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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"
<[email protected]> said:
> Quoting [email protected]:
>
> > 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
> <[email protected]>
> 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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