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Re: [colorforth] Chuck's 2005 code


Great!

When I get home I'll take a look. Thanks alot!

On 12/6/05, Jeff Fox <fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It has been pointed out that Chuck talked about code in this
> current colorforth that has not been released.  I got Chuck's
> permission and will put a copy of the 2005 kernel/editor and
> 2005 utility routines up to block 65 on my webstite today.
> It is the PD part of CF although it has been several years since
> Chuck has updated what he has put is online.
>
> I am too busy to explain the parts of it that I have used. But
> this version has a lot more comments by Chuck that I pursuaded
> him to add, and some other comments that I added.
>
> I will say that the kernel has support for ATI or NVIDIA video
> cards.  The words ATI and NVIDIA in the Floppy application wordset
> reset the vector.  Mine is setup for NVIDIA so someone with an ATI
> card and black screen can type "floppy ati save ruu " since
> "ruu" is "off" on the ascii keyboard it will reboot with the
> boot image saved with the ATI video vector set.
>
> nc is set to 4 so it boots blocks 0-72 although I only left code
> on blocks 0-65.  Lots of new stuff to explore and enjoy.
>
>
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Chris Walton, aka Arke
Weiterstadt, Germany

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