Re: [colorforth] How to recreate the 31 July color.com

[Jason Kemp <jason.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good afternoon Nick,

I sent this on Friday but I have just found it was rejected and returned 
by the list server:

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Dear Nick,

Thank you: that has solved it. Having no icon data explains why the
red, green and blue oblongs appeared but no text.

Jason
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My other messages this morning might make more sense if it is understood 
that you corrected my error on Friday.

Jason


Nick Maroudas said the following on 22/02/2008 20:14:
> Quoting Jason Kemp <jason.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> > I should be most grateful if anyone could show me my
> > error. 
> > [snip]
> >  up to byte 12,347, but after this point the
> > original file is 
> > mostly non-zero values whereas the assembled one is
> > just padded with 
> > zeros, so I think I am overlooking something
> > fundamental.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jason
> >
> > Nick here:  I think you might be missing the ikon
> >     
> data.  According to Tim Neitz the first 12 blocks are
> filled by the "editor", and the last 6 by the ikon
> data.  You can read his note at the end of Tim's nasm
> version of CF01, which is in John Comeau's sourceforge
> site that you use.  If you go to Tim's site you will
> see his complete set of nasm source, including data
> in the slot "cfinal". He says that his nasm code ought
> to compile into a faithful version of the original
> native CF01.    
>   
> > http://www.dnd.utwente.nl/~tim/colorforth/
> >
> > Likewise Josh Gram's source code for CF05 includes an
> >     
> icons.asm file.  I guess this will compile to be
> compatible with the complete 72k of selfbooting native 
> CF05.com that he also supplies (I use the 16bit color
> version). Ray has links with Josh: 
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Re:-ColorForth:-if-and--if-p10716747.html
>
>
> Caritas,
>
> Nick
>
> PS: Apologies to ColorForthers for inadvertently
> posting
> a private reply to Ray's post today, including my blog
> on
> a completely different subject.  Sorry.
>
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