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by polka
Mon Apr 18, 2022 9:20 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: New "feature" (aka "bug") in both ComputerOne and Supper FORTH :
Replies: 16
Views: 3237

New "feature" (aka "bug") in both ComputerOne and Supper FORTH :

Before digging into the machine code of Supper FORTH, I wanted to test my new "Folly" program with ComputerOne FORTH. The issue being how to port its simple looping construct "...TIMES(...)" to SupperFORTH. To sum up : IN FORTH the "DO...LOOP" expects two parameters on ...
by polka
Wed Apr 13, 2022 12:52 pm
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: Forth
Replies: 33
Views: 12486

Re: Forth

This program (that I finally named FOLLY - why not ?) was first written for ComputerOne FORTH and with french keywords. I converted it here for SupperForth idiosyncrasies and with english keywords. It's all about teaching young children how to code with the simplest programming langage - and for the...
by polka
Mon Apr 11, 2022 10:30 am
Forum: Software & Programming
Topic: 2 New Videos - Forth and Supercharge
Replies: 5
Views: 1700

Re: 2 New Videos - Forth and Supercharge

Hi all, Hi There, I'm the guy who did the Computer One Forth clip on YouTube... Indeed it is not, strictly speaking available freely, in the PD I intend to show other Retro-Forth systems including SuperForth for QL By the way, I am the one who discovered the bugs in Computer One Forth and after corr...
by polka
Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:51 am
Forum: General QL Chat
Topic: 50 Years of BASIC
Replies: 5
Views: 2214

Re: 50 Years of BASIC

It is interesting to compare these versions of BASIC to the different Sinclair BASIC's. I knew that some early BASICs did not require the LET command (which ZX81 and Spectrum require), but I did not know that some did not require a GOTO after a THEN statement, like: 200 IF X > 10 THEN 240 It could ...
by polka
Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:36 pm
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: Neither FORTH nor QL
Replies: 12
Views: 3862

Re: Neither FORTH nor QL

Hi all, My apologies for initiating all this tumult, I will not do it again. The pertinent question is HI, Could Oberon be ported to the QL? As you can see, following the two hopefully "legal" links I gave in the first post of this thread, you may install on a Pi a "freeware" Cer...
by polka
Thu Aug 19, 2021 8:37 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: Neither FORTH nor QL
Replies: 12
Views: 3862

Re: Neither FORTH nor QL

Well, the link to download this book is on the home page of Prof. Wirth himself (with a lot of other very interesting documents he authored with his disciples). Links removed again. Sorry. See below for details. (Separate post). I saw elsewhere (but I will have to find it again) that these documents...
by polka
Wed Aug 18, 2021 3:34 pm
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: Neither FORTH nor QL
Replies: 12
Views: 3862

Re: Neither FORTH nor QL

"... a traitor for porting Pascal to C ..." ? No ! this is merely an emulator for the Ceres workstation (developped by Wirth at the ETH Zurich end 80s), comprising its operating system,its framework of dynamic modules and an Oberon compiler. So when you run it on a Pi (or elsewhere), you ...
by polka
Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:04 pm
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: Neither FORTH nor QL
Replies: 12
Views: 3862

Neither FORTH nor QL

Some of you seem to be much interested in Pascal AND object orientation… on the QL ? Or on bigger machines QL oriented ? Even if it means cross-compilation ? The Pascal stem was essentially the work of Niklaus Wirth who created : Algol(1960),Pascal(1970),Modula2(1979),Oberon(1985),Oberon2(1992),Blac...
by polka
Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:01 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: QL on the Raspberry Pi...?
Replies: 77
Views: 24425

Re: QL on the Raspberry Pi...?

Two other Screen shots in 8 colors mode, of a FORTH program that I wrote for 8 years old kids (my daughter's class) to show them how to code (in FORTH, indeed). 2021-07-07-174109_1920x1080_scrot.png 2021-07-07-175627_1920x1080_scrot.png As it runs on ComputerOne FORTH and in french, give me some tim...
by polka
Thu Jul 08, 2021 10:51 am
Forum: QL Emulation
Topic: QL on the Raspberry Pi...?
Replies: 77
Views: 24425

Re: QL on the Raspberry Pi...?

Hi, I compiled sQLux on a Raspberry PI Zero v1.2, which was slow, but worked okay. The emulator runs better on faster RPIs uqlx actually runs quite well on the original RPI. For the intended application, however, there's a significant flaw: uqlx doesn't really emulate MODE 8 on the emulated QL. Tob...