FORTH on the BBC Microcomputer [Remastered PDF]

[dv8]

Attached is a remastered PDF of the book FORTH on the BBC Microcomputer and Acorn Electron by Richard de Grandis-Harrison.

The zip file contains an SSD disc image with listings and examples from the book, along with a copy of the FORTH ROM.
See below for instructions on using this disc.

Forth_on_the_BBC_Microcomputer.pdf

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FORTH_103.rom

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Forth_on_the_BBC_Microcomputer_Listings.zip

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Other remastered books in this series you may be interested in:

LISP on the BBC Microcomputer
COMAL on the BBC Microcomputer
BCPL for the BBC Microcomputer


Using the listings disc image

The disc must be used from within FORTH. All the listings are on screens 1 through 52.
To get an overview of the contents of each screen enter these commands:

3 MODE
1 LIST
2 LIST

Each line in this index shows a description of a screen, its associated page number in the book and the LOAD command that should be used to read that screen into memory.

For example, the recursive graphic pattern demo from page 139 of the book appears in the index as:

30 LOAD ( p139 Graphics demo - Recursive pattern )

To run this demo enter the commands:

30 LOAD
PLOT-IT

Note that some listings require words from previous screens to already be in the dictionary. For example, the double-precision word FACT on screen 26 requires the word MD* from screen 3. These can be loaded together with the command:

3 LOAD 26 LOAD

[lurkio]

Well, pop my stack! This is brilliance, once again!

[flaxcottage]

What Lurkio says goes for me too.

What process do you use to do this - hardware/software. I ask because I do a lot of documentation for the educational archive and I am always willing to learn new trick.

[dv8]

What process do you use to do this - hardware/software. I ask because I do a lot of documentation for the educational archive and I am always willing to learn new trick.

All my 'remastered' PDFs are re-creations of the original book, completely typeset from scratch in a DTP application.
As you can imagine, it's a bit more involved than a typical scanning project. I outlined the process in this post.

[Lardo Boffin]

Wow!

[flaxcottage]

That is a labour of love!

[dv8]

I've now added an SSD disc image to the top post containing the listings and examples from the book.

[james]

There's a small addendum for the ROM-based version in the ROM fitting instructions.

It doesn't seem to add anything earth-shattering (new words giving details of the current file system and memory limits). But should anybody need it, there a copy on 8BS. See "Acornsoft - Forth, Fitting Instructions (SBL/13b)" at http://8bs.com/othrdnld/manuals/applications.shtml or direct PDF

[nicolagiacobbe]

Thanks, that' a nice job.