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vegipete

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Posted: 10:23pm 12 May 2020

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Page 21 of
Colour Maximite 2
User Manual
MMBasic Ver 5.05.02

Near the bottom in the example of variables being initialized when they are defined, i% is initialized to '&FHHHHHHH' � - that looks like a typo. Ought to be '&HFFFFFFF'
Edited 2020-05-13 08:24 by vegipete

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vegipete said Page 21 of
Colour Maximite 2
User Manual
MMBasic Ver 5.05.02

Near the bottom in the example of variables being initialized when they are defined, i% is initialized to '&FHHHHHHH' � - that looks like a typo. Ought to be '&HFFFFFFF'

Perhaps that is an expression in Flexidecimal?

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Also in the Micromite User Manual page 34:

Micromite User Manual said DIM INTEGER a = 5, b = 4, c = 3
DIM s$ = "World", i% = &FHHHHHHH
DIM msg AS STRING = "Hello" + " " + s$

Easy to miss.

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Posted: 03:37am 13 May 2020

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Thanks guys.

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Posted: 05:06am 17 May 2020

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@Geoff,

Couple more manual errors I think:-

Page 46 - for the NOT INV option, the description says 'NOIT' instead of 'NOT'

Page 40 - the DHT22 is referred to as DHD22 in the program example

Page 63 - LOAD GIF has what appears to be wrongly included text at the end of the description. Also, LOAD GIF seems to be a duplicate of the lower down LOAD command?

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Thanks Doug.

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Posted: 01:42am 19 May 2020

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Geoff,
As I've said elsewhere, a great effort by the team and the manuals are fantastic.

Here are some picky comments:

Parts List:
Manual says "Optional Dallas DS10B20" - should be DS18B20
Resistor 4.7K if optional DS10B20 is used - should be DS18B20

Programming . . .:
Page 51 and elsewhere, is it worth saying that, in the Text statement, the use of (" ") for the alignment parameters is optional? (I didn't know until I checked it on a MM)

User Manual:
Page 19, F6 description has two "."

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Posted: 06:09am 19 May 2020

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Not a manual error as such but the schematic in the construction pack shows an MCP2221A chip in place of the PIC16F1455-I/P and an ICSP header which I don�t think exists in the final design.

Bill

Edit: Oops I see the MCP2221A is mentioned in the parts list but so is the DS10B20 as mentioned above.

Second edit: Now I see the ICSP header in CG's board and matherp's boards but the connections to it from the USB bridge on the schematic are different to the Microbridge. I'm confused.
Edited 2020-05-19 16:29 by Turbo46

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Posted: 07:21am 19 May 2020

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Bill,
The MCP2221A is basically a pre-programmed Microbridge so if you have the MCP2221A, there is no use for the ICSP header.

I used a PIC16F1455-I/P but programmed it on a breadboard using a micromite so didn't need the ICSP header either.

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Quote The MCP2221A is basically a pre-programmed Microbridge so if you have the MCP2221A, there is no use for the ICSP header.

Ah, Thanks Jim, I realised that but thought the the ICSP header was to program an external Micromite or something that's why I was confused.

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Page 39 of CMM2 Manual 5.05.02
Infrared Remote Control Transmitter section, near the bottom of the page.

Text reads "Any I/O pin on the Micromite can be used..."
Ought to read "... Colour Maximite 2 ..."

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Posted: 10:11pm 20 May 2020

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Page 20 and 72 of CMM2 Manual 5.05.02

Number of bits for a floating point number.

Page 20 describes a floating point number as "Double Precision Floating Point" ie 64 bits

Page 72 in the POKE FLOAT command says a 32 bit float value will be stuffed into memory.

This is inconsistent.

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Just a minor thing:

In the construction pack Parts List, the two hyperlinks include the closing bracket and full stop ")." causing them to fail.

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Posted: 02:16pm 23 May 2020

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Not really an error but a suggestion.

In the Colour Maximite 2 User Manual under the "FILES" command description can you please add a note to point users of other 'mites and BASICs to the "LIST FILES" command. It may help avoid some confusion as "LIST FILES" is not very intuitive.

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Missing form the manual:

SORT array() [,indexarray()]
This command takes an array of any type � integer, float or string and sorts it in place. It has an optional parameter indexarray. If used this must be an integer array of exactly the same size as the array to be sorted. Indexarray need not be initialised with any data but if specified will return with the original position of the value in the array being sorted.

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Quote SORT array() [,indexarray()]

Array() is a single dimension array only? IE: not suitable for a 2 dimension array for a database?

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Quote Array() is a single dimension array only? IE: not suitable for a 2 dimension array for a database?

Yes, but indexarray gives you everything you need and is more powerful as it can deal with different types of data:

set up any types of arrays needed to hold your data structure e.g. name$, address$, age%
copy array to be sorted to a temporary array and sort it. Then use the index into the original arrays

dim name$(100),age%(100),address$(100),sortindex%, temp%(100)
for i=0 to 100
sortindex%(i)=i
temp%(i)=age%(i)
'
sort temp%(),sortindex%()
'
for i=0 to 100
k=sortindex%(i)
print name$(k),age%(k),address$(k)
next i

Edited 2020-05-24 18:03 by matherp

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Thanks Peter,

I thought it would be like that but wasn't sure. It small examples like that that help a lot with the nitty gritty details. Like your excellent graphic tutorial.

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Posted: 04:05am 25 May 2020

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Geoff, All,

On page 49 top paragraph.
On RESETTING the CMM2 it states

(by linking pins 49 and 39 on the rear I/O connector during power up)

It should be

(by linking pins 40 and 39 on the rear I/O connector during power up)

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Thanks Mick and everyone. These reports are invaluable.

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