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| twofingers Guru  Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1526 |
Hi Harm,  I think it's about constants, not variables or string arrays. If I want to access the individual elements of an array in the program, it's not so clear what that means; I could write the escape sequence better. In my opinion, Const VT_RED$=Chr$(27)"[91m" would be more readable. Constants have the advantage that they can't be accidentally changed. But you probably know that yourself. Kind regards MIchael causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10067 |
Yes - will be in the release  |
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| twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1526 |
That's cool! Thanks.  I'm a bit worried, though, about the differences between 2040 and 2350. But at least up to a length of 9 bytes, there shouldn't be any compatibility issues. That's more than I hoped.Kind regards Michael causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10067 |
V6.00.02RC5 is available on https://geoffg.net/Downloads/picomite/PicoMite_Beta.zip Implements automatic length adjustment for string constants. Where strings are less that 15 characters (RP2350) or 9 character(RP2040) no heap will be used. NB: prior to this release RP2350 only allowed 7 characters in a string without using heap. Reduce memory usage of MP3 payback by 48Kbytes - now 97Kb Terminating a program with ctrl-C now closes all sprites. This makes sense as framebuffers were already deleted so if sprite wer being written to a framebuffer then...... |
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homa Guru Joined: 05/11/2021 Location: GermanyPosts: 459 |
 WOW, rc5 seems to work really well. Including the speed output in the options :-) I find the behaviour after ctrl-c better this way (although I understand the desire for a debug flag). I seem to remember that this PLOP noise after playing a music file or even slightly at startup used to be less, or am I wrong? Matthias |
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| homa Guru Joined: 05/11/2021 Location: GermanyPosts: 459 |
Okay, this behavior seems to be new! In the console, non-displayable characters are suppressed as usual in the output, this was also the case in the HDMI/VGA output ... > list m$="Test" pm$=m$+Chr$(&h80) Print 1,pm$;"XXX";Len(pm$) > run 1 TestXXX 5 > Now a square appears there (see picture).  Is this new behavior desired? Matthias |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10067 |
No been like this forever. Some fonts have characters above chr$(127) Manual page 65 |
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| homa Guru Joined: 05/11/2021 Location: GermanyPosts: 459 |
Oh, I wasn't aware of that before. I guess I only had the console version in mind. Do I remember the Plop that badly? |
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| JanVolk Senior Member  Joined: 28/01/2023 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 220 |
Peter, There may be a problem with the editor in version v6.00.02RC5 when editing a fairly large program? If you are at about line 500 and scroll up and down a bit, the program stops without a message and can only be brought back to life with a reset and you can start over again. I was editing m_vt100_noVGA_02026_127.zip when this happened. > option list PicoMite MMBasic RP2040 Edition V6.00.02RC5 OPTION SYSTEM I2C GP4,GP5 OPTION COLOURCODE ON OPTION CPUSPEED (KHz) 200000 OPTION DISPLAY 40, 80 OPTION SDCARD GP17, GP18, GP19, GP16 > Greetings, Jan. |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4854 |
Hoi Jan, Dutch: Ik heb jouw hardware niet, maar heb hetzelfde geprobeerd op een RP2040 GEEK. Ik kan het niet reproduceren. Kun je (voor de gein) de CPU speed eens terug zetten op 133MHz. Mijn GEEK draait (weer) op 133MHz vanwege warmteontwikkeling. English: I cannot duplicate on RP2040 GEEK. Please try CPUSPEED 133000. I reverted the CPU clock on the GEEK to 133 MHz since the unit gets warm easilly, with the linear regulator and built in OLED display in the small plastic package. Volhout P.S. I find RC5 stable on my RP2040 platforms, all using genuine RP boards. Edited 2025-03-18 17:41 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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electricat Senior Member Joined: 30/11/2020 Location: LithuaniaPosts: 295 |
