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Re: [colorforth] colorforth 2.0a for stand-alone and Windows use


Dear Jason,

Encouraging that you got Native2 to boot.  I could not,
but as far as I could see by displaying the Native2
floppy (after booting CF05) only the first 9 blocks of
Native2 had code; the rest seemed to be empty. 
Normally "9 nc !" and "0 0 9 write" would save only
these; and this is what I do to save a shortened
version of Native2.  But I have to load/save blocks
from CF05 - can't use Native2 directly. 

Caritas,

Nick
Quoting "Ray St. Marie" <ray.stmarie@xxxxxxxxx>:

>... " 
>... " Jason hi, and welcome back. Missed you. :-)
>... " Great to see all the machines that it does run
>... " on for you.
>... " 
>... " > although they cannot save and it takes forever
>... " to boot. :o(
>... " >
>... " 
>... " As to forever-boot... By now you know it boots
>... " the entire 1440 block
>... " image, or the entire floppy that is to say. In
>... " my machine I can count
>... " the heads changing sectors, once for the boot
>... " section ( takes a sec )
>... " then 79 times for the rest of the image. Floppy
>... " is slow and I can't
>... " wait to get it going on the USBstick. When we
>... " only booted 4 sectors or
>... " so ( 18 in my Appelman/Nietz smallfonts ) it was
>... " very quick and we
>... " didn't have any kind of wait time like what a c
>... " compiler takes to
>... " build a medium size ap. :-)
>... " 
>... " But I 'm concerned about the image not saving
>... " for you. I've had that
>... " problem on some machines and I've never been
>... " able to figure that out.
>... " 
>... " The new Manuel says something about needing to
>... " use a word called
>... " 'HOMEF" before every floppy hit, read or write,
>... " but this word has
>... " never worked on my system and appears to not
>... " even be included in the
>... " system, as far as I can tell.
>... " 
>... " Ray
>... " 
>... " > Jason
>... " >
>... " > Jeff Fox said the following on 02/05/2008
>... " 18:58:
>... " >>
>... " >> colorforth list readers:
>... " >>
>... " >> the long awaited colorforth 2 has been
>... " released
>... " >>
>... " >>
>... " ftp://ftp.ultratechnology.com/ColorForth2.0a.zip
>... " >>
>... " >> It defaults to qwerty mode on boot although
>... " changing
>... " >> the word qwerty from yellow color to white
>... " color on
>... " >> block 18 and doing a save and warm or
>... " restarting
>... " >> will return to the familiar quasi-Dvorak
>... " keyboard.
>... " >> The editor still uses the old command key
>... " layout
>... " >> although new command keys have been added.
>... " >>
>... " >> This is the version that Doug has talked
>... " about SVFIG.
>... " >> It comes with documentation and a Windows
>... " wrapper.
>... " >>
>... " >> Enjoy
>... " >>
>... " >>
>... " >>
>... " >>
>... "
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