Re: if then else - but why is ther e no ‘else’ in colorForth?

David Goehrig <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:30:57 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.forth.colorforth
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 4, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Nick Maroudas wrote:

> [snip]
> Nick here:  CF2 is only slow because it has been set to
> load a full 80 cylinders (you can hear them clicking
> away on the floppy).  But the core kernel and source
> blocks occupy only the first 10 cyls.  Neither of my
> PCs
> will boot CF2 native kernel on a floppy (not CF's fault
> but crappy hardware and local EMF pollution) so I've
> resorted to two expedients:
>
> 1.  Boot Josh's CF05 then rd/wr the first 10 cyls of
> CF2A in high RAM with:
>
>   [snip]

>
> 2.  The zip package of CF2a for Windows has a program
> CF2.EXE which is a bootloader for the native CF2A
> blocks.
[snip]

A 3rd option for anyone who would like the more native experience, but  
need to run other software all day is run CF2a in virtualbox

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

It works pretty well for experimenting with the system, although I've  
noticed it tends to choke on saving the image back to disk.   I  
haven't had time to figure out why, but that's how this cookie crumbles.