[colorforth] [ColorForth] My search for system to Run ColorForth. Found 3 systems.

[Robert Patten <pattenre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I went up to  Aroma Computer in Modesto CA and sat down at a  bench,  tried
various  combinations of floppy drives and motherboards/cpu/video  and  had
5 copies of colorforth using
http://www.colorforth.com/trouble.htm:
"
Trouble with 'save '
Floppy controllers are awfully slow. With a fast computer/bus it may miss
commands or data bits. COLOR.COM may not respond to 'save ' You must somehow
copy COLOR.COM to sector 0 to make a bootable floppy.

DOS can write a bootable floppy with DEBUG. In a DOS window type:
debug COLOR.COM
w100 0 0 7e
q
"
No combination worked.

The tech went and made a full format Floppy with system and copied
color.com from
http://www.colorforth.com/install.htm
to his desk top and then copied it to the floppy

He then booted from this floppy and executed color. It worked!!!

 I bought that system and  and came home   It consisted of:

MSI K7T TURBO KT133A M/B LE          79.00
AMD DURON 1.2GT                                  69.00
GeFORCE 2 MX400 64MB AGP W          59.00
ATX POWERSUPPLY                                 29.00
 floppy drive from home
                                                                      _____
                                                                    $236.00
plus taxes

   I went home and played with the new system and ColorForth
decided to try one more time to get ColorForth started on my
eMachines 366id  by making system floppy and copimg  color.com to it.
and booting and running fom this floppy.  It worked!!! ???
   I have tryed  every method but this color.com did not save to floppy.
   The eMachines 366id has a
Pentium(r) II Processor Intel MMX
Rage Pro AGP 2X
and now runs color forth.


The

MSI motherboard 815EPT Pro-R

CELERON 700MHZ FCPGA

did not run color forth from floppy but did with

GeFORCE 2 MX400 64MB AGP W

installed .     The GeForce disabled the onboard vidio which allowed
colorforth to run form the system floppy.



This is what I think I have learned about  booting ColorForth:

To install Colorforth on Windows 98 Machine:
Format 3  data Floppys then make a boot flopy by
Formating Flopy in a: drive 1.44 Mb (3.5") select Full format  and Copy
system files
From http://www.colorforth.com/install.htm
Get Color.com  and save on desk top.
copy Color.com to the floppy in a:
 from the Start button select ShutDown  and  Restart click  OK.
Windows will shutdown and then  restart by reading first 9 cilenders from
the floppy in a:
When the flopy stops reading remove boot  flopy in a: and put formated flopy
in a:

Save to floppy by typing: save a

If floppy writes 10 cylinders then the  Floppy disk is compatible with
Colorforth.
If ColorForth splash screen  shows correctly then the Video is  compatible.
if neither happens then MotherBoard/CPU/Video hase addressing conflicks with
ColorForth.    The gforce 2 AGP video card is compatible with ColorForth
and  will disable on board vidio if present and possably remove address
conflics and try again.
Try mother board without  on boad vidio   and install the  gForce2 AGP Card.


Robert Patten







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