Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: lynx Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: blocks and screens, tell your war stories Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <878uhdum3e.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> Reply-To: rinkasu@kaze.void.null NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1422210352 16248 166.84.1.5 (25 Jan 2015 18:25:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:25:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:36014 In Mark Wills writes: >I haven't looked at it. For a long, it wouldn't even run on most PCs. I think you're talking about the original "native" colorForth. The GA system (ArrayForth) for Windows seems to run on virtually all Windows PCs just fine, although the "native" version is probably as fickle as the original colorForth. >I think Polyforth can (now) be used as a an alternative means of >programming the GA devices (to paying customers). polyForth is included with the ArrayForth download on the GA website. As is eForth. Full source included. They were not sold separately by GA.