Abundance
Forth-based, data-entry, data-base, screen-handling language. Automatically handles routine housekeeping that usually accounts for 90% of interactive application code. All Abundance programs can jaunt (run backward in time).
url: www.mindprod.com/article.html
Abundance package; BBL Forth
Downloads: 3 programs, 1 library.
url: www.mindprod.com/products.html#ABUNDANCE
aha
An expression used to convey an epiphany felt on the sudden manifestation of the essence of meaning of something. Heuristic architecture; holistic approach using hardware and software methods developed by Moore: descriptions of compiler, system, optimizing editor for F21.
url: www.ultratechnology.com/aha.htm
amrForth: 8051, 80C16x, 6811
By AM Research, Inc. Base 8051 is full function shareware. Over 25 CPUs supported by commercial version in DOS or Win95/NT. Only 2.3K of program memory and 128 bytes of CPU RAM has full screen Editor, serial communications, interpretor, ROM-able in multiple formats, automatic baud rate computing, single stepping debugger, disassembler.
url: www.amresearch.com/software.html
ATLAST
Autodesk Threaded Language Application System Toolkit. By John Walker. Attempt to make software component technology and open architecture applications commonplace in the mainstream software market. Based on FORTH-83, written in C. Public domain.
url: www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/
Aztec Forth
Minimal (and unmaintained) system for using Forth on Microsoft 32 bits operating systems.
url: tww.cx/azintro.php
bigFORTH+MINOS
Native code, 32-bit Forth for Linux or Windows 95/98/NT/2000, with MINOS graphic user interface, and Theseus rapid GUI development editor. GPL, on SourceForge.
url: bigforth.sourceforge.net/
cForth
For Unix, written in C, by Allan Pratt, 1992.11.04 version; on LEO.
url: archiv.leo.org/pub/comp/usenet/comp.sources.unix/c...
chipFORTH
By COMSOL: Computer Solutions Ltd. Interactive high-level software development environment for embedded micro-processors and -controllers: unique combination of high level language, realtime operating system, PC based compiler, interactive environment.
url: www.forthinc.demon.co.uk/chipdev/cf.htm
ciforth
Forth implementation for Intel microprocessors.
url: home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst/ciforth.html
ColdForth Kernel
For Motorola ColdFire chips. [Open source, Artistic/GPL]
url: www.forth.org.ru/~mlg/forth.cx/WasOnline/forth_cx....
Compilers
Forth compilers, dozens, FTP downloadable, at Taygeta Scientific, Inc.
url: www.taygeta.com/forthcomp.html
D
An interactive compiler based on Forth running on MacOS X. It features native code compilation, built-in help system and seamless integration of assembler.
url: people.ee.ethz.ch/~danengel/d/
Delta Forth .NET compiler
Forth compiler for the .NET platform. [Open source].
url: www.dataman.ro/dforth/
Dragon Forth
ANS Forth 94 translator for PalmOS.
url: www.delosoft.com/fs.exe?action=index.f&dir=/pa...
dsForth
By DELOSOFT.COM. Supports: all Win32 (CE/9x/ME/NT/2000, CE emulators), Intel/MIPS/SH3/StrongARM CPUs. ANS'94 compliant, current language standard. Multithreaded core. Compatible with SP-Forth/3.x and libraries. Self-hosted development: compiler and console run directly on target platform (a portable device), needs no PC for WinCE development.
url: www.delosoft.com/
eForth: Linux, FreeBSD
Unofficial eForth for Linux 2.0.x and FreeBSD 2.0.5, using Wil Baden's pinhole optimizer.
url: home.iae.nl/users/mhx/eforth.html
Embedded Forth Compilers
Forth systems for AVR, PIC and MSP430.
url: www.ram-tech.co.uk/
Enth
The n'th Forth: experimental Forth written as stand alone system for 80386 PCs and above, tested on some Pentium and Athlon desktops, laptops; from Sean Pringle 'The State of Flux' website. Basis for Flux variant of colorForth.
url: www.ynet.com.au/sean/
ficl
Forth Inspired Command Language, ANS Forth interpreter in C. Use: scripting language to embed in other systems as object-oriented command/macro/development prototype language. Descriptions, many documents, downloads. [SourceForge]
url: ficl.sourceforge.net/
ficl/ecos: ZOG
C version of ficl (Forth Inspired Command Language), runs on eCos OS; eCos and Forth can be small, ZOG is under 150K with author setup: i386, floppy booting. Added words: inb, outb. Tiny description, downloads: source, floppy image.
url: www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/
FIJI ForthIsh Java Interpreter
Written in Java, full GPL source. Runs in command line or AWT window. Accepts syntax like Forth language and uses reference stack to push and pop all parameters to its functions. Can create Java objects and call methods on them from FIJI stack.
