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(...) I'm not in the process of writing an IDE, but I'm not sure you need one either. (...) I'm going to make the pbFORTH a bit more user friendly shortly, by adding a MARKER word that essentially clears out all of your own definitions. (...) The (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FORTH editor/IDE
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Is anyone considering, or in the process of, writing an editor for pbFORTH on the PC? I am thinking of doing one in the style of RCX Command Center ((URL) but don't want to reinvent the wheel if there's one on the stocks. I haven't tried pbFORTH (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: H8300 Stack and SLEEP
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Kekoa wrote: <<snipped original description of problem>> (...) <<snipped description of tests>> Once again, Kekoa goes the extra mile and proves what many of us are happy to be merely confident about. Someday, I'd like to be reincarnated as a grad (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FW: H8300 Stack and SLEEP
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(...) To be more precise, it applies to sleep mode and software standby mode as long as you set port 5 bit 2 to high before activating either mode. It does not apply to hardware standby mode, since that does not save registers or end with an (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: H8300 Stack and SLEEP
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(...) After talking with Ralph over the weekend, I suggested a test he might do to figure out if port 5 bit 2 really does what he suggested it might. I don't think he did this test, so I fired up my RCX and hacked it together. I verified that port 5 (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics)
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| | FW: H8300 Stack and SLEEP
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(...) Markus, (and anyone else listening) I think it applies to the RCX power_shutdown() function as described in Kekoa's reference. The key is that this function puts the external RAM into low-power mode. If you are not calling power_shutdown() or (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | H8300 Stack and SLEEP
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Hi All, If this is old news, ignore it... I just figured out this weekend (thanks Kekoa) that the H8/300 stack pointer (r7) and the power-down function in the RCX have a close relationship. The stack pointer MUST be in the on-chip RAM area (0xFD80 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics)
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| | New pbFORTH release
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This is an announcement of the latest version (102) of pbFORTH available at: (URL) This release of pbFORTH addresses some errors in the previous version including a fairly serious stack problem in TIMER_SET. Also POWER_OFF now works as advertised, (...) (26 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | New pbFORTH version
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I've just updated the website for pbFORTH with the newest version of both the source and the srec file. (URL) Thanks to Charles Anderson for pointing out the LCD_SHOW/HIDE problem. I've added SOUND_PLAY and SOUND_GET for system sounds, the arbitrary (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics)
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| | pbFORTH enhancements soon
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Thanks to all of the mail I have received, I am going to try to get the next version of pbFORTH out this weekend. Charles Anderson pointed out a rather embarassing flaw in the LCD_SHOW and LCD_HIDE routines, thanks. I have been using Dave Baum's NQC (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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