History¶

24.8.2016: release 6.3¶

core(AVR8): Use the standard Interrupt Service Routine for terminal input too. Makes re-definable with int!. Thanks to Erich for his longanimity on this and the prompt defers.
core(MSP430): Use the hardware multiplier if available. Add n>r and nr>.
lib(ALL): Chains: Lists of execution tokens.
core(ALL): The three prompt words are now system USER based defers: .ready for the >, .error if an error occured and .ok if everything was fine. See Prompts for more.

4.7.2016: release 6.2¶

core+lib(MSP430): New optional assembly (compile-time) words d2* and d2/.
core(ALL): renamed find-name ( addr len -- xt +/-1 | 0) to find-xt, compare to find-name ( addr len -- nt|0) to deal with name tokens.
core(MSP430): add pause to the usart IO words.
core(ALL): complete recognizer Rev. 3 adaption.

17.10.2015: release 6.1¶

core(ALL): Adapt postpone action of the recognizers to comply with Rev. 3. Change your recognizers accordingly.
core(MSP430): New devices MSP430 F5529 (Flash) and FR5969 (FRAM). See Texas Instruments LaunchPad 430.
core(MSP430): Extended VM Register A. See Extended VM
lib(ALL): Fix regressions in Rdefer and does>. Make quotations more robust in corner cases.

6.9.2015: release 6.0¶

core(ALL): Fix a few regressions like the TAB handling in accept.
core(AVR8): Fix forth-wordlist to return a valid wordlist id.
core(MSP430): many small changes to bring it closer to the AVR8. Still fits into 8KB flash.
- global variables like DP (HERE), STATE, HLD etc instead of USER variables-
- Same USER area layout. Including deferred words for terminal IO.
- complete wordlist support including search order and current.
- Emulate AVR EEPROM configuration with a info flash segment. Needs save to store the data permantly.
- Lots of common code, optimized versions of standard words if applicable.
- preparing for more MSP430 device types.

9.7.2015: release 5.9¶

lib: for and next. The i and j can be used as well.
core(AVR8): clear all RAM at cold.
core(MSP430): DEFER and VALUE were missing in release 5.8. pause and turnkey using them (RAM based, save-able to info flash).
core(All): ' uses the recognizer stack.
core(ALL): Fix regression in literal (broke e.g. quotations)

25.3.2015: release 5.8¶

core(MSP430): new :noname and the defer and value groups of commands.
core(All): words with the same name do the same (mostly).
core(AVR8): introduce <builds. Together with does> saves one flash erase cycle and makes the source work on the MSP430 as well.

1.2.2015: release 5.7¶

core(ALL): name>interpret and name>compile added. New Recognizer rec:name able to replace rec:word. Uses name tokens (Forth 2012) instead of execution tokens.
core(ALL): Lots of bugfixes and regressions. The AVR port should be fully usable again.
core(MSP430): restructure of the init process: cold now transfers the data from INFO flash back to RAM if BASE is set and SAVE was executed. That way the user code now correctly survives a restart. SAVE is much like marker that overwrites the previous state and gets no name.

22.12.2014: release 5.6¶

core(AVR): icompare got the same return flag semantics as compare. The leave and ?do forward branches are now resolved at compile time, saves one cell per loop on the return stack at runtime.
core(AVR): interrupt vectors are moved from RAM to EEPROM. Saves RAM space and simplifies turnkey actions (remove any int! from your turnkey!)
core: re-arranged source files: controller specific and common code.
New architecture: MSP430 (G2553) as used in the Texas Instruments LaunchPad 430 with code from Camelforth and 4€4th.
core: generalized existing Configuration Stacks in EEPROM into map-stack, get-stack and set-stack. Used for the search order and recognizer stacks.
all: changed license to GPLv3.

6.10.2014: release 5.5¶

core: Bugfix in warm to initialize the interpreter for turnkey. Thanks to David.
core: bugfixes for handling some negative numbers in +loop and */.
core: simplified assembly primitves for counted loops. They are now faster except for i. The return stack gets different numbers now.
core: rewrite of accept. The user visible change is that the final CR/LF is no longer sent here. The forth text interpreter does it elsewhere thus the user interface is unchanged.
core: Fixed a regression introduced after 5.1: a<b is not always the same as a-b<0.

