www.yoga4d.org/firth.iso ca 700MB


Please consult norskesites.org/fic3 for our evolution
of this programming language into the natural
ripe language.

 
[early info:]  
The F3 warp-friendly language is PURE THOUGHT, go 
beyond means-end thinking and ENJOY! CREATE! Follow 
your joy, but not recklessly! Blend logic, intuition 
and finer esthetical feelings! Do science, make games, 
and relish in the fact that this is the first programming 
language made with an awareness that the infinity of 
the informal natural language must be shielded from the 
finiteness of formal languages, so as to make the best 
of both by contrast. By warps you can make games,
any type of program in which a degree of self-modification
by the program itself during its running is sought:
the notion of warp, as worked out by the undersigned,
and documented in several published texts earlier on,
expands on the sense both of pointer and totally
on the Norwegian idea of object-oriented programming
as worked out in Oslo in the 1960s by Kristen Nygaard
and Ole-Johan Dahl and expanded and modified by
Bjarne Stroestrup and others. Warp is network-think.
Warp-friendliness means that you can use it as much
as you want to, but you can also choose other, more
usual functional ways of programming. Warp is a gigantic
concept which can do even object-oriented class-type
of hierarchical type of programming, such as done
in Java, in the mobile phone app languages, in
many script languages, but it is itself near to the
playful mind, for it doesn't impose strict features
such as protocols on how you have to communicate
with the modules that you yourself have programmed.
Warp is, plainly put, a great deal of fun and a raw
sense of power within righteous frames.
 
With machines of a very safe and clear operating
platform, f3 or Lisa -- Lisa GJ2 Fic3 is the full
name -- can run directly. But with all the beautiful
speed of current laptops, faster with every year,
at least up to some point, why not use it inside
a fantastic fun little platform where the earlier
types of computers are EMULATED WITHIN the faster,
more normal type of Internet computer. In that way,
you can sharpen your thoughts, let your imagination
fly to the millenia ahead. Though many words are here
given as to installation, that is merely to answer
just about every possible question that may easily
arise, and also not so easily arise. In fact, it is
quite simple. And when you have done it once, you can
do it in a matter of minutes on just about any machine.
I haven't erased some notes I made on the internal
functioning of Macintosh computers even though the
installation is up and running after just following
the first few lines in my text, there (consult the
Dosbox section). The most updated files are on top,
above the ===== line, and it is of value to read it
all through a couple of times, and THEN do it, but
you don't have to understand more than you understand.
Just DO it good.
 
The LIGHT3D.TXT has a wealth of approaches that are
made by SHEER SIMPLE TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS using
only simple high-level functions in Lisa GJ2 Fic3,
without any obscure mathematical theorem to produce
what is here called 'first-hand room/depth'. It is
one of the many ways in which you can call on this
universal language to structure thoughts to perform
on a personal computer in terms of 
  * DISPLAY
  * KEYBOARD
  * MOUSE 
  * DISK, ie, permanent storage of files
It has bold design decisions leading to, for the
student of it -- somewhat weekly over two seasons, say,
for a young girl without background in programming, 
a deep growth in insight in all areas of life.
 
Stamash student girls (cfr www.stamash.com)
may find that some contact, not necessarily at
a very advanced level, with the Lisa GJ2 Fic3
programming language as created by Aristo Tacoma,
will sharpen stamash aptness, agility and even
the intelligence of the muscles. For this, some
big art booklets (B.A.B.) have been created and
they are available on request, h-reusch@frisurf.no.
 
What follows next on this (mostly) installation page 
for this robust, stable and in all extant features
entirely completed and standard programming
language will make sense only to the extent 
that one has already got some of this programming 
competence.
 
If you have just got Lisa GJ2 Fic3 up on your
computer, and do not know where to begin, it can
be an idea to try the WT program. Just type
  :WT  IN
after you have started the language by typing
F3 and it should start, if your installation is
complete in every sense as indicated here. It is
a unique drawing program, without doubt leading
to a growth in artistic skills which is 
unsurpassed by any other program drawing tool.
The program is also surprisingly compact and
as such worth a study. The mouse pointer is
drawn to a shapely foot's form, a dancer's
high-wristed foot, and so itself inspiring --
also a feature first created with Lisa GJ2 Fic3.
 
The WT, or WILDTONE program, utilizes commands to
read the whole active screen area and save it
directly to disk, and retrieve it -- commands
which will pass on, in exact the same form
(but with the meaning of .BMP re-interpreted)
on the Lisa GJ2 Fic3 LT computer. Here, .BMP
will mean 'big monitor package' file, and it
will have a compression feature of it. This is
then utilized just about exclusively for such
drawings as WT so elegantly invite to, with an
artistic pen inspired by work with physical
art tools -- with the ease of erasing lines
which is never quite found in physical art
tools, which can be inspiring to the young
girls starting to really learn about esthetics,
about beauty, by expressing it by their hands.
The mouse ought to be a good one. 
  For other types of programs, which integrate
moderate, harmonious use of photos with active
features of a program which may modify e.g.
contrast and light and such (and/or involve
its own type of cartoon-like sketching, what
this author sometimes calls the Lisa Cartoon
Dimension -- cfr the LAB in-built program),
the 200 times 200 pixel matrix file (GJP) is
adviced. It is part of the well-thought
foundations, the resonant boundaries within
which good programs can be made, which
constitute Lisa GJ2 Fic3, or f3, that, while
the large-screen-file-read-and-write option
of .BMP exists, the integration with the
content of files with the numbers changed 
inside programs is limited to GJP.
 
 
After this author's (A.T.'s) intense studies, the
following proposal has arisen as to how to avoid
that sluggishness of mind when exposed to 3d work
(room/depth emulations on a computer) which can
so easily arise -- and rather be stimulated from
it: Blend each second (or somewhat longer stretch
of time, t1) of 3D with three seconds (3 times t1)
with several big drawings (cfr WT), and with both
a paragraph in a written text for this 3D (or RD)
work with a menu which offers 3 or more options
in each case, to which a number must be typed in --
a number with many digits, generated by the
computer as a coincidence number (cfr RFFG) each
time. The drawings will stimulate the mind to 
regard 3D modelling on a computer as just one
of several possible languages of artistic expression,
the text will activate alternative interpretations
of same, the number will stimulate yet more subtle
interpretations, and by avoiding any photographic
reproduction inside the 3D program, the contrast
to the surrounding real-not-virtual reality will
be adequately sharp. Finally, limit each session
to typically well within twenty minutes.
  It is then worthy of being called first-hand RD,
or first-hand room/depth, when these conditions are
satisfied together with the important point of 
sticking to cubicle impressionism -- as we can call
it -- that is to say (see example) -- that the 3D
modelling tool is not trying out of square pixels
on the computer monitor to ensnare the mind to
believe that it sees rounded shapes, but honestly
do what it does with cubes, also small cubes or
cubicles.
 
