Mecrisp Forth Startup

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Mecrisp Forth Startup
Date	2017-03-23 14:42 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ob14p7$vvp$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I recall a couple of years ago I worked with Mecrisp Forth on a TI ARM 
launchpad.  The hardest part was just getting the durn thing installed 
and all the support on the PC working.  Now I want to use an MSP430 
target (it has a built in display) and I am having exactly the same sort 
of problems.

Aside from the issues of TI having somewhat fragmented documentation (or 
maybe I just can't follow instructions in my dotage) I never got the USB 
driver installed under Windows 8 (or was that on my Vista machine?)  To 
make it work back then I ended up using a raspberry pi as a remote 
target interface.  It worked, I got the work done and all was well.  But 
it left a bad taste in my mouth, mostly from the problems getting the TI 
tools to let me burn the Mecrisp image to the target but also the lack 
of documentation surrounding Mecrisp.

This time it is like a trip down déjà vu lane (although it is more like 
déjà vécu, having lived through it before).  I don't know if I will have 
problems installing the emulator driver because I can't download it. 
The TI site has a form you must fill out to assure you are not going to 
ship the tool to an export controlled country.  I do that and click all 
the buttons on the next two pages, but a download never happens.  I've 
tried two browsers so I'm pretty sure it is the TI site.

I finally found a TI web page that supports flashing the board and even 
flashed the flash tool!  So I can install Mecrisp now, but I still need 
to figure out what I need to do to talk to it.  That at least is pretty 
well documented in the readme file.  It looks like the command line is 
connected to the serial port that goes through the emulator interface.  :)

-- 

Rick C

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Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 14:42 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 15:37 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 22:37 -0400
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2017-03-27 15:27 +0200
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 10:56 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 16:24 -0400
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-25 15:33 -0500
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 17:23 -0400
        Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-25 17:32 -0500
          Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 03:09 -0400
            Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 02:50 -0700
              Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 07:56 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-26 11:04 -0700
              Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 13:24 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 14:45 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 14:16 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 14:53 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 02:16 -0700
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 12:51 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 12:56 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-29 12:24 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-29 12:32 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 14:15 -0400
            Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 13:44 -0500
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-25 14:42 -0700
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup john <anon@example.com> - 2017-05-03 11:30 +0100
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 13:56 -0500
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 16:29 -0400
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-31 16:49 -0500
        Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 18:16 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 13:19 -0400

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