I wrote some Factor code a long time ago to interface with a Z80 based MP3 played using USB, generator code and sending it to the device. That code would be woefully out of date now but it's certainly possible. I wrapped libusb using the Factor FFI to do the USB side of things. Here's a couple of posts I did on it:
https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2006/09/16/writing-your-own-mp3-player-firmware.html https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2006/09/17/factor-code-to-upload-to-s1-mp3-player.html I might have the code archived somewhere if you're interested. On Mon, Apr 21, 2025, at 3:00 PM, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > I did some programming in Factor a long time ago, but nothing > significant. > What I want to do now is write a terminal program. I need access to USB > and also NCurses or some similar console-mode code-library (I don't > want to get involved with GUI). I have a Python program that was not > written by me, but it doesn't do what I want and it has no > documentation, and I don't want to learn Python (ugh!). I was going to > write my terminal program in GCC because I programmed in Turbo C back > in MS-DOS days, but I might go with Factor instead if I can get USB and > console-mode support. > > The purpose of all this is that I'm writing a Forth system for an 8-bit > microcontroller. The terminal program is supposed to be a front-end for > that. Back in the early 1990s I wrote a Forth cross-compiler for the > Laser-128 and my program running on MS-DOS had source-level > single-stepping and breakpoints, roughly comparable to Turbo Debugger > that I was familiar with for the 8086. The terminal program I want to > write now will have all of that, plus it will be the front-end for the > outer-interpreter of the Forth system on the microcontroller. > > I'm running Windows-11. It would be good though, if I could get my > terminal program to run on Linux too. > > thanks for any help --- Hugh > > > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
