FORTH on the HP-75C

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

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.

Here is my list of Forth Systems that run on an unmodified Atari Portfolio:

• FIG Forth 8086-1A
• FIG Forth 8088-1B
• DX-FORTH -
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• hForth86 -
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• UniForth -
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• GNU Forth 5.0 8086 Target
• VolksForth - volks4th.arc

Not tested:

• eForth
• zenForth

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