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(...) At first look, I thought this looked like a baud rate problem. But with Ralph's program (at least on my machine), you can't really screw up....the baud rate is set in rcxutil.tcl, and overrides whatever you do in the control panel "ports" (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) A little more information please. Describe the sequence. Start by taking a battery out for at least 10 second so you know the RCX is in a known state. Then verify that the config file is pointed to the right serial port. Then try to download (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Thanks to Jeffrey Hazen, Steve Morris, Paul Addison, Mario Ferrari, and others, I can happily confirm that the new GUI works on Windows NT and Windows 2K. There are still some issues under Linux... I've added more info to the default GUI home page (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics)
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I'm just getting started using pbForth, and I'm having trouble with the terminal emulator echoing garbage on the screen with almost every key stroke. I've tried all of the suggested terminal emulators with the same results, including hyperterminal, (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) need (...) the (...) Maybe...I'll keep you informed :-) In the meanwhile I tested your GUI on a Win2000 machine (version 5.0, build 2195). Same procedure, same positive result. Mario (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Great! Maybe I can get another convert over to the dark side... The script uploads should work well too. And definitely try the SAVE-SYSTEM download. You need to load bigsys.srec firmware. Just type SAVE-SYSTEM after you've added whatever (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Just to confirm that, I successfully installed the GUI in my NT system (NT4.0 Build 1381, SP 5) following Jeff's procedure. It works great, no need of the giveio driver, no problems with the COM port though not having the Admin rights. Thanks (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Jeff wrote... (...) Thanks Jeff, I was worried it might be taken the wrong way after I posted it... (...) I've snipped the rest of the description, but the result is that it works without the giveio driver, if I understand correctly. This is VERY (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Ok, Ok, I'm an idiot....this is such a polite group that no one ever says RTFM ;>) Well, you did Ralph, but very, very nicely.... This GUI works great in NT (NT4.0 SP3), with very little work (once you start to think). Download and unzip TclTk ( I (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Yup, it's your COM port. Rather than put it in a dialog, which is THAT much more code to write and DEBUG, I've put it in rcxoption.tcl - which you would know if you read the installation notes on the web page...:-) (...) Thanks for more (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I poked about a bit also and found: (URL) 3.html This is one source of both givio.sys, and the instdrv.exe which will register the giveio.sys as a system device driver. Instdrv is a console app which has been adapted from the Microsoft DDK version. (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Jeff Hazen wote: (...) Me too. I got tired of dinking around with HyperTerminal... I'm not sure at all about an NT installation, so I'm hoping some others will step in here... (...) No, If you unzip the distribution, there should be a .lnk file (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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This is a great idea, Ralph. I've wanted to just fool around in pbForth, but have been intimidated by the apparent front-end learning curve. I'm a mechanical guy, I don't do TclTk, Gnu, etc., I've been spoiled by GUI front ends and install programs. (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) As a guess the following string tells the ROM that there is valid firmware. This might need to be stepped on before jumping to the reset vector. .string "Do you byte, when I knock?" (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Kekoa, feel free to jump in here... Personally, I think just jumping to the reset vector 0x0000 should do a total cold start, right? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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It would be handy if there was a word that deleted firmware. It is often inconvenient to get at the batteries. At Kekoa I see the opcode but no rom entry point. Trashing the header in memory and jumping to the reset vector might do it. I wonder if (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) This is wierd. I had it working on my Caldera Linux 2.2 which has TclTk 8.0.4 I'll try again. One of the problems is that I can't seem to get a nice NFS system running here, and I have to FTP the files around... :-( I'll try and make a better (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Firmware download is not working. I'm sorry but I never tried this with the first release. A second problem is that it gives no error message if the firmware download fails. I got suspicious because the download was too fast and the LCD was not (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) o - When will 1.2.0 sources be available? I'd rather be working from current stuff. Does the gui depend on this version of pbforth? o - rcxtk.tcl should have executable permission in the tarball. This can be done with the -p flag to tar (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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You are receiving this email because you are on the pbForth mailing list. If you wish to be removed, click on the following link: <mailto:rhempel@bmts...subscribe> I'd like to announce the availability of an early trial version of a GUI for pbForth. (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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