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If you have an OLPC XO 1 then you can also download the specifications for the AMD CPU here: http://www.versalogic.com/support/Downloads/PDF/LXManualMay0...

That tells you how to do graphics hacks and so on. I had fun with that on my OLPC. I optimized the Forth console to scroll using hardware BLIT (much faster than CPU copy of the framebuffer) and I ported Squeak Smalltalk to run directly on OFW using hardware graphics primitives e.g. for the mouse pointer.

Fun times :)



The biggest hack I did was to rewrite the builtin PONG game to try and be more in the spirit of Thinking Forth: http://lukego.livejournal.com/10847.html




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