Re: [colorforth] How to recreate the 31 July color.com
- Subject: Re: [colorforth] How to recreate the 31 July color.com
- From: Nick Maroudas <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:12:32 +0200
Quoting Jason Kemp <jason.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Good afternoon Nick,
,
>
> Thank you: that has solved it. Having no icon data
> explains why the
> red, green and blue oblongs appeared but no text.
>
> Jason
> ***
>
> Nick here: You're welcome. I'm glad that Tim's
expertise on ikons was useful. He and Ray put out a
CF01 with small font and a lot of other goodies. (Under
'RayStMarie' on Tim's site). It booted for me out of the
box.
Caritas,
Nick
>
>
> 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".
> >
> >> http://www.dnd.utwente.nl/~tim/colorforth/
> >>
> >> Likewise Josh Gram's source code for CF05 includes
> an
> >>
> > icons.asm file.
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