Hello David,
The ping-pong[1] looks interesting!
You are correct the ATMega8 does present some challenges for AmForth 6.9
This issue came up on the mailing list earlier this year.
> Any ideas what's wrong about the Uart drivers
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/37085124/
>
David looks like preamble.Inc is not finding device.asm in devices/atmega8
could be to many folders in path. I have used avrstudio4 and enter the
avr8/devices/atmega8 in its additional path setting, you may need to look
up the serial the chip has and set that in the config file
On Mon, 23 Nov