Re: Port Howerd ;)

On 5/29/05, Ray St. Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please disregard the last post.
> 
> First of all, I described the task completely incorrectly.
> Secondly, a better combination of code was found.
> Thirdly, IT WORKED GREAT but would not save.
> 
> Infact each time i've `saved' , I caused the disk to be useless till
> re-format and re-loading on to the disk.
> 
> I was able to run applications. Editor, Mandelbrot, xx, wood, icons,
> dump, well, everything on the list . Interupts caused me to reboot,
> I'm not sure what it's supposed to do yet. :)
> 
> make the disk by `D'ownloading ( not `u`-- yikes) first cfdos4.blk,
> then `ctrl-D'ownloading the boot section of C4.blk. C4.blk, being
> created from Terry's masm colorforth. Taking Boot.asm and changeing
> `nc' var to 18 then runing gc4.bat, which creates the new c4.com file,
> I renamed it to c4.bat and downloaded 18 of its blocks right over the
> cfdos4.blk image on the disk and booted.

***I did not. I renamed it c4.blk not c4.bat.***


> Ray
> 
> On 5/29/05, Ray St. Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ray, Reporting....
> >
> > Just minutes ago, I was successfull porting Howerds cfdos4 code to a
> > front end that i've been hacking all along, derived from Terry
> > Loveall's work on Chucks original.
> >
> > This mateing was accomplished using just the software provided by
> > Terry and Howerd, and masm. I changed the 'nc' variable to boot 18
> > sectors instead of 9, used Terry's code to rebuild a c4.com image,
> > then used cfdos4 to first put Howerd's cf800.blk on the disk using the
> > 'U' command then puting the c4.com (renamed to c4.blk so that cfdos4
> > would "pick it up", and used the `ctrl-U' command to put just the boot
> > section 18 blocks over Howerd's boot code, already on the disk.
> >
> > Previously, my Compaq pentium 4 was incapable of booting Howerd's
> > code. Howerd, aware of this fact and also aware that he had advised
> > that you just put a different front 18 on his code to get it to work
> > on your machine, has recently made that proposal possible. He returned
> > several custom macros back to Chuck's original, and now all is well
> > with the world.
> >
> > I was so very excited to get his code to boot, and show up in the
> > editor, that I reboot windows to tell you all,
> >
> > Back I go to test things like his editor, Mark Slickers mandelbrot,
> > the menu code, the relative  load block thingy, ( my personal favorite
> > app ) and more.
> >
> > Wish me luck....
> > Ray
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Raystm2 and rastm2 in Internet Relay Chat (irc)
/connect  irc.freenode.net Busness discussion: /join #biz 
ColorForth: /join #c4th #c4th-ot Forth: /join #retro #forth #concatenative
Programming: /join #python #lisp #scheme #asm