Up and Running!

[ms-mtbkr]

Dear lurk101, BusyBox and AMaCC Teams (!),
I have the 1.2.26 distribution up and running, connected via a terminal node (Pico) to Geoff Grahams ASCII Video Terminal. So, a really unsophisticated system, vintage late 70's kind-of? I've dusted off K&R's "The C Programming Language" which seems to be a pretty good starting point for AMaCC CC.
This is a fabulous project! There is no code bloat. I have the Pico downclocked to 48MHz in main.c. With monitor off, I measure 50mA at 12V nominal for two Pico's running with the AVT. Self-hosting, minimalist indeed.
I don't know how you managed to get the SDK hooks callable from PShell. But it's great! Also, in life.c, where do "screen_width()", and "screen_height()" come from(*)?
The package has a remarkably small footprint on the Pico - it looks like it takes up about 200k leaving 1.8MB of flash for the LFS filesystem? That's a lot of space for code, and log files.
If I may put a few things on my wish list ... running the second core, CHaN's VFat filesystem available as a "tape" device - ie read, or write a single tarfile to SDCard like a vintage tape archive.
Excellent work!

Edit: (*) Sorry, stdio - dumb question.