PLASMA 2.1 for the Apple II and III Released

Posted by: A.P.P.L.E. Date: February 15, 2024 1 Likes 361 Views

From David Schmenk : A great number of performance and reliability improvements. The big feature update is PLFORTH, a FORTH language module for PLASMA that makes FORTH a first class citizen to the PLASMA environment. Many programming tools for software development or use PLASMA as a command line interface with a full suite of file manipulation tools and program launcher.

Included in this release are many bug fixes and new FORTH language support:

  1. MULT opcode speedup improvements
  2. Overhaul 65802/65814 VM for better speed and compatibility with PLFORTH compilation
  3. Many Apple /// improvements and bug fixes
  4. Low memory fixes and tests
  5. FORTH language support as a PLASMA module. Full accessabilit to PLASMA modules and libraries
  6. Install script for ProDOS mass storage

https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA/releases/tag/v2.1

Author: A.P.P.L.E.
The A.P.P.L.E. Website is run by the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange Users Group and is open to all Apple and Macintosh fans and their friends.
Website