This is version 2.1 of MacFORTH, the classic Forth development
environment that included an inline macro assembler and was used to
create several professional Mac applications of the day, including the
famous [ChipWits][1]. Most people think of using Pascal and later C to
write code for 68k Macs, but in the early days several other languages
were well used and writing full-fledged Toolbox apps and even code
resources was heavily covered in MacTutor's early years. Several
professional-caliber Forth environments existed in the early Mac era,
including MacFORTH and the later Mach2.

This is "Level Two" of MacFORTH, including several added features such
as the inline assembler not included in Level One (for an additional
fee). There was also a "Level Three" which I would love to find one
day.

To my knowledge no version of MacFORTH was previously available online
anywhere. I also have the disk for version 2.01, but the MacFORTH file
itself appears to be corrupt. This may be a form of copy protection,
I'm not sure yet. If anyone has a working copy of an earlier version,
please upload it to the Garden for preservation purposes!

Please also see my upload of [MacForth Plus][2] (1989).

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

  [1]: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/chipwits
  [2]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macforth-plus

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