one more thing re using the STK with the ZBasic chip... The downloader wants the RS232 DTR signal connected to the chip via a capacitor-coupled arrangment to make a reset pulse.
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From: stevech Date: Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:28 am Subject: RE: [AVR-Chat] ZBasic > Cubloc, basicX, ZBasic - these are all interpreted p-code. Their> librariesinclude routines for the AVR on-chip devices (I2C, A/D,
> etc). I'm evaluating
> ZBasic because it has a superb compiler, multitasking (preemptive),
> Interrupt servers, and looking at the generated P-code, the
> compiler is very
> smart.
>
> I just started this - I measured 260,000 interations per second
> incrementinga long while the Virtual machine was handling their
> default 1000 interrupts
> per second for clock ticks. Seems pretty good. For sure, these VM
> basedchips are not for some industrial applications, but it's sure
> fast to
> develop an application - esp. with the ZBasic similarity to Visual
> Basic and
> that it does malloc/free() type of memory allocation for storage
> of strings.
>
>
> Interesting, anyway. The ready-to-use ZX24 is c! heap enou