[colorforth] Graphic compability

[Alex Thiel <alex.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 18:40, Mark Slicker wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, t wrote:
> > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Bob Shafer wrote:
> > > ...
> > > If someone knew how to fit warm boot and the new code that would be
> > > great. ...
> >
> > I will assume you mean "how do you create the 65,512 byte sized color.com
> > that includes blocks?"
>
> No, I meant fitting the addiional vbe code and the warm boot code within
> the 512 byte boot-sector. This second part I removed allows colorForth to
> boot from dos or windows, but is non-esential for cold booting.
>
> Mark
>

How about using int 13h to read the first track off the floppy while still in 
real mode. The floppy driver could then be implemented in colorForth and 
compiled from a block <18. That would make room in the boot sector, plus the 
floppy driver can be modified without having to recompile the kernel.

I will try and write some floppy code in colorForth this weekend.

Cheers,
	Alex
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