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- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Forth for Amiga
- Message-ID: <BzA6nu.Koo@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:21:29 GMT
- References: <4170.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
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- In article <4170.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
- >Category 7, Topic 3
- >Message 76 Wed Dec 02, 1992
- >JTITTSLER [Jim] at 03:15 EST
- >
- >Is there a version of Forth available for the Amiga machines that completely
- >takes over the machine and does not rely on the operating system?
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- JForth has a complete assembly-language interface... two assemblers,
- both normal forward-parsing 68000 one and an RPN one.
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- It also allows access to all OS calls, devices, system structures, etc.
- in system-documentation-consistent ways, so you can program the same
- kind of 'takeover' program that you can in any other language.
-
- If you have C source for what you want to do, it's easy to port
- to jforth because a call like...
-
- MyWindow = OpenWindow(MyNewTemplate);
-
- converts to...
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- MyNewTemplate OpenWIndow() MyWindow !
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- JForth is only complete Forth interface to the Amiga, including
- ARexx, the hardware definitions, etc. All of it.
-
- Every C-style ".h" include file has an equivalent ".j" file
- in JForth... you use the same system define names as documented
- in Amiga literature.
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