Re: [Amforth-devel] Video quod vadis

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

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Hi Christian,

Christian Berger wrote:
> Servus, (=bavarian for hello and goodbye)
> 
> as you may know I have written some video routines for amforth (currently 
> seperate).

If you have any updates, you can send them to me (directly).

> I now wonder what direction we should go with them. There are already some 
> routines hidden in the repository.

I'm happy to sit-and-wait and nitpick the cherries ;=)

> If we would then also have the block commands, amforth would be on its way 
> towards a fully functional desktop operating system. :)

(Standard-) blocks are somewhat difficult since they need a lot of RAM
for the buffer(s). IMHO blocks can only be used with external RAM and/or
a modified RAM - Fetch/Store to emulate a MMU with paging.

> Seriously if you can edit blocks, and send them to a printer

I doubt that a windows el-cheapo GDI printer will ever work ;=)
Postscript OTOH may work well, esp for a forth system ...

> If you add some kind of networking via I2C you can send a kind of e-mail.

There is even a ethernet connection possible (with IP etc). Hardware
exists.

Bye
Matthias
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