turbo-4th

[www.atarimania.com]

Another fantastic find brought to you by John Hardie, here's turbo-4th written by former Atari employee Steve Calfee:

http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-turbo-4th_32135.html

[Ricky Spanish]

Very cool ! Seen in the advert there's a 96 page manual. If that was found, it'd be a 20 in rarity !

[cx2k]

6 minutes ago, Ricky Spanish said:

Very cool ! Seen in the advert there's a 96 page manual. If that was found, it'd be a 20 in rarity !

I'm not knowledgeable in Forth but since this is based on Steve's work with Coin-op Forth, I can only assume that the documentation for Coin-op Forth on Atarimania would be helpful/similar. Still, would be nice to find the original docs... 

[Ricky Spanish]

2 minutes ago, cx2k said:

I can only assume that the documentation for Coin-op Forth on Atarimania would be helpful/similar.

It says it's compatible with Fig-Forth, of which the F-F manual is available. I'm gonna give this a shot.

[www.atarimania.com]

Yes, please report back on what you find.

[Ricky Spanish]

So I did a simple five screen loads:

 

18 LOAD 36 LOAD 50 LOAD 56 LOAD 60 LOAD [RETURN]

 

which returns correctly :

 

R Isn't unique

I  Isn't unique

N Isn't unique

0= Isn't unique

# Isn't unique

 

With Turbo 4th it only returns an error code. We definitely need the 96 page manual !

 

Edited May 9, 2023 by Ricky Spanish
grammar sucks ha-ha