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Re: [colorforth] What's new?


would there be any interest in having a forum created for ventureforth,
colorforth, etc? I could throw one together pretty quick and put it on
colorforth.net 

Intellasys had a nice forum going too bad about its fate 

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:59:00 +0000, "Jason Kemp"
<jason.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hi Nick,
> > Activity seems to have shifted to the Intellasys site, where CF
> > will be merely one of several Forths for programming the
> > parallel chip. Ray StMarie is still managing a website, in
> > spite of difficulties.  Intellasys evaluation board looks
> > interesting for music making, but priced around $500 which is
> > twice the usual for an EV.
> >   
> Is there a mail list or news group for that? I read the comp.lang.forth 
> for a while but found there was too much spiteful hair-splitting and 
> nothing of any real value so left that one (I wasn&#8217;t on it for long 
> though so that might have been just a low season). Is there a group for 
> Intellasys Forths and have colorForth folk migrated there?
> 
> I&#8217;ve just skimmed the VentureForth Programmer&#8217;s Guide and it looks nice, 
> but no colour! So VF is a Forth equivalent of OCCAM? Is there a 
> colorForth for these chips? I can see these would be great for your 
> synthesizer. For me, I still want to master USB and TCP/IP, so Pentium 
> colorForth still seems the best educational approach, although I was 
> getting bogged down in the Pentium machine code which wouldn&#8217;t be a 
> problem on an Intellasys chip.
> > But CF on PC has been fun, instructive and useful. 
> >   
> So far I have found it fun and instructive too, but I haven&#8217;t yet 
> managed the &#8216;useful&#8217;!
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
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