Re: Attempt to reassemble colorforth: the Mark Slicker bug

It boots, there is something definitly wrong.

Hi Albert, 
Ray here: 

I does boot, and the command `boot' is active. the editor loads with
`e'. the blocks don't show up in the editor and the words on 18 and
beyond do not show up in the editor, and none of that code loads or
works.

I pulled the image thru the cf2html to be sure that the colorforth
blocks were there, and they are, they just don't show in the editor.

This is not entirely true, "18 edit" and your looking at the icons
EDIT block on 18.

I think the code is offset some how, tho I don't know how at this point.

Ray

On 5/20/05, Albert van der Horst <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hoi Folks,
> 
> I believe I am now in a position to reassemble colorforth.
> Surely I can reassemble to exact the same COLOR.COM, but that is
> not useful in itself.
> 
> As a first attempt to do something useful, I have tried to
> remove the bug that was recently pointed out by Mark Slicker.
> (And that took me so long to understand.)
> 
> Small as this change is, it involves a change in quite some
> code addresses, which affects large parts of the executable,
> but a change of data addresses is still largely circumvented.
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't run the original COLOR.COM that this is
> based on. So I would ask for someone who can run the original
> COLOR.COM to try out the changed version COLOR-BG.COM and report
> back what happens. (I got kind of stuck with Howards colorforth,
> then decided to start with the version from www.colorforth.com.)
> 
> It is available through anonymous ftp from
>         ftp://80.100.243.19/pub/colorforth/ms-bug.zip
> 
> (Log in as anonymous or ftp. Most browser do this automatically.)
> 
> Apart from the colorforth this archive contains the source,
> a difference-file, and the assembler/disassembler with a
> script to assemble (on a Linux machine).
> 
> Note that the colorforth screens are still represented as
> reassemblable hex dumps. But the icons look nice, I think.
> The undiffed source is straight from the disassembler/crawler
> colorcm-1-37.dis. So be prepared to find some strange things.
> 
> Groetjes Albert
> 
> 
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