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(...) It was this line that trashed the task chain when the power button was pressed, I thought I'd checked it a few times but perhaps it was something else. (...) Yes. What I really want is an equivalent of SendMessage in NQC (which maps to opcode (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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John, I've been looking at your ping routine and note the following... Even if FF EMIT did not block, the wait makes things irrelevant. At 2400 baud, the FF is out the port within 4 msec. In fact, if EMIT did not block, you could probably wait jsut (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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No, it's not documentation for pbFORTH - yet. I have found a decent book on line, it is Tim Hendtlass's Real-Time FORTH book. It is really geared for FPC, a dialect that is available for the PC, but the sections on numbers, stack manipulation, (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Multitasker test script
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John, I tried to put this part of the code into my test script without the ping word and it worked fine. Yes, I uncommented the line that does not work for you. I'm going to have a closer look at ping...I wonder if it's running out of stack or doing (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Here it is, it is working, but is waiting for IR_MODE_HI, STOP and a non-blocking EMIT. There is a light sensor on the centre connector pad. .dp displays proximity in the LCD as DEFCON.RawLight alternating with the average ambient raw light sensor (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Post away! Two heads (too bad there only seem to be two of us :-( are usually better than one! Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com ---...--- (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Multitasker test script
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My DEFCON code multitasks OK (except when it tries to STOP). I doesn't actually work yet because it needs SendMessage (or non-blocking EMIT) but I'll post it here if anyone is interested (actually I'll post it unless anyone objects). (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Multitasker test script
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Previously, I wrote (...) If anyone else out there is tempted to try the pbFORTH tasker, I will email the srec to you. I have not posted it on my website because it is very early beta software. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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John, You might want to try this little script to try out the tasker. It's based on Koh's demo. If you type TASK0 AWAKE and then .TASKS, you will see the chain is ok and that TASK0 is running. Now press the RUN button on the RCX and try .TASKS (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: How is the battery doing?
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Could do, but I'm using the display to debug the DEFCON code at the moment. (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) You could just format the number to the LCD, maybe when you press a certain combination of buttons on the RCX? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- The train stops at the train station, The bus stops at the bus station, So why am I sitting (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Time to start a new thread I think. I eventually got my battery monitor working, constants from Kekoa: : .V BASE @ DECIMAL RCX_POWER [ HEX ] 4001 POWER_GET RCX_POWER @ [ DECIMAL ] 10997 390 */ 0 <# [CHAR] V HOLD # # # [CHAR] . HOLD #S #> TYPE CR (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Saturday, April 17, 1999 9:27 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: Ir transmission (...) Right you are John. I've got that code too. My only question is do we want it as (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 8:57 PM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: SENSOR_READ doesn't return 0 (...) AhA! Another victim within my clutches!!!!! Glad to hear you are (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: pbFORTH
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 9:20 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: pbFORTH (...) Not yet. I've GOT to get MARKET going and then implement my changes for compacting the (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 1:29 PM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH DUH. I called it pball103c.txt instead of .zip! You should be able to find the file under (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Saturday, April 17, 1999 7:08 PM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: multitasker John, I have got the tasker to work, there's a bug in the pbFORTH kernel right now that'll keep (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: New pbFORTH
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 8:37 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH (...) Yes, the MARKER and the tasker are incompatible, since the task chain is independent of (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: New pbFORTH
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 7:37 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH (...) That is correct if you look at Kekoas description on his internals page, although he (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: New pbFORTH
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 9:19 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH (...) I really don't know, John. I'll have to experiment a bit too :-) I've gotten really (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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