How to get colorforth running under bochs

  Install and patch bochs

   Get the source (I've tested 2.1.1) for bochs:
   [3]http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html

   Download patch.floppy-athiel from bochs cvs:
   [4]http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bochs/bochs/patches/

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

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

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

  Build colorforth

   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 [5]http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~maslicke/colorforth/

   Unfortunately you need an x86 assembler to build colorforth.

   $ make fd.img

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

  Configuring bochs

   In the directory you're going to run bochs in, have your fd.img file
   and a file named .bochsrc with the following settings:
romimage: file=/usr/share/bochs/BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000
vgaromimage: /usr/share/bochs/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest
megs: 32
floppya: 1_44=fd.img, status=inserted
boot: floppy
ips: 1000000

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

  Run it!

   $ bochs

   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 continue and press enter.

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

   It will run painfully slow.

  See Also

   [6]colorforth

References

   1. http://herkamire.com/jason/home
   2. http://herkamire.com/jason/colorforth_under_bochs?edit
   3. http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html
   4. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bochs/bochs/patches/
   5. http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~maslicke/colorforth/
   6. http://herkamire.com/jason/colorforth