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A t first the name filled me with fear because it made me think of flashing your own ROM cartridges, which is a voodoo I'm not at one with. It turns out that products like the Easyflash are less scary than they sound. I believe EF had 8 ROM slots that you could flash from the C64 itself and then it operated as a cartridge containing the ROM you selected.  If I have that wrong, forgive me, but it just demonstrates that KFF is easy enough for a numpty like me to use.  Creator Kim Jorgensen has taken that Easyflash idea and run with it.   Kung Fu Flash takes a micro SD card, on which you put as many program files, disk or cartridge images as you like. (If you buy one from Future Was 8-bit, it comes with a micro-SD which already has a lot of stuff copied to it.) The Menu button on the KFF menu gives you a file browser.  You simply select one of your .prg files to run it. In that respect it's a credible alternative to the SD2IEC.  If you select a .crt file, KFF will ...

T his adventure started a few weeks ago when Spencer included an item in his RC2014 newsletter about James Bowman's port of CamelForth for RC2014 . 1, 2 or 3 dice depending on the button you press. In Forth for RC2014 with OLED display and digital I/o module. #8bitcoders #RC2014 pic.twitter.com/9c8xLZBPcW — Shirley Knott (@shieladixon) December 11, 2020 I was intrigued by the arithmetic using double-length numbers and as James gives a few bits of example code in his article, it looked like a good opportunity to have a little foray into Forth. (I love the Jupiter Ace. I wish more had been sold so that they're a little less pricey today.) I found several versions for CP/M. (I like using Compact Flash storage and CP/M on my RC2014.) Like BASIC, generic Forth sometimes doesn't work on the version you have without modification. Some versions contain more words or stick to the standard more closely than others. I tried Forth80, DXForth and UniForth as well as CamelForth and...