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Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?
Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull ...
Unfortunately MAME emulates neither the internal disk drive nor the serial port, so you won't be able to run these demos on it yet, and there's a couple glitches we need to work around, but this will still give you a flavour of the machine and let you poke around a bit. But the big one is our limited execution area: the Forth dictionary and document workspace are not unpacked until the end of loading, so the technique we just used can only run within the small space provided and can't call longer words we create, only ones already in ROM. It requires your original eDSK and a properly formatted and inverted PBM, generates a nice randomized idtable so that your Cat can't confuse it with anything else (though you can pass it one in hex with-idtable=... if you want) and emits the resulting disk image to standard output.
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