Having some free time, I spend a few hours trying to do something more or less productive.

So I finally got the #VolksForth "Sprite" #demo #code to load on the #Commodore64. I vaguely remembered that it used to load and run decades ago. But with the current disk images, it doesn't.

Turns out that it just required a little fix in screen #10 on the first disk and the demo loads. There, it says "3 L" which, according to a comment, should list the contents of screen 3. I suppose that "L" was once used as a shortcut for "LIST" but for some reason this is no longer the case. So I just wrote out the full word.

EDIT: the problem being that the Editor isn't loaded by the demo loader and it is also not part of the default VolksForth binary. But the "L" word is part of the Editor code.

And with that "fix" in place, you can now load screen 5 on disk #1 which contains the demo loader.

But: you need to issue a "3 BUFFERS" before loading, to reduce the number of buffers to 3 and free more space for the dictionary in turn.

During load, you'll need to switch disks a few times. Once everything is loaded and you are back at the "Ok" prompt, type "DEMONSTRATION" and enjoy ...

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