Re: colorforth 2.0a for stand-alone and Windows use

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Nick Maroudas
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Ray,
>
> In answer to my present problem (the screen is 2X too
> big) you wrote:
>
> Quoting "Ray St. Marie" <[email protected]>:
>
> >... "
> >... " There seems to me to be another place in the
> >... " kernel where the display is sized.
> >... "
> >... " When you changed to 0x4117 vesa you may have
> >... " also had to contend with
> >... " sizing the screen as well. As I recall, there is
> >... " a different sizing
> >... " for Windows ( longer screen ) then in the
> >... " native.
> >... "
> >... " We still don't have a good picture of the kernel
> >... " at this point.
> >... "
> >... "  Much fun to you.
> >... " Ray
> >... "
> >... "
>
> Nick here:  I agree that the solution to my problem
> might be found in the kernel - probably around "emit".
> Because when I redefined "5x" and hence "cf" in block
> 26, to use "emit" (instead of "2emit") and rebooted,
> the words "color forth" in the logo still came out
> double size - even though blocks 26 and 28 were now
> printing "cf" with "emit" instead of "2emit". So
> somewhere in the new kernel (or in the Win wrapper?) is
> a scale factor of 2.  I don't see how it could be
> associated with my VESA call 4117 because that never
> caused trouble in CF01 or CF05; also, "emit" itself is
> unlikely to have been redefined in the new kernel - so
> I guess it might have something to do with Windows, as
> you suggest.
>
> The Win-version is smoooth, and your proposals would
> make it even smooooother, but (until a SeaForth
> pendrive comes my way) I want to stick to native stand
> alone CF because it gives "privileged I/O" (as the
> Instruction doc says).  One needs all the "privilege"
> one can get, when one is trying to synthesize Play and
> Display in four-part harmony without using DMA.


Have you booted the native at this point, Nick?

Ray
>
> Caritas,
>
> Nick
>
>
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