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From my experience, what you are describing is normal behavior for the current version of pbForth. Mr. Hempel has done an excellent job of creating a version of Forth to work with the RCX, but the work is far from complete. If you look at the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: CPR for RCX?
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(...) Matt, Just because the LCD is blank does not mean that pbForth is not running. When you power the RCX on and pbForth is the firmware, the LCD is blanked. Can you communicate over the IR link? If so, you're fine. If you DO need to remove the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I don't know much about forth, but I'll try to help. I'm not sure that any firmware (normal) could keep the RCX from turning on. Try taking the batteries out, wait a few minutes, then put the same ones back in. If it turns on, it was the firmware. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hello all, I've got a rather odd condition here with my old 1.0 RCX. It's seen just about every firmware out there, and I just nuked Lejos for pbForth. I used the NQC downloader, loaded the most recent s-record, and lo!, '4th' appeared on my (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi, I would like to be able to show some info on the Terminal Emulator while debugging, but it seems that pbForth "keeps" the info until the program is over. For example: : TEST 100 0 DO I CR . 7 1 0 MOTOR_SET LOOP 7 4 0 MOTOR_SET ; will start the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: [ANN] pbForth Version 2.1.4 Release and Music Tutorial
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Hi Ralph, (...) Thank you very much :-) (...) I gave it a look and so I've just released the new version of my Brick's Music Studio that supports pbForth. I'm not a pbForth user yet, so I was wandering if you and Mario could give it a try :-) You (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | [ANN] pbForth Version 2.1.4 Release and Music Tutorial
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The new 2.1.4 Version of pbForth has a minor fix that affected programmers using the MARKER word. I recommend you get the new 2.1.2 GUI while you're at it because it is less agressive in stripping comments when uploading scripts. This was causing (...) (22 years ago, 25-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I started this project because I like pbForth, but having no previous experience about coding in Forth I felt the need of a comfortable environment where to test and debug my programs. I know that a good factored Forth code needs little if any (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: somewhat off topic, but...
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Repost to proper newsgroup... ===...=== I'm NOT biased because I DIDN'T write the thing... Forth is a wonderful language that has a proven track record. I don't use it in my job simply because management has never heard about it. I don't mean to (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Kenneth, (...) I wrote it so I'm biased... (...) I'll get to the ttasker in a minute, but pbForth is the only alternative firmware with native support for SERVOS if you use the simple circuit I developed here: (URL) The newest version 2.1.3 has an (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: [ANN] pbForth Version 2.1.3 Release
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Thanks, it seems to work much better now. Very quick turn-around time, I appreciate that. You've done an excellent job putting this Forth together, thank you for your efforts. David (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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The new 2.1.3 Version of pbForth has only minor fixes thanks to the investigative efforts of David Rojas and Rob Harvey. They were able to provide detailed, reproducible bug reports, which makes fixing bugs so much easier. Thanks guys! Here's what (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Apparent 'time-out'
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(...) Rob, Thanks for this. I think I'll be able to get to this tonight. I'll have a good look at what is going on. Cheers, Ralph (22 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Have you seen the articles I recently wrote here... (URL) Cheers, Ralph (22 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Yes, the flashlight consistently makes the RCX go "dead". (...) No rush. PATIENT: "Doctor, it really hurts when I move my arm like this." DOCTOR: "Then don't move your arm like that." (...) I look forward to the article. I am currently working (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) OK, so if the RCX is in the "dead" state, shutting down the GUI and restarting the GUI makes no difference. And you can always clobber the RCX running pbForth by shining a light at it? I'll see what I can do on this end to reproduce the (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Shutting down the GUI and starting it back up has no effect, pbForth continues to respond correctly. Adding words to the dictionary doesn't seem to make any difference either. Whether having just uploaded the firmware or having the RCX active for (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Thanks... (...) When the RCX is sitting idle, the pbForth interpreter is spinning and looking for characters from the IR. I doubt that sunlight (or flashlight) would be interpreted as valid chars, and the error handling should just discard the (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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The GUI version is 2.1.0. The pbForth version (COLD) is 2.1.2. I am using the USB tower with RIS 2.0. Once the RCX stops responding, if I pull out a battery and re-upload the firmware, the RCX will respond again to the same GUI session. In other (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Apparent 'time-out'
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(...) One more bit of useful information would be the version of pbForth (which you get by typing COLD) and which version of the GUI (top left of window) Also, are you using the serial or USB tower? What messages were you sending to the RCX before (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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