url: fiji.sourceforge.net/
Firmware Factory Embedded Development Environment
Public domain Windows 95/98/NT based development environment for ultra-flexible embedded firmware, for microcontrollers. Loosely based on the IEEE1275 Open Firmware, but fits nicely on an 8-bit 8031 system: under 10k.
url: www.tinyboot.com/
F68KANS
By HARDCODE Development; portable Forth development system for Motorola 680x0, supports ANSI; includes source, documentation, tools; free download.
url: www.hardcode.de/us/index.html
Forth Script
Server-side web scripting engine based on Forth.
url: sourceforge.net/projects/forth-script/
ForthCAD
By Bureau d'Etudes (engineering and design department) Melice SPRL. ForthCAD-3D (French), 2D/3D Computer Aided Design software. ForthCAD-Pager (English), simple, accurate, reliable, low cost 2D editor, comes with new modular 3D CAD product line, evaluation/upgrade download.
url: www.forthcad.com/
ForthCMP
Tom Almy's Forth compiler for x86 targets. Not interpreted: compiles to machine code (built-in assembler), written in Forth; very compact, fast, mature, stable.
url: www.almy.us/forthcmp.html
ForthOS
TUNES project Wiki page; many links, little description, on Forth OSs.
url: www2.tunes.org/cgi-bin/TunesWiki?ForthOS
ForthOS
Begun as Andy Valencia eForth x86 port, 32-bit mode, was runnable under DOS DJGPP 32-bit extender; stalled for years then resumed to adapt to GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB), environment was improved to give ForthOS. Description, download, links.
url: www.forthos.org/
Froth
Experimental Forth development system for PC, runs in protected mode under DOS, written in 386 assembler, powerful built-in source editor, tools for cross-reference can modify source automatically. Can make stand-alone DOS applications: .exe files.
url: singla.us/dos-froth
FVM
Forth-like system for the MSP430 (and other processors such 386)
url: singla.us/fvm430/
guiforth
Customized version of pForth that provides bindings to the FLTK library.
url: sourceforge.net/projects/guiforth/
hForth - A Small, Portable ANS Forth
Article of Wonyong Koh. Originally published inForth Dimensions XVIII/2, 30.
url: www.taygeta.com/hforth.html
HMSL: Hierarchical Music Specification Language
Object oriented set of extensions to Forth, for experimental music composition and performance. For any Macintosh, and 1 Meg RAM.
url: www.softsynth.com/hmsl/
Holon
By Wolf Wejgaard Forth Engineering. New, Forth-based instant programming tool and interactive programming method that lets you build reliable programs in very little time; merges all parts of a powerful development tool: browser, editor, assembler, compiler, linker, debugger, interpreter.
url: www.holonforth.com/
Holon Lite
Free, full function demonstration version of Holon-86, which builds target programs on DOS platforms. You can use it for real programming.
url: dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/holon.html
HYPE
Very simple object oriented Forth implementation, by Helge Horch.
url: home.netsurf.de/helge.horch/hype.html
iForth FAQ
Very fast, multi-platform, full 32-bit Forth: 4 GByte flat address space, subroutine threading, runs on any Intel compatible CPU '386+'387 or more, and on DOS, Linux, Windows NT.
url: home.iae.nl/users/mhx/i4faq.html
4IM
Standalone Forth (neither ANS compliant nor ColorForth) for PC.
url: membres.lycos.fr/astrobe/
IsForth
Because Forth IS! Free, 32-bit, direct threaded Forth compiler for x86. Other processors to be supported.
url: isforth.clss.net/
JaxForth; VWin4th
Three Jack J. Woehr implementations. JaxForth/Jax4th: ANSI Standard Forth for Amiga, Windows. VWin4th: 1994 tiny demo Forth written in Digitalk Smalltalk for Windows, source only. Also, author's book and many good links.
url: www.well.com/~jax/rcfb/forth.html
JForth: Martin Randall
Free, subroutine threaded language and full programming environment for Amiga: several tutorials, on-line manuals, large professional quality manual, FAQs. Site has links, programs, history. Was sold commercially by Delta Research.
url: home.tampabay.rr.com/jforth/
JForth: SoftSynth.com
By Delta Research, subroutine threaded Forth for Amiga, originally a commercial product now released as freeware: register and download, technical support, applications, review by Jack Woehr, links.
url: www.softsynth.com/jforth/
kForth
Programming language and environment; implements large subset of ANS Forth, and extensions; can be standalone computing environment or object code can be linked to other programs to be a customizable language for that program.
url: ccreweb.org/software/kforth/kforth.html
lib4th
Forth for i586-PC-Linux: kernel shared library, realtime, multitasking, executable code compiling Forth system. Written in Intel style assembly language (NASM); designed not for portability, but for efficiency. Open source.
