I am happy to announce the FemtoMSP430, a processor designed with the instruction set of the classic #MSP430, but with a flexible bus interface similar to @BrunoLevy01 #FemtoRV32 including memory busy signaling. The playground contains a phantasy "microcontroller" design for the #ULX3S #FPGA board, interactively running the original #Mecrisp #Forth image for MSP430G2755, enhanced with a text mode on 800x600 video, USB-CDC terminal and a lot of GPIO wires: https://codeberg.org/Mecrisp/FemtoMSP430

I am happy to announce the FemtoMSP430, a processor designed with the instruction set of the classic #MSP430, but with a flexible bus interface similar to @BrunoLevy01 #FemtoRV32 including memory busy signaling. The playground contains a phantasy "microcontroller" design for the #ULX3S #FPGA board, interactively running the original #Mecrisp #Forth image for MSP430G2755, enhanced with a text mode on 800x600 video, USB-CDC terminal and a lot of GPIO wires: https://codeberg.org/Mecrisp/FemtoMSP430

Pictured are some tests I made at the time on a dot matrix printer, which was certainly not a suitable medium for these rather fragile images; I ended up shooting the film on 16mm, frame by frame from a monitor. The software was written in FORTH and assembler.

#forth

Just blogged: bootstrapping a #Forth for art, a quick-and-dirty introduction to forth haikus and my implementation of it

https://tia.mat.br/posts/2025/08/30/forth-haiku.html

Just blogged: bootstrapping a #Forth for art, a quick-and-dirty introduction to forth haikus and my implementation of it

https://tia.mat.br/posts/2025/08/30/forth-haiku.html

Retro Computing Nostalgia meet Open Source Software and Hardware with AgonLight and Neo6502, the incredible evolution of modern Retro computer projects https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/retro-computing-nostalgia-meet-open-source-software-and-hardware/ #z80 #w65c02 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #pascal #cpm #forth #basic #cc65

Retro Computing Nostalgia meet Open Source Software and Hardware with AgonLight and Neo6502, the incredible evolution of modern Retro computer projects https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/retro-computing-nostalgia-meet-open-source-software-and-hardware/ #z80 #w65c02 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #pascal #cpm #forth #basic #cc65

Our submission for #Catjam is complete! @rek and I set out to make a little platformer game in a #forth-like language. We made it a tough parkour type little game, give it a shot! Try to finish it in less than a minute. If you record yourself doing it in less than 45 seconds, send us a link and we'll put it in the game description

play: https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/polycat
source: https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/polycat
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzH6GchYMNM

Our submission for #Catjam is complete! @rek and I set out to make a little platformer game in a #forth-like language. We made it a tough parkour type little game, give it a shot! Try to finish it in less than a minute. If you record yourself doing it in less than 45 seconds, send us a link and we'll put it in the game description

play: https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/polycat
source: https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/polycat
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzH6GchYMNM

No idea about #smalltalk

found this:

https://live.exept.de/doc/online/english/programming/contexts.html#HOMECONTEXT

> This is one of the most fundamental differences between Smalltalk and most other programming languages:

> in Smalltalk, a context behaves just like any other object, in that it is not destroyed, IFF there are still references from other objects to it. (typically, these are blocks)

A bit like #Forth - moved away but not forgotten (if I get it right)