TO KEEP THIS PRESENT PAGE STABLE IN ITS ALREADY
CONSIDERABLE LENGTH, ALL NEWER ADDITIONS TO THE
PRESENT LIST OF ESSAYS, INSTALLATION NOTES, 
PROGRAM LIBRARIES, SOME PROGRAM EXAMPLES EVERY
NOW AND THEN, AND TUTORIALS, ARE FROM THIS POINT
ON -- AFTER THESE THREE VERY FOUNDATIONAL ESSAYS
-- ALWAYS PRESENTED HERE: ../fic3/fic3inf3.htm
     ***>>>ESSAY ON CIRCLES, RECTANGLES AND COPULATIONS 
     AS WRITTEN TALK BY A.T. PRESENTED AT MINISEMINAR;
     SEPTEMBER 17, 2011: essay20110917.txt
     WITH IMAGE essay20110917.jpg
     ***>>>ESSAY ON INFINITY, CONTINUITY AND MORE
     AS WRITTEN TALK BY A.T. PRESENTED AT MINISEMINAR;
     SEPTEMBER 15, 2011: essay20110915.txt
     WITH IMAGE essay20110915.jpg
     ***>>>ESSAY ON GOLDEN RATIO ETC FOR LOGICIANS
     AS WRITTEN TALK BY A.T. PRESENTED AT MINISEMINAR;
     SEPTEMBER 13, 2011: essay20110913.txt
     ***>>>INSTALLATION INFO AUGUST 20, 2011: 
     A BIT MORE ABOUT THE PROFILE AND THE WILDTONE
     PROGRAMS, AS WAS IMPROVED (AS JUST NOTED).
     IT SEEMS THAT THE ADDITIONAL STABILITY AND
     ROBUSTNESS OF THESE PROGRAMS REQUIRED ON SOME
     DOSBOX IMPLEMENTATIONS ON SOME MACHINES COME
     BY NOT SPEEDING THEM TOO MUCH UP BY CTRL-F7
     CLICKS (EACH SUCH CLICK REDUCES FRAMESKIPS).
     SO KEEP THE PROGRAMS AT THE STANDARD SPEED
     IF THERE IS ANY ISSUE WITH THE PROGRAMS.
     ***>>>INSTALLATION INFO AUGUST 13, 2011: 
     MORE GOOD NEWS! The WT.TXT and PROFILE.TXT
     DRAWING PROGRAMS ARE NOW UPDATED WITH AN
     EXTRA (VERY SLIGHT) PAUSE INSERTED, SEE THE
     FIRST LINES OF THESE f3 PROGRAMS, AND IT SEEMS
     THAT THEY ARE NOW FUNCTIONING PERFECTLY ROBUSTLY
     WITH ALL, AND NOT JUST SOME, FORMS OF DOSBOX.
     WHEN YOU INSTALL, REMEMBER THAT YOU NOT JUST
     GET THE DOSBOX TO WORK WITH F3, BUT THAT YOU
     ALSO GET THE LINE frameskip=18 INSERTED FOR
     EXTRA SPEED AND SMOOTHNESS OF THE SCREEN UPDATE
     SUCH AS DURING TEXT EDITING IN B9.
     WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO DRAW ANYTHING, YOU WILL
     WANT TO MANUALLY INCREASE THE SCREEN UPDATE BY
     REPEATINGLY PRESSING CTRL-F7, THIS WILL, FOR
     EACH PRESS, LEAD TO LESS "FRAMESKIPS" -- IN OTHER
     WORDS, MORE SPEED. THE OTHER DIRECTION IS CTRL-F8.
     THIS IS SOMETHING IMPLEMENTED AT THE DOSBOX LEVEL
     (INDEPENDENT OF EACH PROGRAM ITSELF). WHEN LISA
     GJ2 FIC3 IS RUN IN THE FOUNDATIONAL MODE, WITHOUT
     DOSBOX, THE SPEED IS NATURALLY GREATER BUT THERE
     ARE FLEXIBILITIES ABOUT DOSBOX WHICH SUGGESTS THAT
     THIS IS THE BEST WAY FOR PRIVATE SESSIONS WITH
     PROGRAMMING AND WHAT NOT.
       PLEASE REMEMBER ALSO THAT MOUSESPEED CAN USUALLY
     BE FAIRLY EASILY ADJUSTED AND THAT THE ONLY WAY TO
     GET TO DRAW WITH EXCELLENCE IS TO GET THE MOUSESPEED
     RIGHT, AND THAT THE MOUSE IS NOT JUST A PAD BUT
     A REAL GOOD MOUSE. I AM SURE YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY.
     YOGA6D DOT ORG LUCK SEARCH ENGINE IS TAKING TIME
     TO BE EXPANDED IN ITS NEW FORM AND SO PLS BE PATIENT
     AS FOR UPCOMING GAMES AND LIBRARIES FOR THE f3
     LANGUAGE, THE BEST THERE IS ;)
     ***>>>INSTALLATION INFO JUNE 25, 2011: 
     GOOD NEWS! EVEN THE MOST INEXPENSIVE LAPTOPS
     WITH ATI VIDEO CARDS, NOT JUST NVIDIA VIDEO CARDS,
     -- AT LEAST SOME OF THEM (AS I HAVE NOT TESTED
     THEM ALL) LIKE A HP COMPAC PRESARIO LAPTOP -- 
     GIVES BEAUTIFUL FULL-SCREEN MODE 1024*768
     IN THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN RUNNING THE F3
     LANGUAGE PERFECTLY WITH DOSBOX AS INSTALLED
     E A S I L Y   UNDERNEATH. THE FIRST TIME YOU
     INSTALL YOU WILL PROBABLY READ A LOT IN THIS
     TEXT, AND IT'LL TAKE HALF AN HOUR, BUT NEXT
     TIME YOU DO IT IN ONE-TWO-THREE. FIRST DOSBOX
     INSTALL, THEN UNZIP fic3 IN THE RIGHT FOLDER, 
     THEN COPY OVER THE NEWEST FIC3.TXT OVER THE
     EARLIER ONE INSIDE THAT .zip, AND FINALLY GET
     THE STARTUP LINES WRITTEN INTO THE DOSBOX
     STARTUP TEXT -- THE 'autoexec' STUFF. YOU
     WILL THEN START UP DOSBOX BY CLICKING ON THE
     ICON ON THE WINDOWS DESKTOP, AND GET TO 
     FULLSCREEN MODE AND BACK BY SHIFTING WITH
     ALT ENTER OR ALT-GR ENTER. THE LANGUAGE ITSELF
     IS STARTED, OF COURSE, BY COMMAND F3. YOU CAN
     THEN ADD THE UTILITY AND GAME PROGRAMS AS YOU
     PICK AND CHOOSE FROM THIS PAGE, AND MAKE MORE
     YOURSELF, AND MORE WILL COME HERE.
       YOGA6D DOT ORG SEARCH ENGINE IS USING AN
     ACCELERATED TEXT-ORIENTED VERSION OF THE
     LANGUAGE, AND IT HAS JUST BEEN GIVEN A NEW
     COMPLETE AND SUPERBLY FAST DATABASE STRUCTURE.
     AFTER THE VAST EXPANSIONS OF THE YOGA6D DOT ORG
     SEARCH ENGINE DATABASE NOW BEING SOON UNDERTAKEN
     ARE GOING AUTOMATICALLY BY OUR SERIES OF COMPUTERS
     DOING UPDATES OF IT, FROM THE WEB, I WILL GO BACK
     TO DO MORE SUCH AS -- CURRENCY TRADING GAME WITH
     GALACTIC DOLLARS AND OTHER SWEET CURRENCIES FOR
     IMPERIAL AGENT ANAIIS BLONDIN -- DOING THE LIGHT3D
     LIBRARY EXPANSION AT THE SAME TIME, WITH A TUTORIAL
     HERE FOR VERY ARTISTIC, VERY INTENSE BUT VERY LIGHT
     3D IN F3 IN DOSBOX -- AND MORE ON ELECTRONICS.
     AS YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED, I TALKED ABOUT ELECTRONICS
     AT THE FRONT COVER OF YOGA4D.ORG -- THE LONG TEXT
     THERE -- ALREADY IN 2008, AND EMULATING IT IN F3.
     IN WHAT IS NOW CALLED "ELSKETCH" (IT WAS THEN CALLED
     SOMETHING ELSE, BEFORE IT WAS FINISHED -- HEF-MOD),
     WE LEARN ABOUT NOT THE "UNCOMPUTER" BUT RATHER THE
     ENTIRE SET OF THAT WHICH IS UNDERLAYING THE MACHINE
     CODE, THAT IS, THE SET OF TRANSISTORS, RESISTORS,
     CAPACITORS, COILS AND SOME MORE SUCH. IN CONTRAST,
     THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOTION OF "UNCOMPUTER" -- THAT
     WHICH IS UNDERNEATH OR OVER OR BEYOND THE WHOLE
     M E A N I N G   OF THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, NOT
     MERELY THE MACHINE CODE BUT THE SEMANTICS OF 
     COMPUTATION ALTOGETHER, HAS BEEN A STEADY PART OF
     THE LANGUAGE SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 2006 -- SEE
     THE 2006 (WITH SOME EXPANSIONS IN 2007) VERSION
     AND THE DISCUSSIONS IN MYWEBOOK.TXT AS INCLUDED
     IN THE FIRTH LISA CD AS AT yoga4d.org/download.
     THIS CAN BE EXPANDED TOWARDS F3 BY SIMPLY LOADING
     THE CONTENT OF WHAT IS CONTAINED HERE ON THE 
     FIC3 MAIN PAGE TO THE RIGHT FOLDER AT THE LISA CD.
     THE UNCOMPUTER CONCEPT, AS DISCUSSED IN THE TEXTS
     WHICH ALSO GO BACK TO EARLIER THAN 2000 IN THE
     MYWEBOOK.TXT, IS AN UNDERSTANDING THAT HUMAN THOUGHT
     CONTAINS WITHIN IT PROCEDURAL PATTERNS WHICH ALL
     INTELLIGENCE OF THE ESSENTIAL SORT MUST SEE THROUGH
     AND GO BEYOND TO COME TO THE MEANING OF LOVE. (THIS
     IS POETICALLY INSPIRED BY GOEDEL.) AS PROGRAMMING
     COMMAND, IT GIVES YOU A FIRST-HAND DECODING OF THE
     UNDERLAYING MACHINE CODE-NEAR STRUCTURE OF THE
     ELEMENTARY PROCEDURES YOU MAKE YOURSELF IN F3.
       BE A BIT PATIENT, PLEASE, AS FOR UPCOMING LIGHT3D
     GAMEWORKS, AS I WANT TO COMPLETE FIRST-HAND COMPUTERISED
     MENTALITY -- WHAT I CALL "FCM" AS NEOLOGISM -- TO
     HANDLE A BIT OF SCANDIAN NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERACTION.
     AFTER COMPLETING THE FIRST LIGHT3D GAME, EACH SEASON
     WILL SEE A NEW ONE TOGETHER WITH A BIG ART BOOKLET
     PUBLISHED USING THE B9 FONT, AS ALWAYS, ON THE
     COMBINATION OF LIGHT SEMINAR AND FUN FIEST AND
     A LITTLE EXHIBITION OF SOME PAINTINGS AND MINI-
     SCULPTURES, WHICH YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR BY REQUESTING
     h-reusch@frisurf.no     AS ALSO EXPLAINED AT
     www.norskesites.org/eleart.htm. A PASSWORD FOR FREE
     LOAD OF A NEW GAME WILL THEN BE GIVEN WITH NEW
     ANAIIS BLONDIN EROTIC SCIFI WRITINGS OR SUCH. 
     YOUNG PEOPLE ARE MOST WELCOME!!!
     ***>>>INSTALLATION INFO APRIL 30, 2011: 
     ARE YOU IN THE PROCESS OF BUYING A PC OR LAPTOP
     AND WANT TO KNOW WHAT ALLOWS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
     RUNNING OF LISA GJ2 FIC3? WHAT YOU WANT, OBVIOUSLY,
     IS A PC THAT -- AND SPECIFY THIS TO THE SHOP --
     ALLOWS "OVERSCAN WHEN VIEWED FULLSCREEN 1024*768",
     SO THAT, INSTEAD OF ANY PIXELS BEING STRETCHED,
     THE "OVERSCAN" MEANS THAT BLACK AREAS FORM ON THE
     SIDE OF, OR ON TOP OF, THE AREA, PROTECTING THE
     VERY VALUABLE 3*4 FORMAT OF HEIGHT*WIDTH 
     PERFECTLY. I UNDERSTAND THAT, TYPICALLY, ANY
     LAPTOP WHICH HAS AN INBUILT VIDEO CARD WHICH IS
     SAID TO BE "NVIDIA-COMPATIBLE" USUALLY HAS 
     OVERSCAN. IF IN DOUBT, LEARN HOW TO INSTALL
     DOSBOX AND FIC3 QUICKLY, AND THEN ASK FOR
     FIVE MINUTES IN THE COMPUTER SHOP TO TEST
     THE CAR BEFORE YOU BUY IT. DON'T BUY IT UNTESTED!
     AND SO, I SUGGEST, BUY LAPTOPS IN STORES RATHER 
     THAN THROUGH INTERNET OR MAIL ORDER SOMEHOW.
       ANOTHER NOTE: WHILE THERE IS NO ERROR IN THE
     PROFILE OR WT PROGRAM, JUST THIS PROGRAM DOES
     PUSH THE LIMITS OF THE GRAPHICS CAPACITIES
     WHEN ONE DRAWS WITH IT. IT IS TO BE EXPECTED
     THAT JUST THIS PROGRAM ON SOME COMPUTERS MUST
     BE RESTARTED SEVERAL TIMES. TO MINIMISE THIS,
     GO A BIT SLOW ON DRAWING AFTER HAVING STARTED
     UP THE PROGRAM -- AND SAVE YOUR WORK VERY OFTEN
     INDEED. ON SOME COMPUTERS, THIS MAY NOT BE AN
     ISSUE AT ALL. I AM SURE SOME WORKAROUND COULD BE
     MADE, THOUGH, BUT I FIND THE PROGRAMS CHARMING
     AND, I MUST SAY, HUGELY ARTISTICALLY EFFECTIVE.
       AND ANOTHER NOTE: I HAVE WRITTEN IT BENEATH,
     BUT I WRITE IT ALSO HERE -- FOR IT IS IMPORTANT
     TO LEARN AT ONCE -- THAT IN DOSBOX, CTRL-F10
     GIVES YOU THE MOUSE POINTER BACK WHEN IT HAS
     BEEN 'CLICKED AWAY' INTO A DOSBOX WINDOWS.
     PRESSING ALT-ENTER (AND POSSIBLY ALTGR-ENTER)
     ONCE A DOSBOX IS OPENED WILL GIVE THE FULLSCREEN
     MODE IF YOU HAVE A VIDEO CARD THAT ALLOWS IT.
     IF, THEN, THE COMPUTER VIDEO CARD DOESN'T HAVE
     OVERSCAN SO THAT, FOR INSTANCE, WHEN YOU OPEN
     THE EDITOR B9 OR AN IMAGE PROGRAM IN F3 WITH
     IT, YOU GET STRETCHED OR SQUEEZED IMAGES, THEN
     AVOID USING THE FULLSCREEN MODE ON THAT COMPUTER
     ALTOGETHER, FOR THIS IS, AFTER ALL, AN ARTISTIC
     AND WELL-DESIGNED APPROACH, AND IT IS THEN
     BETTER TO ACCEPT THE NOTION OF HAVING IT INSIDE
     A WINDOW. 
       AND, FINALLY, IN THIS NOTE: WHILE A TUTORIAL
     CONNECTED TO THE UPCOMING GAME LIBRARY FOR 
     LIGHT3D WORK WILL BE MADE, AND HOPEFULLY WRITTEN
     WITH BOTH EASE AND CLARITY ALSO FOR CHILDREN,
     IT IS MY FEELING THAT TEACHERS TEACHING F3 TO
     CHILDREN HAVE GOT MORE THAN ENOUGH OF A 
     STARTING-POINT TO DO THIS JOB -- WHICH OBVIOUSLY
     CALLS ON THE CREATIVITY OF THE TEACHERS, TO FILL
     IN SOME OF THE GAPS BETWEEN THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN
     SO KIDS EASILY GRASP IT, AND THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN
     FOR THE MORE ADVANCED ADULT THINKER ON PROGRAMMING.
     I THINK THE SPIRIT OF TEACHING OUGHT TO INCLUDE
     SUCH CREATIVE ELEMENTS THAT THE TEACHER HAS COME
     UP WITH HERSELF, RATHER THAN HAVING THE PATH LAID
     OUT IN ALL DETAIL AND ALL EXAMPLE PROGRAMS WRITTEN
     OUT BY ME. EXPECT MORE LIGHT3D AND A COMPLETION
     OF THE ELSKETCH (WHICH WILL WORK MUCH FASTER ON
     THE EDITING OF THE ELECTRONIC SKETCH) IN THE
     COMPLETING SEASON OF 2011 AND FIRST SEASON OF 2012.
     I COULD COMPLETE ELSKETCH EARLIER, BUT I WISH TO
     TEST THE ELECTRONICS IN MY WORKSHOP FOR REAL
     BEFORE I RELEASE THIS SOFTWARE EMULATOR OF 
     ELECTRONICS.
     ***>>>A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME: WE ARE WORKING
     ON A TOOL FOR MODELLING SIMPLE 1ST-HAND 
     ELECTRONICS USING LISA GJ2 FIC3, TO COME WITHIN
     -- WELL, A NUMBER OF MONTHS -- THIS IS BUT THE
     LOOKS OF THE THING, IT WILL COME WITH MANUAL
     AND EXAMPLES AND FULL FUNCTION SET TO REPLACE
     THIS PROTOTYPE. 
       THE SCREEN COPY IMAGE IS JUST BENEATH, AND 
     I'LL GIVE THE SOURCE OF THIS PROTOYPE, SO YOU
     CAN HAVE A BITE INTO IT ALREADY NOW IF YOU LIKE.
     OTHER THINGS: SEVERAL 3D (LIGHT3D) GAMES ARE
     BEING WORKED ON, ONE WITH VIRTUAL ROBOTS CONTROLLED
     BY SOME SCANDIAN COMMANDS, ONE WITH CURRENCY
     TRANSACTIONS WITH GALACTIC DOLLARS AS IN THE
     ANAIIS BLONDIN STORIES, ONE FOR AN UPCOMING
     KIDPOP TO MAKE IT EASY FOR KIDS TO MAKE 3D
     GAMES, -- AND THERE WILL BE A TRANSLATION OF
     THE 2D KIDPOP WHICH AT PRESENT IS ONLY IN
     NORWEGIAN -- AND, WELL, AT THAT STAGE, THE
     LISA GJ2 FIC3 LIST HERE SHOULD BE REGARDED 
     AS COMPLETE -- IN 2011 OR IN 2012 -- AND FUTURE
     PROGRAMS ARE GIVEN E.G. ALONGSIDE BIG ART BOOKLETS
     SOLD AT THE EXHIBTION EVENTS MENTIONED BRIEFLY AT
     THE FRONTPAGE OF YOGA6D.ORG, EXCEPT SOME BRIEF
     UPDATED LINKS, BRIEF UPDATED INSTALLATION INFO'S. 
       AT ANY RATE, HERE IS THE  P R O T O T Y P E
     OF ELSKETCH.TXT AND TO
     START IT YOU NEED ITS FONT-FILE IN SAME FOLDER,
     ELFONT.TXT. TO GET THE
     SCREEN IMAGE REPRODUCED WITHIN THIS VISUAL TEST
     OF IT, YOU START UP THE PROGRAM, WHERE ESC SHOWS
     INFO SCREEN -- SOME OF IT REFERS TO IMPLEMENTED
     FUNCTIONS -- AND Q IS THE QUIT BUTTON. TO SHOW
     THE IMAGE BENEATH, WHICH IS THE OSCILLATOR WHICH
     GAVE RISE TO THE CURVE AS GIVEN AT THE ../economy.htm
     COMMENTARY COLUMN OF MINE, YOU NEED TO ALSO HAVE
     THE FILE TR1.TXT IN THE SAME
     FOLDER, THE BOEHMIAN FOLDER OF COURSE. THEN YOU
     PRESS R TO RETRIEVE THIS FILE, TYPE TR1, PRESS
     ENTER, AND THEN IT SHOULD SHOW. REMEMBER THIS IS
     ONLY A VISUAL TEST AND ALL FUNCTIONALITY WILL COME
     DURING SOME MONTHS AHEAD. THIS NOTE MARCH 28 2011.
     THE SCREEN IMAGE OF ELSKETCH:
     
