Re: [Amforth] Release 4.4 tagged and published

[<an...@ki...>]

Excellent, thanks guys.

Hopefully I will get some time to give it a spin over the nexy couple of
weeks.

Think I will stick with case sensitive.

Cheers

Andy Kirby

On 24/05/11 18:54, Matthias Trute wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just tagged and published a new release named 4.4.
> 
> Noteworthy changes are
> 
> - The Game of Life with terminal output (requires controllers
>   with at least many KB RAM, otherwise make the world small
>   enough). A queens puzzle solver as well (more kind of a
>   benchmark however).
> 
> - The reference card got a more compact layout, many bugs
>   from the documentation headers in the source file are gone.
> 
> - new interrupt handling. The ideas are relativly old but
>   now it works well. Many thanks to Wojciech and Al, I beg
>   your pardon that it took such a long time to implement. But
>   sometimes some active tests such as Erichs will speed up
>   things ;=)
> 
> - The recognizer thing is now documented (to some degree);
>   I sent an article to the German Forth FIG about it, that
>   should be translated into plain English ASAP. Leons floating
>   point library (a few patches are needed to work with it, just
>   use the float.frt that is included) can now be included at
>   runtime and the text interpreter can deal afterwards with
>   the numbers nativly. Great stuff.
> 
> - internally there are even more source files and the
>   amforth.asm file got smaller than ever. COLD is now
>   WARM and the new COLD is what was in amforth.asm...
> 
> - not really my favorite: If you set WANT_IGNORECASE to
>   1 and rebuild amforth you get a case insensive dictionary
>   lookup. It took a few lines of code in icompare.asm, The
>   discussion about it took more time than the implementation. Brr
> 
> Have fun, esp with Life
> 
> Matthias
> 
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