Re: Hello - and where to begin?
"John Comeau" <[email protected]>
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On Jan 18, 2008 12:51 PM, Albert van der Horst <[email protected]> wrote: > I have truely completed the reverse engineering of the original > colorforth, including screens and bitmaps for the characters. > It also replaces hex code in the screens by (my) Pentium mnemonics > assembler. > This means that I can assemble the original binary. > This tool is (of course) written in Forth. > > Go to my site (URL below) and click FTP. > I guess that using that tool, and the scripts I added, > your efforts could be substantial less. Hey Albert, I found your reverse-engineered sources and scripts at one point, after I'd already figured out how to reconcile the 2001 sources with color.com. You did an awesome job! If and when I decide to restart my colorForth projects I want to take a closer look at your work again. I can't remember though; did you realize there were (are) a few 32x32 font characters at the end of the 2001 color.com 16x24 fontmap? "K,Z/;:!+@*," and finally, something that looks something like an approaching subway or tram... I discovered it while trying to make sense of the "garbage" that showed up using my own cfdump.py tool, then modified the tool to render them... This is the one I could never quite figure out what it is... any ideas? (view with a fixed-size font for an accuate picture)... CHR32X32 "......####################......" CHR32X32 "...##########################..." CHR32X32 "..####....................####.." CHR32X32 ".###........................###." CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 "################################" CHR32X32 ".###........................###." CHR32X32 "..####......................#..." CHR32X32 "....#.......#.......#.......#..." CHR32X32 "....#.......#.......#.......#..." -- John Comeau <[email protected]> http://jc.unternet.net/ "A place for everything, and everything all over the place"