| Title: | AMIGA NOTES | 
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 | 
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE | 
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 | 
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 5378 | 
| Total number of notes: | 38326 | 
    I just bought a copy of FF#9 specifically for the MVP-FORTH but
    I'm having a few problems...
    
    Has anyone else tried to use it ???
    
    FORTH loads and runs fine but I can't access any screens. Several
    files are included e.g. MVPAMIGA.SCR which are screens but I don't
    know how to access them !!!
    
    	HELP !!!!
    
    			Alan T.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
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| 1414.1 | Workbench Version | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM Listening 52.525 | Wed May 11 1988 13:16 | 2 | 
|     If itsx FF#9 it was probably written for V1.1 of Wb. I assume you
    are using Wb 1.2. That might be the problem.
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| 1414.2 | It works. | AYOV10::ATHOMSON | C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie | Thu May 12 1988 03:47 | 20 | 
|     Well, I was worried about it being for 1.1 only too, but.... I managed
    to figure out the required commands last night.
    
    to open an existing file of screens:
    
    " foo.bar" old file  ( to open existing file foo.bar )
    
    to create a new file of screens:
    
    " foo.bar" new file ( to create the file foo.bar, empty )
    followed by:
    100 larger  ( to create 100 screens in the current file )
    
    And it does work, complying fully with FIG79, and including a full
    screen editor.
    
    It isn't particularly fast, but the opening screen does admit that
    it isn't optimised.
    
    			Alan T.
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| 1414.3 | Yikes! | WJG::GUINEAU | Thu May 12 1988 08:09 | 12 | |
| It's funny. I did some *real* basic stuff with Forth on the VIC 20 some years back (4-5?). Back then, it seemed to make perfect sense (comming from a Assemble lover...(who's converted to C :-)) Now I see examples in the magazines and in here, and I'll tell you, this stuff must scare off beginner programmers real well! I mean, almost all languages make *some* logical sense even if you don't know the language, but Forth? John (just my opinions) | |||||
| 1414.4 | noitatoN hsiloP erseveR | AYOV10::ATHOMSON | C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie | Thu May 12 1988 09:44 | 6 | 
|     
    guess! I courses for Horses
    
    ;-) backward am I that before told been I have But
    
    		T. Alan
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| 1414.5 | there! | WJG::GUINEAU | Thu May 12 1988 12:39 | 5 | |
| See what I mean!! John | |||||