FORTH & HP: where to start?

[jonmoore]

For what it's worth, a great way of exploring Forth is via an excellent BBC Micro emulator called BeebEm. Much as there are versions for other operating systems, I'd only recommend the Windows version, purely because you can end up with gnarly keyboard mapping issues on other platforms. The emulator itself is faultless and simple to use (as ever, scan the help docs, which are thankfully brief).

Best of all, AcornSoft released Forth for the BBC and both the BBC Micro documentation and the Forth for the BBC Micro documentation have been "remastered" - which involved the following:

- The look and layout of the original guides is preserved.
- All errata corrections have been applied to the text.
- Corrected all OCR errors, incorrect page number references and any factual errors found.
- All diagrams redrawn in vectors.
- Extensive use of hyperlinks - click on any 'see page', 'see chapter' or BASIC keyword text to jump straight to the relevant page.



As you can see, I've got other related docs (some of which are dog-eared scans) but I've bundled some essential stuff in a single zip below.

And this video shows the specifics of setting up Forth itself on the BBC Micro emulator.




Here's the bundle of docs, if you want any others shown in the screenshot, let me know.

http://www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/index.html
Forth 1-03 ROM