16.8.2014: release 5.4¶

lib: Almost complete Blocks wordset support. Only a few dark corners behave differently.
lib: renamed TWI to I2C, added many tools for it I2C EEPROM VALUE, I2C EEPROM Blocks and a few more.
recipes: Test Driven Development with Amforth, Conditional Interpret
lib: Fully support the ANS94 String wordset.
core: Double cell return stack access words (2>r and 2r>) missed the internal swap’s. Added new 2r@.
lib: Limited LOCALs

7.5.2013: release 5.3¶

core: 2nd generation of Recognizer and their use for native String literals.
core: renamed edp to ehere. here points to data space, ehere points to eeprom data space.
core: merged code for defer’s and value’s. Speed improvements for defer actions.
community: MMC/SD-Card from Lubos (So Sorry for beeing late) and TCP/IP (Telnet). Many Thanks to Jens. Speed optimized words for SPI in amforth core.
doc: Japanese Getting Started
doc: new recipes: Forward Declarations, Extended VM, Quotations, Exceptions, Coroutines, updated recipes: Serial Peripheral Interface SPI, Arduino Hello World

23.12.2013: release 5.2¶

Improved and extended Values
Forth 2012 Traverse-Wordlist
improved documentation
core: added d0= and 0= as assembly primitives and use them in other compare operations. Saves a lot of code space.
Wordlist entries are now 8bit clean. Words with umlauts or e.g. Greek commands work as expected, unless the terminal does not cooperate. Thanks to Enoch.

> : Σ  0 swap 0  do  +  loop  ;
 ok
> 7 8 9 3 Σ .
 24  ok
>

5.4.2013: release 5.1¶

core: Automatic scoping of words. A system hook can be used to use a different wordlist than CURRENT to place a new word in. Thanks to Enoch for the idea and the code.
lib: very flexible CRC8 checksum generator and checker. Thanks to Enoch.
recipes: Interrupt Critical Section, Unbreakable AmForth, Efficient Bit Manipulation, Dump Utilities, Ctrl-C Thanks to Enoch and the others on the mailling list for code and inspiration.
core: -int does no longer leave the SREG register. It only turns off the global interrupt flag. Thanks to Enoch.
lib: major 1-wire enhancements: CRC checks and a better naming convention for all words. Thanks to Erich for help and substantial contributions.
appl: added the Arduino Leonardo. avrdude needs a small patch to write properly the eeprom on the Atmega32U4.
core: New popcnt (n – m) counts the Hamming Weight of the given number.
core: renamed baud to ubrr.
core: nfa>lfa is a factor in a number of words. It generates the link field address from a given name field address.
doc: Farewell docbook XML, welcome reST. All documentation will be written in reStructured Text.
lib: Simple Quotations. Their typical use case is

: foo ... [: bar baz ;] ... ;

which is equivalent to

:noname bar baz ; Constant#temp#
: foo ... #temp# ...;

27.12.2012: release 5.0¶

lib: Access to Dallas 1-Wire Devices. Based on code and ideas by Bradford J. Rodriguez for the 4€4th project.
lib: many Arduino ports have more than one purpose. The forth200x Synonym gives them useful alias names.</a>
Arduino: Added definitions for all ports based upon Digital Ports.
recipes: There are now more than 30 Cookbook in the cookbook: many debug tools, loop with timeout, porting from C, and interrupts to mention some of them.
core: autogenerate sleep depending on register availability. sleep on an Atmega32 is very different from an Atmega328p. The parameters for calling it at the forth level are the same however. The include list for the assembler is expanded with core/<device>/ to find the right sleep.asm file.
core: rudimentary error checks in the compiler: There has to be branch destination on the stack. If there is nothing, a stack underflow exception gets thrown.

