Re: Working with Colorforth

Well, Howerd, I guess it worked this time :^)

I never tried booting the ISO via USB. It's made to boot from a CDROM.

I wish I could get myself to get back into the colorForth project, and
get something that would work for your system, but I'm embroiled in a
lot of other projects and right now am really hyped on a new
human-powered vehicle I'm designing, plus other stuff from ideas I
just got at the Burning Man festival.

On 9/3/07, Nick Maroudas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Howerd here:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> I have been unable to post  to the
> [email protected] mail
> list for a long time.
>
> I tried to contact the webmaster, but with no effect.
>
> I think it is to do with me changing my email client
> and reply address
> - I don't know what I registered as...
>
> Maybe other people have this problem too, or maybe
> its because
> Intellisys has drained all of the colorForth
> resources ;)
>
>
>
> The John Comeau USB BIOS interface is tantalisingly
> close to working.
> He produced two versions, one that boots via a DOS
> boot system (that
> runs), and one that boots directly by using the BIOS
> to read from a USB
> flash disk, emulating a floppy (that doesn't run on
> my hardware). John
> says that the only difference in the binary image is
> to do with the
> type of boot (a value in the boot sector). The system
> is probably one
> bit away from booting and running from USB, but I
> can't fix it without
> re-doing all of John's work - installing assembler,
> BOCHS or whatever,
> Linux/Cygwin etc etc. I don't have time right now to
> do that, so its on
> my back burner...
>
> At least I know now that we can access 16 bit BIOS
> calls from
> the 32 bit CF environment, in "unreal" mode.
>
>
>
> I am reaching a point where I can do some more CF
> work, so anything you
> are doing is very interesting...
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Howerd  8^)
>
>
> Quoting Nick Maroudas <[email protected]>:
>
> > Nick here,
> >
> > The CF blog seems to have gone dead, but if anyone
> > out
> > there is still listening:
> >
> > 1. Ray, sorry to hear about your diabetes and
> > resultant
> > financial problems.  As a small token, I could send
> > $100 if you could produce code that saves CF on
> > flash
> > memory card instead of floppy.  USB code for flash
> > is
> > in Chuck's latest version, but not commented.  John
> > Comeau has booted CF from CD by omitting floppy
> > emulation and just saving the basic CF image. I feel
> > sure that a flash boot would be even simpler, if one
> > knew one's way around.
> >
> > 2.  For the record, I have worked with CF for a few
> > years now, on a hobby project, and am more than
> > satisfied.  Four X speed (compared to a DOS based
> > ANSI)
> >  direct PCI access and "self documenting" code all
> > help.
> >
> > I coded a synthesizer from scratch, that uses a PCI
> > printer card to to drive a 12 bit parallel DAC
> > convertor board.  It plays the 4 voices of a string
> > quartet in perfect tune (though with a toy sound).
> > Code is 60 blocks for i/o and sound banks, plus 40
> > blocks for a  "score" (in this case, the first 29
> > bars
> > of Beethoven's  Rasoumovsky Op59/1 ).  No sound
> > card,
> > no DMA - direct  CPU conversion of each PCM sample in
> > 5
> > microseconds (which is 4 X faster than CD) on my old
> > 550
> > MHz PII with a slow Standard Printer Port.  I could
> > happily spend my remaining years simply refining
> > this
> > setup (faster PCI card, faster computer, 16 bit DAC,
> > more elegant layout).
> > Thanks to CF, the thing works.
> >
> > Caritas,
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > --
> > Dr Nicolas George Maroudas
> > Avigdor Meiri 9/1
> > Sea View
> > Haifa 3 55 00
> > Israel
> > Tel +972 048 337 315
> >
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