      
 
     ..AND, AS A UNIQUE EXCEPTION FROM OUR DIGNIFIED
     IMPERIAL POLICY OF CONSTRUCTIVENESS IN OUR GAMES..
     YOU ARE HEREBY OFFERED, IN THE SPIRIT OF
     UNASHAMED DESTRUCTIVENESS (AGAINST EGOTISM), 
     THE GAME 'CREDITS':
     ***>>>BLAST -- DITCH -- THE CRES!!! DIT THE CRE!
        TO DIT IS SHORT FOR "DITCH", AND "CRE"
        IS THE WORD-ROOT MEANING "MOUNTAIN", AND
        IN THIS GAME, YOU ARE GIVEN A WARP-CREYONIC DEVICE
        SO YOU CAN DIT THE CRES, AND GET SCORES.
        SUITABLE FOR KIDS  A N D   TO PICK UP IDEAS
        ABOUT HOW TO MAKE MANY OTHER FORMS OF F3 GAMES.
        THE TUTORIAL SIMPLE 2D GAME PROGRAM  C R E D I T S
        IS HERE: CREDITS.TXT
        AND LOOKS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, LIKE THIS:

     ***>>>TUTORIAL USEFUL F3 PROGRAM -- PICBOOK.TXT
        WITH   M A N Y    ADVANCED TUTORIAL HINTS ON 
        LISA GJ2 FIC3 PROGRAMMING IN COMMENTARY SECTION 
        ON TOP, AND, WHEN YOU START IT BY    :PICBOOK IN
        YOU CAN LEAF THROUGH SIXTEEN
        AND SIXTEEN (POSSIBLY ENTIRELY INNOCENT) GJP 
        PICTURES -- WHEN THESE ARE NUMBERED IN SEQUENCE 1..NN,
        THE UNNUMBERED ONE SHOWN ON TOP LEFT;
        THESE CAN OPTIONALLY BE IN A SUBFOLDER
        UNDERNEATH BOEHMIAN OR EVEN BE MOUNTED TO D:
        [REMEMBER TYPE   RESCAN   IF YOU CHANGE
        FILE CONTENT FROM OUTSIDE OF DOSBOX, ALSO IN
        MOUNTED FOLDERS E.G. BY     mount  d  e:\testfold
        WHICH YOU CAN DO PRIOR TO STARTING SUCH AS THIS,
        WHICH WOULD TEMPORARILY CONNECT  D:  TO  e:\testfold]
     ***>>>FREE SIMPLE F3 GAME PROGRAM -- BODYBOOK.TXT
        -- WHERE YOU TRAIN YOUR ARTISTIC EYE BY
        ORGANISING 16 ABSTRACT OILER-TREATED
        IMAGES IN THE WAY YOU DECIDE YOURSELF,
        BE SURE TO PUT THESE
        IN FOLDER BODYBOOK STRAIGHT UNDER BOEHMIAN
     ***>>>FREE OPEN SOURCE PROGRAM -- NAMESORT.TXT
        A SOMETIMES USEFUL TEXT SORT -- A DIRECT
        TRANSLATION OF QSORT2 TO WORK FOR TEXTS,
        USING COMPLEX LOOP STRUCTURES IN MY EARLY
        FORM OF LANGUAGE, WHEN I CALLED IT "FIRTH",
        SO AS TO SPEED IT UP BY PUTTING ALL IN ONE
        BIG ALGORITHM -- NOT ANY IDEA TO MIMICK,
        AND HARD TO READ, BUT IT WORKS SUPERBLY
        EVEN ON TEXTS OF MANY THOUSANDS OF LINES
        WHEN THESE ARE NOT VERY SORTED TO BEGIN WITH
        (OTHERWISE PREFER BUBBLESORT). EARLIER ON,
        I RELEASED THIS AS PROGRAM NAMED GJ2NEW1.TXT.
     ***>>>HI KIDS!!! THIS IS NUMBER 06. HERE
        -- MORE ADVANCED WAY OF SORTING ARRAYS,
        USING SOMETHING CALLED "QSORT2"
     ***>>>HI KIDS!!! THIS IS NUMBER 23. HERE
        -- WITH BUBBLES AND SORTING ARRAYS
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:8 FANTASIA, OPEN SOURCE PROGRAM -- HERE
        -- WITH EXAMPLE SCREEN IMAGE HERE.
        FUN GRAPHICS WITHOUT EQUATIONS, HIGHLY GENERAL FORM
        OF WHAT WE CALL 'FRACTALS', WELL WORTH IN SOME GAME CONTEXTS
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:5 LUMINOUS, A USEFUL PROGRAM -- HERE
        -- WITH EXAMPLE SCREEN IMAGE ON TOP OF THIS PAGE.
        THIS CAN BE USED RIGHT BEFORE PROFILE OR WT, TO GET A
        CRYSTAL-LIKE HORIZON WITH LUSTRE AND SHEEN,
        WELL WORTH FOR SOME GAME CONTEXTS
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:5 PROFILE, A USEFUL PROGRAM -- HERE
        -- WITH EXAMPLE SCREEN IMAGE HERE.
        EXPANDING THE WT PROGRAM, CAN BE USED TO DESCRIBE
        INFO IN A GJP PHOTO, AS ENLARGED, FOR YOGA4D.ORG/super
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:5 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT55 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3, IN FREE SEQUENCE -- nn
        ARE CIRCULARLY USED, WITH REPLACEMENTS OF EARLIER
        WHEN RIGHT. THIS: STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:5 KIDS F3 SCHOOLROOM HOUR -- KIDPOP99 
        FOR BEGINNERS AND SCHOOLKIDS WANTING TO POP
        THEIR OWN GAMES WITH F3 AFTER SOME MONTHS
        OF MANY SCHOOLROOM HOURS LIKE THIS -- THIS 
        SHOWS A LITTLE MORE PLAYFUL LINE DRAWINGS
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:4 FREE EXAMPLE PROGRAM -- FLASHING.TXT
        -- WITH .GJP IMAGE HERE,
        A TUTORIAL INTERMEDIATE LEVEL PROGRAM SHOWING
        WATER-LIKE REFLECTION (FLASH MOMENT 1, 
        FLASH MOMENT 2). 
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:3 FREE EXAMPLE PROGRAM -- HUGEDIGS.TXT 
        TUTORIAL SUPER-SIMPLE PROGRAM SHOWING
        HOW RECTANGLE FILL (RECTFILL) WORKS (EXAMPLE)
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:3 KIDS F3 SCHOOLROOM HOUR -- KIDPOP09 
        HERE'S A PLACE TO START FOR ULTRA-BEGINNERS
        AND SCHOOLCHILDREN WANTING TO MAKE THEIR OWN
        GAMES WITH LISA GJ2 FIC3 AFTER SOME MONTHS
        OF MANY SCHOOLROOM HOURS LIKE THIS         
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:3 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT24 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3, IN FREE SEQUENCE -- nn
        ARE CIRCULARLY USED, WITH REPLACEMENTS OF EARLIER
        WHEN RIGHT. THIS: A BIT ABOUT ELEMENTARY 
        TRIGONOMETRY AND COMMENTS ABOUT LIGHT3D ALSO
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:3 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT72 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3, IN FREE SEQUENCE -- nn
        ARE CIRCULARLY USED, WITH REPLACEMENTS OF EARLIER
        WHEN RIGHT. THIS: AVOIDING ALL HUBRIS IN CLAIMING
        THAT PEOPLE'S COMPUTER PROGRAMS ARE SMART
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:3 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT15 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3, IN FREE SEQUENCE -- nn
        ARE CIRCULARLY USED, WITH REPLACEMENTS OF EARLIER
        WHEN RIGHT. THIS: AVOIDING ALL RECURSION
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:2 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT46 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3, IN FREE SEQUENCE -- nn
        ARE CIRCULARLY USED, WITH REPLACEMENTS OF EARLIER
        WHEN RIGHT. THIS: ON THE MAIN SIMPLE RICH
        VARIABLE WAYS OF LISA GJ2 FIC3
     ***>>>DATE 2011:3:2 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT83 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3, IN FREE SEQUENCE -- nn
        ARE CIRCULARLY USED, WITH REPLACEMENTS OF EARLIER
        WHEN RIGHT. THIS: ON CONSCIOUSNESS, PHILOSOPHICAL
        ESSAY.
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:29 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT99 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3, IN FREE SEQUENCE -- nn
        ARE CIRCULARLY USED, WITH REPLACEMENTS OF EARLIER
        WHEN RIGHT. THIS: HOW TO ORGANISE F3 PROGRAM FILES 
        AND DATA FOLDERS USING DOSBOX FILE COMMANDS.
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:28 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT28 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3, IN FREE SEQUENCE -- nn
        ARE CIRCULARLY USED, WITH REPLACEMENTS OF EARLIER
        WHEN RIGHT. THIS: 1ST-HAND PROGRAMMING OUGHT TO HAVE 
        NO NEEDLESS MOVABLE FRAMES OR WINDOWS AT ALL.
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:26 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT04 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3. THIS, ON WARPS AS ENTIRELY
        SUPERCEDING THE ANTIQUATED NOTION OF OBJECT-ORIENTATION.
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:24 EXTRA TIP -- IT'S NEVER BEEN SO EASY 
        TO MAKE .GJP FROM .JPG, READ README.TXT IN jpg_gjp.zip 
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:22 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT03 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3. THIS, ON PLAYFUL MISTAKES.
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:22 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT02 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3. THIS, ON WARPS & INFINITY.
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:22 GENERAL TUTORIAL -- GENTUT01 
        GENTUTnn ARE ESSAYS ON F3. THIS ONE ON WARPS.
        A COMMENT ON SOME SUDDEN, RARE EXITS OF 
        SOME F3 PROGRAMS ON OCCASION: IT IS POSSIBLE TO ROOT
        IT OUT BUT IT IS PART OF THE PLAYFUL NATURE OF DOING
        LISA GJ2 FIC3 PROGRAMMING, WITH SHORT INTELLIGENT
        ARTISTICALLY INSPIRING BURSTS OF ACTIVITY THAT THERE
        IS A LITTLE BIT LACK OF ROBUSTNESS OF SOME OF THE
        PROGRAMS IN SOME WAY. JUST RESTART THE PROGRAM, SAVE
        TEMPORARY WORK OFTEN, AND DON'T TRY TO OVERPERFECT IT.
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:20 INSTALLATION INFO -- IMPORTANT ALSO FOR WT:
        FRAMESKIP SET TO 18 IS A KIND OF STANDARD FOR F3 ALSO WHEN
        PC'S ARE SO FAST IT CAN USUALLY BE LOWER, FOR A FLUIDITY
        OF PERFORMANCE. HOWEVER FOR SOME PROGRAMS IT MUST BE REDUCED.
        FOR WT, THE WILDTONE DRAWING PROGRAM, 5 IS BETTER THAN 18.
        PRESS CTR-F7 REPEATEDLY THIRTEEN TIMES TO CHANGE FRAMESKIP THUS.
        IT IS ALSO A GOOD STANDARD TO START F3 IN WINDOW AND ALTERNATE
        WITH FULLSCREEN MODE WITH ALT-ENTER, FOR INFO IN THE FRAME OF
        THE WINDOW AND FOR DOING OTHER THINGS AT THE SAME TIME
        (I TYPICALLY USE ONE BROWSER W/JAVASCRIPT TO DO RADIO AND
        ANOTHER WITHOUT JAVASCRIPT NOR FLASH ENABLED TO DO NEWS,
