Re: DurexForth v1.5.0

From	Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: DurexForth v1.5.0
Date	2016-01-07 03:14 -0500
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:08:59 -0800 (PST)
Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately there is one part of the standard that seems really
> like a bad idea for me to follow, so I would like to pass in some
> criticism here. It is the enforcing of ASCII that sits bad, since the
> C64 naturally uses PETSCII. It bothers me why the Forth standard,
> which is so flexible in many other areas, should be so specific about
> this? The C standard does well without this requirement.

Well, I think the best solution is to just use PETSCII
and translate it, if you need code portability.

However, if that's unreasonable, you could reprogram
the graphics character set on the C64.  That's how all
those old C64 "graphics" games worked, e.g., Ultima.
So, you could load a different set of character images,
i.e, images for ASCII and so display ASCII.  A simple
256 byte lookup table would translate keyboard input.

Rod Pemberton

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DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 15:08 -0800
  Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-01-04 20:54 -0800
    Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 00:48 -0800
      Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 04:40 -0500
        Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 02:53 -0800
          Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 09:19 -0500
            Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 08:44 -0800
              Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 11:53 -0500
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 10:28 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 14:12 -0500
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-05 11:16 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 14:58 -0500
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-05 12:03 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 15:10 -0500
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-05 12:36 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 16:34 -0500
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 13:42 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-01-05 16:40 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 18:13 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-01-05 16:27 -1000
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-05 18:59 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 22:47 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2016-01-05 21:37 -1000
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-06 00:14 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 10:32 +0200
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-01-06 00:42 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 11:02 +0200
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 01:51 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 12:02 +0200
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com> - 2016-01-06 10:46 +0000
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 12:49 +0200
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 03:12 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-01-06 18:21 +0000
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 22:57 -0800
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-01-07 08:47 +0000
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2016-01-06 13:39 +0100
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 14:45 +0200
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-06 12:48 +0000
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Syd Rumpo <usenet@nononono.co.uk> - 2016-01-07 11:09 +0000
                Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-01-06 22:57 -0800
        Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 no.top.post@gmail.com - 2016-01-14 12:45 +0000
  Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-01-05 10:37 +0000
    Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Johan Kotlinski <kotlinski@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 03:08 -0800
  Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2016-01-06 12:22 +0100
    Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-06 13:08 +0000
  Re: DurexForth v1.5.0 Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-01-07 03:14 -0500

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