Hi all,
really happy with amforth but there are frustrations. Having just
downloaded version 6.1 and tried to rebuild my version 5 here are some
suggestions based on my experience:
1. Docs are wrong. The default baud rate is not 9600 as per FAQ 2.6 on
page 14 of the release 6 documentation. It is 38400 as set in the file
preamble.inc
2. It is confusing, having set the baud rate in preamble.inc, to
suggest in the included template.asm file that the baud rate is set
there. I suggest the phrase
"; serial line settings." be changed to
"; serial line settings are set in preamble.inc"
and delete the commented out lines where it could be set in template.asm
3. I understand why developers have a common words folder in the
distribution. For those happily using AVR studio to compile their
version of amForth you will need to do something like the following to
compile amForth:
A) Create a folder, say myForth
B) copy all of the files in C:\amforth-6.1\avr8 into myForth
C) copy the folders
C:\amforth-6.1\avr8\dict,
C:\amforth-6.1\avr8\drivers and
C:\amforth-6.1\avr8\words
into your folder myForth
D) copy all the files in C:\amforth-6.1\common\words
into the folder myForth\words
E) copy your device file into your folder myForth
That should give you a head start on what is a very viable
implementation of Forth.
No doubt I'll find something else given the gibberish the serial port
is throwing up on my terminal.
Regards to all
Richard
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