On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:35:10PM +0100, John Avis wrote:
> Yes, I am the author and all my copies became
> damaged due a dodgy disk drive on my SAM.  I only now possess an earlier 
> version of it.

Wow!  I'd like to see this.  From what I know of Forth, I'm sure it
wouldn't be too hard for us to disassemble it...  Right?

> Simon Goodwin suggested some improvements to it.

Okay.  Sounds fun!  Someone must surely have a copy?

I've never really used Forth on any 8-bitter (only Sun's OBP).  How good
was compatability between different Forth implementations?  How were
programs saved -- as tokens, or plain text?

> I also have a version of Jupiter Ace Forth which ran on a SAM. It is not 
> an emulator and requires an amended version of the Jupiter Ace ROM. In 
> 1991 we were not sure of the legality of it, but the Ace ROM is now 
> freely available in the internet.

Ooh, I'd love to see that.  I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem, but how
'free' is it?

Thanks!
-- 
Stuart Brady

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