> : ?do i . loop ;
?? -4 14
> : t2 ?do i . loop ;
 ok
>

core: Number sign may follow the number base prefix as specified in Forth200x Number Prefix. Added the character # as prefix for decimal as well.
core: fixed a regression in toupper caused by making within standards compliant. Thanks to Arthur for the fix. [compile] fixed as well.

27.7.2012: release 4.9¶

core: initialisation of the USER area is now done in WARM. please check your TURNKEY to remove the call to it. Thanks to Erich for pointing to.
core: regenerated the devices files with the part description files from studio v6. added bitnames to the forth and python modules (later to be used with the shell).
tools: completly new shell program with cool upload features from Keith: amforth-shell It has command completion, full command history, automatic controller identification with all register names and much more. Updated the Shells And Upload for this task
lib: re-arranged source files, improved timer modules.
lib: case did not work at all. Thanks to Jan for telling.
core: the new variable latest has the XT of the currently being defined colon word.
core: unused should tell the free amount of memory in the area here points to: RAM. Thanks to Carsten for the hint.
core: introducing an environment query for basic controller information: memory sizes, max dictionary address: mcu-info. The structure itself is not yet finalized. See at the end of a core/<device>/device.asm file for details.
tools: The upload utilities were unable to process absolute filenames (those beginning with a /) Thanks to Carsten for the fix.

26.3.2012: release 4.8¶

core: fixed a bug in na@ and nb@ (extended VM registers).
core: redesigned to for use in LOCALs and RAM-based values.
core: .s is stripped down to a single line output of the stack content only. Looks better in the call tracer and is more like other forth’s.
core: small atxmega updates. Unfortunatly avrdude cannot flash the boot loader section as expected.
core: optional Unified memory address space. @ and ! use the range from 0 to RAMEND as RAM, from RAMEND+1 upwards the next addresses from EEPROM, until EEPROMEND is reached and the remaining addresses from flash.
core: environment? can now be used in colon definitions. changed into loadable forth source instead of compile-time assembly.
core: itype now sends proper (e.g. single byte) characters to emit.
core: type is made more robust against emit errors.
lib: macro and a Defining and using Macros recipe for using them.
Profiler to count the number of calls.
lib: evaluate for both RAM and Flash based strings.

4.2.2012: release 4.7¶

recipes: Multitasking, Reason For Reset and Tracer
core: new words from the STRINGS word set: sliteral and compare. Latter is a simplified version of the ANS94 spec: max 255 chars, (in)equality tests only.
core: source, refill are now deferred words, based on the USER area. >in likewise. Based on ideas from Strong Forth.
core: /key removed, it can be implemented by changing refill.
lib: The multitasker could not work after power cycles. Thanks to Erich for fixing.

6.10.2011: release 4.6¶

core: words shows the first entry in the search order list as specified by DPANS94.
lib: new word m*/ (d1 n1 n2 – d2), uses a triple cell intermediate for d1*n1.
lib: new words bm-set, bm-clear and bm-toggle that efficiently change bits in RAM byte addresses. e.g. :command:` %0010 here bm-toggle` changes bit 2 in the RAM location at here.
lib: renamed spirw to c!@spi, new word !@spi exchanges two bytes via SPI. Follows remotly the memory access word naming conventions.

29.6.2011: release 4.5¶

arduino: re-arranged word placing to maximize usable flash (at least on a duemilanove device, the bigger variants like the sanguino and mega* still have room for improvement). The target mega is now called mega128.
lib: lib/buffer.frt implements buffer:.
doc: improved refcard. Thanks to Erich for input and patches.
core: changed API of the Recognizer to the final addr/len pairs. Do not use counted strings any longer!
core: new words find-name and parse-name follow Forth 200x and operate on the current input buffer, word is no longer used internally. Lots of internal code simplifications.
core: (create) throws exception -16 if no name is given.
core: exception -42 is really -4 (stack underflow).
core: digit? again. Stack effect now compatible to gforth: ( char -- n true | false). Current setting of base is now taken internally.

