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Subject: 
Re: NQC - ASM command
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Date: 
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 02:11:55 GMT
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In article <4.1.19990130173405.00a83cd0@mail.cmpu.net>, Joel Shafer
<joelshaf@computek.net> wrote:

> What functionality does the ASM statement give?
> 
> Does it allow you to directly specify firmware opcodes or is it lower level
> than that?


asm allows you to put literal RCX bytecodes in your program.  Most of the
'functions' in NQC are actually just macros that expand to asm statements
in rcx.nqh.

> There are two things that I would like to do.  One is to have direct access
> to the speaker, and the other is to be able to read from the datalog from
> within the program.  Of course both of these may be impossible with the
> current firmware.

To my knowledge, you can't to either of these from rcx bytecodes.  Sound
is limited to a bunch of preset sounds and a single note of user specified
frequency/duration.

From a program's perspective, the datalog is write-only.

Dave

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What functionality does the ASM statement give? Does it allow you to directly specify firmware opcodes or is it lower level than that? There are two things that I would like to do. One is to have direct access to the speaker, and the other is to be (...) (28 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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