Swordfish

It's a powerful compiler, and you've got a lot of flexibility with the free version to try out the features before upgrading

I've been experimenting with PS2 Keyboards for the last couple of days, and made a handy user module up if anyone is interested. You can find it here swKBD.bas While the above module can, and does use TMR2 interrupts - they are for timeouts only (and plug-and-play polling). They can be disabled via ...

+1 Welcome back!

I recently had a couple of issues with Davids NMEA.bas module - it was stomping on shared RAM registers. Not being familiar with his programming approach, I created my own NMEA module . It is interrupt driven, but will wait for manual intervention between sentence parsing. It's quite easy to use and...

D-Day can be held off for at least another 2 years! Cheers to Trev for the update ! Domain name: sfcompiler.co.uk Registrant: David Barker Registrant type: Unknown Registrant's address: 3 Gill Street Saltburn-by-the-Sea TS12 1HP United Kingdom Registrar: UK Web.Solutions Direct Ltd [Tag = UKWSD] URL...

I've made a full site rip (compressed to ~200MB). Worst case scenario I'll make the archive available from Digital DIY (its all ripped to an offline readable format). None of the server side script will work - though every page looks clean and is indexed as the site is now (can click through hyperli...

Call me over-cautious, though I am making a full site rip!

Find the following in utils.bas // J50 and J55 family... #elseif _device in (18F65J50, 18F66J50, 18F66J55, 18F67J50, 18F85J50, 18F86J50, 18F86J55, 18F87J50) ANCON0 = $FF ANCON1 = $FF and place this text after it // PIC18F2XK20/4XK20 family #elseif _device in (18F25K20,18F45K20) ANSEL = $FF ANSELH = ...

It was a fun venture, and I've already got some time up playing Tetris!

As simple as the project was on a scale of things, it enables me to create any number of interactive 2D games. I have some RGB 8x8 displays coming on order which should spice things up.

http://digital-diy.com/images/stories/authors/graham/pictris/PICtris.gif I recently ventured into some simple 2D graphics, and what better way to get started than a game! Tetris on the PIC Microcontroller seemed simple enough to begin with, though there were some hurdles such as rotating 2D graphic...

I can't see the phrase 'Open source' on the Amicus site at all. I'll re-phrase that paragraph, it might be taken out of contrast. From the Amicus site: Amicus Hardware is an open design, the schematics and design data are available for download free of charge. Understandably there are differences b...

I'm pretty wrapped with the new Amicus18 hitting the streets. I found myself clicking around for a while getting information so I made a quick review of it here: Amicus18 Overview http://digital-diy.com/images/stories/authors/graham/amicus18/Amicus18_picture.gif The upcoming (though not-yet released...

Just curious, but why would you be running a subroutine from an interrupt anyway? In the case of the original post, the issue was with local variables declared within an interrupt sharing the same RAM allocation with other locally declared variables from other routines (recycled). As hard as the pr...

As you have already experienced, programming with SF is much the same as VB. Very structured and modular. I have recently run into a couple of issues with SF with regards to RAM recycling - others have as well. With no official support to date regarding the issue, SF users had to create local 'worka...

Thanks Jerry - that was a great example.

I'll make a few programs up and get familiar with the approach.