        WITH A DOSBOX WITH F3 READY WITH SPREADSHEET WHEN I DO CURRENCY
        TRADING, SWITCHING TO FULLSCREEN FOR DOSBOX WHEN I WRITE OR
        PROGRAM OR DRAW OR DO LIGHT3D MODEL OR OTHER LISA GJ2 FIC3 WORK.
        [[[AND AS WT DRIVES THE UNDERLAYING ALLEGRO GIFTWARE 
        GRAPHICS ROUTINES WHICH F3 HERE CALLS ON (ABOVE DOSBOX'S SDL)
        TOO THE MAXIMUM, IT ALSO GRABS SO MUCH OF THE PC THAT
        IT DOES PERFORMS MORE STABLY (IE, WITHOUT MUCH OF SUDDEN EXITS
        ON PC'S WHICH OTHERWISE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BIT TOO MUCH PRESSED)
        ON A TYPICAL LAPTOP WHEN FRAMESKIP 5 RATHER THAN 0.]]]
        FOR WT, REMEMBER GOOD MOUSE. PRESS CTR-D OFTEN TO SAVE WHEN YOU
        WORK. REMEMBER TO ALTERNATIVE SWIFTLY & ELEGANTLY BETWEEN
        LEFT-CLICK AND RIGHT-CLICK TO CREATE AS THIN LINES AS YOU
        LIKE. THERE IS A NATURAL FRACTAL NATURE TO ANY DRAWING
        DONE WELL IN THIS WAY, WITH A TEXTURE, WHICH IS STRONGER
        EXACTLY BECAUSE WE KEEP ADDITIONAL ALGORITHMS AWAY AND
        RATHER GET THIS AS ADVANCED DRAWING PAPER. MORE TUTORIALS
        -- GENTUTnn -- ARE BEING WRITTEN, AND MORE PROGRAMS ARE COMING,
        STEADILY, ALWAYS, ALSO EVENTUALLY WITH OWN WEB PAGES, FOR F3, 
        INCLUDING EXPLORATION IN A NON-EQUATION WAY OF FRACTALS FOR
        THOSE EDUCATING THEMSELVES TO BECOME ARTISTS (FANTASIA.TXT
        IS THE NAME OF THIS UPCOMING FRACTAL PROGRAM).
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:19 INSTALLATION INFO -- AS FOR LINUX,
        THE STANDARD WE SUPPORT, GIVEN THE IMMENSE FULLNESS
        AND ELEGANT BEAUTY -- TO PUT IT FRANKLY -- OF F3
        AS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF DOSBOX ALSO THERE,
        WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND RUNNING F3 EXCLUSIVELY IN
        THAT CONTEXT. DOSBOX GIVES EQUAL SHINE IN ALL
        FRAMEWORKS, MS-WINDOWS, APPLE-UNIX, FEDORA-LINUX,
        CENTOS-LINUX, ETC, SO THIS -- AND ALL UPCOMING
        POPULAR PLATFORMS, WHERE WE PUT SUCH A GLAMOUR FRAME OR
        BOX AROUND F3, IS THE SUPPORTED STANDARD APPROACH,
        ONE OF THEM, FOR LISA GJ2 FIC3 (WHEREAS THE RED HAT NATIVE
        VERSION HAS TOO MANY QUIRKS, HANDLES E.G. NOT OILER).
        THE FUTURE HARDWARE WE MAKE FOR LISA GJ2 FIC3, IE,
        THE LISA GJ2 FIC3 LT COMPUTER, WILL RUN THE   :IT IN
        AS IT IS, BUT WITH THE DISTINCTION YOU DON'T HAVE TO
        CONVERT THE .BMP BY A PROGRAM LIKE GIMP FIRST TO
        THE NORMAL 200x200 SIZE FOR GJP, AND WITH 8-BIT COLOR
        DEPTH, FOR THE .BMP THERE WILL BE ONLY THOSE GENERATED
        BY THE PLATFORM SUCH AS IN THE   :WT IN   PROGRAM, AND
        SO AUTOCONVERTED. TO MAKE YOUR OWN GJP-IMAGES, FIND OUT
        HOW E.G. GIMP WORKS. I TRY TO KEEP THE INFO ON WHERE TO
        FIND GIMP OR SIMILAR UPDATED WITHIN SOME OF THE NOTES
        IN MY ../economy.htm SECTION AT THE FRONTPAGE -- A FREE
        GRAPHICS PROGRAM FOR MANY PLATFORMS. AM WORKING ON A
        OPEN SOURCE PROGRAM LIBRARY AS ONE WAY OF EXPANDING
        LIGHT3D TOWARDS SIMPLE, ELEGANT, NONADDICTIVE 3D WITH
        AN ASTEROID GAME TO GO INTO KIDPOP03, RELEASING THE
        LIBRARY FIRST, MAKING IT EASY TO USE FOR KIDS IN MAKING
        THIS FORM OF 3D USING ONLY SIMPLE TECHNIQUES AND NO
        REQUIREMENT OF ADVANCED DRAWING. BUT THEY NEED TO HAVE
        AN IMAGE CONVERTER PROGRAM SO THEY CAN MAKE ABSTRACT
        SUITABLE PHOTO ART WITH A SENSOUS ASPECT IN THE 200X200
        FORMAT WITH 256 COLORS, TO BE READ IN BY   :IT IN  AND
        CONVERTED THERE AS INDICATED HERE AND THERE, TO .GJP,
        THEN FIXED ON BY THE    :OILER IN   PROGRAM TOWARDS
        BEAUTIFUL HALF-ABSTRACT ART WHICH CAN REPLACE THE NEED FOR
        MANUAL DRAWINGS IN FIRST-HAND ROOM/DEPTH GAMES. THEY CAN
        USE THEIR OWN PHOTOS, OR STRONGLY MODIFY FREE SAMPLES.
     ***>>>DATE 2011:2:18 OPEN SOURCE PROGRAM -- 
        A F3 UTILITY: OILER,
        WHICH MODIFIES IMAGES. SOURCE IS HERE,
        SCREENIMAGE EXAMPLES HERE AND HERE.
     ***>>>INSTALLATION INFO FEBRUARY 16, 2011: PLS CHECK
        SOME LAPTOPS -- ESPECIALLY WHEN RUNNING DOSBOX WITH F3 IN
        A WINDOW IN ADDITION TO OTHER THINGS -- FOR TEMPERATURE
        AFTER FIFTEEN MINUTES. ALL LAPTOPS OUGHT TO HAVE AN
        EXTRA FAN UNDERNEATH IT, AND FULL EASY AIR-AVAILABILITY,
        IF THEY GET TOO HOT TO TOUCH EASILY. FAN-PLATES ARE CHEAP,
        GET THEM. FUTURE LAPTOPS AND PC'S WILL DO THIS MORE
        RELAXED, BUT IF NEED BE, LIMIT SESSION DURATIONS TO
        A SUITABLE LENGTH SO THAT YOU PROTECT YOUR MACHINE.
        DOSBOX IS EXCESSIVELY WELL MADE -- A PRICE-WINNING 
        PROGRAM AT SOURCEFORGE.NET -- BUT IT IS ALSO A BIG
        PROGRAM, DOING A LOT. IT IS SOMEWHAT AKIN TO THE
        INTERPRETATION OF JAVA BYTECODES, IN THAT THIS IS
        NOT JAVA BYTECODES, BUT INTEL 386 CODES.
          ALSO, IN THE NAME OF COMPLETENESS, THE GRAPHICS
        LIBRARY CALLED ON IN THE DOSBOX PACKAGE -- THE SAME
        VERSION (1.2.12) USED IN THE SOURCE AND PROVIDED IN
        COMPILED LIBRARY FORM INSIDE THE RUNTIMES -- WITH THE
        FULL OPEN SOURCE GNU GPL LICENSE FOR THE DOSBOX 0.74 AS
        PROVIDED IN A MIRROR UNDERNEATH ON THIS PAGE, IS
        PROVIDED HERE. IT IS THE SDL -- SIMPLE DIRECTMEDIA LAYER --
        PACKAGE. IT IS LICENSED UNDER THE GNU LPL LICENSE,
        WHICH IS open_source_copyright_for_sdl_1_2.txt.
        THE SOURCES ARE FOUND AT www.libsdl.org
        WITH MIRROR COPY (WINDOWS, OSX, UNIX, WITH SIGNATURES,
        REQUIRING FURTHER UNZIPPING -- ALL ORIGINAL FORM) HERE:
          sdl_src_for_1_2_12_unchanged_with_gnu_lpl_license.zip
        IF IN THE FUTURE AT ANY TIME DOSBOX IS NOT FOLLOWED
        UP BY ORIGINAL GROUP, OR THE SDL, WE PROMISE EFFORTS
        TO GET F3 WITH A SIMILAR BOX GOING AFTER ALL FOR POPULAR 
        PLATFORMS, BY THE APPROPRIATE REWORKING OF THE SOURCES 
        ACCORDING TO THE GENEROUS LICENSES THESE GENIUS FOLKS HAVE
        PROVIDED FOR ALL THEIR WORK -- THE GNU GPL AND GNU LPL,
        FOR DOSBOX AND SDL, RESPECTIVELY. THIS IS JUST AS A
        SUPER-EXTRA PRECAUTION. WE HAVE EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE
        BOTH THE VERY WIDELY USED SDL AND THE MORE AND MORE
        USED DOSBOX HAVE ALL THE MAINTENANCE AND FOLLOW-UP
        THEY REQUIRE AND THAT THEY ENSURE COMPATIBILITIES
        OF ALL NECESSARY AND ALSO LUXURIOUS KINDS.
          NATURALLY, THE NEWEST VERSIONS OF DOSBOX AND SDL
        WILL BE, ACCORDING TO THE OPEN SOURCE LICENSES INVOLVED,
        IN MIRROR COPY ALSO GIVEN HERE WHEN TESTED TO WORK
        AS FULLY SATISFYING GROUND FOR F3 ON SOME POPULAR
        PLATFORMS. THESE NEWER VERSIONS WILL BE GIVEN HIGHER
        UP IN THIS UPPERCASE PART OF THE PAGE, WHILE THE 
        FOUNDATIONAL 0.74 VERSION COMMENTS WILL BE MODIFIED
        UP HERE FOR PLATFORMS TO COME IN THE FUTURE WHEN
        NECESSARY. 
     ***>>>TUTORIAL FEBRUARY 15, 2011: KIDPOP01 IS TUTORIAL
        FOR KIDS, OR THOSE WHO PRIDE THEMSELVES WITH 
        HAVING A CHIDLIKE MIND, WITH FUN SWEET 2D GAME 
        WRITTEN FOR EDUCATIONAL CLARITY OF THE CODE, ENGLISH 
        PROGRAM AND SCREEN COPIES BUT NORWEGIAN TEXT IN THIS 
        (ENGLISH WILL COME, SEE ABOVE THIS NOTE), HERE: KIDPOP01
     ***>>>INSTALLATION INFO FEBRUARY 14, 2011: CORRECTION OF
        INFO FOUND ON THIS PAGE FURTHER BENEATH -- IT IS SAID
        THAT MANUAL F3DOCS.TXT COMES UP BY TYPING     WORD
        INSIDE F3. IN ORDER TO OPEN TO MANUAL IN READ-ONLY
        MODE BY TYPING THE WORD "WORD" IT MUST FIRST BE
        COPIED OVER TO THE (EARLIER) NAME MTDOC.TXT. OUTSIDE OF F3,
        TYPE
           COPY F3DOCS.TXT MTDOC.TXT
        AND IT SHOULD WORK. NOTE THAT IF YOU CONVERT ANY PHOTO
        TO 200x200 SIZE .BMP IN ANY SUITABLE IMAGE CONVERTER
        PROGRAM, WHERE YOU CAN SPECIFY 255 (OR 256, IE, 8-BIT)
        COLORS, THE PROGRAM IT.TXT CAN IMPORT IT TO GREEN .GJP 
        FORMAT WHICH IS NATURAL FOR F3. START IT.TXT, WHICH IS
        A BIT UNINFORMATIVE, BUT AN EXPANDABLE WORKHORSE, 
        BY TYPING, AFTER YOU HAVE STARTED F3, THIS:
          :IT  IN
          IT
        THE CTR-A GIVES THE BRIEFEST MENU POSSIBLE. FIRST GIVE
        THE NAME OF THE .GJP FILE YOU WANT IT SAVED TO,
        WITHOUT .GJP EXTENSION. IF YOU CHOOSE TEST1 OR A
        NAME (UPPERCASE, NO BLANKS, NO SPECIAL SIGNS, MAX 8)
        COMPLETING WITH DIGIT 1, THE PROGRAM IMGS WILL EASILY
        SHOW IT AFTERWARDS, SO YOU CAN QUICKLY TEST IT.
        SO PRESS CTR-F AND TYPE TEST1 AND PRESS ENTER TO NAME
        THE UPCOMING .GJP FILE. READ THEN IN THE .BMP BY
        PRESSING CTR-D (OR, FOR SOME .BMP'S WITH DIFFERENT 
        CODING, CTR-B), AND TYPE FULL NAME   SAMPLE1.BMP
        AND PRESS ENTER. IF YOU WANT TO FIX UPSIDE-DOWN AND
        MIRRORING OF IMAGE, PRESS
          CTR-X CTR-R CTR-R CTR-R
        THEN SAVE IT BY PRESSING CTR-S.
        LEAVE THE PROGRAM (ESC), GO INTO F3 AGAIN, TYPE IMGS,
        PRESS ENTER, TYPE TEST, PRESS ENTER, AND IT SHOULD SHOW.
        IT IS THEN ALSO USABLE IN THE   SEE   PROGRAM, OR 
        :OMNI IN     PROGRAM -- WHICH, WITH THIS MY SCIFI FONT,
        LOOKS LIKE THIS (NOTICE NUMBERS DIFFERENT FROM LETTERS,
        IN BOTH OF THESE, AND BOTH ENTIRELY UNLIKE THE B9-FONT,
        WHICH YOU SEE A BIT OF ON THE "NEWPOINT" IMAGE ABOVE,
        AS WELL AS ON THE COMPLETING LINE):

