MacForth is...

...a flexible programming language and IDE

...an extensible scripting system

...a PPC native code compiler

...a very powerful macro assembler

...a hardware breadboarding platform

...a real-time control environment

ANS Standard Forth, PLUS...

• Fast, native code implementation for Power PC’s
• Simple and elegant Macintosh-style front-end
• Integrated Power PC Assembler/Disassembler
• Built-in Multitasking support
• Powerful Trace and Debug functions
• Full Power Mac Toolbox support
• Full Mach-O Frameworks support on Mac OS X
• Linkable with any standard PowerPC library
• High-level graphics and floating-point libraries
• Altivec and G5 support

Use MacForth for...

• Rapid Mac application prototyping and testing.

• Developing standalone programs and utilities.

• Hardware development and troubleshooting.

• Exploring the Mac OS.

• Learning PPC Assembler.

• Experimenting with English language parsers, custom programming languages, metacompilers.

Quick to Learn, Easy to Use...

• Highly responsive, interactive, incremental programming environment.
• Integrated Programmer's Editor - edit, compile, test from within editor.
• Integrated Glossary.
• Integrated Function Locator.
• Integrated Vocabulary Browser.
• Over 2 megabytes of source code and examples.
• Extensive documentation — 400+ page manual.

Comfortable Size:

• Disk footprint - 10 megabytes, including demos, doc's and examples.
• RAM requirement - development system can run in < 1 megabyte.