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Bob, Tim here.

Wow great attitude as far as the pencil en paper goes.
I hope you guys enjoy the Derby!

Thanks for the screen saver, I'm anctious to try it ;-)
probably be next thursday night (that's my Forth night).

With kind regards,

Tim Neitz.


On Fri, 3 May 2002, Bob Shafer wrote:

> At 08:21 AM 5/3/02 +0200, you wrote:
> >Bob, Tim here.
> >
> >Thanks for the posting of this colorforth source,
> >All of these types of examples help us
> >colorforth newbies like myself.
> 
> That was my second colorForth program. My first was a screen saver. I think 
> I can do it from memory:
> 
> on main load screen (18?) add:
> 
>     \r ss \g 64 load ;
> 
> then block 64:
> 
>     \C screen saver
>     \r ss \g show black screen ;
>     \r oo \g show black screen keyboard ; \w ss
> 
> ("oo" in colorForth is "ss" on the PC keyboard).
> 
> >Does this mean your far enough to make the Derby on time?
> 
> Nope. Not unless I worked on it all day, and probably not even then. We 
> have a Derby party every year, though, so there's plenty of time to get it 
> done by next year. But, thinking about the program for colorForth helped me 
> notice that there's a delightfully simple way using just paper and pencil, 
> and I'm going to do that this year. (Last year, I had a (local) web site :-)
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