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Re: [colorforth] CF in Bochs on a Tecra (corrections)


Nice! I just wanted to see if this would work and it did:

Mac G4 upstairs, 23" LCD, 2GB RAM, Xdarwin. Linux box in basement,
3GByte RAM, running XcolorForth. Both connected to 1Gbit LAN.

The anti-colorforth way of running colorforth.. amazingly usable.

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 09:17:37PM -0700, Bob Shafer wrote:
> Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 21:17:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bob Shafer <bobsh@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [colorforth] CF in Bochs on a Tecra (corrections)
> 
> Try Mark's XcolorForth. It works great. I don't know if other X window
> managers can do this, but in ratpoison, which shows windows without window
> borders, full-screen, it pretty much looks and acts just like Chuck's
> colorForth running native. Highly recommended, if you're running Linux
> with X. Plus, you can pretty easily tap into the Linux underneath it all,
> if you want.
> 
> On Sun, 25 May 2003, Bill glover wrote:
> 
> > Alex,
> > 
> > I'm resending this so it will be on the colorforth
> > list and correcting some of my earlier details.
> > There's also more on performance and useability at the
> > bottom.
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 09:22, alex.lists@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > wrote:
> > > > I just checked that this image is working here
> > > both with bochs version
> > > > 2.0.2 and latest CVS. Could you give some more
> > > details on your setup?
> >  
> > What I'm trying at the moment is:
> >  
> > bochs 2.0.2 from source with --enable-vbe and
> > --enable-idle-hack
> >  
> > .bochsrc just the minimal setup. I haven't tried to
> > many tweaks yet. So the following are the lines I
> > modified to point to your same image and ROMS.
> > 
> > floppya: 1_44="fd.img", status=inserted
> > romimage: file=BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000
> > vgaromimage: VGABIOS-lgpl-latest
> >  
> > linux 2.4.20-8 I'm going to upgrade the kernel next
> > weekend. I'll let you know how that goes.
> >  
> > The contents of bx.c4th.tgz from your page.
> >  
> > All of this is running on a 1.7GHz Toshiba Tecra
> > 9100 with 768M ram and a S3 Savage/IX with 8M video
> > ram.
> >  
> > Even with the idle hack it seems to be running the CPU
> > at 95% or so. The Tecra can only handle a 1024x768
> > screen so the bottom 2 or 3 text lines of the CF
> > display are cutoff. CF is very sluggish with this
> > configuration so far. Gnome will not let me pan the
> > display to see the bottom lines. As I recall, fvwm did
> > so I may try that to keep going.
> > 
> > 
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