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Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup
Date 2017-03-23 15:37 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <ob17vi$cfj$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <ob14p7$vvp$1@dont-email.me>

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On 3/23/2017 2:42 PM, rickman wrote:
> 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.  :)

I got an email about this.  Someone else was able to download the file 
just fine.  So I tried it with a third browser and it worked.  What are 
the odds?

This stuff can drive you nuts!  So, right now I am focusing on the sound 
of the dove outside.

-- 

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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