Forth500
A complete Forth Standard system for the SHARP PC-E500(S) (by Robert-van-Engelen)
kestrel
The Kestrel is a family of home-made computers, built as much as possible on open-source technology, and supporting as much as possible the open-source philosophy. (by KestrelComputer)
| Forth500 | kestrel | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 24 | 171 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.0 | 0.4 | |
| 10 months ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Assembly | Assembly | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Forth500
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kestrel
Posts with mentions or reviews of kestrel.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-23.
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On ELF, Part 2
Off topic — does anyone know more about what happened to the Kestrel project? It sounds from the note in the archived GitHub project[0] like the maintainer(s?) shut it down because a company released a similar product with the same name. Seems odd (and sad).
[0] https://github.com/KestrelComputer/kestrel
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Forth500 and kestrel you can also consider the following projects:
stm8ef - STM8 eForth - a user friendly Forth for simple µCs with docs
smilehax-IIe - Primary 3DS userland sploit for Smilebasic 3.6.0 EUR/USA (latest version). 3.3.2 JPN support via app downgrade from > 3.3.2. Works on 11.17.0-50.
jonesforth_riscv - Jonesforth RISC-V port.
bootstrap - Richard's compiler bootstrap experiment
of816 - Portable 32-bit Forth for the 65C816.
bcompiler - Bootstrap compiler
TaliForth2 - A Subroutine Threaded Code (STC) ANS-like Forth for the 65c02
ti84-forth - A Forth implementation for the TI-84+ calculator.