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Category: volksForth revivalSubmitted by: : cas
 volksForth 3.81.03 Atari 8bit (2006)    Popular"
VolksForth Atari 8-bit Readme

Version 1.1
13. August 2006 (cas)

VolksForth is a 16bit Forth System
produced by the german Forth
Gesellschaft e.V. Main development
of this system was done between 1985
until 1989. The VolksForth Project was
revived in 2005 with the goal to
produce a managable Forthsystem for
computer systems with restricted system
resources.

Some modern Forth Systems were influenced
by or were derived from VolksForth
(GNU-Forth, bigForth).

The current Version of VolskForth is 3.81.
Work on Version 3.90 has started.

At this time VolksForth is available
for this Systems:

VolksForth MS-DOS (Intel x86
Architecture
i8086-ia64)

VolksForth 6502 (Commodore 64,
Commodore Plus 4,
Atari 8bit, Apple I)

VolksForth Z80 (CP/M,
Schneider CPC CP/M)

VolksForth 68000 (Atari ST)

VolksForth is in work for this Systems:

VolksForth MS-DOS (Atari Portfolio)
VolksForth 6502 (Apple II)
VolksForth Z80 (Schneider CPC AMSDOS)
VolksForth 68000 (Mac Classic)

Copyright

The VolksForth Sources are made avail-
able under the terms of the BSD License
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

The Handbook is Copyright (c)
1985 - 2006 Forth Gesellschaft e.V.
( Klaus Schleisiek, Ulrich Hoffmann,
Bernd Pennemann, Georg Rehfeld and
Dietrich Weineck).

The Handbook, binary Files and Source-
code for VolksForth as well as Informa-
tion about Forth Gesellschaft are
available on the Forth Gesellschaft
Webserver at http://www.forth-ev.de/

(most of the Information is still
in german. We are planning to provide
future versions with full englisch
documentation)

Information and Help about the Program-
ming Language Forth can be found in the
Internet, starting with the Website of
the Forthgesellschaft, or in the Usenet
Forum de.comp.lang.forth
(via Google Groups:
http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.lang.forth )

Details on VolksForth 6502
(Atari 8bit)

* Requirements
Atari 8bit with 48 KB RAM, Floppy
Atari 800, 800XL, Atari 130 XE
600XL (+ Atari 1064),

* Files

This is list of VolksForth Files in
this Distribution.

DISK 1:

DOS.SYS
DUP.SYS - Atari DOS 2.5
VFORTH.COM - the plain volksForth
kernel
4TH.COM - volksForth binary
STAR4TH.COM - volksForth with
SPARTA/REAL/BEWE
DOS Extensions
DEBUG.COM - volksForth with
Debug Tools
(Tracer etc)
CALL.F - Sourcecode for CALL,
to call Machine-
language Suproutines
CREATE.F - Sourcecode for CREATE
DIR.F - Sourcecode for DIR and
DIR" Commands, to list
Diskdirectories
AS65.F - Sourcecode for the
resident 6502 Assembler
TAS65.F - Sourcecode for the
transient 6502 Assembler
(living in HEAP)
SAVESYS.F - Sourcecode for
SAVE-SYSTEM command
SIEVE.F - Primes Sieve Benchmark
4TH.F - Build volksForth binary
from plain kernel
README.TXT - This Text
COPYING - License Information

Disk 2
DOS.SYS
DUP.SYS - Atari DOS 2.5
4TH.COM - volksForth binary
COPYING - License Information
DEBUG.F - Script to build an
volksForth with
DEBUGGER
TAS65.F - Sourcecode for the
transient 6502 Assembler
(living in HEAP)
CREATE.F - Sourcecode for CREATE
TOOLS.F - Debugging Tools
TRACER.F - Interactive Tracer
DEBUGT.F - more Debugging Tools
SEE.F - build Decompiler without
Disassembler
SEE2.F - built Decompiler with
Disassembler
DISAS.F - 6502 Disassembler
DECOMP.F - volksForth Decompiler
DIS.F - build 6502 Disassembler
MTASK.F - volksForth Multitasker
MTDEMO.F - Multitask Demo
"RatRace"
CALL.F - Sourcecode for CALL,
to call Machine-
language Suproutines
SPARTA.F - Sparta/Real/BEWE-DOS
Support
LAUNCH.F - Sparta DOS CLI
Support
SPAR4TH.F - Build volksForth with
Sparta-DOS Support
TEST.F
TEST2.F
TEST3.F - Test Files for
nested INCLUDE"

* Editor
This verion of volksForth for Atari
8bit does not contain an Editor for
Sourcecode. An Forth Editor will be
supplied for Version 3.90. We
recommend Ken Siders KEDIT
( http://atari.ksiders.tzo.com/ )
or the CompyShop Editor.

* Emulator
VolksForth 6502 Atari 8bit 3.81 has
been tested in the Atari 8bit Emulator
"Atari800" (atari800.sourceforge.net)

The Forth Live-Linux CD-ROM (available
in the Downloadsection of the Forth
Gesellschaft Website) includes the
current Versions of VolksForth direct
usable without Installation including
the Handbooks as PDF-Files.

Have fun with VolksForth
the VolksForth Team


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