WikiReader Forth Simulator

[Carsten Strotmann (private)]

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János Bolyai writes in his blog at

http://createuniverses.blogspot.com/2011/03/wikireader-forth-simulator.html


> I bought a WikiReader recently, which apart from being a 4GB text
> only offline version of Wikipedia, comes with a fun feature where it
> can run any Forth programs which are placed on its internal mini SD
> card. I wrote this program so I could test my small Forth programs
> without having to swap the mini SD card in and out repeatedly. The
> current version can run most of the test programs exactly as they
> appear on the SD card very faithfully. This app uses a Forth
> interpreter provided by the open source embeddable Forth
> implementation FICL (http://ficl.sourceforge.net/), and it works by
> providing device specific words as callbacks to a simulated
> WikiReader. It implements enough now to be useful, including the
> framebuffer functions, GDI functions (including text rendering using
> the device's font) and input functions, so I'm releasing it.

There is the windows binary for download and LGPL source.

- -- Carsten
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