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  • Hisoft Forth available?

    From CP/M User@21:1/5 to Karl-Stephan Werkmeister on Sat Jul 16 23:16:16 2016
    On Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:36:17 UTC+11, Karl-Stephan Werkmeister wrote:
    I was used to use HiSoft Pascal (and sometimes HiSoft C) on my CPC.
    Both are available for download (including the manuals) now, but I couldn't find
    neither HiSoft Forth nor its manual anywhere.
    Does anybody know if it is anywhere available (or any other CPC specific Forth
    implementation including a manual besides FIG forth)?

    Sorry I only just saw your message (posted 6 years ago) & did't know how else to get in contact (tried looking for you on CPC-Wiki), so I'm guessing that my now you have found a Forth Manual?
    The early Forth program AMSOFT released wasn't made by Hisoft. That Forth program is also known as Abersoft Fig-Forth, program and manual can be found on CPC-Power:

    http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=3173

    You will just need to click on the Icons to get the Manual & Disc/Tape Icons to get those.

    Though I dare say, you've found all that by now. :D

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  • From CP/M User@21:1/5 to Karl-Stephan Werkmeister on Sun Jul 17 00:25:25 2016
    On Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:36:17 UTC+11, Karl-Stephan Werkmeister wrote:
    I was used to use HiSoft Pascal (and sometimes HiSoft C) on my CPC.
    Both are available for download (including the manuals) now, but I couldn't find
    neither HiSoft Forth nor its manual anywhere.
    Does anybody know if it is anywhere available (or any other CPC specific Forth
    implementation including a manual besides FIG forth)?

    Oh dear, i just noticed the Hisoft Forth they released in 1986, which ironically enough CPC-Power is missing a Download for it including Manual, even CPC-Rulez doesn't have it. :o

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  • From Stewart Russell@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 5 19:37:58 2017
    On Sunday, 17 July 2016 02:16:16 UTC-4, CP/M User wrote:

    The early Forth program AMSOFT released wasn't made by Hisoft. …

    There was also another AMSOFT FORTH, this one from Skywave, who wrote various FORTH systems for the ZX81 and Speccy. You can download the disk image from:
    https://archive.org/download/Amstrad_CPC_TOSEC_2012_04_23/Amstrad_CPC_TOSEC_2012_04_23.zip/Amstrad%20CPC%20%5BTOSEC%5D%2FAmstrad%20CPC%20-%20Applications%20-%20%5BDSK%5D%20%28TOSEC-v2011-08-31_CM%29%2FAms-Forth%20v1.11%20%281984%29%28Amsoft%29.zip

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  • From CP/M User@21:1/5 to Stewart Russell on Tue Jan 10 22:13:55 2017
    On Friday, 6 January 2017 14:37:58 UTC+11, Stewart Russell wrote:
    On Sunday, 17 July 2016 02:16:16 UTC-4, CP/M User wrote:

    The early Forth program AMSOFT released wasn't made by Hisoft. …

    There was also another AMSOFT FORTH, this one from Skywave, who wrote various FORTH systems for the ZX81 and Speccy. You can download the disk image from:


    Hello. Yes I was also aware of that one, having seen it on CPC-Power. The CPCWiki also have 2 FORTH compilers on it, one is just called FORTH and is distributed through AMSOFT & Indescomp in Spain and the other is FIG-FORTH by AMSOFT/Abersoft. The
    Skywave Software Forth which is on CPC-Power is called AMS-FORTH and it appears to be distributed through Skywave Software, so are we possibly looking at 3 FORTH Compilers from 1984?

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