Hi, It's time to disclose the secret around the license change.
A few months ago I started playing with the naken_asm by Mike Kohn to get rid of the Atmel assembler. The first changes were easy, some things were difficult to achieve but one show stopper finally kncked me out: The naken_asm cannot generate a hex file for initialized EEPROM content. Around the same time I re-found an old TI Stellaris Lauchpad that I got a year or two ago from my friends at the German Forth society and spent a few hours with 4€4th and camelforth for the msp430. It was not that difficult to get them working, the differences to amforth are small but annoying (for me at least). The source code was a real surprise: almost like amforth. The same implementation strategy (indirect threaded) and even the pre-assembled forth code for many words is *really* close. So I started to closely examine the camelforth sources (Brad ported them to naken_asm earlier this year) to follow the amforth style (that is: many small source files with XT_* labels). A month ago or so I found a solution to have the same source code for both assemblers: the naken_asm for the MSP430 part and the Atmel assembler for the AVR8's. Since Brad's code is GPLv3 I had to change the amforth license to that level too to be compliant, not that I really liked or enjoyed it, but law is law and beer is beer. Finally: rev 1702 is a huge patch. It compiles and generates working images (for me at least). People who come from camelforth get a new command prompt. Exceptions and double cell number output (no input yet) are working too. Recognizers are almost done (need a way to put the recognizer stack into the INFO flash). Amforth users may find a long list of missing features, I'll work on it to make it shorter. Maybe, sometimes both controllers will have an identical feature set. Maybe this is impossible. Future will tell. For now the new code is highly experimental and not suitable for serious work, regressions are likly ;) Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
