Re: [Amforth-devel] Marker working in 4.2?

[Erich W. <ew....@na...>]

Hello,

On 02/09/2011 06:30 PM, Paulo Ferreira wrote:
> On Wed 09/02/11 15:52 , Erich Waelde ew....@na... sent:
>> On 02/02/2011 11:20 PM, Dennis Cartier wrote:
>>> While experimenting with 4.2, I added uploaded
>> the marker.frt file from the>  lib/ans94 directory. After setting a marker and
>> then attempting to rollback>  to it, I found that 'words' prints the words
>> followed by lots of garbage. Is>  this a know issue or am I doing something
>> wrong?You controller's symptom is unknown to me.
>>
>> Sometimes I need a "reset" as well. I have not found out the
>> cause for this.The symptom is that I get "?? -13 xx" on ANY input. The reset
>> makes this go away.
>> So, does resetting change the symptoms?
...
>>
> I am a novice with amforth.
>
> The hardware platform is an Arduino Duemilanove Clone and a TinyUSB ISP
> programmer, and the software is
> avrdude on Ubuntu,  to program the AVR chip.
>
> The first times Amforth just gave me errors  like "-13 xx" on some inputs...
> For instance, numbers were accepted, but any word gave errors....
>
> The initial message was ok, and avrdude said the memory check was ok.
>
> But, I tried connecting the programmer to a port in an USB POWERED hub.

This is interesting. I have used my programmer (AVR mkII) over a usb hub and
it worked. But if it doesn't, that's a good test, it seems to me.

>
> After reprogramming the AVR, amforth now seems to work ok.
>
> I have not made any deep tests, but "words" works, and doing simples things like
> blinking one led also works.

You see the prompt? Welcome to the "club" :-)

Cheers,
Erich