Difference between revisions of "TurboForth"

Revision as of 00:15, 13 June 2015

TurboForth is by Mark Wills and can be placed in an EPROM in a module or it can run using a TI99/4a emulator. It is compliant with Forth 83.

TurboForth Features:

Fast execution
F83 Compliant
Built-in source code editor
31K of RAM free - TurboForth only uses 700 bytes of CPU RAM
Supports 40 column text mode
Supports 80 column text mode - including the editor (V9938/58 video card or F18A video chip required)
Supports 32 column text mode
32 sprites
True lower case character set
Speech supported - both from the Speech Synthesizer built in ROM or raw speech data
Supports blocks files up to 1MB
Blocks live in VDP memory, not CPU memory, leaving all of RAM free for your code
Up to 6 blocks in memory at one time
Built in block cache - TurboForth will not load a block if it's already in memory
Supports generic File I/O (Display, Variable, Internal, Fixed, Relative etc)
Up to 3 files open at once
Compatible with TI Disk controllers, Myarc Disk controllers, RAM Disks, hard disk drives (IDE and SCSI), CF7, CF7A, and nanoPEB

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-TurboForth is by Mark Wills and can be placed in an EPROM in a module or it can run using a TI99/4a emulator.  It is compliant with Forth 83.
+'''TurboForth''' is by Mark Wills and can be placed in an EPROM in a module or it can run using a TI99/4a emulator.  It is compliant with Forth 83.
 TurboForth Features:
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 * Compatible with TI Disk controllers, Myarc Disk controllers, RAM Disks, hard disk drives (IDE and SCSI), CF7, CF7A,  and nanoPEB
-More information at http://turboforth.net/
+More information at http://turboforth.net
+[[Category:Programming language]]