Re: [colorforth] colorforth in the bochs

[Alexander Thiel <alex.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 25 November 2002 01:41, Bob Shafer wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Alex Thiel wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > for those of you who are interested in writing hardware drivers for
> > colorForth: I have got it to run in the bochs, an open source x86
> > emulator.
> >
> > That's all I can think of at the moment. If someone wants to try this and
> > has problems with the setup, feel free to mail anytime.
>
> I gave it a try. Bochs seems to be working and colorforth might be
> running, but I can't see it. Bochs runs to a VGA emulation in X-windows.
> ColorForth is expecting to run 1024x768 (although with only 16 colors, if
> I understand what you did properly), but VGA isn't 1024x768, is it?
>
> So, I guess I'm missing a step...?
>
> Any hints? :-)
>

Another point: 
I think I forgot to mention that you have to enable VBE support explicitly 
when you configure bochs. I.e. ./configure --enable-vbe

	Alex


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