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I've mentioned my attempts to get a psion series 5 to talk to pbForth before. I've finally got it sorted enough to be useful. Anyone with a Psion Series 5mx machine (possibly a series 5 also) may like to look at (URL) It transfers firmware and text (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: ForthPad v0.9
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(...) The firmware downloader built into BricxCC is a port of Dave Baum's NQC code to Delphi. It calculates the checksum up to a length of 0x4C00. The limit of 0xCC00 is based on the sum of length + start (where start is = 0x800). John Hansen (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: ForthPad v0.9
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(...) Thanks John, I'll try this soon. You may want to post this to the next level higher to let other non-pbForthers see what you are up to. Does your alternative firmware loader take into account the limit at 0xCC00? If the replacement firmware (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: ForthPad v0.9
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As an aside, I think it might be a straightforward matter to make emacs communicate with the RCX (or intermediary) and then you've got a full blown editor to work with (ie, there are already forth highlighting modes). (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | ForthPad v0.9
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I've put together a stand-alone application which I am calling ForthPad. It is a Windows executable which should run on any version of Windows from 95 on up. It is a simple Forth editor that performs user-configurable syntax highlighting. Users of (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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