24.5.2011: release 4.4¶

examples: added a game of life and a queens puzzle solver.
core: restructure of the RAM usage. You need to remove the .set here = ... line from your application definition file (template.asm).
core: turn cold into the main initialization word and warm into some high level initialization.
doc: updated Technical Documentation of Recognizers and Interrupt Processing. Reformatted the Reference Card (outdated! from release 5.5) to a more compact style.
core: added n>r and nr> from Forth 200x.
core: Redesign of Interrupt Handling. ISR Routines are still normal Colon Words and can deal with every kind of interupts. There are no lost interupts any longer. Based on Ideas from Wojciech (Tracker ID 2781547) and Al (mailling list).
appl: Fixed a regression in the floating point library due to changes in number in post 4.0 releases. >float can now be used as the main part of a recognizer.
core: added a compile time option WANT_IGNORECASE to make amforth case-insensitve, disabled by default.

1.5.2011: release 4.3¶

core: u> had wrong stack effect in case of true result.
core: int-trap triggers an interrupt from software.
core: /user environment query gives the size of the USER area
core: sleep takes the sleep mode as parameter.
ex: added timer-interrupt.frt as an example for using interrupts with forth.
pub: Erich has presented amforth at the Fosdem 2011 Slides and Proceedings (published with permission). Thanks Erich!
core: simplified get/set-order with a changed eeprom content.
doc: new user guide version from Karl (for version 4.2).
core: renamed e@/e! to @e/!e to comply with the memory access wordset from forth200x, same with i@/i!.
core: documentation fixes in many files: Reference Card (outdated! from release 5.5).
core: re-design of the (outer) interpreter using recognizers (dynamically extend the interpeter to deal with new semantics. Defined get/set-recognizer similiar to get/set-order.

19.9.2010: release 4.2¶

core: fixed a regression for i! which made marker useless (among other oddities). Thanks to Marcin for the fix
core: currently defined colon words are invisible until the final ;.
applications: Leon contributed a IEEE754 floating point library in plain forth, Pito translated some basic words into assembly for speed.

2.9.2010: release 4.1¶

core: new words 2>r, 2r> and 2literal.
core: converted most of the atmega part definition files with the pd2amforth utility. Please report any success / failure.
doc: set the fuses to make the bootloader size as large as the NRWW size.
core: abort assembling if flash usage is above limits.
core: allow double cell numbers in colon definitions. Thanks to Pito for reporting the bug.

1.7.2010: release 4.0¶

tools: amforth-upload.py optionally loads a device specific module and replaces register definitions with their values prior to sent the code to the controller. The device modules are auto-generated from the part description files.
core: ANS94 mention that HERE points to the data (RAM) region. Re-introduced DP as the dictionary (Flash) pointer. HEAP is gone. Migrate old HEAP to HERE and old HERE to DP.
core: save and clear the initial value of the MCU Status Register at address 10.
tools: pd2amforth is now capable to generate the device definition files. It is no longer necessary to edit them manually.
core: finally separated the terminal IO settings from the device definition files.
core: optionally set WANT_SPI (or any other IO Module) to include the register definion names at build time.
core: massivly restructured the devices/ filesystem entry. Change your application files to include device.asm instead of the device name. Set the include directory to the proper subdirectory under core/devices as well.
core: dynamically calculate the free space. Do not use all of it however, the data stack may grow.

s" /pad" environment?

core: Simplified the Pictured Numeric Output words. They now use the memory area below pad (which is 100 bytes above HEAP) as the buffer region.
appl: added the arduino board with some example codes. Currently with the Mega (Atmega1280), Duemilanove (Atmega328) and Sanguino (Atmega644p) controller types.

25.5.2010: release 3.9¶

web: updated the Howto page to demonstrate Redirect IO.
core: The Atmega2561 now fully works (incl the compiler).
core, appl: Andy Kirby donated the device files and a full implemention for Arduino Mega with the Atmega1280.
core: CPU Name, Forthname and Version strings can be accessed as environment queries.

