[Amforth] avr8

[Brian <bkn...@gm...>]

Sending this again

Hello,

I'm an avr8 user and love amforth. This is the best system for an eight 
bit micro that lets you have interactive use of the chip. Things like 
circuit python and ulisp are cool but so resource intensive or tied to 
the arduino ecosystem that they become fun toy environments (on the 8 
bit platforms) meant to move you on to the arm based systems where the 
'real' work can be done. So I ask that you don't eliminate the ability 
to build from source, even if it means using wine and the atmel 
(micochip) assembeler. These tools allowed me to build and run the 
current amforth on the avrbutterfly. I think this is a great project. I 
would love to help, especially in the documentation. I'll keep my eyes 
open to how to submit patches. Thanks for everything.

brian-in-ohio

On 7/1/20 2:17 AM, Tristan Williams wrote:
Hello,

> Who of you is using which target controller?
I use AVR atmega328p, atmega1284p, atmega2560

> Can we get rid of the Atmel/Microchip Avrasm Assembler?
Unless AmForth/avr8 can be ported to gnu assembly, no. I would imagine
that would be a lot of work and wine does run it very well.

Having "fuller" hex files in the distribution that have assembly words
like bm-clear, bm-set, sleep, spirw, wdr, store-wdc already, would
delay the need to build AmForth. AVR flash and ram are not the limited
resource they once were. It might be worth updating the documentation
to say which hex files are available.

> Would it be feasible to drop msp430, arm, risc-v in order to simplify
> the whole thing? yes/no?
I think that depends on the collective response to the first question.

> amforth-shell.py and python3
amforth-shell.py is a great tool for AmForth. I have modified it to
run under python3 and it works well for me. I will put up a patch but
it really needs testing in a python os/environment other than mine.

> ticket system or mailing list ?
I would prefer a mailing list.

Thank you Erich for AmForth Weekend #1 - I look forward to #2

Best wishes,
Tristan