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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Difference in mmbasic for PICOW and PICO
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atmega8 Guru  Joined: 19/11/2013 Location: GermanyPosts: 724 |
Hello Forum-Members, Peter, a general question, since it is not easy to keep track: Does mmbasic for PICOW have the same range of functions as mmbasic for PICO? In other words: All Options, RO Variables (MM.XYZ), Commands and Functions from mmbasic for PICO are also included in PICOW? My apologies if the question is redundant... Dietmar |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
AFAIK all the GUI commands and CTRLVAL are omitted. I'm not sure if the heartbeat LED works in the same way as it's not on GP25 now. Extra commands are added to handle the wifi. (I've not kept track of these as I haven't got a Pico W). Apart from that I *think* it's the same as the non-VGA PicoMite. (Now Peter will appear to inform me that I'm wrong. :) ) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| atmega8 Guru Joined: 19/11/2013 Location: GermanyPosts: 724 |
> option heartbeat off > option heartbeat on Works What is "CTRLVAL" ? Edited 2023-03-08 01:04 by atmega8 |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
It's a function used with the GUI commands, so it's useless if they are missing. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| atmega8 Guru Joined: 19/11/2013 Location: GermanyPosts: 724 |
OK, ACK |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10310 |
The other difference is that the W version is about 20% slower at the same CPU clock speed and the maximum clock speed is 264MHz, plus it has less memory available (84Kb vs 100Kb-VGA and 128Kb-normal) |
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| atmega8 Guru Joined: 19/11/2013 Location: GermanyPosts: 724 |
Thank you, this is still comprehensible. |
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twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1593 |
@Peter I think it might make sense to give the Picoweb its own device ID (mm.device$) because of the differences. Best regards Michael causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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| pwillard Guru Joined: 07/06/2022 Location: United StatesPosts: 313 |
Let's put it in perspective... my LAST boot-to-Basic machine had 64K of TOTAL ram. |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
Mine had a 256k paged RAM card. Mind you, it's not a lot of use when it's not contiguous and BASIC can't address it. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Luxury! You were lucky. I used to dream of ... John |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
Aye, times were 'ard! There were eleven of us and we all had to huddle together round a pile of punched card chad in winter... Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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PhilP Newbie  Joined: 25/01/2017 Location: United KingdomPosts: 36 |
Should SETTICK work? It does not seem to on my Pico W with version 5.070719. I am trying to use it to download Openweather data every 15 minutes to display on LCD. Everything else works and I hate using a long PAUSE. Phil |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6283 |
Works for me... Jim VK7JH MMedit |
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