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| -----Original Message----- From: Sergey Udovenko [mailto:udovenko@bluewin.ch] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 5:56 PM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: RCX Firmware and SP Hi Ralph, I'm just yet another hobbyist, so nothing is special about my plans. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| Hmm, this is the kind of message I should use for FAQ fodder... (...) You can run it either way. The original intent was to use the dumbest tool possible to interact with the RCX. For DOS this is Procomm Plus or some such tool, for Windows its (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| Does pbforth run under dos or windows on the PC? Does it use blocks or dos/windows file system on the PC? Does it use blocks in RAM on the RCX? If I program directly on the RCX can I upload the programs to the PC for further development? In using (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| My 15 year old son is into legos big time. He has asked for the Lego robot package. I developed in Forth many years ago and I am just getting back into it with Forth Inc.'s SwiftForth for Windows. I have enjoyed messing about with it but what I am (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | RE: RCX Firmware and SP
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| (...) Unfortunately, yes. The current version of pbFORTH allocates a 256 byte stack, but it's JUST above a 256 byte boundary. When you run the test code, everything works, but if your stack depth is around 12 and you run SENSOR_READ, it allocates (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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