25.4.2010: release 3.8¶

core: turned i! into a deferred word.
core: fix for icompare to make it work with all addr/len strings. Bug found and fixed by Michael and Adolf.
core: re-implemented the i! in (mostly) assembly language to ease integration into bootloaders.
core: factor the three prompts into compile time changable words.
appl: the dict_minimum.inc und dict_core.inc files need to be included within the application defition files.
core: pad is no longer used by amforth itself.
core: reorder internal code in interpret to get rid of 0= calls.

24.1.2010: release 3.7¶

core: atxmega 128 support (no compiler yet).
core: new word >number. number accepts trailing (!) dots to enter double cell numbers.
lib: enhanced multitasker with turnkey support. Thanks to Erich Wälde for in depth debugging and testing.
lib: new word anew drops word definitions if already defined, starts a new generation.
core: USER area is now split into system and application user areas, system user area is pre-set from EEPROM.
new: source repository Incubator for not-yet-ready-but-interesting projects, volunteers welcome.

1.10.2009: release 3.6¶

core: new word environment. It provides the environment wordlist identifier, thus make it possible to create own environment queries as standard words.
core: new word d=.
core: amforth runs partially on an atmega2561 and atxmega’s, there is still no working flash store word (i!) therefore only the interpreter is available yet.
core: moved the usart init values to appl section.
core: added a poll-only receive word, selectable at compile time. Disable the rx interrupt to use it.

1.9.2009: release 3.5¶

core: re-structure the usart code, added a non-interrupt based transmit word (TX), selectable at compile time.
lib: added xt>nfa that goes from the XT to the name field address.
core: bugfix recurse.
core: restructured EEPROM, never depend on fixed addresses for system values.
core: added a dict_wl.inc file with most of the non-core wordlist commands.

11.4.2009: release 3.4¶

core: renamed the words for the serial terminal to be more generic since they can deal with any serial port, not only the first one.
lib: dropped forget since it cannot work with multiple wordlists, fixed marker.
core: changed again digit? stack effect (and fixed a little bug).
core: number honors a leading &, $ or % sign to temporarily switch to DECIMAL, HEX or BIN base resp. Thanks to Michael Kalus for factoring the code.

22.2.2009: release 3.3¶

core: faster noop.
added ANS94 search order wordlist.
core: within had problems with signed boundaries, literal numbers are processed faster (again).
core: improved digit? and number. They now report errors on invalid characters at the wrong position. The following strings are no longer valid numbers: –1 or 0@ (in base hex).
core: -1 spaces now prints nothing, Fix from Lothar Schmidt.
core: (loop) (runtime of loop) now checks for equality only, as specified in ANS94.

10.1.2009: release 3.2¶

core: bugfix for trailling 0x00 byte during itype.
core: enable use of other usart port than 0.
pc-host: Ken Staton wrote a nice pc based terminal with upload functionality.
core: New controllers: ATmega328P and ATmega640.
core: changed digit to digit? found in many other forth’s.
core: new word within.
core: split application dictionary definition into 2 parts, one for the lower flash, one for the upper (NRWW) flash. Both can be empty, but need to exists.
core: changed some names for internal constants (baudrate -> BAUD) and registers (EEPE vs EEWE).
core: new directory drivers/ for low level driver functions. Currently only the generic ISR and the USART0 interrupt handler.

10.11.2008: release 3.1¶

core: icompare now has a similiar stack effect as compare.
core: new word: environment?. Supports /hold query.
core: Strings in flash (incl. names in the dictionary) contain now 16bit length information, previously only 8 bit.

17.10.2008: release 3.0¶

core: s" new with interpreter semantics.

s" hello world" type`

works at the command prompt. The compiled version is

: hw s" hello world" itype ;

core: Placement of Stacks is now an application setting. See example apps.
core: added VM register A and B. See Stephen Pelc’ Slides for details. Uses Atmega Register R6:R7, R8:R9 resp.
core: added cmove as a primitve.
core: f_cpu used the old (pre-2.7) stack order for double cell values.
lib: moved some definitions to more appropriate files.

