 | | Thought on pbForth
|
|
Ralph, This is something that has been bothering me about pbForth ever since you developed it... please do not take this as an attack against you or your efforts. I do, in fact, truly believe that you have contributed significantly to RCX (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
|
| |
| | RE: Speed of RCX interpreting bytecodes: slow
|
|
Ben jackson wrote... (...) Yes, that's why pbForth is "almost ANSI" which means that it is as close to standard ANSI Forth as I could get. And PS is NOT Forth, it is Forth-like. (...) That just adds about 4 items to a datalog, (once every 256 loops, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | RE: Speed of RCX interpreting bytecodes: slow
|
|
(...) OK, I did some basic timing experiments....for pbForth. : TEST1 10000 0 DO LOOP ; \ This is a hard loop of 10000 iterations : TEST2 10000 0 DO I DROP LOOP ; \ Same loop except the loop index is put on the \ stack and dropped - a no-op (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | RE: Speed of RCX interpreting bytecodes: slow
|
|
(...) Check out pbForth too! I will get around to doing some basic loop timing if you ask me nicely and tell me what kinds of test would be useful to do! pbForth is ready to run right out of the box, there is no compiler to mess with, and it's fun (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | Speed of RCX interpreting bytecodes: slow
|
|
While working on the barcode scanner I decided to see just how fast the RCX could loop. A simple NQC program can do about 1000 counter loop iterations in about 100 ticks, or 1 iteration/ms. This is shockingly slow. The native H8/329 is clocked at (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | Re: What should be in the next version of RcxCC
|
|
(...) Thanks, Mark, for providing this wonderful environment. I would like to echo a previous request for remembering last-used source-file paths between sessions. Also, how about letting RccxCC "host" alternative line editors? (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
|
| |
| | Re: What should be in the next version of RcxCC
|
|
(...) First of all, thanks a lot for making RcxCC. I'm a newbie (owning my RIS since X-mas), but I already love NQC and RcxCC. There's just one little feature that I missed: remembering the last-used path for source files between sessions. Ah yes, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
|
| |
| | RcxCC with NQC 2.1
|
|
Hi, does anybody know why RcxCC can't spawn NQC 2.1 b1? Is there a trick to do it (other than waiting for the next version of RcxCC)? Uwe (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
|
| |
| | Re: USB->Serial Converts and IR Tower
|
|
(...) The Keyspan PDA adaptor (www.keyspan.com) works just fine with an apple and/or the VirtualPC on the apple. Dw (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | Re: USB->Serial Converts and IR Tower
|
|
Ram Meenakshisundaram <rmeenaks@olf.com> wrote in message news:386CCBC8.270472...olf.com... (...) Entrega's hubs with serial ports or the U1S9 work great IF you download the latest drivers (just got mine working this morning!) from Entrega. Barbara (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | Re: USB->Serial Converts and IR Tower
|
|
(...) Wow. I am suprised Belkin doesnt work. Their products are really good. I never heard of Peracom. I know that Lego claims that "it worked for some users", but I wanted to stick with brand-names that I was familar with. Does anyone know if Lego (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | Re: USB->Serial Converts and IR Tower
|
|
Somewhere on the Mindstorms site, I found a reference to the Peracom adapter. I have not tried it, but I did buy a Belkin USB Hub with a serial port and I know that the Belkin doesn't work. Scott (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | Connecting Via a USB Hub
|
|
I have a USB Hub with an RS-232 port. When I connect the IR Transmitter to this port, the firmware downloads fine. If I have a program with a single RCX command block, it's fine too. If I have more than one command block, I get a download error. Any (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | USB->Serial Converts and IR Tower
|
|
Hi, I only have one serial port on my PC and it is currently hooked up to an external modem (PC slots are precious to me). So, I was planning on using an USB->Serial converter. Can anyone recommend a brand that has been proven to work with the IR (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | RE: pbForth problems
|
|
(...) It's working just fine. If the LCD says "4th", then the firmware is in place, now all you need is a terminal set to 2400,n,8,1 By the way, this kind of question should be on the lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth heirarchy... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
|
| |
| | Re: Can't open serial port in Linux
|
|
(...) Currently there isn't any notion of an "error code" from the serial port class - opening the serial port just returns true/fals. I'm wary of adding error codes here because they'd need to be added in a portable manner (and across the Unix, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
|
| |
| | barcode reader for RCX (was: how does a bar code reader work?)
|
|
(...) Well, I tried this, and it's hopeless. The RCX can't poll the sensor nearly fast enough, and even if it could you'd need a lens to focus the sensor better. (...) Instead of using my idea, I took the suggestion of someone else and just used a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
| |
| | Re: Can't open serial port in Linux
|
|
Hi. I just got through fixing a similar problem with my linux box (the fix involved a lot of tedious changing IRQ's in the BIOS, with a lot of tedious rebooting in between). Beyond Dave's good advice, you might want to check out the linux serial (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
|
| |
| | RCX as TV remote?
|
|
Hi, all. I just got an RIS for Christmas, and I've been happily alternating between hacking on it and lurking here and at the various Lego sites on the web. Yippee, legos! Ahem. I've been interested in the possibilities of using my Palm IIIe as a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.palm)
|
| |
| | Re: differences between 9719 and 9747?
|
|
Hi, Note that if you get the RIS 1.0 -> RIS 1.5 upgrade (costs $25.00, but free if you bought your RIS 1.0 after August), it includes the 60 missing pieces, additional CD, manuals, and test pads. Plus the RIS 1.0 has the AC adapter while the RIS 1.5 (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
|
