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[colorforth] Re: Port Howerd ;)


Please disregard the last post. 

First of all, I described the task completely incorrectly.
Secondly, a better combination of code was found.
Thirdly, IT WORKED GREAT but would not save.

Infact each time i've `saved' , I caused the disk to be useless till
re-format and re-loading on to the disk.

I was able to run applications. Editor, Mandelbrot, xx, wood, icons,
dump, well, everything on the list . Interupts caused me to reboot,
I'm not sure what it's supposed to do yet. :)

make the disk by `D'ownloading ( not `u`-- yikes) first cfdos4.blk,
then `ctrl-D'ownloading the boot section of C4.blk. C4.blk, being
created from Terry's masm colorforth. Taking Boot.asm and changeing
`nc' var to 18 then runing gc4.bat, which creates the new c4.com file,
I renamed it to c4.bat and downloaded 18 of its blocks right over the
cfdos4.blk image on the disk and booted.

Ray

On 5/29/05, Ray St. Marie <ray.stmarie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ray, Reporting....
> 
> Just minutes ago, I was successfull porting Howerds cfdos4 code to a
> front end that i've been hacking all along, derived from Terry
> Loveall's work on Chucks original.
> 
> This mateing was accomplished using just the software provided by
> Terry and Howerd, and masm. I changed the 'nc' variable to boot 18
> sectors instead of 9, used Terry's code to rebuild a c4.com image,
> then used cfdos4 to first put Howerd's cf800.blk on the disk using the
> 'U' command then puting the c4.com (renamed to c4.blk so that cfdos4
> would "pick it up", and used the `ctrl-U' command to put just the boot
> section 18 blocks over Howerd's boot code, already on the disk.
> 
> Previously, my Compaq pentium 4 was incapable of booting Howerd's
> code. Howerd, aware of this fact and also aware that he had advised
> that you just put a different front 18 on his code to get it to work
> on your machine, has recently made that proposal possible. He returned
> several custom macros back to Chuck's original, and now all is well
> with the world.
> 
> I was so very excited to get his code to boot, and show up in the
> editor, that I reboot windows to tell you all,
> 
> Back I go to test things like his editor, Mark Slickers mandelbrot,
> the menu code, the relative  load block thingy, ( my personal favorite
> app ) and more.
> 
> Wish me luck....
> Ray
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