Re: [colorforth] colorforth 2.0a for stand-alone and Windows use

[Nick Maroudas <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Jeff, will try that when booting a deedeed
native floppy without Windows.  Meanwhile happy to add
that your Win wrapper worked instantaneously on the
wife's Lenovo T60. Just download in Windows and press
"Run".

Smooooth! 

Nick   

Quoting Jeff Fox <fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>... " > Gwenhwyfaer Hi, Ray here...
>... " >> Unfortunately, it doesn't work (out of the
>... " box) on qemu 0.9.1 (Linux);
>... " >> the screen mode is wrong. Is there a way to
>... " give it a different mode
>... " >> to use? (An offset to patch with a hex editor
>... " would be great.)
>... " >
>... " > Wondering if you can run the native. Can you
>... " dd copy the OkadWork.cf
>... " > file to a floppy and boot? Display? This will
>... " help determin your
>... " > Display settings if they are not working. I'm
>... " sure that we can either
>... " > hexedit changes to your copy or even I could
>... " make the changes on the
>... " > block where the Nvidia and Ati ( floppy driver
>... " block) are stored and
>... " > see if those changes work.
>... " 
>... " On block 52 are definitions of "ati" and
>... " "nvidia"
>... " they store a literal to "vesa"
>... " "vesa" on the command line of my system returns
>... " 4001ac2
>... " ati stores 10cd4123 to vesa and nvidia stores
>... " 10cd4118
>... " 
>... " if you have access to a command line, even if
>... " the display
>... " is black, you can try "floppy " to load 52
>... " "ati save warm "  or "nvidia save warm " and see
>... " if it helps
>... " 
>... " I have to do that when running off floppies and
>... " switching between a desktop machine at work and
>... " a
>... " desktop machine at home.
>... " 
>... " 
>... " 
>... "
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