Welcome to RetroForth!
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This is a public domain implementation of the Forth programming
language. It is loosely modeled after cmForth with additional
influences from ColorForth, eForth, and Pygmy. The source code 
was written to be clean, elegant, and compact. It's an ideal 
implementation for beginners, those wanting to build on a small
Forth, or those who want a small, yet complete Forth for their
applications.
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To get started, run the "rf" binary in the "bin" subdirectory.
One way to do this is to double click on the "bin" directory and
then to double click on the "rf.exe" file that appears.
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Documentation:

Currently we have a handbook ready to view online at 
http://www.retroforth.org/handbook  We plan to produce a text
version of this handbook for 8.1, and a PDF version will follow
not long after that.

A complete list of words, with stack usage and comments is
provided in the glossary.txt. Please take a few minutes to read
through it as much useful knowledge can be gleaned from it.
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Building a custom version:

Requirements:

A) The source code (included with all copies of RetroForth)
B) FASM (from http://www.flatassembler.net)
C) GNU make is also recommended

To build:

A) Edit the "Makefile" or "build.bat" as neccessary
B) Run "make" at a command line or run "build.bat"
C) Test the newly generated binary

If you didn't modify the Makefile or "build.bat", the binary 
will be in the "bin" subdirectory. It will be named "rf" by 
default.
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RetroForth was created in 1998 by Tom Novelli, and has been
developed by Charles Childers since 2002. Many others have
helped, an incomplete list (in no particular order) follows.

Jens Pall Hafsteinsson     Ron Aaron          Stefan Schmiedl
Helmar Wodtke              Alexey Abramov     Chris Walton
Christopher Brannon        Samuel Falvo       Ray St. Marie
Torkjel                    Jason Woofenden    thinfu
htp123                     Forther
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