collapseos/cvm
Virgil Dupras 475caf35f4 Make KEY non-blocking
... and rename it to KEY?. Then, add KEY from KEY? for its blocking
version.

I need this for an upcoming Remote Shell feature. If a Collapse OS
system remotely controls another shell, it needs to be able to poll
both the remote system and the local keyboard at the same time. A
blocking KEY is incompatible with this.

In some places, the polling mechanism doesn't make sense, so this
new KEY? always returns a character. In some places, I just haven't
implemented the mechanism yet, so I kept the old blocking code and
added a "always 1" flag as a temporary shim.

I have probably broken something, but in emulators, Collapse OS runs
fine. It's an important reminder of what will be lost with the new
"dogfooding" approach (see recent mailing list message): without
emulators, it's much harder to to sweeping changes like this without
breaking stuff.

It's fine, I don't expect many more of these core changes to the
system. It's nearly feature-complete.
2021-01-01 08:23:59 -05:00
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.gitignore cvm: split stage and forth xcomp units 2020-11-14 15:00:03 -05:00
avra.sh Add alias and switch word types 2020-10-28 15:02:06 -04:00
common.fs Make KEY non-blocking 2021-01-01 08:23:59 -05:00
forth.c cvm: fix NEWLN behavior 2020-11-17 11:52:54 -05:00
forth.fs Add words |M and |L 2020-12-07 20:11:49 -05:00
Makefile cvm: use Grid in /cvm/forth 2020-11-14 20:08:18 -05:00
README.md cvm: split stage and forth xcomp units 2020-11-14 15:00:03 -05:00
stage.bin Make KEY non-blocking 2021-01-01 08:23:59 -05:00
stage.c cvm: split stage and forth xcomp units 2020-11-14 15:00:03 -05:00
stage.fs Add words |M and |L 2020-12-07 20:11:49 -05:00
vm.c Add words |M and |L 2020-12-07 20:11:49 -05:00
vm.h cvm: split stage and forth xcomp units 2020-11-14 15:00:03 -05:00
zasm.sh Add alias and switch word types 2020-10-28 15:02:06 -04:00

C VM

This is a C implementation of Collapse OS' native words. It allows Collapse OS to run natively on any POSIX environment.

Requirements

You need curses to build the forth executable.

Build

Running make will yield forth and stage executables.

Usage

To play around Collapse OS, you'll want to run ./forth. Refer to doc/intro.txt for help.

The program is a curses interface with a limited, fixed size so that it can provide a AT-XY interface. If you wish to change the size of that screen, you need to modify COLS and LINES in both forth.c and forth.fs.

You can get a REPL by launching the program with rlwrap(1) like this:

rlwrap -e '' -m -S '> ' ./forth /dev/stdin

Problems?

If the forth executable works badly (hangs, spew garbage, etc.), it's probably because you've broken your bootstrap binary. It's easy to mistakenly break. To verify if you've done that, look at your git status. If stage.bin is modified, try resetting it and then run make clean all. Things should go better afterwards.

A modified blkfs can also break things (although even with a completely broken blkfs, you should still get to prompt), you might want to run make pack to ensure that the blkfs file is in sync with the contents of the blk/ folder.

If that doesn't work, there's also the nuclear option of git reset --hard and git clean -fxd.

If that still doesn't work, it might be because the current commit you're on is broken, but that is rather rare.