TurboForth
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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 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
More information at http://turboforth.net/