A few days ago Mike Watson posted details of a Forth compiler for the
C84. I downloaded it and tried it out, and was pleasantly surprised to
find that it seems to be quite usable. It came with a demo program that
repeatedly outputs a message via RA0 at 9600 baud serial. The demo
program compiled and assembled without any problems, and appeared to
output serial data when I put a 'scope probe on RA0. It doesn't seem to
have a word defined for serial input, so I might have a go at that for
myself. In-line assembler can be used for speed-critical code, like
serial I/O.

It is available from:

        ftp://ftp.taygeta.com/pub/Forth/Misc/

Get the self-extracting archive file F2PIC.EXE.

Leon
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