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Re: [colorforth] if then else - but why is there no ‘else’ in colorForth?


Hi Nick,
Nick  here:  USB and USBoot stuff in CF2a

block 62 boot assembler 64 USB assembler 66 boot sector 68 USBoot 72 flash files 82 USB macro (like block 20 in CF05) 84 USB flash (like CF05 22) 86 USB command

This seems to continue Chuck's progress from CF01 to
CF05, moving boot code from assembler
to Forth blocks; and from CF05 TO CF2A, moving from
floppy boot to flash boot. The fact that
the new bootloader CF2.EXE can boot all 3 versions into
Windows (CF01, CF05 and CF2a)
indicates a structural similarity: it would be nice to
have a dissassembly of the native
CF2a kernel from OkadWork.cf, to compare with the
dissassemblies that Karig, Tim and Terry
made for CF01, and Josh's dissassembly of CF05.  The
dissassembly of CF2a will be short: a
dump of blocks 0 to 17 reveals great swathes of zeros,
presumably where cpu code has been
shifted to Forth source code.
So is there no kernal.asm or equivalent now: is it all done by blocks 62 and 66 etc.? (Oh, hang on, they’re just the boot.asm equivalent aren’t they?) Has this been sourceless too, inasmuch as it’s built on CF05?

The CF2EXE tip is handy as two versions can be compared side by side.

Thanks,
Jason


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