Crutch
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Just uploaded to the garden and thought some here might find interesting -- I haven't tested it out yet (don't have any of my pre-SE/30 Macs set up in a usable state at the moment) but the disk image appears good so wanted to get it out there for archival right away:
This is version 2.1 of MacFORTH, the classic Forth development environment that included an inline macro assembler and was used to create several professional Mac applications of the day, including the famous ChipWits. Most people think of using Pascal and later C to write code for 68k Macs, but in the early days several other languages were well used and writing full-fledged Toolbox apps and even code resources was heavily covered in MacTutor's early years. Several professional-caliber Forth environments existed in the early Mac era, including MacFORTH and the later Mach2.
This is "Level Two" of MacFORTH, including several added features such as the inline assembler not included in Level One (for an additional fee). There was also a "Level Three" which I would love to find one day.
To my knowledge no version of MacFORTH was previously available online anywhere. I also have the disk for version 2.01, but the MacFORTH file itself appears to be correct. This may be a form a copy protection, I'm not sure yet. If anyone has a working copy of an earlier version, please upload it to the Garden for preservation purposes!
MacFORTH 2.1 Level Two - Macintosh Garden
This is version 2.1 of MacFORTH, the classic Forth development environment that included an inline macro assembler and was used to create several professional Mac applications of the day, including the famous ChipWits.
macintoshgarden.org
This is version 2.1 of MacFORTH, the classic Forth development environment that included an inline macro assembler and was used to create several professional Mac applications of the day, including the famous ChipWits. Most people think of using Pascal and later C to write code for 68k Macs, but in the early days several other languages were well used and writing full-fledged Toolbox apps and even code resources was heavily covered in MacTutor's early years. Several professional-caliber Forth environments existed in the early Mac era, including MacFORTH and the later Mach2.
This is "Level Two" of MacFORTH, including several added features such as the inline assembler not included in Level One (for an additional fee). There was also a "Level Three" which I would love to find one day.
To my knowledge no version of MacFORTH was previously available online anywhere. I also have the disk for version 2.01, but the MacFORTH file itself appears to be correct. This may be a form a copy protection, I'm not sure yet. If anyone has a working copy of an earlier version, please upload it to the Garden for preservation purposes!