url: www.lxhp.in-berlin.de/lhpf8.html
lpForth
Runs on Linux OS, similar to eForth. Goals: simple, easy to understand first, speed and elegance later; able to call functions (procedures) in dynamic linked library (.so files). Download, development forum.
url: 206.171.116.227/forth/lpforth.html
Max-Forth
Documentation with all Forth words indexed, defined; in text and PDF. V3.5E is for F68HC11, has words for EEPROM. V5.0 is for 68HC12, has words for fuzzy logic instructions, flash memory; maximally modeled after v3.5E.
url: www.ee.ualberta.ca/%7Erchapman/MFwebsite/V50/Alpha...
Meme
By Immersive Systems, Inc. Free, Forth-based, extensible, networked virtual reality software; portable, platform-independent standard for networked virtual reality (VR); fast, compact, self-contained. Free downloads.
url: www.immersive.com/
Misty Beach Forth
Written in Java, so its interpreter can be embedded in a WWW HTML page and launched as an applet, to show that almost any programming language can be implemented in Java and not suffer unacceptable performance losses; documentation, downloads as a Forth Java applet.
url: www.mistybeach.com/products/Forth/index.html
MMSFORTH
By Miller Microcomputer Services. Forth virtual machine; standalone total software environment; traditional Forth features: compactness, flexibility, speed; many extensions with source code; unusual smoothness, support. And Forth software, books, links.
url: www.millermicro.com/mmsforth.html
Mops
A public-domain programming system for Mac OS X. It is a native code dialect of ANS Forth with significant enhancements to the OOP model employed in Neon/Yerk.
url: www.powermops.org/
MPE Forth
By MicroProcessor Engineering, Ltd. Runs on Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000, targets embedded systems; VFX optimizing code generator on selected targets; flexible target memory management; standalone PowerForth target with its own compiler, interpreter.
url: www.mpeltd.demon.co.uk/forth6.htm
mxForth
Very efficient Forth compiler, source code loosely based on Bill Muench's bForth. For Linux, Windows NT. Generated with the META program, a free metacompiler written in Forth. Free with iForth.
url: home.iae.nl/users/mhx/mxforth.html
myForth Java Applet
Online forth interpreter implemented as Java applet.
url: mywebpage.netscape.com/mawcowboy/
OSSCA: Virtual Machine
Proprietary smartcard OS, based on tokenized version of ANSI Forth. By Keycorp, maker of smartcards, smartcard- and IP-enabled payment terminals, software for e-commerce transaction routing, secure Internet payment systems.
url: www.keycorp.net/Products/Smartcards/OperatingSyste...
pbForth
Programmable Brick Forth, by Hempel Design Group; replacement firmware for Lego Mindstorms: FAQ, mail list, GUI interface, and tutorial in pdf format.
url: www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbForth/
Pet4th
Petrus Prawirodidjojo's Forth based on eforth for DOS and Windows.
url: www.geocities.com/petrusp_id/forth.html
pForth
Portable, public domain, ANS Forth based on kernel written in ANSI C for portability: for x86 PC, Mac, Amiga; Linux, BeOS; Sun, SGI Indys; Nokia Communicator; 3DO ARM and PowerPC, WebTV, Hitachi SH4, OpenTV prototypes, internal Lucent projects.
url: www.softsynth.com/pforth/
PForth3: A Little Forth In Perl
Incomplete Forth implementation in Perl, allowing you to access Perl from Forth.
url: members.cts.com/crash/b/billk/pforth/
PicForth
Forth compiler for the Microchip PIC 16f87x microcontrollers family.
url: www.rfc1149.net/devel/picforth.html.en
Pocket Forth
Free, small implementation for Macintosh, by Chris Heilman. With floating point math, apple events, and full toolbox availability, quick implementation of powerful yet small applications is easy and fast.
url: chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/pocket.html
Portable Forth Environment: PFE
Based on ANSI Forth Standard, fully multithreaded, has module system, can load C objects at runtime to extend dictionary, best for embedded uses. Descriptions, history, links. [Open Source, LGPL]
url: pfe.sourceforge.net/
postForth
Easy to port Forth kernel with deferred binding like postscript, to allow top-down design outside the assembly language core. Two major design goals for core: 400 or less lines of source, for the x86 version; and 1K or less compiled size.
url: storm.prohosting.com/jcomeau/www/domains/risp.org/...
