[ColorForth] Support for external floppy

["t" <loveall@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alex,

Thank you for the prompting.

The other day, while doing routine maintenance, I executed the colorForth 2.0
modded to 800x600 as you noted, on my Sony VAIO 505g (200Mhz Pentium, 32Meg
RAM, NeoMagic 128XD), executing c4.com from a hard disk and discovered that it
worked from a DOS 7.0 'safe' command line (bare DOS, no HIMEM loaded).

After your missive from this morning, I dug out the Sony external floppy and
tried the same binary, first from a 'normal' DOS 7.0 command line with extended
memory mgm't enabled and it worked. Then saved itself successfully to disk and
rebooted from the just-written floppy. Guess the floppy wasn't behind a PCMCIA
interface after all.

Hadn't gotten around to checking out colorForth on the Sony because it has been
broken for near onto a year. Just recently fixed it (had to replace the hard
disk).

Regards,
Terry Loveall

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Thiel" <alex.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ColorForth List Member" <ColorForth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 2:59 AM
Subject: [ColorForth] Support for external floppy


Terry,

my VAIO is a PCG-505FX, the graphics chip is a NeoMagic 128XD.

As far as I remember (is been quite a while that I installed this) Chuck's
original colorForth did not work. I used one of your patched versions
c4-800x600-*, but I don't remember if I compiled it myself.

I hope I find some time soon to play with colorForth a bit more, and try out
what has been posted to the list recently.

Cheers,
Alex

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:46, t wrote:
> What VAIO model? What is the video card?
>
> Thanks,
> Terry Loveall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Thiel" <alex.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "ColorForth List Member" <ColorForth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 1:51 AM
> Subject: [ColorForth] Support for external floppy
>
> > I have ColorForth running on my VAIO with no problems.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On Sunday 16 June 2002 20:35, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> > > My new Sony VAIO laptop has no internal floppy drive.  Does anyone know
> > > whether ColorForth should boot from and be able to do load/save with an
> > > external floppy drive?  I'm not asking for guarantees--I just want to
> > > know whether anyone knows any reason that it wouldn't.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -- Kris
>
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