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This sounds very cool! I have the demo of an older O.R., but I don't use it that much. I don't watch a lot of TV. I would buy a copy if I thought it would play well with the bricks. One wonders if the library could be used with pbForth? If I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, actually, the idea was to be able to write Forth source on the Palm and upload it using a terminal emulator from the Palm. If we can integrate the IR into Quartus Forth, then it would indeed be cool to upload firmwarwe and code from the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I don't know if it can, or not. I can ask him, but since he doesn't use pbForth, either, I couldn't tell you if he'll have an answer or not. If you have any documents on extensibility of pbForth, then send them to me, and I'll try to give you (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So, this program will generate forth that the RCX can interpret, on the palm? That's pretty cool. Hopefully, everyone can agree on some database format in which RCX bytecode can be stored, so that it can be used by NQC, Quartus, or whatever (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No, it's way simpler than that. The text files on the Palm are source code for Quartus Forth on the Palm. The idea is that the *same* source gets sent to the RCX via the IR link - you can do it now with a serial link, a terminal emulator, and (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Ralph, to what extent do you have QForth communicating to the RCX? I just started writing (again, I started this last year and didn't get around to it) a QForth program to communicate with the RCX. Do you have any QForth code that would get me (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Even better :) (...) Yeah, well, Sun's had a forth interpreter in its boot ROM for years now :) While I've never worked with forth myself (I do poorly enough with the C, Perl, and Bourne shell scripting I do now, I don't need to write (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I don't. I never got beyond using a Terminal Emulator (I forget which one) to send a text file from the Palm to the Tower over the serial port. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) Buy "Extreme (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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From what I've been able to figure, you need to bypass the irDA queue on the Palm to send straight bits over the IR port. This is possible by going to the hardware itself. OmniRemote can do it, and so can we (if we figure out how!). It's been in my (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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