cas Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 (edited) Hi, I've got a request about porting the volksForth system to the Atari 7800 System (see --> volksforth.sf.net ). A Forth System would run well inside the 32kb RAM and would allow interactive development on the machine. To start with I would do some tests with an A7800 emulator. My question: is there an emulator that allows communication (like serial) between the A7800 System and the host environment? Best regards Carsten Strotmann Edited August 21, 2007 by cas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hi Carsten Tolle Sache.Hast du einen File zum Testen auf dem Emulator? Gruss Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmutzpuppe Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hi, I've got a request about porting the volksForth system to the Atari 7800 System (see --> volksforth.sf.net ). A Forth System would run well inside the 32kb RAM and would allow interactive development on the machine. To start with I would do some tests with an A7800 emulator. My question: is there an emulator that allows communication (like serial) between the A7800 System and the host environment? Best regards Carsten Strotmann Hi Carsten, unfortunately the 7800 has only 4k of RAM but of course it is possible to create a cartridge with a 32kb RAM chip. I don’t think that the emulators supports more than 16kb RAM but not sure about that. Serial communication isn’t possible with any of the emulators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cas Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hi Carsten, unfortunately the 7800 has only 4k of RAM but of course it is possible to create a cartridge with a 32kb RAM chip. I don’t think that the emulators supports more than 16kb RAM but not sure about that. Serial communication isn’t possible with any of the emulators. With 4K RAM it makes no sense to have a Forth development environment running on the A7800. Without IO support like Keyboard it also makes no sense. Cross-Development from Atari 8-bit to the A7800 is possible today. Carsten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cas Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 (edited) Hi CarstenTolle Sache.Hast du einen File zum Testen auf dem Emulator? Gruss Walter See post from Schmutzpuppe and my reply. With only 4KB of RAM in a standard A7800 an interactive Forth running on the A7800 makes no sense. It is however possible today to write A7800 programms on an Atari 8-bit (or other systems using a cross-compiler). However even with Forth and also other development systems and programming languages, you still will need to learn how the A7800 hardware works and how to create your own cartridges. Carsten Edited August 21, 2007 by cas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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