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(...) Yes, you are right. I have the char delay to about 10 or 20 msec and the line delay at 100msec. Remember that your monitor and other IR sources may interfere with comms to the RCX. Try fresh batteries and put the bot and tower under a box... I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi Carsten, Nice to see an interest to the subject (even not so cheerful ;) Ok, first question, you are right, it's quite boring. But this is the price for "power". I believe that only direct byte-code uploading will be faster. My only suggestion - (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hello, first of all, i'll have to say, that i'm very glad to have a FORTH on the RCX but, and the but is a big one, there are some problems if you want to develop some even small pieces of code. First of all, the downloading of source is very (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi! After fiddling around with pbForth this weekend, I have to confess I have mixed feelings about it. Maybe not everybody will be thrilled to share them, but maybe I am doing something wrong and I would appreciate the input... The language itself (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) think (...) Also, try the places like www.forth.org or www.taygeta.com (...) com port (...) I'm afraid there is no any good way. Seems this "garbage" appears due to some design problems in IR tower scheme. Usually it happened whenever the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hello. I became acquainted with pbforth via Jonathan Knudsen's (O'Reilly) books and think that it's a terrific place to learn forth. I am using CRT with line delay=100 and char delay=20, but if I wait between carriage returns, I get "garbage" I (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi Vlad, (...) These commands are low-level calls to ROM firmware. If you want to simulate original firmware' behaviour you mast do a little coding. May be you will be interested to see my small example at the end of this post. This is the part of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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i tried, and indeed CRT works much better. but, when using POWER_INIT and POWER_OFF standalone, the display remains lit, showing 4th... and when running TEST_POWER from the supplied scripts, the RCX suddenly (at the fourth step) did not want to come (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) yes, that I forgot to do... (...) yes, and it works well in direct mode via HyperTerminal (...) I will try it sorry for bothering with FAQs... have a nice day /Vlad (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) The IS a forth.com already :-) (...) Right on. You sell support, or bokks, or whatever to go WITH the software. I'd like to know what the profitablilty of Microsoft Press is... (...) There are lots of Forths written in C. Try to pick one (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Remember to set up character and line pacing. Char pacing should be about 20 msec or so and the line space should be 100 msec. Does the LCD display 4th after you have uploaded pbforth.srec using NQC? I personally HATE hyperterminal. Try CRT. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Ralph Hempel skrev: > * how does one send files to pbForth? HyperTerminal is garbling everything up - The double chars are eliminated in this release. Thanks for the quick answer! I downloaded the latest version. But what I meant by garbling was (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Stalker-Wilde, Graham [mailto:graham.stalk...@csfb.com] Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:30 PM To: 'Ralph Hempel' Subject: RE: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit no problem. wait a minute - there is no.... No (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Stalker-Wilde, Graham [mailto:graham.stalk...@csfb.com] Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 10:32 AM To: 'Ralph Hempel' Subject: RE: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit you did indeed get another one, and I'd love (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Stalker-Wilde, Graham [mailto:graham.stalk...@csfb.com] Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 12:42 PM To: 'Ralph Hempel' Subject: RE: Window CE Support for the Mindstorm Unit Doh! Question for you. I built a scanner (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Yes, they are a FAQ. PLease refer to the website for FAQ info. It sounds like you do not have the latest version of firmware. Go to the website and gran a copy of the lastest 1.1.0 pbForth. The double chars are eliminated in this release. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I realize these might be a FAQ, but cannot seem to find the answers... * how does one send files to pbForth? HyperTerminal is garbling everything up - was that one of the problems with it that Ralph was talking about? maybe another terminal program (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Well, when there's nothing to actually RUN under WIN9x or Linux or MacOS then it's hard to get the installation wrong :-) (...) Yup, it's the tower. (...) Let me know what works. I suggest a simple terminal program that allows XMODEM transfers (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Yes, the tower... And unfortunately you can't turn it off. Sergey (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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thank you both, I got it working now (I had the 1.0.7, so I downloaded the latest one, if only every installation was that simple:-) and I subscribed to the announce list. however, I was wondering, if the pbFORTH does not echo the keystrokes and (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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