        OR THE   :READCOUR IN    PROGRAM, WITH THIS MY TEXTURE
        FREAKING VARIATION OVER COURIER -- WHICH LOOKS LIKE THIS:

        THE IMAGE IS AN ORIGINAL COMPUTER RENDERING BY UNDERSIGNED
        OF A PHOTO FROM VOGUE.
        BOTH THESE UNUSUAL FONTS ARE BRAIN-STIMULATING. BY THE WAY.
        THE  :OMNI IN   PROGRAM DOESN'T SHOW IMAGES AT THE RIGHT
        SIDE, IN CONTRAST TO   :READCOUR IN   AND   SEE.
        I THINK THERE IS A BIT OF INFO ON IT -- IMAGE TRANSFORMATION
        -- AND ITS CONNECTION TO AN IN-BUILT, NOVEL CONFIGURABLE
        PATTERN MATCHING PROGRAM IN F3DOCS. LET ME ALSO HAVE IT
        MENTIONED HERE THAT I WILL COME WITH A BIG ART BOOKLET 
        ON HOW TO DO SOME ROBOT-CONTROL TYPED-IN-NATURAL-LANGUAGE-
        LIKE INTERACTIONS SUITABLE FOR SOME GAMES ALSO, WHAT I
        CALL 'FCM' OR FIRST-HAND COMPUTERISED MENTALITY, WITH
        BITS OF WHAT I CALL 'SCANDIAN' (CFR THE MYWEBOOK.TXT
        LISTED HERE; IT'S A TANTRIC LANGUAGE IDEA AND IT IS
        DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT FROM ENGLISH AND IN THAT WAY THE
        FCM WILL NOT CORRUPT ENGLISH BUT BE INDEPENDENT ENTIRELY).
     ***>>>INSTALLATION INFO FEBRUARY 13, 2011: FOR EVEN FASTER
        PERFORMANCE ON E.G. 2010 LAPTOPS WHICH ARE NOT QUITE FAST
        ENOUGH, UP TO frameskip=18 IN THE LINES AS GIVEN IN
        THE FEB.12 INFO STILL GIVES FULLY MEANINGFUL RESULTS,
        AND IS VERY USEFUL, AND AGAIN FASTER THAN frameskip=10.
        E.G., AN ASUS LAPTOP OF 2010 WITH WINDOWS 7 
        (WITH output=opengl) WORKS -- ALSO WITH NEAT FULLSCREEN --
        WITH BOTH B9 AND LIGHT3D IN THIS WAY. WHEN DOING FRAMESKIP,
        B9 HAS GOOD MEMORY OF RAPID TYPING, BUT IT MAY SHOW, THEN, 
        DURING VERY FAST TYPING, AFTER A WORD OR TWO HAVE BEEN TYPED.
          TO ADDITIONALLY TUNE THE INSTALLATION, I SUGGEST YOU
        ALSO GO INTO ANOTHER SECTION OF THE SAME DOSBOX CONFIG 
        TEXT FILE AND PUT THE SAME REFERENCE TO dosdisk AS YOU 
        HAD FOR YOUR MOUNT (E.G. c:\dosdisk) ON THE LINE 
        CALLED 'captures'. THIS IS FOUND IN SECTION [dosbox] OF
        THE CONFIG FILE:
          captures=c:\dosdisk
          EACH TIME YOU WANT A SCREEN IMAGE TO A fic3NNNN.png
        FILE -- ENTIRELY STANDARD, AS .PNG IS VIEWABLE IN BROWSERS,
        AND CONVERTIBLE BY MOSTLY ALL CONVERSION PROGRAMS -- THEN
        USE THE DOSBOX-KEY-CLICK CTR-F5. THESE .PNG FILES WILL BE
        AVAILABLE AT C:\ AS SEEN FROM WITHIN DOSBOX, TRY DIR C:\
          THOSE WHO HAVE A VIDEO CARD THAT PROVIDES FULLSCREEN, 
        AS SAID, DO ALT-ENTER TO SWITCH. WHEN NOT DOING FULLSCREEN,
        NOTE THAT ALSO THE DOSBOX KEY-CLICK CTR-F10 WILL BRING THE 
        THE MOUSE POINTER BELONGING TO YOUR SURROUNDING PLATFORM 
        BACK, AFTER YOU HAVE CLICKED INTO THE DOSBOX WINDOW TO 
        ACTIVATE MOUSE WITHIN IT, E.G. FOR WILDTONE DRAWINGS.
          SAVE WORK IN PROGRESS OFTEN, AS DOSBOX -- ESPECIALLY
        WHEN USED WITH MOUSE -- CAN SOMETIMES CATCH A VERY BRIEF 
        COLD, WHEN USED TO SUPPORT THIS LARGE LANGUAGE. ON
        SOME OCCASIONS, THIS CAN BE THE CASE ALSO WHEN STARTING
        UP A PROGRAM -- ON RARE OCCASIONS, YOU HAVE TO START IT
        ONCE MORE. (THIS MAY BE BECAUSE OF THE MANY SIMULTANEOUS
        TIMING PROCESSES THAT ARE EMULATED WHILE THE BACKGROUND
        OPERATING PLATFORM HAS ITS OWN TIMING PROCESSES.)
     ***>>>INSTALLATION INFO FEBRUARY 12, 2011: SOMEWHERE ON THIS
        PAGE WE SAY THAT THE PC OUGHT TO BE FASTER THAN THIS 
        YEAR'S MODEL -- SAY, A 2014 MODEL. HOWEVER YOU CAN VASTLY
        SPEED UP F3 -- ALSO B9 AND LIGHT3D -- BY ALLOWING GRAPHICS 
        TO BE UPDATED A BIT -- BLOCKWISE, IF THAT'S THE WORD. 
        SIMPLY GO INTO THE NORMAL TEXT (CONFIGURATION) FILE 
        FOR DOSBOX WHERE YOU WROTE THE mount COMMAND WHEN YOU DID
        INSTALLATION AS DESCRIBED ON THIS PAGE (IE, WHERE YOU SET 
        memsize=32, AND PERHAPS EXPERIMENTED WITH output=opengl 
        OR WHATEVER TO GET YOUR MONITOR AND GRAPHICS CARD TO WORK), 
        AND FIND THE SECTION THAT IS CALLED [render], AND LET THE 
        LINES SAY THIS:
           frameskip=10
           aspect=true
           scaler=normal2x
        THE aspect OUGHT TO BE MODIFIED TO true IN ALL CASES, I THINK, 
        JUST BE SURE NO SQUEEZING OF GRAPHICS AREA OCCURS. IF YOU
        HAVE A BIG MONITOR, TRY 3x INSTEAD OF 2x. FOR YOUR FASTER PC'S,
        SET THE FRAMESKIP BACK TO ORIGINAL VALUE SO THAT YOU TAKE
        FULL ADVANTAGE OF THIS SPEED.
          AS SAID JUST BELOW, ALL NEW INSTALLATION INFO / FILES COME 
        ABOVE THAT ======== LINE, THAT IS TO SAY, ABOVE RIGHT HERE, 
        WITH CAPITAL LETTERS, NEWEST ENTRIES HIGHER UP. WHEN WE DO
        NOT INCLUDE NEW INFO FOR A VERY COMMON OPERATING SYSTEM, IT
        SHOULD MEAN THAT THE EARLIER INFO GIVEN INSIDE THE PAGE BENEATH
        IS ENTIRELY ADEQUATE TO GET IT ALL UP AND RUNNING.
     ***>>>WITH TUTORIAL (#2) FOR SCIENTISTS FEBRUARY 7, 2011,
          CLICK ON THIS LINK HERE: tutor2s.txt
        NUMBER #2 CONTAINS INFO ON HOW TO DO 3D FORMALISMS WITH LIGHT3D.
        FURTHER INFO IN BIG ART BOOKLETS, CFR NEWS ABOUT ARISTO TACOMA
        SECTION IN FRONT OF YOGA6D.ORG PANEL.
        THE TUTORIAL #1 FOR SCIENTISTS ARE FOUND FURTHER BENEATH.
        AS FOR THE REST OF THIS PAGE, IT IS -- TO
        HONOR THE FUTURE OF ALL PROGRAMS PRESENTLY MADE --
        THE FORMALISM AND 1024*768 GREEN SCREEN APPROACH
        OF LISA GJ2 FIC3 ENTIRELY FIXED AND STANDARD FOREVER,
        -- SO THE REST OF THIS PAGE, THEN, IS 
        BY INTENTION KEPT ABSOLUTELY STABLE, SO THAT
        ANY ADDITIONAL INSTALLATION INFO OR FILES OR THE LIKE
        ARE GIVEN ONLY ABOVE THIS LINE:
        ================================================
            AT FEBRUARY 6, 2011:
     ***>>>WT, OR WILDTONE, A WILDFIRE OF TONES OF BACKGROUND
        IN A [.BMP 1024*768 WRITE AND READ FILE] DRAWING PROGRAM,
        WHERE YOU CAN LEARN HOW TO MAKE SCREEN COPIES OF
        YOUR WORK IN F3 BY LOOKING AT THIS CODE. SUITABLE FOR DOSBOX.
          CLICK ON THIS LINK HERE: wt.txt
        HELPFUL ADDITIONAL MINI-PROGRAMS FOR MAKING 2D AND
        3D GAMES AND OTHER SUCH FUN, GOOD STUFF IS WITHIN 
        2011 AND LATER, MORE UPDATED (CFR NEWS ABOUT ARISTO SECTION)
        BIG ART BOOKLETS ON PROGRAMMING IN LISA GJ2 FIC3, OR "f3".
        [THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT ALSO TAKES YOU INTO YOUR PC'S
        FULL RANGE OF COLORS AND CAN BE USED AS DRAWING TOOL
        FOR PRINTABLE ART SKETCHES ON PAPER. IT CAN EASILY BE CHANGED.]
     ***>>>JANUARY 31 WITH light3d.zip (CLICK TO GET IT, TO UNZIP
        W/OVERWRITE INTO THE MAIN FOLDER A*F*T*E*R YOU'VE
        INSTALLED AS DESCRIBED BENEATH; LIGHT3D IS THE
        COMPLETING  E S S E N T I A L  F3 LANGUAGE UPDATE, AND
        AFTER THIS POINT -- IN CONTRAST TO WHAT IS
        INDICATED HERE AND THERE INSIDE THE .zip AND SUCH -- 
        WE ONLY GIVE PERHAPS OCCASIONAL TUTORIALS HERE, 
        AND WHEN NECESSARY UPDATED INSTALLATION INFO 
        -- GAMES AND OTHER FUNCTIONS ARE PROVIDED ALONGSIDE
        B.A.B.'s, BIG ART BOOKLETS, FOR SALES, BUT YOU
        HAVE ALL THE SOURCES HERE TO MAKE YOUR OWN).
        BUT BE SURE YOU USE THE MOST UPDATED FIC3.TXT,
        THE ONE THAT IS NEWER THAN THE ONE INSIDE FIC3.ZIP. GOOD LUCK!!!
        -- Aristo (h-reusch@frisurf.no)
     ***>>>WITH NEW TUTORIAL FOR SCIENTISTS JANUARY 17, 2011,
          CLICK ON THIS LINK HERE: tutor1s.txt
        W/SOME INSTALLATION INFO FOR APPLE OS X JANUARY 11, 2011.
        (WITH UPDATES IN APPLE OS X SECTION ALSO JANUARY 20, 2011)
 
If you are a bit patient with this page,
and the masses of information included
in the files you can get here, you'll
sort it out soon enough, and it will be
a constant joy to you -- promise!
 
The Lisa GJ2 Fic3 language in a textual
quantity hyper-turbo-charged version is 
powering the Yoga6d dot org standard 
worldwide search engines, and to emphasize 
the development it can give to pure thinking
and low-res experience of mind-expansion
we suggest strongly you prefer a Dosbox
approach, which allows installation by
relatively few clicks and relatively
little initial technical experience,
with mostly all PCs that are fast enough.
Since Dosbox gives mechanically perfect
simulation of a full CPU at a
time before world wide web developed,
we have by it a quality of independence,
also as a kind of extra security,
relative to internet, which is good as
a variation. To program directly for
the internet, use only virus-updated
approaches such as Perl on a well-thought
free, open-minded but secure Linux -- and it 
is not my concern to compete with these,
as the practicalities involved justify
some of the lack of esthetics in some
of the programming approaches one has
to take there.
 
