PC building has hit a snag, my extra - chunky choice of CPU cooler means no
space for a case fan or GPU - may have to rethink the cooling solution - what is compact, but effective?

New computer assembly has begun; LINUX Mint Debian has been chosen as the target distro. Haven’t installed a Linux on a bare machine in a decade, am expecting the usual driver problems..

My Forth VM inches forward; did some work to move the startup away from the C testing harness and into the assembler startup phase. I keep dancing round what’s necessary to create the outer interpreter but will get there soon!

My gamdev DOS Forth inches along; got the basic parsing words going - next for dictionary building..soon will have an outer interpreter and be able to develop in FORTH rather than asm..should pick up speed, then!

Contemplating fonts in 640x480 palettized video - whether to go with a straight bitmap font that can be blitted or a straight 1 bit per pixel font with no hope of antialiasing..

Progress on my FORTH-based software toy inches forward. Had the idea of writing a stack visualiser that writes directly to the top line of text in video memory, will help a lot with the early boot phase. Still need branches and dictionary building code before I can get an outer interpreter..

The main thing my retro-coding is teaching me is humility in the face of all the way x86 assembly language coding can go wrong! I will get this FORTH VM up and running, dammit!