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 _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