THIS, however, is for depth-mind intuition
stimuli. The cultivation of that pure
essence of programming. The joy of true
low-res 2D and 3D (room/depth) programmed
without overly many programming tricks,
but rather in what I call a first-hand
relationship to data (each routine makes
sense without any obscure theorem:
and only high-level routines, no
assembly-optimalisation, is used even
in 3D, so one does it in low-res with
many scene-shifts).
 
 
The programming language is
steady, stable, robust and standard 
Fairly quick link to this free download page:
moscowsites.org/f3
 
THIS IS THE UPDATED FIC3.TXT -- please do copy
it over the same-named file inside the fic3.zip
file because it is the full standard and necessary
to have:
  Text version: FIC3.TXT
-- and same FIC3.TXT inside a .zip: fic3txt.zip
 
When you have got the fic3.zip unzipped to
the boehm/boehmian folder [note: a lot of
extra background open source files of an
associated library for graphics, called on
here and there, are included, but these
aren't essential at all but worth the while
for programmers to be aware of the proper
standards -- when unzipped in a properly
8-filename size context, then overlook
these mostly, and just confirm any question
of 'overwrite yes/no' to 'overwrite all'], 
and you have got the updated FIC3.TXT put 
inside it -- and also the LIGHT3D.TXT and
the new VIEW.TXT it has (must overwrite
the earlier ones, which is inside the
fic3.zip -- with the new files inside the
light3d.zip on top here) -- and any other
programs for Lisa GJ2 Fic3, then F3 is the
command that starts the language. Inside f3,
you can write
  :WT  IN
when you have the WT.TXT program used the
make the drawing on top, by left- and right-
clicking on the mouse to a funtastic wildfire
of flashing backgrounds, and repeated saves
to DRAW1.BMP, DRAW2.BMP etc until the right
drawing arises. 
 
Writing in other languages than English?
Make a copy of B9FONT.TXT first, to a new
name, such as B9FONT.BKP, then run program
MOREFONT inside the language, and you can
redraw within 7-bit ascii. Earlier .zips
found at yoga4d.org and yoga6d.org do
provide options for ethiopian with many
more fonts, and this can be done in various
ways. There are also some features of some
of the earlier versions of the programming
language that can be of value to some, at
some times (e.g. something for printing
to image inside B9 and inside SPC, but
this can be done by inserting some lines
at a particular spot and copying your FIC3.TXT
over to another temporary file, and start
the whole by   FIC3 TEMPFILE   as startup
programming language call, instead of the
usual F3 to start it up.
 
Anyway, when you start up in-built program 
MOREFONT inside the F3 language, and draw 
the new characters, by clicking mouse and
pressing space inside and outside the
drawing area, then you build up a new
B9FONT.TXT, saved as you press ESC, and
this is used until you change the B9FONT.TXT
again -- e.g. inside B9, the main text
editor. This editor has various showing
options -- try e.g. click F12 a couple of
times.
 
 
An example of a font that this writer uses
at present for some Big Art Booklets in Norwegian
(each of which is quickly enough translated to
English, but it matters that Norwegians can learn
something about F3 and other approaches quickly
and not everyone in Norway is fully at ease with
English as yet, to the extent that is required
to follow some of these ponderings and manual):
A mild but fully adequate implementation of
the three lowercase extra Norwegian characters 
come by replacing three little-used characters,
namely back-tick `, left-curly-bracket {, 
and vertical bar |, and the B9NORW.TXT is
inside this zip, with link here: b9norw.zip.
  This is for producing acceptable graphics 
on-screen and as copied to printer, though the
sequence if sorted alphabetically gets a little
different than the typical norwegian convention,
with circle-above-a as a letter before the a-letter.
  Copy B9NORW.TXT over the B9FONT.TXT when you want
to use these characters, copy original B9FONT.TXT
back again when you want to put it to normal mode.
  Why choose these three characters? It is reasonable,
because:
  The right-curly-bracket } is used much inside
the programming language Lisa, both for 
       }text strings} 
and 
       }* also for comments }*
but left-curly-bracket is used not at all. The
vertical-bar-sign is almost never used, and the
back-tick is also not having any role; in addition,
in ordinary prose one hardly needs such characters.
The conscious deliberate implementation of only
the right-curly-bracket in Lisa is also a 
philosophical statement by this author. It is
to remind, in the form of syntax, the honorable
user of the F3 language, that the conventional
set theory schemes in mathematics of the 20th
century was wrought with incoherent ideas, and
they almost inevitably used the left-curly-bracket
when they did think so wrongly as they did -- they
got all the infinity/finiteness relationships 
messed up because they didn't think through the
essential definitions of whole numbers and also
not of what the implications of the definitions of
collections of whole numbers must be -- see the
mywebook.txt about this, which is an early
collection of texts before I made the F3.
 
The Lisa GJ2 Fic3 language, in its standard and
compact form, here available on all machines and
looking golden when quoted inside prose, is eminently
usable to express in a perfectly international and
standardised formal form ideas which are also
expressed informally e.g. in scientific texts.
This usage is so strongly encouraged that we also
for that reason say that it is a GARANTEE that we
do not do any further syntactical or main high-level
function changes at all as for the Lisa GJ2 Fic3
standard. The conscious deliberate decision to
address the graphics of the screen through a
certain number of pixels vertically and horisontally
allows a certitude about layout which befits any
scientific formal expression and allows with ease
also formation of a variety of graphical programs.
(See the Big Art Booklet series being produced from
2010 and onwards also about 2D and 3D games and
about science and philosophy, occasionally mentioned
in other sections of Yoga6d.org.)
 
The Dosbox shields glamorously
and with much security and is recommended approach
for thinking-programming & 2d & firsthand LIGHT3d
gaming. If you use Dosbox, experiment with Options
-- e.g. Fullscreen mode, which is best if it works
and gives a proper format, even if wider or taller
screen (black areas around, in case). Be careful
with use of mouse when running it, and use it,
when the Lisa GJ2 Fic3 language calls on the mouse,
then only inside of the area.
 
Quick links to a relatively full list of standard
functions / words / in-built programs inside the
FIC3.TXT is here (change to uppercase after you
have saved it, when you put it to a folder where
you use the Lisa GJ2 FIC3 language): 
f3docs.txt
NOTE THAT  F3DOCS.TXT   WHICH ALSO COMES UP WHEN
YOU WRITE      WORD      INSIDE THE f3 LANGUAGE
CONTAINS, WHILE MUCH USEFUL INFO, ALSO INFO THAT
CONCERNS EARLIER VERSIONS (WHEN IT WAS CALLED FIRTH LISA)
 
 
 
 
Three ways of getting the text Hello world printed
as an Lisa GJ2 Fic3 program:
 
 
}Hello world!} ( 
 
 
 
 
(( }Hello world!} => POP )) 
 
 
 
(LET HWORLD BE 
  ((
    (( GJ-ON ))
    (( SHOWMOUSE ))
    (( }Hello world!} ; 10 ; 10 => B9-POP ))
    (( A-KEY ))
    (( GJ-DONE ))
  )) OK)
(( LOOKSTK )) 
(LET AUTOSTART BE HWORLD OK) 
 
 
****************************************
*                                      *
*  GETTING DOSBOX FOR YOUR COMPUTER    *
*  AND PREPARING IT TO DO f3 WELL      *
****************************************
 
