If a line has a char below 0x20, we consider the line ended, we
stop the EMIT loop for this line and spit our NL.
This makes LIST stop wasting rows in environments with a tight
screen.
The '2' key on my PS/2 keyoard never worked on Collapse OS, I
wasn't sure why. I thought the keyboard was broken, but then I
tried another one, still broken. But it's only the '2'!
The KC sent is 0x1f. Is it a timing problem with the ATtiny? I
have yet to wire my prototype for logic probing. Meanwhile, let's
apply a band-aid.
Recipes contain bits and pieces of hardware-related knowledge, but
these bits feel sparse. I've been wanting to consolidate hardware-
related documentation for a while, but always fell at odds with the
recipes organisation.
We don't have recipes anymore, just a /doc/hw section that contains
hardware-related documentation which often translate to precise
instructions to run Collapse OS on a specific machine.
With this new organisation, I hope to end up with a better, more
solid documentation.
This would be useful, for example, to allow the assembler to write
straight to an AT28 EEPROM without going to RAM. This would be a
life saver in machines with tight RAM such as the SMS.
With KEY and EMIT being switch words, most of the high layer can
be defined before drivers.
In addition to this change, I've compacted core blocks which were
becoming quite sparse.
I think that when I added NL, I had troubles having access to CRLF's
address at boot time, which is why I had this system. But now that
CRLF is easily accessible during BOOT, we can simplify.
(and that will help us in the hopefully-upcoming change, which is
quite nice...)
also, verify all 3 first bytes of SPI commands. I'm not sure why
I wasn't doing that, probably because I was getting a lot of AVR
err and thought that only 2 bytes of the cmd were echoed. But now,
with a reliable SPI setup, verifying 3 bytes seems to work.
Adding a delay such as the 20ms one we have in AVR programmer's
initialization routine is tricky without a word like TICKS.
This implementation is highly inaccurate, but more accurate and
reliable than a "ballpark" DO..LOOP...
Also, move doc to doc/asm.txt.
Also, fix the pcat recipe which was broken since the overlay change.
I hadn't noticed it because I didn't have to rebuild the MBR.
The idea is to consider assemblers as "runtime" apps instead of
placing them in the "bootstrap" section of the blocks. These apps
will be used for much more than bootstrapping.
Moved its documentation to doc/asm.txt and made its code blocks
more compact.
The few extra bytes they save in the core aren't worth the extra
complexity. This was initially done in a context where I had
troubles keeping the RC2014 binary with SDC inside the 8K limit.
At this point, even with the few extra bytes we add here, we're at
7200 bytes, so I'd say we're fine.
With the Visual Editor, BROWSE is of dubious value. Even before that,
it was of dubious value. It's the only user of the CASE word, which
is also of dubious value: too complicated for its own good.
The CMD pattern used in VE is much better.
The ":" now takes care of scanning for ";". Conceptually, having
";" as an immediate word is slightly simpler than the approach in
this commit, but when bootstrapping is involved, this simpler
approach gets murkier.
Moreover, it got even murkier-er when trying to de-stabilize EXIT,
so here we are.
This duplicated feature existed because of bootstrapping issues
with LIT", but again, with careful threading, we can clean things
up.
We can now have a proper "Collapse OS" prompt :)
When writing the xcomp documentation, I realized that with careful
threading and by accepting a bit of code duplication in the xcomp
toolset, I could de-stabilize a couple of words.
(n) and EXIT are a bit trickier, but I think it can be done. It
would be nice to get rid of stable wordrefs...
Working on programming AVR chips exposes a glaring omission in my
first design of the SPI Relay: not allowing multiple devices make
this task hard. I constantly have to unplug my SD card before, plug
the AVR chip holder, then play a bit, then unplug the AVR holder,
then replug the SD card...
My prototype for a SPI relay design is built, but I haven't tested
it yet. I need to adapt the code first, which is what I do here.
When the prototype is tested, I'll update the SDC recipe with a new
schema.
Virgil Dupras