@Peter HDMI/USB/2350 I can`t get in what`s so wrong with my libraries but all previous betas, and now 6.02RC5 still wil not LIBRARY SAVE. Only works in a way, if I first CMM2 LOAD and later cmd LIBRARY SAVE help.zip Tray if it works for you LOAD and LIBRARY SAVE. And not with this file only. Just created another 30 kb lib, and was not able to save (without prior CMM2 LOAD). Betas were reseting with timeout error and RC5 just resets silently (or at least clears to defaults, can`t say really) Manual seems allow LIBRARY SAVE anytime you wish without use of CMM2 LOAD. While it is clever thing to chrunch before library save, I feel official user manual must have additional notes or it might need some firmware fix. My MMBasic 'sand box' |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7504 |
As far as I can see LIBRARY SAVE simply moves the contents of Flash Slot 0 to Flash Slot 3 just stripping out some spaces and comments as it does so. If you have a library then you must reload it from scratch after updating MMBasic as tokens may have changed and your existing library, even if it hasn't been deleted, may be corrupt. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10067 |
You need to isolate what in the program is causing the problem and then I can investigate. CMM2 LOAD does a crunch on the program removing blank lines/comments etc. You can also try AUTOSAVE C to load the original program and see if that saves to the library OK. If that works start adding back comments etc. to see what breaks it. I didn't write the library routines. So once we identify what causes the problem I can ask Gerry to have a look. |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4854 |
@electricat I do not have your platform. But I tested on RP2040 Picomite (on GEEK unit). I load this program. Then I type "LIBRARY SAVE". > list Sub FreePins Local n,gp$,p,pu$ For n=0 To 29 gp$ = "GP"+Str$(n) p = MM.Info(pinno gp$) pu$ = MM.Info(pin p) Print gp$, p, pu$ Next End Sub And (also after a reset) I can type "freepins" any time. The library works. Please try the same on your platform. As Mick said, the library uses flash slot #3. > FLASH LIST Slot 1 in use: "'#B:/banner.bas" Slot 2 in use: "'#B:/fm/fm_vt100_noVGA_02026_1.bas" Slot 3 in use: Library Volhout Edited 2025-03-18 20:47 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4854 |
@electricat, With your "help.zip" the GEEK also crashes when doing a library save. Also after I replaced all DIM with LOCAL it still crashes (reboot / USB reconnect). Something in this program upsets the LIBRARY SAVE. Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| bfwolf Regular Member  Joined: 03/01/2025 Location: GermanyPosts: 72 |
@Volhout, @electricat: Lines 40 to 47 in help.bas.. If picomite=1 Then If allow_tile=1 Then TILE height font_h End If work_with_drive 'check and choose working drive or stop program if not ready Else work_with$="C" End If 'end picomite "End If" and "Else" inside are swapped?  More inconsistencies like this perhaps in the code? Didn't look further.. -- Edit: Sorry! Was confused by the indention in help.bas ..  The Else seems to belong to the outer if - so syntactically OK.. bfwolf Edited 2025-03-18 21:43 by bfwolf |
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| electricat Senior Member Joined: 30/11/2020 Location: LithuaniaPosts: 295 |
@Peter, Mick, Volhout, bfwolf and all Like Volhout noted, small SUB saving does not causes problem for me too. I felt it is connected to library size, becouse I was removing 'suspicious' SUBs only later to find other line causes problem. (I did all kind of things like looking at file in HEX editor, removing subs, coments, lines etc... also looking through in notepad++ with all 'invisible' chars switched on ... ) What I did, I CMM2 LOADed library and just copy/pasted to make library 'big' meands, 31 Kb in size. (If I do not RUN anything, technically it does not matter if subs inside of it are duplicated or not.) cmm2 crunched.zip See what I got!  If FLASH SLOT 3 is 100 kb, no way 31 Kb lib would cause such result My MMBasic 'sand box' |
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| electricat Senior Member Joined: 30/11/2020 Location: LithuaniaPosts: 295 |
Something wrong with flash adress I believe My MMBasic 'sand box' |
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disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 971 |
I have had a play with this. Not sure of the root cause but fixed if you use COLOUR command in lieu of COLOR command. They use to be the same, but now recognised as separate commands I think. The first use of COLOR will save to library but anymore and it hangs. Use COLOUR and it good for me. Gerry Latest F4 Latest H7 FotS |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4854 |
I am sure Peter did this on purpose... There was a discussion years agou about COLOUR versus COLOR.. . . Edited 2025-03-18 23:15 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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