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Ok, here's my preferences...

Editor: Terse
Compiler/Assembler: ForthCMP
Debugger: DOS Debug is all you need

For comparison, here's a Forth version of Vorticon's TSOUND program. 100 MSDOS : MAIN 130 C@ 32 OR [CHAR] s = IF 13 ." SPEAKER NOW ACTIVE..." ELSE 125 ." TANDY SOUND NOW ACTIVE..." THEN 97 PC! CR ; INCLUDE FORTHLIB END Compiling it with ForthCMP 2.30S yields a COM executable of 1...

Hi, so did you make any progress with this? Sounds interesting. As I understand it, DOS allocates all available memory to a COM program because it has no idea how much the program will actually need. So the simple answer to your question would be "yes". Any other drivers or TSRs already lo...

Or you could use inline machine code, which would be more efficient than intr() procedure GetKey (var Key, Ekey: Char); begin inline ($31/$c0/ { xor ax,ax } $cd/$16/ { int 16h } $c4/$be/Key/ { les di,Key[bp] } $88/$05/ { mov [di],al } $c4/$be/Ekey/ { les di,Ekey[bp] } $88/$25) { mov [di],ah } end;

I still use Masm 1.2
Eschew bloatware!