Charles Childers

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Programmer. Developer of Retro Forth, Gopher servers and clients, and several iOS apps. Co-founder DC Comtech.
Since my state now requires wearing a mask when shopping or at work, I've chosen one that seems fitting.

My attempts at building #NetBSD userland are not going well. With a fresh CVS checkout I get this. (I've also tried most of the commands and options from chapters 31-33 of the NetBSD docs at https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/index.html)

A build log at forthworks.com/temp/netbsd_build_log.txt

I'll be taking a break for a little while now. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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The NetBSD Guide

#retro #forth #macos (listener bar for quick interactions at bottom of window, as on iOS).

Next up for this will be adding support for creating files and then work on the glossary browser.

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I decided to write a debugging tool. Not done yet, but progress has been good. (Working on this last night, and during lunch break today).

So far I have the disassembler, execution trace, and single stepping working, as well as a minimal nga-in-retro vm for the tracing/single stepper. Now starting on keeping some stats for profiling and the ability to monitor specific memory addresses during traces.

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Working on an (n)curses based interface for #retro #forth, modeled after the original interface from when I took over development about 17 years ago.

https://mastodon.social/media/Vnc2FWoGJ4semz9P788

Screencap of interacting w/Gopherdon from within #retro #forth (using the #iOS interface for #retro). This should also work on the unix & macOS versions of #retro once I release #gopherdon.
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I’m adding font options to the iOS #gopher client. Any specific requests on ones people would like to see supported?
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Ok, so I've added support for smaller fonts, and some notes in the settings to make the wrapping/cutoff issue more explicit. I'll also update the starting page / docs to make this clearer as well. The wrapping mode works, but does distort whitespace.

I've also relocated the History view to the bottom toolbar and put in a proper Back button.

These changes won't be out until after the 27th though, due to the holiday shutdown.

#gopher #ios

Finished with that. Now we'll see if Apple approves this for inclusion in the Mac App Store.

(Since Mac isn't a walled garden, it'll be available apart from this as well.)

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