Re: How to recreate the 31 July color.com

Quoting Jason Kemp <[email protected]>:

> Good afternoon Nick,
,
> 
> Thank you: that has solved it. Having no icon data
> explains why the
> red, green and blue oblongs appeared but no text.
> 
> Jason
> ***
> 
> Nick here: You're welcome.  I'm glad that Tim's
expertise on ikons was useful.  He and Ray put out a
CF01 with small font and a lot of other goodies. (Under
'RayStMarie' on Tim's site). It booted for me out of the
box.  

Caritas,

Nick
> 
> 
> Nick Maroudas said the following on 22/02/2008
> 20:14:
> > Quoting Jason Kemp <[email protected]>:
> >
> >   
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I should be most grateful if anyone could show me
> my
> >> error. 
> >> [snip]
> >>  up to byte 12,347, but after this point the
> >> original file is 
> >> mostly non-zero values whereas the assembled one
> is
> >> just padded with 
> >> zeros, so I think I am overlooking something
> >> fundamental.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Jason
> >>
> >> Nick here:  I think you might be missing the ikon
> >>     
> > data.  According to Tim Neitz the first 12 blocks
> are
> > filled by the "editor", and the last 6 by the ikon
> > data.  You can read his note at the end of Tim's
> nasm
> > version of CF01, which is in John Comeau's
> sourceforge
> > site that you use.  If you go to Tim's site you
> will
> > see his complete set of nasm source, including
> data
> > in the slot "cfinal". 
> >   
> >> http://www.dnd.utwente.nl/~tim/colorforth/
> >>
> >> Likewise Josh Gram's source code for CF05 includes
> an
> >>     
> > icons.asm file.  

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