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| paceman Guru  Joined: 07/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1326 |
@JohnS @Tinine You both win - now please stop clogging up the thread! |
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CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1985 |
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kiiid Guru Joined: 11/05/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 671 |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8578 |
This version implements the FILES command as per the Micromite. PULSIN and DISTANCE both implemented - need rigorous testing. SETTICK works but only with a LABEL:/IRETURN. I need to work out why SUB doesn't work as an interrupt routine, something to do with the port being a combination of Maximite and Micromite codesets. Interrupts on Digital input may work (subject to same issue) but not tested. 2017-04-08_214215_mmbasic.zip run with "sudo ./mmbasic" |
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| viscomjim Guru Joined: 08/01/2014 Location: United StatesPosts: 925 |
I haven't been around for a while and a friend of mine called to tell me that he read on the forum that mmbasic is running on a raspberry pi. My next response was, "what are you smoking? You must be thinking of something else." This is really something!!!! Very exciting indeed. I always wanted to mess with the pi but was a bit intimidated by it. I just checked and saw that the pi zero is only 5 bucks. How they do that is amazing to me, but now I will certainly pick up a couple immediately. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to, once on my desk, and never have dealt with one, how do you go from ground zero to loading and running mmbasic? Is one type of PI board recommended over another? Do you just use a usb keyboard and hdmi display? No clue to any of this, so ANY information or links to look at to get this started would be great! THIS IS SIMPLY AMAZING! At least to me, thats for sure. GREAT JOB MATHERP and of course GEOFF!!!!!!!! |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5901 |
The PI runs Linux so you will have to get familiar with some of it's habits. The official documents for the PI are here https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/ but I usually use Google. While the Pi Zero is cheap, you will need a few extras to get going. I don't have a Zero but with my other Pi's I only ever log in remotely and don't use a monitor or keyboard at all. Now that Peter has started playing with the IO pins, I am going to find a spare Pi to use. So far, I have loaded mmbasic on PI's that are in use - not something that should be done with experimental software. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1646 |
I know very little about the world of Pi and my first search came up with: https://www.modmypi.com I work with the Parallax Propeller a lot so I might grab a Pi and the "Propeller Hat". https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/breakout-boards/pimoroni/pimoroni-propeller-hat/?search=Propeller%20hat I am one of a small minority who uses PropBASIC, which is probably best described as a translator to assembly language because it literally does directly translate. At 80MHz, this provides 20MIPS on EACH of the 8 separate processors ("Cogs"). This combined with MMBasic on the Pi is a very exciting prospect. Tinine |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3015 |
I think MMBasic on a Raspberry Pi Zero-w would be outstanding. Ongoing thanks to matherp for his continuing outstanding contributions. I hope the bare Pi Zero-W is more available than the Pi Zero has turned out to be for me. I signed up to be notified when it was available at Adafruit, got a notification 5 months later that it was (but not by the time I looked), never got another notification, and have never found it available. Kits are available, but right now on Adafruit, no bare Pi Zero or Pi Zero-W, and none that I could find on Amazon or ebay. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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jman Guru Joined: 12/06/2011 Location: New ZealandPosts: 711 |
Here you go not quite $5 but in stock Ebay Pi Zero Or here Canakit Or WereismyPi Regards Jman |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3015 |
Thanks. Canakit Pi Zero looks hopeful, $5. Hmmm, shipping 12.95, and that's to Canada (I'll be there in a week). Still looking, still thinking it's a tease. I'm afraid I've interrupted the flow of matherp's progress with pi troubles. Sorry. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9061 |
Please be aware that I asked the guru(matherp) about using it on a Pi-Zero-W, and this is not officially supported at the moment, as I guess he is concentrating on the full-size "Pies" at the moment. This is not to say it WON'T ever run on the Pi-Zero-W, but just be aware that this has not been tested yet, and we don't want you jumping too far ahead then being disappointed if you discover it will not run or is buggy as hell.  I was thinking that if you can make it run on the Pi-0-W, then this opens up quite a large area for product development, and you just use the zero as the main processor. However, the full-size pi is not much bigger in the real scope of things, so...... The Zero does have a cost advantage though. In either case, because you have to boot a Linux of some sort first and then load MMBASIC on top of that, it will never be as fast to boot-up as the instant-on that the current PIC32 MMBASIC is, but if you can live with that...... Knowing matherp, he is probably working on a way to boot the bloody thing directly at core-level from MMBASIC - no underlying Linux at all!  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| robert.rozee Guru Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 2287 |
