ADVANCED SPECTRUM FORTH is an essential aid to anyone who wishes to discover FORTH's true potential on their Spectrum, providing the bridge from beginner status to advanced FORTH programmer, using examples and detailed explanations.

The popularity of FORTH as an alternative language, combining the ease of a high level language and the speed of machine code, has led to it being available to the Spectrum user.

However, to really utilise the power and flexibility of FORTH, a lot more in-depth knowledge of the language is required than just knowing and being able to use the pre-defined FORTH words.

This book is designed to provide details and to illustrate the techniques that will allow the FORTH programmer, who is already familiar with FORTH, to realise the full potential of FORTH as a language.

Apart from an in-depth look at Abersoft's FIG-FORTH this book deals with specific programming techniques and FORTH program design considerations, using examples.

This book contains sections which provide a close look at how FORTH handles arithmetic, how to manipulate strings and arrays, how to define new dictionary definitions, and a chapter which covers the peculiarities of FORTH on the Spectrum.

Aimed specifically at those programmers who know the essentials of FORTH and dealing exclusively with Abersoft FORTH for the Spectrum, this book provides those details about the Spectrum and about Abersoft FORTH that more general books cannot provide.