Here is another one. I have an HP-75C and heard that HP had an unsupported FORTH for this machine. Anyone know about this? Thanks.
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Here is another one. I have an HP-75C and heard that HP had an unsupported FORTH for this machine. Anyone know about this? Thanks.
Yet another one. I have this Atari Portfolio, bought when it had become surplus. This thingy has all the features of a good palmtop, that you can't buy anywhere: Standard AA cells, so you can use rechargable batteries. Over a full day of battery life. Non-back light, visible in direct sunlight Reasonable keyboard in querty layout. Sturdy as hell.
The only palmtop I know off that could serve a whole day on the beach, and survives.
Now it is extremely closed, and limited (128 kbyte for data). Has anyone succeeded in getting a Forth onto it?
I would love to replace the innards with a 1 Mbyte RAM
1 Gbyte flash system. Does anyone even have a hint how to even open the case?Groetjes Albert
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Well, except for the keyboard, the Palm IIIx or Handspring Visor (both of which I own) meet all of those criteria. The Palm IIIx battery life was a few months with normal use and it has a very nice Forth (Quartus) which I used for many happy hours, sitting on the beach. Unfortunately, everything seems to be moving away from long battery life and toward flashy graphics (which I don't need) and MP3 playback (which I also don't need).
Ed
Hello Albert,
yes, I run forth on the Atari Portfolio. There are several Forth systems that run, I can assemble and send you my collection of PoFo Programming languages if you like.
I have a PoFo Upgraded to 512 KB -->
Ciao
Carsten
Sure. There's both a Mini Forth and UniForth for the Atari Portfolio:
Basically, the Atari Portfolio is a MS-DOS PC, so it should be possible to port any DOS 8086 Forth to it.
-- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
Here is my list of Forth Systems that run on an unmodified Atari Portfolio:
Not tested:
I send you a package with my PoFo Forth Directory.
I would be interested to work on a Forth Version, maybe based on VolksForth, with special support for the Atari Portolio Machines (Tiny Screen Editor, Graphics, Special BIOS calls ...)
Ciao
Carsten Strotmann
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