One of my many hats is that I am a "blogger" for the venerable Dr. Dobb's Journal (I used to do columns for their magazines, but blogging is hipper ;) ).
I wrote about my experiences with Amforth: http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/09/forth_love_if_h.html I am very impressed with it, although my original purpose might not be suitable. I was thinking of having inexpensive development boards for students. The problem is once you mess up the flash you have to reprogram. I was thinking long term it would be possible to either have a bootloader built in that would let you reflash a pristine system. Sort of a rescue mode. Maybe something I'll try when I ever get enough free time. Thanks again for all the replies. Al W. On Wednesday, September 15, 2010 17:15:33 pm Marcin Cieslak wrote: > Al Williams <al.willi...@awce.com> wrote: > > I saw amforth and popped it on an ATMega 8. Works but very little code > > space. So I dug up an ATmega 16 (you can mark it as working on the > > matrix -- it does). > > > > However, I want to be able to use Marker. I have uploaded the definiton > > several different ways including the python shell (which appears not to > > handle backspace well in interactive mode, by the way). It seems to > > work, but after you execute it (example: marker blah) the system will > > say OK but any input will hang the system when you hit enter. > > I have reproduced this error and dumped 6 images of flash > and eeprom at the different stages: > > http://saper.info/hg/forth/2010-sep-marker-problem/ > > You can fetch all the files using Mercurial (http://mercurial.seleni.com) > with: > > hg clone http://saper.info/hg/forth/2010-sep-marker-problem/ > > There is something strange when portion of flash memory gets erased for > the new word. > > --Marcin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Amforth-devel mailing list > Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
