J4thDemo

Short:        Demo of JForth development system
Author:       mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
Uploader:     mikeh starnine com (Mike Haas)
Type:         dev/lang
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

TITLE

     JForth Professional 3.x Demo

VERSION

     3.1

COMPANY

     Delta Research
     P.O. Box 151051
     San Rafael, CA 94915-1051
     
     (415) 453-4320

AUTHOR

     Mike Haas (mikeh@starnine.com)
     - Also author of Textra and LCD Calculator
     
     Phil Burk (phil@ntg.com)
     - Also author of HMSL, FindWindow and HeadClean

DESCRIPTION

     JForth 1.0 first appeared in October, 1986... the
     current version is V3.1.  JForth was developed for the
     Amiga, on the Amiga.  It is of the "super forth"-genre,
     representative of the state-of-the-art in Forth compilers.

     This is a demo version of the JForth Professional 3.x
     software development system.  It includes a complete
     JForth interpreter/compiler which is fully-functional
     but limited in the size of executable code it will
     produce.  Also, the demo will NOT create standalone
     programs (the commercial package will).  This demo
     version also offers an "Introduction" which can be
     optionally viewed at startup.
     
     The demo interpreter/compiler includes a disassembler,
     assembler, as well as a source-level debugger.  While
     the demo package does not provide the JForth "include"
     files (similar to C's ",h" files, JForth calls them
     ".j"), MANY are pre-compiled and accessible in the demo
     program.  Similarly, the demo can also call many Amiga
     shared-library functions, as they have been pre-compiled
     for you (the demo package does NOT support adding more...
     the commercial package can call any Amiga library func-,
     tion, even custom libraries).
     
     Additionally, there is a compiled program which
     demonstrates the JForth interface into graphics,
     menus, HAM mode, etc.
     
     There are several source files included, including an
     IFF file viewer, word/line counter and others.
     Additionally, several tutorials are provided for
     users new to Forth and/or JForth.
     
     Also provided is V1.11 of Textra, the user-friendly
     Amiga GUI-based text editor.  This is the same editor
     which accompanies the JForth package and can be
     integrated with JForth (even the demo) via ARexx.
     (Later versions of Textra are available and are
     completely backward-compatible with JForth).
     
     Finally, as an example of a JForth standalone,
     graphics-based productivity application, Mike Haas'
     1993 "LCD Calculator II" is included.

NEW FEATURES OF JFORTH PROFESSIONAL 3.x

    - Amiga DOS 2.0 includes and library support, 68040-compatible
    - ASL file requester
    - ANIM and ANIMBRUSH IFF extensions to the Picture system
    - ARexx support toolbox simplifies writing command driven
        host applications
    - Mike Haas' Textra editor (v1.11) integrated with JForth
        via ARexx
    - Faster and smarter Clone
    - Profile - code performance analyser
    - ARP and Requester library support
    - New error handling tools,
    - Optional global register-based optimizing compiler
    - Index for manual
    - Improved local variables
    - Tools for Double Buffered graphic displays
    - Numerous other improvements and (gasp) bug fixes
    - Now comes on 3 disks
    - Improved manual with Index
    
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

     1 Meg required

PRICE

     JForth Professional 3.x MSRP is $179.95

DISTRIBUTABILITY

     This demo package is freely-distributable