1.8.2008: release 2.9¶

core: heap, here and edp are now VALUEs. dp is gone (use here)
lib: more VT100 sequences.
core: The TIB location and size are accessible with the VALUEs TIB and TIBSIZE.
core: fixed TIBSIZE default configuration.
lib: created math.frt, contains among others the standard words sm/rem, fm/mod.
Alexander Guy fixed a bug in u*/mod.
Bernard Mentink adapted Julian Noble’s Finite State Machine code.
applications: Lubos Pekny designed a smart computer with a 4line character LCD and a PS/2 keyboard. Details are in the Application Repository, a video is available as well.

27.6.2008: release 2.8¶

core: Lubos Pekny found that -jtag sometimes used the wrong mcu register.
core: Bernard Mentink wrote a Atmega128 device file, Thanks alot.
core: Atmega88 & Atmega168 work too.
core: Fixed regression for atmega128.
core: Moved serial interface words to application dictionary (not every amforth installation may have a serial terminal).
library: Updated assembler from Lubos Pekny.
examples: sieve benchmark, optimized for 1K RAM.

5.4.2007: release 2.7¶

core, lib and sample applications are now in one package.
restructured repository layout. Now the trunk has most of the sources.
core: re-arranged the register mapping.
core: m* was in fact um*.
core: double cell numbers changed stack order: TOS is now the most significant cell.
library: new: assembler written by Lubos Pekny, www.forth.cz. Thank you!
examples: PWM example from Bruce Wolk. TWI/I2C EEPROM access

27.1.2008: release 2.6¶

core: new defining words code and end-code. code starts a new dictionary header with the XT set to the data field. The 2nd one appends the jmp NEXT call into the dictionary.
core: removed the pre-assembled case / endcase words. Added them as forth library.
core: new words -jtag (turns off JTAG at runtime) and -wdt (turns off watch dog timer at runtime. They need to be implemented as primitives due to timing requirements.
core: quit: Keep base when handling an exception.
library: TWI/I2C EEPROM Support.

6.12.2007: release 2.5¶

Bug: hex 8000 . froze the controller. Now it prints -8000. Thanks to Lubos for the hint.
Moved init of base from quit to cold. turnkey be used to change it permanently. Thanks to Lubos for the hint.
nice looking dumper words for RAM/EEPROM/FLASH, dropped idump.asm.
Extended Upload utility (tools/amforth-upload.py) from piix: include files using following syntax:

\ demo file
#include ans94/marker.frt
marker empty

usart transmit (tx0) made more robust.
User Area restructured for the new multitasker.
added documentation: Karl’s User’s Manual and a Technical Guide.

11.10.2007: release 2.4¶

Added AT90CAN128. Other Atmega128 style controllers should work too.
lot of fine tuning.
dropped the assembler device init portion.
New file: dict_compiler.inc. Without these words the forth system is (more or less) a pure interactive system without extensibility.
new words [char], fill.
re-arranged usart code. fixed bug when usart baud rate calculation leads to values greater 255.
renamed /int to -int and int to +int, it’s more fortish ;=)

29.7.2007: release 2.3¶

new words spaces and place.
Improved i!.
bugfixing runtime parts of do/loop and co.
re-coded find and icompare for better readability.
eliminated code duplets in some primitives.
moved usart init from cold to application specific turn key action. Added error checking in receive module.

17.6.2007: release 2.2¶

new download section: application
optional dictionary is now part of the application, therefore renamed to dict_appl.
new words: leave and ?do.

22.5.2007 release 2.1¶

changed stack effect for # to ansi (from single cell value to double cell). Double cell values do not work (yet).
introduced deferred words instead of tick-variables. Works for EEPROM based vectors (turnkey), RAM based (pause) and User based (emit etc) vectors.
new words: wdr (Watchdog reset), d> and d< (double cell compare).

2.5.2007 release 2.0¶

internal restructure of targets.
new words: u> and u<.
bugfixing interrupts.
new word: log2 logarithm to base 2, or the number of the highest 1 bit.
fixed wrong addresses for usart-io (esp. butterfly)

25.4.2007 release 1.9¶

renamed dict_low.asm to dict_minimal.asm.
new word parse ( c – addr len) parses source for char delimited strings.
new word sleep ( – ) puts the controller into (previously defined) sleep mode.
new words s" ( – addr len) parses TIB for ” character and compiles it into flash, s, ( addr len – ) does the real copying of the string into flash at here together with the invisible word (sliteral) (– flash-addr len).
bugfix: f_cpu had wrong word order. Use swap as a temporary work around.`
re-wrote initialisation of usart0 ( baud – ) to forth code. Startup speed is taken from (eeprom) VALUE baud0.

