| 4IM: Standalone Forth (neither ANS compliant nor ColorForth) for PC. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| Abundance package; BBL Forth: Downloads: 3 programs, 1 library. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| ciforth: Forth implementation for Intel microprocessors. |
| ColdForth Kernel: For Motorola ColdFire chips. [Open source, Artistic/GPL] |
| Compilers: Forth compilers, dozens, FTP downloadable, at Taygeta Scientific, Inc. |
| Delta Forth .NET compiler: Forth compiler for the .NET platform. [Open source]. |
| Dragon Forth: ANS Forth 94 translator for PalmOS. |
| 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. |
| eForth: Linux, FreeBSD: Unofficial eForth for Linux 2.0.x and FreeBSD 2.0.5, using Wil Baden's pinhole optimizer. |
| Embedded Forth Compilers: Forth systems for AVR, PIC and MSP430. |
| 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. |
| F68KANS: By HARDCODE Development; portable Forth development system for Motorola 680x0, supports ANSI; includes source, documentation, tools; free download. |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Forth Script: Server-side web scripting engine based on Forth. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| ForthOS: TUNES project Wiki page; many links, little description, on Forth OSs. |
| FVM Factory: Tool set to build customized embedded interpreters (Forth Virtual Machine) written in C language; bytecode cross-compiler for customizing; interpreter usually uses about 2K bytes. Open source. |
| guiforth: Customized version of pForth that provides bindings to the FLTK library. |
| hForth - A Small, Portable ANS Forth: Article of Wonyong Koh. Originally published inForth Dimensions XVIII/2, 30. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Holon Lite: Free, full function demonstration version of Holon-86, which builds target programs on DOS platforms. You can use it for real programming. |
| HYPE: Very simple object oriented Forth implementation, by Helge Horch. |
| 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. |
| IsForth: Because Forth IS! Free, 32-bit, direct threaded Forth compiler for x86. Other processors to be supported. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| myForth Java Applet: Online forth interpreter implemented as Java applet. |
| pbForth: Programmable Brick Forth, by Hempel Design Group; replacement firmware for Lego Mindstorms: FAQ, mail list, GUI interface, and tutorial in pdf format. |
| Pet4th: Petrus Prawirodidjojo's Forth based on eforth for DOS and Windows. |
| 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. |
| PicForth: Forth compiler for the Microchip PIC 16f87x microcontrollers family. |
| PLForth: An implementation of Forth on the Power Macintosh. The interpreter is available as plain text source code and many example programs exist. |
| 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. |
| 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] |
| Power MacForth: 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. |
| ProForth VFX: Very fast ANS standard Windows Forth. By MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Simtel.net: DOS: Forth: About 20 downloads, 9 different Forth implementations for DOS. |
| SP-Forth: ANS compliant Win32 multithreaded Forth system. Released under GPL on SourceForge. |
| 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. |
| SwiftX: By FORTH, Inc. Integrated cross-development environment for embedded systems. Runs on Windows, supports many target CPUs, custom versions available often in days. |
| Taygeta-Archive - hForth: Collection hForth versions. |
| 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. |
| tForth FAQ: Forth with parallel facilities for the INMOS range of Transputers. An overview, or FAQ of sorts. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Yerk FTP site: Free downloads of Neon/Yerk Object Oriented Forth. |
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