BOOT device MDV or FLP it tries both drives 1 .. 2, cannot be changed as is hard inside the code. You're right, the device is hardcoded in the binary. I had this very same problem in 1995; and also a few days ago, while adapting my QL environment t...

>Do you keep those disassemblies? Would you like to share them? They would be interesting. Yes, I have kept them. I will tidy them up and post them (forth-sinclair/files?). That would be great. Upload them to the forth-sinclar files or mail them to me and I will do. Anyway, I invite you to join the...

I just tried uQLx for ARM (http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/emu/) in the Raspberry Pi on Raspbian, but the only effect is the error above, no matter the command (qm, qjs...). The same happened in the Raspberry Pi 1 some months ago. Any clue? *** QL Emulator v0.00 *** release 10/22/02 16:10:00 Terminate on si...

XorA wrote:On Pi2 OpenJDK and Oracle Java share the same JIT as I work with the guy who wrote it. Make sure you have OpenJDK8 though!

Thank you. In the meanwhile, I found some info on the several Java VM available for the Pi (more options than I suspected).

I've tried SMSQmulator on Raspberry Pi 2, and it works fine (except the sound). Some time ago I tried it on Rasberry Pi 1, but it was too slow to be usable.

I use OpenJDK, but heard Oracle Java is faster in the Raspberry. Can anybody confirm it?

Great, I've done a few Forth disassemblies myself (Jupiter Ace, ZX81 Husband/Tree Forth, ZX Spectrum F83, White Lightning, and another ZX - I forget which one). Do you keep those disassemblies? Would you like to share them? They would be interesting. Some months ago I disassembled Abersoft Forth, w...

An email list has just been created to discuss the Forth programming language on Sinclair computers: Forth on Sinclair (and Z80) computers Any QL user with an interest in Forth is welcome. In the Spanish QL users group there were three of us, including me, that programmed the QL in Forth. By the way...

tofro wrote: I have working versions of uqlx for both the Genesi ARM and the RPi platform.

I use Raspbian on the RPi. Do you? If so, I'd like to try that uQLx.