10.4.2007 release 1.8¶

interrupt handling redesigned. Now every interrupt (except those for usart0) can be used. intcounter is gone. New words are int@, int! and #int.
double and mixed cell arithmetics.`
bugfix: proper initialization of data stack pointer. Thanks to Maciej Witkowiak.
move TOS into register pair.

3.4.2007 release 1.7¶

new word: f_cpu sets a double cell value with the cpu clock rate.
hld is now at pad to save RAM.
pad did return some compile-time stochastic value`
lots of internal changes.
optional dictionary: d-, d+, s>d and d>s.

25.3.2007 release 1.6¶

split blocks/ans.frt into pieces.
sign no longer inserts a space for non-negative values.
new word: /key. It is vectorized via '/key and gets called by accept to signal the sender to stop transmission. See blocks/xonxoff.frt for example usage.
replaces up with up@ and up!.
new word: j ( – n).
new word: ?execute ( xt|0 – ) if non-zero execute the XT.
The Atmega644 works fine :=) but needs the Atmel assembler (see FAQ) :=(
Bugfix: +! did a + only.
Bugfix: too many spaces in . (dot).
give user variables rp and sp a name.

14.3.2007 release 1.5¶

changed: itype and (new) icount refactored by Michael Kalus. These words now have similiar stack effects as there RAM counterparts.
changed: . now operates on signed values.
new word: u/mod is basically the former /mod.
new word: u. to display unsigned values.
fixed bug in /mod for values less -FF (hex).
create left the address of the XT insted of the PFA. Fixed.
deleted word: idump. It is now in the file blocks/misc.frt.
new word: :noname ( – xt) creates headerless entry in the dictionary.
new word: cold as main entry point. It executes the turnkey action. abort & co do not trigger the turnkey action.

5.3.2007 release 1.4¶

pad is now in the unsed (according to heap) ram. That may help word to store longer strings.
new word: unused ( – n) gives the number of unused flash cells in the dictionary.
/mod (and / and mod) now honor signed numbers, division is symmetric.
new word: abort"
quit now aborts on every catched exception.
quit no longer prints anything, ver is now a turnkey action.
new optional dictionary, included at compiletime. Contains now case & Co and some d- words for double cell arithmetics.

24.2.2007 release 1.3¶

bug: digit did not work properly
bug: <: equal is not less
interrupts are processed faster
Interrupt counter are now only 1 byte long (access with c@)
change: allot works now for ram not for flash
added/corrected stack comments
bug: create leaves flash address insted of first cell content
change: .s nicer for empty stack
internal: i! internally completly turns off interrupts
bug: abort now works again, error was in quit
bug: while and repeat changed stack effects
bug: r@ now works correctly
new word: immediate
removed words: forget, postpone (these and many more are now in the blocks/ans.frt library)
bug: if ' (tick) does not find the word, it now throws the exception -13 Many thanks to Ulrich Hoffmann for providing feedback and corrections!

3.2.2007 release 1.2¶

anyone missed emit??.
increased user area to 24 bytes (12 cells). Fixed a overlap between handler and emit ff.
AVR AVR Butterfly works (again). Many thanks to the German FIG for donating one.
internal changes for multitarget development (for the AREXX asuro minirobot).

20.1.2007 release 1.1¶

emit, key and key? are now vectored via user based variables.
forget frees most of the flash space too
internal go back for i! to previous code
Code for Atmega8 was broken due to nrww flash overflow (found by Milan Horkel)
Bugfix: backspace key in accept now stops at beginning of line (found by Milan Horkel)

4.1.2007 release 1.0¶

new immediate word: [']
new word user defines user variables
new controller: atmega169 (Atmel Butterfly)
renamed eheap to edp.

