NomadWiggy

Is there any way to get all of the system development tools & manuals from the APX library? It would be nice to use the actual tools on the Atari (under emulation) to create applications. I understand that as of today not all of the APX titles are available. Probably would be one of the most boring blog posts ever but I was planning to go through them and do a review I figured if I found it interesting someone else would.

Thanks for making the video, its what brought me to the forum. Call me a sceptic but I couldn't believe what I was seeing so I went ahead and replicated the steps on my own. All I can say is its amazing how fast that setup is, the way you can just bounce back and forth between MEDIT and AMAC, run the code then debug any issues with Amoeba. I kept having to check to see if the emulator was forgetting the settings and gone into turbo mode. The thing that kept running through my mind was "This would be all kinds of awesome for Forth development" If I get desperate I could look at getting e-forth to run (as its only 30 routines to write in target's assembler/system) but that will be slower than valforth... I figure the productivity gains would be the same as what I found with assembly development. So its well worth looking into. I thought about using a cartridge image to put forth onto but I think there are going to be hidden gothcha's to doing something like that because it seems like such a obvious thing for someone to have done in the past. There had to have been a sound reason not to go that route. One thing I would like to do is get some version of fig-forth running on corvus though. I have tried valforth but I am new to the Atari (I can write z80 assembler though). I am not 100% sure if its possible. My question is if its not possible to get valforth running on it is there another fig forth that is going to have a low profile and enable me to use the extra ram that the corvus setup has? What I am hoping is being able to use one of the drives for the forth screens and possibly get action! running on another. Is this an unrealistic idea? Don't get me wrong its great to be able to use the assembler and debugger like this. But with forth & action it would be on a whole different level of cool.