the pi-zero and A+ both have one major advantage - low power consumption. as i recall, these single-core devices can be got down to near 100mA of current consumption, much less if video is shut down. this makes them ideal for battery powered mmbasic equipment such as data loggers and handheld computing. the quad-core pi2/3 draws considerably more current, yet provides far more versatility in the 4x USB ports and greater RAM, plus the potential to shift time-critical tasks to a specific core. this makes the pi2/3 suitable for a different set of applications, for example as a desktop mmbasic instrumentation controller. in both case, retaining linux provides support for a range of USB devices to be connected. x11 and the linux GUI could be ditched, with mmbasic accessing just the video frame buffer, which would shorten boot time quite a bit and simplify the whole setup. you'd be surprised at how much can be stripped out of linux to shorten boot time to potentially just a few seconds. the end result could be a quite unique machine, combining some old concepts (basic interpreter, single-tasked computer, instrument controller, networking optional) with new technology in the form of speed and massive available RAM and storage. hats off to both peter and geoff, i feel that mmbasic on the pi (and pic32MZ) open up a whole new set of quite exciting applications. cheers, rob :-) |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8578 |
Attached is a new alpha release which I've versioned as 5.3a1 ( File removed as requested, see post further down page ) run with "sudo ./mmbasic" This includes the following: All normal MMBasic language elements as per Micromite 5.3 but with double precision floats All onewire/DS18B20 and TEMPR commands and functions including OWSEARCH PULSIN, PULSE HUMID (DHT22) DISTANCE SETTICK FILE and DIR$ properly implemented setting I/O for interrupts should now work as per the Micromite i.e. SETPIN n,INTx,target The target can be a LABEL:/IRETURN or SUB/END SUB The Pi doesn't have true OPEN collector output capability but I have now implemented this by switching between driven (low) and high-Z (high) - this was needed internally for DS18B20 use SETPIN n,DOUT,OC to use in this mode. REMEMBER 3.3V ONLY There is no reason this won't work on a Pi Zero but this needs confirming (hopefully later this week) NB the command for inputting a program is AUTO rather than AUTOSAVE and termination is with Ctrl-C rather than Ctrl-Z. Ctrl-Z terminates MMBasic tidily and returns to the UNIX command prompt. The Raspberry Pi will also recognise a PIC16F1455 plugged into one of the USB ports and can be used to talk to any Micromite using this for the USB to serial I/F. The device appears in \dev\serial |
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OA47 Guru Joined: 11/04/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 899 |
Fantastic work Peter. It is early morning down under so I may not have woken fully but should this statement be reversed? Graeme |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5901 |
AUTOSAVE and ^Z are the commands for micromites. AUTO and ^C are the commands that Maximites used. You can't use ^Z to end the program entry on the Pi version because it will exit mmbasic fully so the old Maximite version of the commands has been used. A gotcha for the newcomers who didn't grow up with the Maximite. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| OA47 Guru Joined: 11/04/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 899 |
Thanks Jim, when I read the Ctrl-C, my brain automatically thought of the "program break" control not the "file end" control being referred to with the AUTOSAVE. I did mention I was not quite awake at the time.  Graeme |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5901 |
That got me excited enough to set up a test Pi. Just waiting for it to do all the updates. I discovered that your latest ZIP contains the source files, not the executable! Jim EDit: For the record On my RPi 3, I installed Raspbian Jessie Lite Installed pig-pio with sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pigpio python-pigpio python3-pigpio Ran the 8th April version OK VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8578 |
Correct file 2017-04-11_063805_mmbasic.zip |
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atmega8 Guru Joined: 19/11/2013 Location: GermanyPosts: 712 |
Cool, thinking of multiple Mmbasic Processes running in the Background, talking to each other... How many of those processes can a PI simultaneously run? Mhhhh..... |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3656 |
Tens, hundreds, ... as many as you want - will eventually get a bit slow though! (They run flat out i.e. busy wait so will really hit the CPU.) Some work needed on inter-process comms (and preferably on scheduling). John |
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