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Re: [LUG] PCW magazine to close

 

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, James Fidell wrote:

> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
>> Yea, anything with a Z80 was weird, anything with a 6502 was wonderful :)
>
> Awww, I rather liked the Z80.  Still have my copy of Zaks sitting on the
> bookshelves in my office.  Most of the assembler stuff I did was 6502
> though, I have to admit.
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of machines that ran Forth as their
> native programming language (the Jupiter Ace?) and so on.

There were a few Forth systems for the Apple ][, one called Graforth which 
did 3D wire animations. Don't recall any for the BBC though.

I never quite got into Forth, although I did have a job programming in it 
once - well, as part of another job I ported Suns OpenBoot prom so some 
new Sparc hardware the place I was working for had designed...

Hm. I still have an Apple II, so I guess that gives me a legal copy of the 
ROMs to use in the various emulators that are about. Wonder how I can read 
the boxes of Apple floppys I still have...


Gordon

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