if he's not going to maintain it anymore can't he at least open source it?

ninalanyon · 2025-11-19T15:51:32 1763567492

It's public domain, sort of.

" Updated 2002 September Philosophy

My attitude about software is that it expresses ideas that cannot be owned. Attempting to assert ownership is undesirable and impossible.

So, although colorForth is infinitely valuable, I place it in the Public Domain to make it freely available to anyone for any purpose. There is plenty of money to be made by porting code, programming applications and teaching.

I am having a fine time using colorForth. I won't spend much time promoting it. This site is my attempt to gauge the market. I will rigidly control the version I use."

But when you go to the downloads you see this:

"Download You can download colorForth thanks to UltraTechnology.

Downloads are still available. But note that COLOR.COM can only run under DOS - not Windows. As you can see above, it's 9 years old and I no longer know how to run it. The current version is available at GreenArrays

    COLOR.COM Jul31
    boot.asm, floppy source
    gen.asm, generic graphics source
    color.asm, kernel source

This is the exact version I'm using, limited only in the amount of source code provided. It's a 63KB .COM program. You're welcome to use it as you please. But it's a powerful tool, so please be careful."

See https://colorforth.github.io/