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Re: NQC listing mnemonics
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Date: 
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 20:45:41 GMT
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Hello Dave ... Santa just brought Scouts for both of my sons ... and
of course he couldn't resist secretly opening one of the boxes.  This
led to his downloading the Scout SDK ... and staying up all night!

Santa wholeheartedly votes for adding full NQC support for the Scout,
and if practical, converting NQC to use the "official" LEGO mnemonics.

Given the success of the RCX, Scout, and MicroScout I'd expect TLG to
further pursue computerized LEGO set development ... so it seems only
sensible to conform to their standards as far as possible.

Thanks again for your contributions to the LEGO community!

- Nick -

PS:  I agree with Santa and also vote for adopting the LEGO mnemonics.
- N -

Dave Baum wrote:

I have started looking at adding Scout support to NQC, and in the process
I am questioning whether or not to change the mnemonics used in the
disassembly listings (the -l option for nqc).  Currently, I use a set
mnemonics that I made up when writing NQC.  Now, however, we have a list
of "official" mnemonics from Lego (as part of the Scout SDK).  Should I
keep the old mnemonics or use the new ones?

For example, here are some of the old ones:

000 Set        var[0], 0             14 00 02 00 00
005 OutPwr     ABC, 7                13 07 02 07
009 OutDir     ABC, Fwd              e1 87

According to the lego mnemonics, this would be

000 setv       var[0], 0             14 00 02 00 00
005 pwr        ABC, 7                13 07 02 07
009 dir        ABC, Fwd              e1 87

Anyone have any strong feelings here?  I suspect only a few people look at
the listings anyway, but they are probably used to the old names.
However, using the new names would provide more commonality with the Scout
SDK.  I really don't want to support both (too much feature creep already
in NQC).

Dave Baum

--
reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com



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(...) As a kid I remember getting a few gifts from Santa with batteries already installed. Took me a couple of years to catch on that this only seemed to happen with the coolest gifts, and that my dad inexplicably always knew exactly how they worked (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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I have started looking at adding Scout support to NQC, and in the process I am questioning whether or not to change the mnemonics used in the disassembly listings (the -l option for nqc). Currently, I use a set mnemonics that I made up when writing (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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