You can, with the Dosbox CPU emulator which works
for all major platforms given a very fast computer
indeed run, in a glamorous, well-shielded, simple
way the whole, complete Lisa GJ2 Fic3 language in
its standard form. Documentation for Dosbox and
various versions all provided under GNU GPL version 2
open source license with precompiled binaries for
Windows, Apple and Linux are here:
  www.dosbox.com
For those who want to get this background program
which is configured as explained right here next
(I advice you to have a good standard graphics 
card for most flexibility in how you get it to work),
from my site directly, I have provided backups of
the present version that I've tested and found
excellently working --
C:\>  first, the license, is: here
C:\> This is verbatim unchanged the COPYING.txt
C:\> found within the Dosbox versions as here given
C:\> unchanged and identical with their versions
C:\> as given at the mentioned www.dosbox.com site,
C:\> and the sources are in the completing file
C:\> given at this section marked with C:\> -- the
C:\> symbol for Dosbox, we might say.
C:\>  The Microsoft Windows "ready to run" dosbox is: here 
C:\>    See installations for Apple in the lines ahead
C:\>    as they are much the same, in fact a bit
C:\>    simpler for Windows -- just use 
C:\>    backslash instead of slash
C:\>    in the one line that says   mount
C:\>    and use the menu system of Windows to get
C:\>    into the configuration file instead of
C:\>    generating it by the CONFIG command.
C:\>    Look for the word "Options" in the Dosbox
C:\>    section of the Windows Programs menu.
C:\>    Memsize must be changed for Windows, Apple and Linux
C:\>    alike, from 16 to 32, it seems, to run F3 at
C:\>    the speed which is maximum for this version of Dosbox,
C:\>    and no doubt we need the speed we can get in this
C:\>    context of the interactive compiler with much
C:\>    high-level functions through an emulated CPU.
C:\>  The Apple OS X "ready to run" dosbox is: here 
C:\>      Oh yes, it works on Apple computers also, in OS X.
C:\>      This is not a field where I try to be an expert,
C:\>      but if I remember correctly, this is roughly 
C:\>      more or less how it might be doable on an Apple --
C:\>      AND THESE ARE THE MOST UPDATED INSTALLATION
C:\>      INSTRUCTIONS WHICH YOU CAN ADAPT TO ALL PLATFORMS:
C:\>        Make a new folder on "Macintosh HD" -- or the top
C:\>        of the main harddisk -- called    dosdisk
C:\>        Inside this folder, make a new folder called   
C:\>             boehm
C:\>        and inside this again, make the central one, 
C:\>        called       boehmian
C:\>        In addition, for Apple, make a folder also on
C:\>        top of the harddisk that you call e.g. boxprog
C:\>        -- and then get the .dmg file linked to a couple
C:\>        of lines above and put it e.g. to desktop.
C:\>        We need to do a bit of work, just a little bit,
C:\>        because we must both make, change, and then put
C:\>        the configuration file so as to configure this
C:\>        beautiful Dosbox program correctly to do the job
C:\>        we want it to do. 
C:\>          I think the right approach is to UNPACK 
C:\>        the program and put the unpacked version of what's
C:\>        in that file above into the new boxprog folder.
C:\>        We would also want configuration file into the
C:\>        same folder as the Dosbox program. Now when one
C:\>        unpacks the .dmg file by means of a program which
C:\>        seems to be useful in its free trial form to do just 
C:\>        this, as found at www.crystalidea.com/antoiso,
C:\>        then, when seen from Windows -- it is here I am a
C:\>        bit uncertain on Apple -- it seems that an Apple
C:\>        program is packed into several folders with resource
C:\>        info on the side. But we must be sure we get the
C:\>        configuration file into the right folder, and as
C:\>        I am not exactly sure which, I suggest you experiment.
C:\>        I'll indicate how you can do it, but an Apple knower
C:\>        would know shortcuts and say what makes sense.
C:\>        By the way, when I unpack the file given above and repack 
C:\>        it as a .zip, we get this file: dosbox074mac.zip.
C:\>        So either you unpack inside Apple by some kind of
C:\>        Apple approach -- I don't know, click on the packaged
C:\>        file (double clicks), the .dmg file, and then select
C:\>        the content files and then somehow copy them
C:\>        to the boxprog folder you've made -- or else you might
C:\>        use a free .dmg unpacking program like the above,
C:\>        or you might try and use the .zip I prepared, somehow.
C:\>          In any case, let's proceed. Next we MAKE the
C:\>        config file. Once you get the boxprog to have
C:\>        the Dosbox program in a performable form,
C:\>        double-click to start this program, and once
C:\>        it starts (it presumably starts), write
C:\>          CONFIG -writeconf /boxprog/dosbox.conf
C:\>        and let's not forget, you then write
C:\>          EXIT
C:\>        -- for any config file is read in only as
C:\>        you start up Dosbox entirely afresh, and we
C:\>        are in clear need of changing this to get F3 going.
C:\>        This should create the text file dosbox.conf
C:\>        and put it in the boxprog folder. If it doesn't,
C:\>        you may have a more complicated disk arrangement,
C:\>        and scroll ahead a bunch of lines until I talk
C:\>        of boxprog5 and terminal window, and you'll
C:\>        get it right. Then go back here. In the case
C:\>        of Windows, it is already created and can be
C:\>        edited from the graphical Start menu ("Options").
C:\>        Get into that text file -- open it by a
C:\>        text editor where you can save as (MS-DOS) .txt
C:\>        format, pure ascii format, -- MS Word can do
C:\>        this if you carefully select Save As when you
C:\>        are going to save, and open up the Formats..
C:\>        options. 
C:\>          You must change the line that says something
C:\>        with memsize from 16, to 32, -- generally
C:\>        it seems that neither higher nor lower is right
C:\>        to get appreciable speed for Lisa run in Dosbox.
C:\>        Sooner or later you will want to try out the
C:\>        fullscreen=true instead of =false but on some
C:\>        videocards you must change other settings
C:\>        to get anything shown at all (after their logo),
C:\>        (e.g. output=opengl), whether fullscreen or not --
C:\>        this opengl is the case for some PC laptops with 
C:\>        Intel video graphics inbuilt into the laptop.
C:\>          Then we are going to add some lines to this
C:\>        file before we save it. Remember you can go back
C:\>        and recreate this file if you mess it up, so it
C:\>        is a thing one can experiment with it -- just,
C:\>        in case, run that CONFIG next, type EXIT, restart
C:\>        Dosbox, and see.
C:\>          The clue next is to scroll ahead to an [autoexec]
C:\>        section and insert the commands I will give you soon --
C:\>        and if you have indeed put the folders on top
C:\>        of your main harddisk the following mount command
C:\>        will be right -- to test whether you got the folders
C:\>        made at the /dosdisk location you can find the program
C:\>        inside OS X called Terminal and write   cd /
C:\>        and then, after lineshift, write        ls
C:\>        and this will show you the content of the 
C:\>        top of the harddisk. In particular      ls /dosdisk
C:\>        will show    boehm    when you have made the folders
C:\>        in the right way.
C:\>          Assuming you have made the folders right, and
C:\>        assuming you are doing MS-DOS text mode correction
C:\>        of the dosbox.conf file, at the autoexec section,
C:\>        add the following lines after the autoexec header:
C:\>            mount  c   /dosdisk
C:\>            C:
C:\>            CD  \
C:\>            CD BOEHM
C:\>            CD BOEHMIAN
C:\>        (as said elsewhere on this page, the only change
C:\>        you do when you modify the config file in MsWindows
C:\>        is that the first line says   mount  c  \dosdisk
C:\>        or -- let's be imaginative -- it could be 
C:\>        something else like    mount  c  c:\Users\xxx\dosdisk
C:\>        if xxx is your user name and the folder is put there;
C:\>        or another location in a Linux environment where a
C:\>        line like   mount  c  /home/xxx/dosdisk   might do
C:\>        the trick. But the rest of the startup lines are 
C:\>        exactly the same for they follow the Dos standard).
C:\>          You have done this? GOOD! We appreciate that.
C:\>        Then save the dosbox.conf as .txt file, however
C:\>        make sure it doesn't add any .txt or .TXT as suffix.
C:\>        Right format, again, is Ascii or MS-DOS text file
C:\>        with lineshifts, no "formatting".
C:\>          Now there are four possibilities:
C:\>          (1) it works already. When you doubleclick on
C:\>          the Dosbox icon inside  boxprog   it shows
C:\>          among other things the word 'boehmian' on
C:\>          the left in the window area. More precisely,
C:\>          when you have done it right, it says something like
C:\>          C:\BOEHM\BOEHMIAN>
C:\>          when you start it up. That means your config
C:\>          file dosbox.conf has been read it correctly.
C:\>          If not, type EXIT, so Dosbox closes, and you
C:\>          make a new attempt: go to point (2).
C:\>          (2) it works after putting the dosbox.conf
C:\>          into one deeper level
C:\>          (3) it works after putting into two deeper
C:\>          levels,
C:\>          (4) or it works after putting it into three
C:\>          deeper levels
C:\>        So if you are at point (2), here is how:
C:\>        Then find a Terminal program, which in
C:\>        Apple OS X you find by searching for 
C:\>        programs and typing Terminal. Then you type
C:\>        something along these lines:
C:\>          cd /
C:\>          ls box*
C:\>        This should list boxprog if you are at right disk.
C:\>        And you should see your dosbox.conf file.
C:\>          By the way, if   ls box*   doesn't show anything
C:\>        like the boxprog folder:
C:\>        Then you may want to do    mkdir boxprog5
C:\>        or something, so as to make a new folder at
C:\>        this KNOWN location as seen from Linux, and find
C:\>        this boxprog5 in your visual file manager.
C:\>        If you do this boxprog5, you must do a new
C:\>          CONFIG -writeconf /boxprog5/dosbox.conf
C:\>        as soon as you have got all the programs there,
C:\>        and be sure you then always start Dosbox from there.
C:\>        I presume it is called just boxprog now however.
C:\>        Type then (using perhaps up-arrows to copy identical
C:\>        lines so you can type quicker):
C:\>          cd /boxprog
C:\>          cd D*
C:\>          cp  ../dosbox.conf  .
C:\>        Pay attention to the dots -- also the completing one.
C:\>        The two dots means (copy from) folder above this level,
C:\>        and the single dot means (copy to) folder at this level.
C:\>        Keep this terminal window open. If doing such a cp
C:\>        (copy) command makes the Dosbox all of a sudden
C:\>        not start up, then do the removal like this:
C:\>          rm dosbox.conf
C:\>        -- presumably then it shouldn't have anything
C:\>        extra at just this level. You can do it in any case,
C:\>        if it doesn't have any effect.
C:\>        So if you are at point (3), here is how:
C:\>          cd C*
C:\>          cp /boxprog/dosbox.conf  .
C:\>        Note the dot here. Does it work? Type EXIT if Z: still shows,
C:\>        and you may also want to do the   rm dosbox.conf  as above.
C:\>        Going deepest: here are at point (4), here is what one can do:
C:\>          cd M*
C:\>          cp  /boxprog/dosbox.conf  .
C:\>        Here, you might use arrow-up to copy the line from above.
C:\>        Do the  rm dosbox.conf  if it doesn't work.
C:\>        -- whatever works, if you did any cp to get it to work,
C:\>        repeat it -- after the required number of cd D* and so on,
C:\>        each time you have changed the config file in boxprog.
C:\>        Those who do not use Apple in this way -- looking at
C:\>        its internal structure -- may learn quite a lot from
C:\>        this little playing around with folders inside folders
C:\>        as seen from a typical Linux or Unix terminal window,
C:\>        and so it is a worthwhile little exercise to open up
C:\>        to a bit more light on the internal processes so that
C:\>        they can become more harmonious and good. 
C:\>        ALWAYS CHANGE THE CONFIG FILE OF DOSBOX TO RUN F3:
C:\>          Next time you doubleclick on Dosbox inside boxprog
C:\>        it should show  C:  instead of Z: and it will
C:\>        when you type  DIR   show whatever content
C:\>        there is of   boehmian  folder -- which is to come. 
C:\>        The first weeks, to begin to learn all this, you can also
C:\>        type the lines above manually each time you start
C:\>        Dosbox if you can't get the .conf file to do it for you,
C:\>        but you really ought to work out the .conf bit because
C:\>        the memsize must be changed to no less than 32 
C:\>        as a necessity (while memsize larger slows it too 
C:\>        much), -- at least it seems to be the case.
C:\>        NOTE THAT THE KEYBOARD IS OFTEN AUTOMATICALLY
C:\>        SET TO ENGLISH OVERRIDING OTHER LANGUAGE SETTINGS,
C:\>        and I suggest you put up with this -- it only
C:\>        affects work inside Dosbox -- and make a note
C:\>        of where colon, brackets and so forth are --
C:\>        so as not to make too many configuration changes.
C:\>        In that way you'll find that you easily master
C:\>        all keyboards on all machines and all platforms
C:\>        when you run this unifying Lisa GJ2 Fic3 approach,
C:\>        though each machine/platform Dosbox will have
C:\>        of course some minute changes as for keyboard and such.
C:\>          Type    EXIT    to get out of Dosbox.
C:\>          This is a command which it is important to remember
C:\>        esp. when you run fullscreen, but fullscreen is only
C:\>        interesting if you get 3 times 4 format without
C:\>        a squeezing or stretching in any direction.
C:\>          I always turn off all screensavers and screen
C:\>        dimming and screen-turning-off and all sorts of
C:\>        things like that when doing anything advanced
C:\>        with any computer, as more often than not I find
C:\>        that the computer becomes much more stable that way.
C:\>        This may be very true indeed with a fullscreen
C:\>        running of Dosbox.
C:\>          I say, by the way, this involves a good shielding
C:\>        from Internet but in general, naturally, you would
C:\>        do well to preceed a long session with F3
C:\>        with a physical disconnect from Internet and
C:\>        also a closing of all other programs, and,
C:\>        in general, a cleansing ("nullstilling", in Norwegian
C:\>        for the Apple Safari) of cookies and such from
C:\>        browsers, and also a regular turning off of Flash
C:\>        and stuff -- to be sure.
C:\>          In any case, with Dosbox working, on any platform,
C:\>        you are, with the /dosdisk/boehm/boehmian folder
C:\>        structure intact, ready to get the F3 compiler.
C:\>          So, NOW LOAD IN THE LISA GJ2 FIC3 LANGUAGE INTO 
C:\>        THE READY BOEHMIAN FOLDER. At present, this is
C:\>        done in two-three steps or so:
C:\>            (1) get the fic3.zip linked to beneath on this page,
C:\>            put them e.g. to desktop, unzip them, and get into
C:\>            the folder made by the unzip action, and copy all
C:\>            the files into the   /dosdisk/boehm/boehmian
C:\>            folder.  That is, get them into boehmian.
C:\>            (2) get the new FIC3.TXT from above on this page
C:\>            and OVERWRITE the earlier one inside boehmian,
C:\>            in the future versions an updated fic3.zip
C:\>            will contains this most important FIC3.TXT update.
C:\>            (3) and also the new F3DOCS.TXT from above on
C:\>            this page -- the manual, not an intro text, 
C:\>            -- save it to desktop, change to uppercase,
C:\>            and get it to   boehmian   also, OVERWRITING earlier.
C:\>            -- And if you like norwegian characters,
C:\>            (4) get in the new B9FONT.TXT inside the b9norw.zip
C:\>            somewhere on this page, also OVERWRITE the earlier,
C:\>            as always to the  boehmian   folder.
C:\>        You will then, unless your laptop is from 2012 or 2013 or
C:\>        or 2014 or else very costly, want to use a text editor
C:\>        to make programs which you store in the    boehmian
C:\>        folder, with suffix .TXT in each case.
C:\>          You start the Dosbox, presumably with the dosbox.conf
C:\>        automatically read in during startup, by double-clicking
C:\>        on the Dosbox inside boxprog, and it will then read 
C:\>        in all the files which you have recently put 
C:\>        into the   boehmian   folder.
C:\>          To get new files updated inside Dosbox, either
C:\>        type  RESCAN   or exit Dosbox  (type   EXIT)  and 
C:\>        restart it by double-clicking on the symbol.
C:\>        This RESCAN command is worth noting as somewhere
C:\>        else, before I got to learn about it, I say that
C:\>        one must restart Dosbox each time to read new file
C:\>        info from the outside. So please memorize it.
C:\>        You use RESCAN in order to avoid leaving Dosbox
C:\>        in order to update the file list of files in boehmian,
C:\>        when you have used programs outside of Dosbox
C:\>        to modify them. But when you have experimented
C:\>        with a change of dosbox.conf config file, then
C:\>        for sure do an EXIT and get into Dosbox all afresh!
C:\>          Each time you want to start the F3 language, you
C:\>        type    F3   and press the lineshift button.
C:\>        I suggest that you keep the mouse pointer inside
C:\>        the main Dosbox area at all times for it can
C:\>        otherwise return some peculiar negative x/y values
C:\>        which can close the program. Only some F3 programs
C:\>        make active use of mouse pointers, though.
C:\>          Each time you want to exit the F3 language, and
C:\>        this exit hasn't automatically happened by some
C:\>        program you were running, you can type    XO
C:\>        (it means "exported spirits" when on bottles).
C:\>        So XO to leave F3, and EXIT to leave Dosbox.
C:\>          The programs you read in by typing such as
C:\>           :MYPROG  IN
C:\>        when inside the F3, when you have made MYPROG.TXT
C:\>        on a text editor outside of Dosbox.
C:\>        For those with a very fast machine, use B9 like this:
C:\>           :MYPROG  B9
C:\>        If you find that the programming language sometimes,
C:\>        when you make new program, leads to sudden
C:\>        exits of Dosbox, then -- you know what --
C:\>        that means you are really doing programming.
C:\>        You'll get your programs to work, be patient
C:\>        when fixing mysterious issues. And keep in mind
C:\>        to keep the mouse pointer inside any active Dosbox
C:\>        area, even for those F3 program which doesn't
C:\>        use the mouse actively, it can be sensitive here.
C:\>        Remember that it can be very stimulating, as for
C:\>        F3 programming, if you can get fullscreen
C:\>        to work -- but it must give you an image that
C:\>        is neither stretched nor squeezed (try inbuilt
C:\>        program   IMGS  and open image   SAMPLE  to see
C:\>        a square 200x200 image area for what I call .GJP. 
C:\>        In general, be aware that some CTRL-function key
C:\>        combinations and the like are handled by Dosbox 
C:\>        so that not every such combination can be controlled
C:\>        inside a Lisa GJ2 Fic3 program.
C:\>  The Fedora14 64 bit "ready to run" dosbox is: here
C:\>    See Apple instructions in the lines above 
C:\>  after you've got Dosbox to work on your Linux,
C:\>  and adopt from them.
C:\>    To install anything in Fedora it is often
C:\>  a good idea to open a terminal first, then
C:\>  type   su   for superuser and then type
C:\>  the root password. One of the ways one might
C:\>  install an .rpm file like this is to change
C:\>  attributes on it to executable, then execute
C:\>  it. If you have just loaded in the file by
C:\>  a browser, and it is in /home/nina/ folder,
C:\>  let's say, you might want to do something along
C:\>  these lines, after you have typed   su   and
C:\>  given the password:
C:\>        cd  /home/nina
C:\>        chmod  744  dosbox*.rpm
C:\>        ./dosbox*.rpm
C:\>  (I type this from memory and a bit fast, you
C:\>  may have to modify this. Note that rpm can
C:\>  also be installed by   rpm -i filename
C:\>  without first doing a chmod for some linuxes.
C:\>  It is also plausible in some cases that it
C:\>  might be possible to install without root
C:\>  password however what do you want a Linux
C:\>  for if you don't have the root password??)
C:\>        Similar for some other
C:\>  platforms, and in Windows one must usually
C:\>  be logged in as administrator. In several cases
C:\>  esp. for Linux there will be a need for updating
C:\>  packages and newer linuxes are sometimes good
C:\>  at doing this automatically from internet
C:\>  (one that has much of Red Hat 8.0 feel, and
C:\>  which can run the Allegro Red Hat 8.0 Fic3 natively
C:\>  with great ease by following the instructions
C:\>  inside the F3DOCS.TXT inside the fic3.zip is CentOS,
C:\>  however then one would probably build it from
C:\>  source -- or else use some of the earlier Dosbox
C:\>  versions -- and when playing around with various
C:\>  Linux versions, one sometimes have to learn to
C:\>  install quite a number of packages, do a number
C:\>  of rebootings, and then only after much work and
C:\>  a bit of luck added will it work smoothly --
C:\>  just so you're warned if you think it is very easy
C:\>  always.  Check with hints at the dosbox.com site
C:\>  for how to get various Linux versions running.
C:\>  If you are getting a new Linux into a PC you may 
C:\>  find sites speaking installing from USB pens
C:\>  but know that USB pens come in all types, so,
C:\>  whenever possible, go for the most standard
C:\>  item for for permanent storage of all, CDs,
C:\>  and prefer text install rather than graphics install.
C:\>  THEN: The sources of the above with all acknowledgements 
C:\>  to the good works of the Dosbox group (support them!)
C:\>  which MUST! go alongside with each of them --
C:\>  according to the GNU GPL license are: here
C:\>  -- and more Linux versions are available 
C:\> and also more installation info and such from
C:\> the origin of these GNU GPL programs, the
C:\> venerable dosbox.com. 
C:\>     For ANY platform, you can pick up hints
C:\> from the notes I gave in the paragraph for
C:\> the OS X some lines up. You may find it is
C:\> easier than it looks, these notes are to
C:\> be helpful when one doesn't get anything right
C:\> at first.
C:\>     Note that MORE INTRO MANUALS are being
C:\> made and one in Norwegian has been published
C:\> as a Big Art Booklet in 2010 and will be
C:\> translated in 2011 to English, on 2D games;
C:\> with 3d game intro in prep. Try reading also the
C:\> completing pages in F3DOCS.TXT and play
C:\> with the simplest programs to get the knack of
C:\> it before new free tutorials are released here;
C:\> for buyable Big Art Booklets there will be
C:\> a regular update in the News.. section on top
C:\> of Yoga6d dot org search engine frontpages.
 
