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| Latest commit   History[67 Commits](/AshleyF/Color/commits/master/)   67 Commits | | |
| [Assembler](/AshleyF/Color/tree/master/Assembler "Assembler") | | [Assembler](/AshleyF/Color/tree/master/Assembler "Assembler") |  |  |
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# Color

Having fun playing around with [colorForth](http://www.colorforth.com/cf.htm) and [GreenArrays](http://www.greenarraychips.com/) architecture. See the [demo](https://youtu.be/LYtQMmvgg6w) presented to the [Forth2020 Group](http://www.forth2020.org/) in AUG 2021 and [~~blog series~~](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashleyf/archive/tags/color/) - Blog series moved here to Github:

* [Chuck Moore's Creations](/AshleyF/Color/blob/master/Docs/chuck_moores_creations.md)
* [Programming the F18](/AshleyF/Color/blob/master/Docs/programming_the_f18.md)
* [Beautiful Simplicity of colorForth](/AshleyF/Color/blob/master/Docs/beautiful_simplicity.md)
* [Multiply-step Instruction](/AshleyF/Color/blob/master/Docs/multiply_step.md)
* [Simple Variables](/AshleyF/Color/blob/master/Docs/simple_variables.md)

[![Editor/Assembler](/AshleyF/Color/raw/master/Docs/images/editor_assembler.png)](/AshleyF/Color/blob/master/Docs/images/editor_assembler.png)

The assembler watches for changes to the block files saved by the editor. I leave an instance of this running in one terminal window (right) while working in the editor in another (left). Later I run the machine in a third window.

## Setup

Everything is written in F# and uses solution (`.sln`) and project (`.fsproj`) files compatible with Visual Studio or `dotnet build`. I personally have been using plain Vim (with the [excellent F# bindings](https://github.com/fsharp/fsharpbinding)). Here's setup steps for Ubuntu:

**Install .NET Core**

* Install the [.NET SDK](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu). For example, for *Ubuntu 21.04* in particular:

```
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-5.0
```

**Pull down the project**

```
git clone http://github.com/AshleyF/Color
```

**Build**

```
dotnet build Color.sln
```

Each project produces an executable (`Assembler.exe`, `Editor.exe`, `Machine.exe`) within `bin/`

**Play!**

The editor edits block files (`/Blocks/*.blk`) while the assembler waits for changes to blocks and assembles them (to block 0). Running the machine executes block 0.

The normal way of working is to run the `./Editor` and `./Assembler` at the same time (in separate tabs or tmux splits, etc.). Each time a block is saved (by pressing `s` in the editor), it's assembled. Then run the `./Machine` to try it out.

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Fun playing around with colorForth and GreenArrays architecture.

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