Re: The same Forth on different OS

"ward mcfarland" <ward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1gipagv.1ula8cpm1zmsaN%ward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> If you just want to isolate the GUI and display, it would be worth
> looking into OpenGL which is capable of some impressive graphics with
> minimal coding. The OpenGL wordset is platform independent, so it only
> remains to provide Forth<->OS glue for the GL primitives, and the "good
> stuff" is all usable in Forth.  Jorge Acerda Macia has done some of this
> for GForth, George Kozlowski in MacForth, and Nao Sacrada in Mops (see
> this newsgroup about 4-5 months ago).  Perhaps we could find some
> Windows Forthers using OpenGL and jointly work up a "Forth OpenGL
> standard".

Jos vd Ven has written Win32Forth wrappers for OpenGL code; you can find
his
homepage at http://home.planet.nl/~josv/

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Regards
Alex McDonald