SOME INFO IS REPEATED HERE AND THERE and some info
here and there is a little bit better updated at
some places on this page, and in the documents
linked to, since various new pieces of info have been
inserted when it seemed important, while trying to
keep this as a whole document. Read the stuff a
few times in a printed-out form and make notes
to sort it all out. I'm sure you'll get it to work
and there's a lot more to this programming language
that comes to the eye at once, if you stick to it.
Many in-built programs, several programs here and there
on my pages, and many more programs to come, always.
And then you add your own programs, get them on your
websites, and add updated info about the existence
of your websites to the Yoga6d dot org search engine
approach, and we'll get this to be a community.
 
Dosbox, then, is is fairly easy way in which the full graphical 
version of this programming language can be performed under 
every platform given a new PC. Use the .zip indicated beneath.
Once installed, e.g. on a commercial PC, it provides an option
in the Start Program menu to change its configuration file.
Look at it and you'll understand the idea of the syntax,
it is not difficult at all even for beginners as long
as you have a little bit time and self-confidence and courage.
Here, you will change the "output" to say "opengl" if you
use a certain type of common videocard. PLS KEEP IN MIND: You will 
under perhaps in all platforms change the "memsize" to 32 -- 
this is for compatibility with Dosbox relative to what the Lisa
programming language does. See also installation notes on
top of this page above the ==== line. (Both too much and too 
little on this particular adjustment feature for Dosbox,
which performs a rigid, correct CPU-simulation, makes
it all go at a needlessly slow speed. When this text was
written and Dosbox used in 2011, only the faster PCs
was similar to running F3 natively, which for the geek is possible.) 
Experiment with "output" and "fullscreen" until it works smoothly 
with all applications (see comments on top of this page also, 
about mouse etc). Dosbox can 'capture' the mouse when it
is clicked into, and to release the mouse for other
things for the platform ALT-ENTER once, and then once more,
may be called for. 
  Dosbox provides a glamorous shielding from Internet and
all sorts of things which are not always esthetical 
-- especially in the full-screen mode. 
  ALSO KEEP IN MIND configuration for Dosbox: underneath
the [autoexec] line you write something like (modify
the very first line if you are using other harddrives 
than C: or other operating systems than those which use 
this type of slash, it ought to be fairly simple if you see 
how your files are organized, what they are called, and make 
appropriate folders on your disk, when installing the Dosbox).
The first line is to be interpreted like this:
  make the letter c when used INSIDE the Dosbox
connected to your computer's harddisk, and this
harddisk's particular folder.
  So when you have made a folder called   dosdisk
on your computer's drive C:\ then this mount is right: 
mount  c  c:\dosdisk
c:
cd \
cd boehm
cd boehmian
 
But if you use linux, you would write all these lines
except that the mount will be e.g.   
   mount  c  /home/nina/dosdisk
(if you have a user called something like   nina )
and you can also add more specifications about 
which drive. See info above in the Dosbox installation
section esp. in the Apple paragraph for how all the
configurations are typically done. All the other
lines are to be unchanged, for the backslashes
are handled well by Dosbox and automatically
reinterpreted to what is appropriate within each
platform. That's part of what we mean by saying
that this is a glamorous shielding from the
present environments!
  But then, inside that dosdisk folder, wherever it 
is, it is going to be a folder called boehm (which you make), 
and inside that one again another folder called boehmian,
which you also make, and this you fill up with the
fic3.zip content which you are given by me on this
page somewhere beneath. [The present version, the
2010 version, has a much faster and more standardised
element called FIC3.TXT which you get from on top
of this page you are at right now, and you overwrite
the existing FIC3.TXT which already is inside that
.zip I mentioned, not just to speed it up but because
the new FIC3.TXT is standard. But since that is the
only change -- that, and to add the finished LIGHT3D.TXT,
and programs from here and elsewhere made for it, 
I chose not to change at all the original .zip. This
page should have updated installation instructions
for most popular platforms on all popular personal 
computers at all time.
 
Press F12 inside B9 in order to have a much simpler
screen output, if you prefer that. Function keys
F1..F12 are available but when CTR-key is pressed
also, with F1..F12, Dosbox will generally take
command over the effect. But CTR-S for Save inside
B9 and such works normal, of course, as do CTR
combined with arrow-keys inside LIGHT3D, etc, etc.
Dosbox has ALT-ENTER to change between fullscreen
mode and normal. Sometimes caps lock takes time before
it registers in Dosbox. Typing in with CTR-W wordwrap
mode is easy to create fresh good journalistic articles
on blank files.
 
To install, make a folder called   dosdisk
first, on top of the harddisk. Inside this,    boehm
folder and inside that again,   boehmian.
Inside this folder we copy over all content which
is inside   fic3.zip  as given on this page and
this is quite a lot for background source files
of graphics are included, as well as implementation
natively of most but not all features to an early Linux.
Just ignore the massive amount files. If any question on
overwrite, confirm it. Note that some platforms will
automatically add something like (2) if you add a file
with the same name as one already existing. You are going
to get the updated  FIC3.TXT   from this page and overwrite
over the FIC3.TXT that is given inside the fic3.zip, 
and then be sure you get the same name.
  To start, with Dosbox activated properly, type simply
 
  F3
 
and type XO to leave F3, and EXIT to leave Dosbox, or
RESCAN to get new files into Dosbox to be accessed by
F3 when changed from the outside of Dosbox. Inside F3,
start program by
  :progname   IN
when the program is external to F3. Internal programs
can just by typed by name, e.g.
  SPC  IMGS  PING   SPRING   B9   WORDWRAP   CONVBAT
and more can be found or somehow called on if you look
inside the FIC3.TXT, which contains all higher functions
in full source, as made by this author for this language,
as a standard which can be called on by all programs
written in F3. This is part of F3, or Lisa GJ2 Fic3, or
f3, however we write it. We can also say "Lisa". Check
out also the logolike functions. SPC is a very very
simple spreadsheet but quite near the programming
language. It comes up inside B9 when CTR-D is pressed.
 
 
Lisa GJ2 FIC3 Programming language, or f3 as we also call it,
is made by Aristo Tacoma, as free software here with all
higher-level functions in open source, and with several
important features of the language in an allround sense
documented. This is a language which is wholly 
its own character though much has been learnt from some
and in particular from some of the stack structures of
Forth, though they are different in several key ways
after a lot of experimentation in how to get the maximum
formal clarity possible, and ease of fresh programming.
I believe it is a correct proposition that it is the 
primary, the best language for artists and scientists
alike -- a kind of the inner programming language for 
real good-thinking people, also girls who seek to
develop their logical as well as artistic and technological
skills in an intuitive fashion. 
  The computer becomes friendly in its responsiveness and
there are all sorts of crossword-like puzzles which
spontaneously arise and which the computer blesses
you with a good-working finesse when you solve them
correctly. It is a blending of use and art. But this
language is made so as to be meditative. It has learnt
something of many languages, but it cannot really be
appreciated without being met entirely on its own.
 
 
 
 
 
 
:::THIS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS FREE, 
:::A GIFT TO YOU FROM ARISTO TACOMA,
:::WITH ALL ADDED PROGRAMS IN OPEN SOURCE
 
 
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*                                *
*    GETTING LISA GJ2 FIC3,      *
*    THE MAIN .ZIP               *
*                                *
**********************************
 
HERE YOU ARE! Unzip   >>>>>>>>fic3.zip    to boehm/boehmian
(which you have premade -- read above) 
and it should work. In Dosbox, it is started by command f3
or by command  fic3 fic3   
[[[NOTE: Be sure you get more updated FIC3.TXT from
higher up on this page first, as the fic3.zip was
made before the FIC3.TXT was fully standardized.
Simply delete the earlier FIC3.TXT and get the
new one that is linked to on top of this page
and put it in the correct folder, named "boehmian".
Then it will all work neater.]]]
and you can test graphics at once by typing
B9 and pressing ENTER, and open the
documentation by pressing F1 and giving filename F3DOCS
-- which is several thousands of lines long,
so it is a tough test of the environment.
This documentation has to be supplemented in
many ways. On its own, one has to be very eager
to really get into it: but by holding on to
some parts of it combined with some parts of
the example programs including some example
functions inside the FIC3.TXT one can go far
into experiencing warp-friendly programming (a
concept I have coined, and which can be considered
a class or group of programming language to some
extent also including Chuck Moore's Forth, although
this is even more warp-friendly naturally -- see
the chapter at yoga4d.org/updated.htm again on that,
among other places in my writings. 
 
[[[Hint: if you crave some extra functionality
there were some bits, including a .BMP generator
to its SPC and the CTR-P function in B9, inside
the "hints6.zip" file which you will find by
tracing the hints6.txt file first, at the yoga4d.org
front page. You will then temporarily start the
PETITE.TXT instead of the FIC3.TXT, but there
are several advantages to sticking to the newest
standard versions and rather use such as Gimp
for screen copy and such. There is also ethiopian
there, and an approach for larger alphabets than
the ascii-like, with generous open source license,
the yoga4d.org/cfdl.txt I always apply to any
program made for the Lisa GJ2 environment.]]]
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stein H Reusch alias Aristo Tacoma
asserts the copyright and informal
trademarking right to the Lisa GJ2 Fic3, or f3,
language, however not so strictly that one
cannot employ these things in titles of
one's own books, websites, and what not,
as long as it is done with due reference.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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