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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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