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How to get colorforth running under bochs

Get the source for bochs 2.1.1:
<lhttp://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html<>

Note: bochs-2.1.1 seems to work (as described below) and bochs-2.2.1 does not.

Download patch.floppy-athiel from bochs cvs:
<lhttp://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bochs/bochs/patches/<>

Untar the sources and cd into the main source directory. Apply the patch with
this command:

$ <cpatch -p0 << ../patch.floppy-athiel<>

Now when you build bochs, be sure to pass <c--enable-vbe<> to ./configure

You will need a special version of colorforth (vesa-chuck-8bit) that works with
bochs. (This version does 8 bit graphics.) You can download it from
<lhttp://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~maslicke/colorforth/<>

(The above page seems to be down, but it looks like Tim Neitz has a copy
available at <lhttp://www.dnd.utwente.nl/~tim/colorforth/bochs/<>)

Unfortunately you need an x86 assembler to build colorforth.

$ <cmake fd.img<>

this gives you the file <cfd.img<>. Now we just need to tell bochs that this
file is a floppy in drive A: and that it should boot from it.

In the directory you're going to run bochs in, have your fd.img file and a file
named <c.bochsrc<> with the following settings:

Note: you may have to fix the paths to the BIOS-bochs-latest and
VGABIOS-lgpl-latest above.

$ <cbochs<>

tell it to run. this should be the default option; you should be able to just
press enter. If you compiled bochs with debugger support, it will pop into the
debugger, just go back to the terminal you ran bochs in and type <ccontinue<>
and press enter.

colorforth should apear in a seccond or 10 in the bochs window.

It will run painfully slow.

<lcolorforth<>

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