[ColorForth] Boot problems.

["Miranda Ravetto-Wood" <mirandaravetto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all who tried to help....sadly to no avail the following gives me
black screen/hung
machine..http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/rscollins/color1ms3/color1ms3.com.
Any other suggestions would be gratefully received...Duncan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Collins" <rscollins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ColorForth List Member" <ColorForth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:47 AM
Subject: [ColorForth] Boot problems.


> I had a dig around and found the source for color1ms3.com. All the details
> are at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/rscollins/color1ms3/. Hope someone
> finds that helpful.
>
> Also, in the name of international confusion I moved color1ms3.com to
> http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/rscollins/color1ms3/color1ms3.com.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Richard Collins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Shafer" <bobsh@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "ColorForth List Member" <ColorForth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:44 AM
> Subject: [ColorForth] Boot problems.
>
>
> > I'm very pleased to report that color1ms3.com works on an old HP Vectra
PC
> > I've got sitting here, which no other colorForth has worked on yet.
Very,
> > very cool!!! I hope others will download and try it on machines they
> > wished colorForth worked on.
> >
> > Thanks!!!
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Richard Collins wrote:
> >
> > > Try http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/rscollins/color1ms3.com. It works
> > > on a Pentium with a PCI S3 Trio 32/64 graphics card (1 MB graphics
> > > mem.). Note that this works at 800x600, thought you have enough video
> > > memory for 1024x768.
> > >
> > > The other important detail is how much ram you have. The video double
> > > buffer in the original color.com is just below 32meg, so if you have
> > > less than that you will have problems. If you've got anything on
> > > screen with any color.com I'd *guess* that isn't a problem.
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > >
> > > Richard Collins
> > >   ----- Original Message -----
> > >   From: Miranda Ravetto-Wood
> > >   To: ColorForth List Member
> > >   Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:20 AM
> > >   Subject: [ColorForth] Boot problems.
> > >
> > >
> > >   I am trying to get colorforth working on an old machine with the
> following spec. :-
> > >   Pentium 1 120 Mhz, 72 Mb EDO ram, PCI S3 Trio 32/64 graphics card (2
> MB graphics mem.) 2 x HDD, 1 x FDD, 1 x CD-R
> > >
> > >   In all cases I used rawrite to make the boot floppies, with the
> following results:-
> > >
> > >   color.com from www.colorforth.com  black screen/machine hung.
> > >
> > >   color.com from
http://www.oakland.edu/~maslicke/colorforth/vesa-chuck/
> 1 cm deep 3 color strip at top of screen/immediate reboot.
> > >
> > >   c4.com from Terry Loveall's site (c4-800x600-p2bd-02.zip) 2cm deep 4
> color strip at top of screen/machine hung.
> > >
> > >   c4a.com from (as above) (c4a-p2bd-02.zip) black screen/machine hung
> > >
> > >   What I would like to know is, can my setup run colorforth and if so
> which version should I be using and how?.
> > >   Thanks in anticipation....Duncan
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