alpha testers wanted

Hi Folks,

I'm seeking people interested in playing with a new PIC18Fxxx compiler,
and possibly even using it in their projects.

The compiler features:
 - high-level language programming
 - multitasking (co-operative)
 - object-oriented programming (optional)
 - exception handling
 - dynamic memory management
 - effortlessly easy integration with assembler
 - extensibility to the very core

The compiler in question comes from my earlier PIC18Forth toolchain.

In recap, PIC18Forth compiles Forth source code to a bytecode
token-threaded VM runtime environment. On the positive side, this
implememtation offers great flexibility and extremely compact code, but
at a heavy performance cost.

So I've forked Pic18Forth into two versions:
 - 'Van' - original version - slow, but able to carry
   large amounts of code in a PIC18F
 - 'Coupe' - new version - subroutine-threaded compilation, which gives
   near-native speed but loses the code density of the 'wagon', while
   keeping the flexibility

It's the 'coupe' version for which I'm seeking testers at this time.

I'm looking to have the manuals, tutorial, example progs, release
tarball etc done over the weekend.

For testers, I'm looking for people who:
 - like Forth, or are curious/flexible enough to learn a bit of it
 - are looking to try out a new high-level language compiler for
   PIC18Fxxx devices
 - have at least a crude reading knowledge of PIC18Fxxx assembler
 - use gputils and gpsim
 - are willing to give clear feedback and feature suggestions

and desirably:
 - are working on actual PIC18Fxxx-based projects
 - might be willing to get involved in future development and
   documentation
 - might be willing and able to contribute device drivers in the
   future

Please let me know on- or off-list if you're interested.

-- 
Cheers
David