Forth
Forth on RPi
sudo apt-get install wget
wget http://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/download/1.2/atlast-1.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf atlast-1.2.tar.gz
cd atlast-1.2/
make
Start the Forth interpreter with ./atlast and exit with Ctrl-D
atlast.html and atlast.pdf is included and an is an extensive atlast-forth manual. Read it online [1] and read about Forth itself here [2] (Beware that the Forth dialect in the book Starting Forth is a bit outdated compared to Atlast Forth).
Adding new words
Most of the power of Atlast derives from the ease with which C coded primitives can be added to the language. It is easy to add your own words, just add a "define GERTBOARD" to atlast.c around line 56. In my case I will add some words for controlling my Gertboard. There is a detailed description on how to do this in the atlast-forth manual. And you can copy much of the word implementations from the gertboard_sw directory if you have downloaded the gertboard demo files.
#define EVALUATE /* The EVALUATE primitive */
#define FILEIO /* File I/O primitives */
#define GERTBOARD /* Gertboard functions */
Then add your own word definitions at the end of the section with word definitions, around line 2704, right after #endif /* COMPILERW */ in atlast.c
#ifdef GERTBOARD
prim P_gert_setport() // channel state ---
{ // Set a digital io port to a specified state
int rev;
Sl(2);
// Map the I/O sections
setup_io();
if (S1 > 25)
trouble("Max GPIO is 25");
if (S1 == 21)
{ // first find out which rev of RPi we have
rev = pi_revision();
if (rev != 1)
// GP21 on Gertboard is controller by GPIO27
S1 = 27;
}
INP_GPIO(S1);
OUT_GPIO(S1);
if (S0 == 1)
GPIO_SET0 = (1<<S1);
else
GPIO_CLR0 = (1<<S1);
Pop2;
}
prim P_gert_getport() // channel ---
{ // Get the state of a digital port
Sl(1); // Make sure there is at least one param on the stack
// Your code goes here
}
#endif /* GERTBOARD */
And finally, add the actual words to the Table of primitive words, right after #endif /* EVALUATE */ at line 2960 or so.
#ifdef EVALUATE
{"0EVALUATE", P_evaluate},
#endif /* EVALUATE */
#ifdef GERTBOARD
{"0SETIO", P_gert_setport},
{"0GETIO", P_gert_getport},
#endif /* GERTBOARD */
As we are using code from the Gertboard demos, copy the files gb_common.o and gb_common.h from the gertboard_sw directory to atlast-1.2 directory (it's there if you have run make in this directory as well).
Add gb_common.o to the file Makefile in atlast-1.2.
ATLOBJ = atlast.o gb_common.o atlmain.o
Now, save and run "make" again to recompile atlast.c.