VolksForth Readme

VolksForth is a 16bit Forth System produced by the German Forth Gesellschaft e.V.

The main repository lives here: https://github.com/forth-ev/VolksForth

Major 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 VolksForth is 3.81. Version 3.9.x will be interim versions on the way to sync all VolksForth targets and move towards compliance with the 2012 Forth standard.

Version 3.8.x is based on the Forth 83 standard, Version 4.00 will be based on the current 2012 Standard (https://forth-standard.org).

At this time VolksForth is available for this Systems:

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  VolksForth MS-DOS (Intel x86 architecture i8086/i186/i286/i386/i486 etc)
  


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  VolksForth 6502 (Commodore 64, Commodore Plus 4, Commander X16, Apple 1, Apple ][, Atari XL/XE)
  


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  VolksForth Z80 (CP/M, Schneider CPC)
  


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  VolksForth 68000 (Atari ST, Amiga with EmuTOS)
  

Copyright

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

The Handbook is Copyright (c) 1985 - 2020 Forth Gesellschaft e.V. ( Klaus Schleisiek, Ulrich Hoffmann, Bernd Pennemann, Georg Rehfeld, Dietrich Weineck, Carsten Strotmann).

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

Have fun with VolksForth the VolksForth Team

Version 3.9.4 migrates the Commander X16 version of VolksForth to the Kernal version R41 and the new prototype #2 board.

It also reduces the use of and dependency on Kernal variables in RAM. One dependency on the location of IOStatus (0x0289) is still needed; I'll open a discussion with Michael Steil about this as I believe it'll need a fix in the Kernal to an old CBM Kernal bug.