Re: [Amforth-devel] amforth-1.3 on atmega8

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

Hans,

> Is there any information available on how one would proceed to get an
> application running with amforth?

there are (nearly) no code examples specific for amforth. The homepage
(amforth.sf.net) has some trivial examples..

But amforth tries to speak the standard (ans94) forth dialect, so it
should not be too difficult to find example code. amforth does not have
all ans94 words, but those present should work as specified.

> I see that there are several files
> in the blocks/ subdirectory that appear to be Forth libraries, but how
> would I add those files to the Flash image?

Just transfer them line by line (with a delay of approx 1 sec between
2 lines) to the controller. Don't push them too fast to the =B5C, the
serial line has no handshake and will terribly overloaded. I use a
simple perl script which may work on linux only however. The handshake
(xon/xoff or rts/cts) is still on my todo list...

One user told me that he uses avrdude to transfer the flash/eeprom
back to the host computer to save time to re-install the system if
needed. Really tricky.

> Is the svn repository available for public read access?

It is publicly readable, Instructions are at

http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=3D179967

> Again, thanks for your support and this great piece of software!

I really would like hear more.

Matthias