PLASMA 2.1 for the Apple II and III Released

PLASMA 2.1 for the Apple II and III Released

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:

MULT opcode speedup improvements

Overhaul 65802/65814 VM for better speed and compatibility with PLFORTH compilation

Many Apple /// improvements and bug fixes

Low memory fixes and tests

FORTH language support as a PLASMA module. Full accessabilit to PLASMA modules and libraries

Install script for ProDOS mass storage

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

Author: Bill Martens
Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) president, callapple.org, owner and curator of virtualapple.org and gamezyte.com. Retro enthusiast and programmer since 1976, co-creator of the first implementation of instant messaging and group chat (1982).