Definitely good news. John S
On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 1:34 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow AmForthers, > > Martin Kobetic and I are pleased to announce the initial release of > amforth32. This GPLv3 licensed project aims to advance the 32-bit ARM > and RISC-V variants of AmForth. As many will know, a RISC-V target was > introduced in AmForth release 6.7 in 2018 [1], joined by two ARM targets > in release 6.8 in 2019 [2]. With Martin's interest in getting AmForth > running on the ARM based Arduino(R) UNO R4, there was a great > opportunity to restart the development of the 32 bit variants of AmForth > in a conserted way, resulting in amforth32. Below is a link to the > precompiled binaries with instructions on their use. > > https://github.com/amforth32/amforth32/releases/tag/v1.0 > > Intrinsically, amforth32 is AmForth at heart; an ITC Forth with > recognisers. However, the codebase, build system and ecosystem have > changed quite a bit since the 6.8 release. > > One key change is the adoption of QEMU virtual machines as first class > targets, alongside their close (or not so close) real mcu counterparts. > This allows non-mcu dependant elements of the codebase to be subject to > automated testing. It also means that hardware is not required to try > out amforth32 or to participate in the project. > > There is also a Forth debugger, a dynamic transpiler, a flash framework > and ports to obtainable development board targets [3]. More details on > the documentation website [a] and repo [b] > > [a] amforth32.github.io/amforth32 > [b] github.com/amforth32/amforth32 > > Most of all, it has been a lot of fun getting this far. Of course, there > are still things missing, and things which can be improved. We very much > welcome participation, and contributions should be a little easier to > make. > > A little early for May 4th be with you, but happy Forthing nevertheless. > > Best wishes, > Tristan / Martin > > [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/36375091/ > [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/36511255/ > [3] and some less obtainable ones too > > > _______________________________________________ > Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel > _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
