Re: ANN: DX-Forth 4.57

On 11/12/2024 9:13 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

In article <ff9d9233f27d7d913fb05f04e486912a68752cb6@i2pn2.org>,
dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/12/2024 9:39 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

In article <64762224be194b336f89955c52dd77b6ce2334a8@i2pn2.org>,
dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/12/2024 7:28 pm, Hans Bezemer wrote:

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Congratulations! It's nice to see such compilers remain maintained and

relevant!
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Thanks.  Not sure about relevant :)  It's nevertheless interesting to
see the odd
user get some use out of it.  Even more of an eyebrow raiser is when
they go along
with archaisms such as screens for source.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYvYu5AfSxg
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When I was forced to do line by  line including of source,
I needed buffers to hold a piece of the files.
The buffers used for blocks are perfectly suited for this.
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Not to mention that a 16 by 64 block of code is a perfect
match for Forth, for a multi purpose library.

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Personally I love the editing environment screens afford - small,
modular, no information overload.
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You need video mode 3 set by BIOS call 10.
To my surprise dosbox supports direct screen access, e.g.
    42 B0000 C!
puts a B in the upper left corner.
This allows a graphics editor based on the ^E ^S ^D ^X diamond pattern,
etc. ^Y removes a line but it stack up outside the 16 lines and
can be put any where with ^U etc.
This is part of my the library of ciforth, but it only runs on
the 16 version of ciforth (mina).
(this was first implemented on my Osborne, a CP/M system).

DOSBOX does a good job supporting the old video modes.  I was gratified
to find the Lorenzian Waterwheel application I had ported still worked.
See WW4TH.ZIP at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kh2WcPUc3hQpLcz7TQ-YQiowrozvxfGw