VolksForth MS-DOS README
- How to meta-compile a new kernel
- creating a minimal system with a simple editor
- creating a full VolksForth system from the minimal kernel
- creating a version of VolksForth that works with emu2
How to meta-compile a new kernel
After making changes the the Forth kernel source in kernel.fb,
restart volksforth.com to have a clean system and compile a new
"minimal" kernel with include kernel.fb. This will create a new
FORTH.COM executable.
creating a minimal system with a simple editor
Execute forth.com include minimal.sys to generate the file
minimal.com which contains a minimal VolksForth system with the
Retro-Forth editor
https://fossil.forth-ev.de/volksforth/wiki?name=Atari8bit-retrofortheditor
This system can be used to edit the file volksforth.sys or other
Forth source block files needed to create a full VolksForth system.
creating a full VolksForth system from the minimal kernel
Execute forth.com include volks4th.sys to create a new fully
equipped VolksForth executable volks4th.com.
creating a version of VolksForth that works with emu2
EMU2 is a nice PC Emulator that can run MS-DOS console applications as Linux/MacOS/Windows console applications. EMU2 can be found at https://github.com/dmsc/emu2
The standard Keyboard-Interface of VolksForth (BDOS) does not work
with EMU2, however it is possible to switch to the simpler BIOS
keyboard interface. For that, comment out the blocks #114 and #115
by placing \\ at the beginning of the first row of these blocks
and comment in block #116 by changing the \\ in the first row to
\. (\ is "skip to end of line" comment, while \\ is the "skip
to end of current block" commend)