Power MacForth
By FORTH, Inc. Highly optimized programming environment for any Power PC running Macintosh OS: high-speed execution, flexible internal multitasking, RISC assembler gives direct access to native CPU architecture for top speed.
url: www.forth.com/Content/Products/MacForth.htm
ProForth VFX
Very fast ANS standard Windows Forth. By MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd.
url: www.mpeltd.demon.co.uk/pfwvfx.htm
Pygmy Forth; 3-instruction Forth
Two Frank Sergeant implementations. Pygmy Forth: small, for IBM PCs, full source code. 3-instruction Forth for 68HC11, FORML 1991 with updates.
url: www.eskimo.com/~pygmy/forth.html
QED Forth
By Mosaic Industries, Inc.: interactive interpreter, compiler, assembler, debugger speeds programming, testing. Resources callable from Forth/C: automatic system initialization, multitasking executive, heap memory manager, extensive libraries of device drivers and interrupt support routines.
url: www.mosaic-industries.com/
Quartus Forth
Was PilotFORTH; for 3Com PalmPilot and IBM WorkPad handheld PDAs: 16-bit on-board native-code ISO/ANSI compliant Standard Forth subset compiler, compiles directly to machine language, giving far faster code than traditional threaded implementations. Full support for Palm GUI resources, seamless access to all 828 Palm OS ROM routines. Registered version allows creating fast, compact stand-alone executables, PRC's, no run-time module needed.
url: www.quartus.net/products/forth/
Shell Forth: SFORTH
An x86 (IA32) forth system that will replace the shell of a Linux OS; binary download, SFORTH WWWBoard. Release date: 2004-06-30.
url: sforth.hypermart.net/
Simtel.net: DOS: Forth
About 20 downloads, 9 different Forth implementations for DOS.
url: www.simtel.net/pub/msdos/forth/
SMAL32
(rar) From Russia, by Alexandr Larionov.
url: www.forth.ru/small32/small32.99.12.16.rar
SP-Forth
ANS compliant Win32 multithreaded Forth system. Released under GPL on SourceForge.
url: sourceforge.net/projects/spf/
strongForth
Strong static type checking: interpreter and compiler check if functions match operands on the stack, to find type errors at compile time. Allows operator overloading by using the same name for different words. Text only. Much like ANS Forth. In MiscTech downloads.
url: home.t-online.de/home/s.becher/forth/
SwiftForth
By FORTH, Inc. Very fast ANS compliant Forth development environment fully integrated with Windows 95/98/NT. Capable of as much real-time performance as Windows can support. 32-bit subroutine-threaded with direct code expansion for speed.
url: www.forth.com/Content/Products/SwForth/SwForth.htm
SwiftX
By FORTH, Inc. Integrated cross-development environment for embedded systems. Runs on Windows, supports many target CPUs, custom versions available often in days.
url: www.forth.com/Content/Products/SwiftX/SwiftX.htm
Taygeta-Archive - hForth
Collection hForth versions.
url: ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/languages/programming/forth/...
TDS-PC
By Triangle Digital Services. Forth development environment for embedded computer PROMs, for use with TDS2020; DOS and Windows versions; causes PC to emulate a terminal, source code displays in multiple windows, is passed to serial link.
url: www.triangledigital.com/tdspc.htm
tForth FAQ
Forth with parallel facilities for the INMOS range of Transputers. An overview, or FAQ of sorts.
url: home.iae.nl/users/mhx/t4faq.html
4tH compiler-interpreter
The friendly Forth compiler/interpreter: detects virtually every error and reports what and where they occur, but is still fast and compact. Uses only signed 32 bit numbers. DOS, Windows, Unix.
url: www.xs4all.nl/~thebeez/4tH/
Timbre
Script driven translator engine: uses rules and rule sets to set how to transform input into output; used for language translating, target and meta-compiling, code verification, binary viewing, code documentation, RTF parsers and reformatters.
url: www.compusmart.ab.ca/rc/Timbre/timbre.htm
TpForth
Open source effort to make a comprehensive development and run-time environment for industrial systems, based on Forth. Goal: develop visual IDE with CASE and project management support, code analysis, native code generation, based on portable real-time VM supporting distributed and parallel applications.
url: www.tpforth.com/
Un*x Forth
Freeware, source code: Forth interpreter written in plain C code. Originally called Allan Pratt's C-Forth, extensively rewritten, fixed a few bugs, cleaned up source for the full-screen editor (written in Forth), and re-released.
url: www.immersive.com/marc/computing.html
Wfroth
Forth-like language and environment for writing interactive Forth cross-compilers for DSPs and some other CPUs, not stand-alone programs for PCs; written in C.
url: singla.us/froth/
WinForth
By COMSOL: Computer Solutions Ltd. Allows control of full range of Windows operations, API fully accessible: creating windows, graphics, colors, fonts, text, buttons and user interfacing via dialogues, keyboard and mouse.
url: www.forthinc.demon.co.uk/chipdev/winforth.htm
