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Re: [colorforth] Jeff Fox


I am speaking of an even newer version of colorForth.

I must not be the only person who remembers Jeff Fox
mentioning in #c4th (sometime in 2006) that a new
version of colorForth was in the works and that
multiple people (at Intellasys??) were working on it.

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:44:12 +0200, "Nick Maroudas"
<alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Quoting vaded@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> 
> > I remember Jeff Fox mentioning a "soon" to be
> > released new version of
> > ColorForth.  This never happened -- does anyone know
> > why?
> > 
> >Nick here:  
> 
>  On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:45:37 -0600 Ray St. Marie
> <ray.stmarie@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> Nick is right as far as I recall. Chuck has the USB
> driver on the '05
> version of colorforth that was distributed by Jeff Fox.
> If not already
> known to you, that version shipped with unexpected
> corruption, which
> in turn was corrected by Josh Grahms at :
> 
> http://qualdan.com/colorforth/chuck05-jg5.tar.gz
> 
> Nick here: 
>    
> Hello, Ray!  ....  Yes, I am using Josh's chuck05,
> downloaded from the site you mention above, with help
> from Josh to install the version for 16bit color.  It
> boots reliably, and one can use block 60 to format new
> floppies; thus becoming independent of other OS. 
> 
> Hi, Vaded!  See subsequent post by Ray on the thread
> "Working with ColorForth" for his comparison with the
> original.  CF05 has more facilities than CF01, yet
> loads even faster and IMHO looks even neater.
> Streamlined evolution - the opposite of bloat code. 
> 
> Caritas,
> 
> Nick   
> 
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