About PowerMops
A full featured, stand-alone development environment for programming the Macintosh. Inspired by Smalltalk and Neon, PowerMops is based on Forth with extensive object-oriented features such as multiple inheritance, early and late binding, persistent objects, and garbage collection. Its interactive development environment provides for fluid and productive programming by allowing quick testing and modification of large or small code segments.

PowerMops comes with an extensive class library supporting many Smalltalk-like classes such as containers and all of the normal Mac graphical user interface elements. There is seamless integration of Macintosh Toolbox calls. AltiVec and OpenGL are supported, as are direct calls to Cocoa and Objective-C routines. Navigation Manager and NIB-based Carbon API constructs are supported. A well written manual and Wiki-based information are available online. The Mach-O executable format is supported as is 64-bit arithmetic for the G5 processor.

PowerMops is Carbon-compliant and runs in PPC native mode under OS 9.x and all OS X versions released to date, including Tiger. It is a subroutine threaded, optimizing Forth compiler resulting in programs that run very fast. There is also a 680X0 compatible version available, called Mops, that runs on any 680X0 Macintosh.

What’s New in this Version
- This release is not greatly changed from 6.0 of a year ago. However it adds quite a number of new features and “under the hood” improvements, and fixes a number of rather obscure bugs.
- Note that while PowerMops generates PPC-native code, it will run just fine on Intel based Macs under Rosetta.