[ColorForth] colorForth ~popularity

["Marrandy" <marrandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Tim.

Yes, I`ve tried those but am intersted in getting Chuck's ColoForth going.

Thanks...Martin

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> Martin, Tim here.
>
> I thought I could perhaps give you something to
> try, It is a colorforth and a ANS forth in one.
>
> I am an old time forther, but am a newbie to colorforth.
> Some of the information below may be incorrect.
>
> Input on innacuracies is welcome.
>
> It is called Enth and FLUX.
> http://www.ynet.com.au/sean
>
> It seems to be quite freindly with hardware from wat I've
> seen. It can be a bit choosey as far as video card but
> that is clearly to be seen by the last word that the boot code
> puts on the screen "VIDEO". It then halts..
>
> I've only got generic PC's and from the 4 that I have it runs on two,
> doesn't run on 1 and hasen't been tested on the other.
>
> Video cards that work often are PCI based with 4 meg or more.
> I also know that particular models from Diamond work.
>
> The other card is to generic to guess what it is...
>
> From what I understand Enth and FLUX  were developped just before the
release of
> colorforth's assembly listing in ASCII. The ideas had been issued
> by Mr. Moore in HTML. Jeff Foxx also played a role.
>
> It also comes on part of a floppy, and is very impressive.
> I have used it for a couple of months now and it puts a smile on
> my face every time. It's also has 2 editors on for ANS code and
> one for color code. I comes with assembly listings as well.
>
> I am about to try Mr. Moore's colorforth on those same machines.
> I will mail you my results if you're intrested.
>
> Thursday night is my Forth night, perhaps I'll know more then.
>
> Mr. Sean Pringle is the author of Enth, there is currently work being done
> to gain tcp/ip connectivity for Enth, Flux and clolorforth. Any
information
> that you would have concerning this would be helpful to me and others on
> this list.
>
> Hoping to have helped.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Tim.
>
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Marrandy wrote:
>
> > Great...can someone put  full dates on code etc. ie. including the year
and
> > leave earlier code up as well (also with full dates).
> >
> > I still haven`t got it to run and any of of Six machines I have tried
:-(
> >
> > Regards...Martin
> >
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> >
> > From: "Chuck Moore" <chipchuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "ColorForth List Member" <ColorForth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [ColorForth] colorForth ~popularity
> >
> >
> > > Thanks, I'll make the Ethernet/UDP code available at next website
update.
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