I used Graforth, that was so cool! I owe you a beer for pirating it. I also (like most Forth enthusiasts) developed my own Apple ][, based on FIG-FORTH, with its own graphics libraries and PRODOS integration, and used it to write terminal emulators.
Then I discovered Mitch Bradley's Sun Forth (aka ForthMacs, Open Firmware, IEEE 1275-1994), which was originally based on Langton and Perry Forth 83, but has a metacompiler and can target many platforms and word sizes and cpus.
More thoughts and links on Mitch Bradley, Open Firmware and Forth programming:
Has anybody else ever had the dubious experience of using "Cap'n Software Forth"? That's what John Draper wrote [Sl]EasyWriter with (which he wrote on work furlough from the Alameda County Jail). During the 90's SF Raves scene I would always carry some emergency tobacco around as repellent, just in case I ran into him.
>The first Forth system I used was Cap'n Software Forth, on the Apple ][, by John Draper. The first time I met John Draper was when Mike Grant brought him over to my house, because Mike's mother was fed up with Draper, and didn't want him staying over any longer. So Mike brought him over to stay at my house, instead. He had been attending some science fiction convention, was about to go to the Galopagos Islands, always insisted on doing back exercises with everyone, got very rude in an elevator when someone lit up a cigarette, and bragged he could smoke Mike's brother Greg under the table. In case you're ever at a party, and you have some pot that he wants to smoke and you just can't get rid of him, try filling up a bowl with some tobacco and offering it to him. It's a good idea to keep some "emergency tobacco" on your person at all times whenever attending raves in the bay area. My mom got fed up too, and ended up driving him all the way to the airport to get rid of him. On the way, he offered to sell us his extra can of peanuts, but my mom suggested that he might get hungry later, and that he had better hold onto them. What tact!
As annoying and creepy as he is, he does have a lot of great stories to tell...
My favorite John Draper story -- not sure if it's true, heard it from several sources.
One day IBM called me up and asked if I would write them something like Apple Writer, for their new PC. I instantly asked, "Under what terms?" I think that surprised them -- I was wrongly rumored to be all programmer and no business sense.
They replied, "We give you $100,000 in royalties, after which we own the program." I thought a bit and said, "Hmm ... $100,000 ... that's about 15 days of Apple Writer royalties." A long silence on the phone line.
So they realized I wasn't going to write anything for them. Then, according to rumor, they asked John Draper and he agreed -- he wrote them a word processor. A really terrible one.
After IBM voluntarily withdrew his program from the market, Draper is rumored to have said, "They asked for a $100,000 program and I gave them one."
Yep, we were pretty snotty in those days. But then, we didn't have to compete with AI.
Then I discovered Mitch Bradley's Sun Forth (aka ForthMacs, Open Firmware, IEEE 1275-1994), which was originally based on Langton and Perry Forth 83, but has a metacompiler and can target many platforms and word sizes and cpus.
More thoughts and links on Mitch Bradley, Open Firmware and Forth programming:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21822840
https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware
Has anybody else ever had the dubious experience of using "Cap'n Software Forth"? That's what John Draper wrote [Sl]EasyWriter with (which he wrote on work furlough from the Alameda County Jail). During the 90's SF Raves scene I would always carry some emergency tobacco around as repellent, just in case I ran into him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyWriter
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/forth.html
>The first Forth system I used was Cap'n Software Forth, on the Apple ][, by John Draper. The first time I met John Draper was when Mike Grant brought him over to my house, because Mike's mother was fed up with Draper, and didn't want him staying over any longer. So Mike brought him over to stay at my house, instead. He had been attending some science fiction convention, was about to go to the Galopagos Islands, always insisted on doing back exercises with everyone, got very rude in an elevator when someone lit up a cigarette, and bragged he could smoke Mike's brother Greg under the table. In case you're ever at a party, and you have some pot that he wants to smoke and you just can't get rid of him, try filling up a bowl with some tobacco and offering it to him. It's a good idea to keep some "emergency tobacco" on your person at all times whenever attending raves in the bay area. My mom got fed up too, and ended up driving him all the way to the airport to get rid of him. On the way, he offered to sell us his extra can of peanuts, but my mom suggested that he might get hungry later, and that he had better hold onto them. What tact!
As annoying and creepy as he is, he does have a lot of great stories to tell...
Calling Richard Nixon:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22671636
Execute Some "Get High" Instructions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39575987
Forging BART Cards:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34568618