Willsy

Nice! Loving it. Buck is doing really well :-) I saw the title screen, "By Buck and Owen Brand" and immediately thought of Buck Owens, and thought "LEGEND!"

Yep. When I was at the Faire in (I think) 2011 I took my video camera with me and recorded my presentation and some others and put them on YouTube, because I *knew* the UStream thing would be a load of crap. The Ustream connection is hosted on a laptop and webcam, and is connected to the internet via the library wifi, which is totally maxed out. So, the issue, as I remember it, is not bandwidth on the UStream side, it's getting the video and audio to Ustream in the first place via the library wifi. That's why I recorded the presentations on my video camera and uploaded them to YouTube later. Someone needs to do the same at each faire. The Ustream thing aint really cutting it. Not Hal's fault, or anybody elses, just crap bandwith.

Either that, or, those that are interested in a second day all chip in independantly of the faire organisers, and just book a conference room somewhere for a second day of pure geekery. A lot of hotels have conference rooms at good rates. I remember the subject of the fiare being extended to two days came up a few years ago. It was also mentioned to Hal about having two rooms at the library, so that people could watch the presentations, or, if not intereted, go to the geek room and geek out. He was quite resitive to the idea, mainly on cost grounds. He also thought that folk might end up making presentations to empty rooms! Could be a point, depending on the topic being presented! So, my recommendation would be go the faire as normal, and then have a second day (or the day before) in a conference room for a total hack-fest. Depends on costs, obviously, as it would have to be shared among those attending. It would certainly tempt me back to Chacago - when you have to fly across the Atlantic, a two day trip is actually better value than a one day trip - it's a pain in the ass flying in, say, on a Friday, faire on Saturday, fly back on Sunday - hardly worth the cost of the hotel and flights. A two day event would be more attractive to me.

Good catch. I'll have to make sure TurboForth zero's that out when executing BYE.

Try LIMI 0 BLWP @0

If you're not using DIF elsewhere, then just do: 16530 IF (ABS(PR-FCR)+ABS(PC-FCC))>4 THEN 17000

You can get pills for weeping peniles. See a doc

Same here. I've never had the DSR RAM corrupt on me.

Hey, I ordered a treble pack of "12 inch whopper guy", a penile suction pump, and a pack of "lose 100lbs in three minutes" tablets and they haven't arrived. What gives?

Great news! A link to turboforth.net would be appreciated :-)

Jetset Willy Sabre Wulf

He he!!! You're now entering "optimisation hell" where you will spend the next two to three years finding ways to optimise your existing code in order to fit more code into it! Welcome to my world! It's been lonely around here, glad to have some company You know that old saying "This broom has been in our family for generations, it's had 4 new brushes and 3 new handles!" - that's TurboForth. Some of the code has been written, then re-written, then re-written again as new ideas occur to me. It's a bit like an addiction, you can't put it down. And I'm *still* fiddling with the bloody thing, though I've finally admitted defeat and am moving to a larger cartridge space! Though 276 words in the built-in dictionary is pretty cool for a 16K cart

It needs a better butt graphic. I mean if you're going all-in (fnarr fnarr!) then go all in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FagrRwzksPA&feature=youtu.be The kids were killing themselves laughing at this!

Just a note: this one might not be suitable for children!

Ah! I was using 1.2.1:4 on my office machine. I'll upgrade it :-)

Looking good! I'm finding that it's sometime difficult to pick up fuel or rocket parts. I walk over the object multiple times and it doesn't seem to register. Then, all of a sudden it does register. Any ideas?

It's when you're reading from the synth. If you're doing a read (normally to check the FIFO status) then you can't use the 8 bit bus. Supposedly. I get around this by putting my FIFO check code in pad, and having the appropriate delay, according to EA manual guidance.

You know, when you've completed this, it would be an excellent candidate for porting across to either fbForth or TurboForth. You'll learn an awful lot along the way.

And con someone please send me an EPROM of V1.2.2, since I don't have one :-)

It's run out of memory, basically. Might be time to move to a different assembler, such as Win994A or ralph's new assembler. I'd recommend the latter as it's in active development and is fully supported.

Yeah. Once an op-code has been selected, it can be done with a data statement for assemblers that don't know about specific specialist debugging instructions. HALT EQU $9999 ... ... some code ... ... DATA HALT ... ... ... In Classic99 there is a "halt on undefined opcode" option, so one can just insert a nonsense op-code into the code and it has the same effect.

I think Bob Carmany is going so I'm sure he'll step in to do some EPROM burning. If not, maybe Lee can do it.

I shall go and sit in the corner with a big dunces hat on :-) Seriously though, it's great that Classic99 does this. Please forgive me not keeping up - I've really kind of ignored all this UberGROM stuff until now, so I'm seriously playing catch-up.

I've previously put the forward the idea of a HALT instruction that would stop the emulator and open the debugger, but it's not high on Tursi's list of priorities, which I can understand. I think I suggested other instructions, too (all related to debugging) but I can't remember them now!