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Re: pbforth for the Lego RCX

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On 3/2/16 1:09 AM, mentificium@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 5:47:31 PM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> Does anyone still have a copy of this?  I spoke with Ralph Hempel and
>> while he is looking he does not think he even has a copy of it left
>> in his archives. I have bunch of RCX's and would love to give this a
>> shot.
>>
>> bill
>
> ISTR (I seem to recall) that when Lego Mindstorms went to
> Lego RCX about ten years ago, Mr. Ralph Hempel chose not
> to update his pbForth to the new system.

RCX was the first.  The second one was the NXT.

>
> http://hempeldesigngroup.com
>
> indicates that Mr. Hempel now offers
>
> http://hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbLua/
>

Yes, LUA for the NXT.  I am going to look at that as well as I have a
handful of NXT's, too.

> i.e., "pbLua for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT".
>

Which would be fine if I wanted LUA but at this point I would
really like to try programing the Lego bricks with Forth.  If I
can find all the stuff from his original work other than using it
in the RCX I would like to look at porting it to the NXT and even
the EV3.

> I also STR that the "b" in pbForth stood for "brick."

Yes, my understanding is that pbforth was an embeded system for
the RCX brick.

>
> http://mind.sourceforge.net/motorium.html
>
> is a page from which I was hoping to link
> to pbForth for the Lego RCX, but -- no luck!

Ralph's pbforth page just returns a blank screen.  I contacted him
but he said he does not think he even has a copy.  I was hoping someone
might have all the old stuff sitting around somewhere.

>
> http://ai.neocities.org/P6AI_FAQ is my newer work.

Don't know what your work is, but I will definitely take a look to
see if it meets any of my interests.

>
> You might ask the question in comp.robotics.misc on Usenet.

I have looked there but I don't remember seeing anything about
Lego bricks there.  I'll look again.

>
> Bottom line -- Ralph maybe never created pbForth for RCX.
>
No, definitely did.  RCX was the first Lego brick.  I think you
may have the order reversed.

bill

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pbforth for the Lego RCX Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 20:47 -0500
  Re: pbforth for the Lego RCX mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-03-01 22:09 -0800
    Re: pbforth for the Lego RCX Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 09:20 -0500
      Re: pbforth for the Lego RCX Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2016-03-02 17:16 +0000
        Re: pbforth for the Lego RCX Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 16:46 -0500
  Re: pbforth for the Lego RCX Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-04 09:52 -0800
    Re: pbforth for the Lego RCX Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 18:55 -0500

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