Hi, It's been a long time since the last release so I felt it's time for a new one.
The release 6.8 is an adventure release. It is for the brave ones. It contains experimental stuff that is not yet stabilized. It's more a snapshot release of a work in progress. I welcome feedback, patches etc. The RISC-V can now compile to RAM. The amforth-shell utility can be used to upload code, some examples that are close to the CPU are included. Note that the dictionary search is still awfully slow. A by-product of the work on the RISC-V is another platform that found it's way to amforth: ARM. First with an old Launchpad Stellaris board, nobody but me probably still owns, and later on Linux too. To be more precious it runs inside a qemu on a PC and nativly on a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi can build amforth with the standard binutils too. This opens a door to the fascinating world of the Linux platform from the lowest level up. Since it's not running bare metal, all features of Linux are available, as long as ... code gets written. There is no interface to C libs, hard core syscall swi#0 is the way to go, examples included :) Both 32-bit platforms share a great amount of code, and the build toolchain too. All that would not be possible without the work of Matthias Koch, the author of another great Forth system called mecrisp. His system is much more complex however, I like the simple ones better ;) All information about the new platforms is at the website http://amforth.sf.net/. What about the platforms AVR and MSP430? They got some small fixes, but nothing really breathtaking. Update is recommended, but not strictly necessary. Thanks to all, who contributed and kept the mailing list active. Your work is very appreciated! Have fun Matthias _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