17.12.2006 release 0.9¶

interrupts in high level forth colon words (INT0 and INT1 for now).
new word: noop a colon word for doing nothing.
number respects minus sign
changed turnkey into 'turnkey. The "turn-off" value is now 0 (zero)
new words: pause and 'pause. pause will execute the XT stored in 'pause (a RAM cell) when non zero
handler (used by cactch and throw) is a USER variable.

7.12.2006 release 0.8¶

new words: create, does>, up, 0
Support for user variable, turned base, rp0 and sp0 into user variables
words like (do) which should not by called by user are now invisible to save nrww flash space
bugfix for negative increment for +loop.

24.11.2006 release 0.7¶

new word: turnkey: executed whenever quit starts.
numbers may contain lower case characters (if base permits)
bugfixing case & co.
number emits -13 if an invalid character is found
renamed vheader to (create)
abort re-initializes both stacks
made backslash \ immediate

20.11.2006 release 0.6¶

backspace now works in accept
depth based on sp0/sp@
“unused” control characters are treated as spaces
bugfixes for (loop) and (+lopp).
New words: 1ms busy waits 1 millisecond

13.11.2006 release 0.5¶

definition files for varios atmega types
core wordlist should be complete
internal cleanups and bugfixes

5.11.2006 release 0.4¶

start using catch/throw
Atmega8 works fine
few new words (case, comments)
nicer prompt

31.10.2006 release 0.3¶

New website
Atmega16 works fine
Bugfixing, true flag always 0xffff

27.10.2006 release 0.2¶

Compiler works
Many new wrds

16.10.2006 release 0.1¶

first public release
interpreter over serial terminal

History¶

24.8.2016: release 6.3¶

4.7.2016: release 6.2¶

17.10.2015: release 6.1¶

6.9.2015: release 6.0¶

9.7.2015: release 5.9¶

25.3.2015: release 5.8¶

1.2.2015: release 5.7¶

22.12.2014: release 5.6¶

6.10.2014: release 5.5¶

16.8.2014: release 5.4¶

7.5.2013: release 5.3¶

23.12.2013: release 5.2¶

5.4.2013: release 5.1¶

27.12.2012: release 5.0¶

27.7.2012: release 4.9¶

26.3.2012: release 4.8¶

4.2.2012: release 4.7¶

6.10.2011: release 4.6¶

29.6.2011: release 4.5¶

24.5.2011: release 4.4¶

1.5.2011: release 4.3¶

19.9.2010: release 4.2¶

2.9.2010: release 4.1¶

1.7.2010: release 4.0¶

25.5.2010: release 3.9¶

25.4.2010: release 3.8¶

24.1.2010: release 3.7¶

1.10.2009: release 3.6¶

1.9.2009: release 3.5¶

11.4.2009: release 3.4¶

22.2.2009: release 3.3¶

10.1.2009: release 3.2¶

10.11.2008: release 3.1¶

17.10.2008: release 3.0¶

1.8.2008: release 2.9¶

27.6.2008: release 2.8¶

5.4.2007: release 2.7¶

27.1.2008: release 2.6¶

6.12.2007: release 2.5¶

11.10.2007: release 2.4¶

29.7.2007: release 2.3¶

17.6.2007: release 2.2¶

22.5.2007 release 2.1¶

2.5.2007 release 2.0¶

25.4.2007 release 1.9¶

10.4.2007 release 1.8¶

3.4.2007 release 1.7¶

25.3.2007 release 1.6¶

14.3.2007 release 1.5¶

5.3.2007 release 1.4¶

24.2.2007 release 1.3¶

3.2.2007 release 1.2¶

20.1.2007 release 1.1¶

4.1.2007 release 1.0¶

17.12.2006 release 0.9¶

7.12.2006 release 0.8¶

24.11.2006 release 0.7¶

20.11.2006 release 0.6¶

13.11.2006 release 0.5¶

5.11.2006 release 0.4¶

31.10.2006 release 0.3¶

27.10.2006 release 0.2¶

16.10.2006 release 0.1¶

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