Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) (05/27/91)
> XForth, by Mitch Bradley, is a very nice system. Nice integration of an > Emacs editor, a LARGE Atari-specific word set, NICE decompiler... I keep > on starting to fool around with applications on other Forths, give up > because they're too unfriendly/buggy, and come back to XForth. If you want > to choose just one system that works real good (but may not be optimized > for ULTIMATE speed), XForth is your system. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! > XForth CAN do GEM/AES/VDI stuff, I'm not sure how well... I greatly appreciate the kind words, but I sort of wonder about the name "XForth". The real name is "Forthmacs" (suggesting the integration of Forth and EMACS). Perhaps the name "XForth" relates to the filename under which the system is available on some BBS system? The name "XForth" certainly doesn't appear anywhere on the distribution disk or in the documentation. Forthmacs is a shareware product. It is available on better Forth BBS systems. The shareware contribution is $50, which gets you an up-to-date disk, 200-page manual, newsletters (for all you existing customers out there, we are working on a new newsletter right now; sorry for the delay), and the right to buy extensions like floating point, source code, GEM version, turnkey application generator, etc. If you are downloading Forthmacs from a BBS, make sure you get version 1.1. Version 1.0 is useable, but 1.1 is better. Forthmacs is also available for Macintosh, Sun-3, Sun-4, OS-9, and NeXT. Mitch Bradley Bradley Forthware P.O. Box 4444 Mountain View, CA 94040