David Given

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WordGrinder should be able to map any key which your terminal provides (which is not itself a printable character). ^P, for example, should work fine. It's a little inconvenient if...

`configure` is obsolete and shouldn't be there any more --- I'm in the middle of reworking the build system. The docs need updating, too. The definitive set of Debian packages...

There's clearly an assembler bug, but there should already be makefile support for llvm-based assembler programs --- just drop a .S file into `apps` and it should work. I'm doing...

That all sounds utterly bizarre. I wonder if something's changed upstream? `llvm-objdump -dr` ought to show the ELF relocations (look in `.obj`)...

That does sound like it's out-of-scope for WordGrinder --- plus, wouldn't it require detailed knowledge of the metrics of the printer fonts in order to get the layout correct? I...

Would love to (even though the RP2040 is capable of emulating the 6502 all by itself!). I just don't have one...

Thanks very much --- that's very kind! However, looking at the specs it seems there isn't any kind of onboard mass storage, which I'd need. Also, it looks like the...

That all seems pretty reasonable; although once you start going down the route of offloading functionality to the Pico, you eventually start asking questions like 'what about filesystem access?' and...

Very belatedly: my last message may have sounded discouraging --- I'm more than happy to do a port, or to help someone else do a port, but I need access...

It may be possible to do a CP/M port which uses a native filesystem; the BDOS would just translate CP/M system calls into whatever the native filesystem needs. The CP/M-65...