10 Aug
2004
10 Aug
'04
3:12 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, ben franchuk wrote:
But then again is not the whole point is it not to bypass the BIOS?
Also I suspect fig-forth is limited to the tiny model on the 8088 with about
32k for the basic system.
Yes, but try and find it today. Fig forth is for
the 8080 and 6502 with I/O
supplied by the user and ASM source. While I suspect you can get a
version for the 8088 I don't expect you can get the source for it.
Read keyboard, test keyboard ready, print to screen, read disk block,
write disk block I think is all that is needed.
If that's all that you need, we can do it trivially with calls
to the BIOS ROM at Int16h, 16h, 10h, 13h, and 13h.