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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. (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: New pbForth GUI; linux feedback
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | More linux feedback. firmware upload doesn't work for me.
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: More linux feedback. firmware upload doesn't work for me.
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | proposed new word for deleting pbforth
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: proposed new word for deleting pbforth
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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: (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: proposed new word for deleting 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?" (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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