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donmck

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Posted: 10:39pm 02 Dec 2011

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(MM-DM) News from Sparkey

If you have been on the TBS forum and this group for any length of time, you will know of Sparkey.

He just popped in to pick up a MOD-IO for his new DuinoMite Mega.

A few days ago, I gave him an early green proto Rev A DM-Mega, that pretty much worked, with the exception of the SD card, as there has been schematic changes since the Rev A.

He loaded MM2.7a into the old DM-Mega and said it worked via a terminal program, and he was able to run basic programs.

I was a little shocked that he had even thought of doing this, but decided to load up MM V2.7b into a Mega while he was here.

Yes, it worked, even drive A: worked, but because of the hardware differences, we had no VGA, keyboard, or SD card, but we were able to run BASIC programs that didn't use any I/O, as the BASIC core of both the MM and the DM is the same.

Yes the BASIC is 100% compatible, it is the hardware that is different.

Cheers Don...

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camfab
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Posted: 11:46pm 02 Dec 2011

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I personally think its a shame things went the way they did with sparky, he had alot of passion for the site ( too much at times ), lets hope that with time, a spellchecker and some "chill pills" we may see his colorful return.
Dont get me wrong, his banning was completely his own doing and no-ones elses fault but hopefully he will have learnt from that, and have a place here again sometime. IMHO
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Posted: 12:35am 03 Dec 2011

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donmck said
Yes the BASIC is 100% compatible, it is the hardware that is different.

Cheers Don...

Yes now we need a version of the MMbasic that auto-detects the hardware and caters for the differences
Geoffg / Ken how about it?.
Edited by djuqa 2011-12-04

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ksdesigns

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Posted: 12:37am 03 Dec 2011

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djuqa said

donmck said
Yes the BASIC is 100% compatible, it is the hardware that is different.

Cheers Don...

Yes now we need a version of the MMbasic that auto-detects the hardware and caters for the differences
Geoffg / Ken how about it?.

We actually have that ability in the DuinoMite hardware just have not used it yet .
Voltage divider on AN15 .
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I have started a NEW Topic as this issue really needs to be visible and debated

Edited by djuqa 2011-12-04

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ajkw
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Posted: 11:18am 03 Dec 2011

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Good to hear Sparkey is still 'Maximiting.'

vasi

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Posted: 11:54am 03 Dec 2011

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Maybe a fast modification of firmware to suit Sparkey board?

Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton
Elvish name: Mablung Miriel
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JohnS
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Posted: 02:35pm 03 Dec 2011

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I was hoping it was a suspension not ban. The speelign wos tuf 2 cope wiv n the lack of punc2ashun.

Talbit
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Posted: 01:56am 04 Dec 2011

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Seems I missed something. What happened to Sparkey?
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Sparkey was a bad boy and had to be baned. I think there is going to be a few people who are going to miss him. Plus I feel we should call all spell checkers, The Sparkey spell checker, after the famous Sparkey.

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Talbit
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Posted: 04:28am 04 Dec 2011

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Naughty Sparkey! What did he do that was so damaging, prey tell? I thought maybe he had zapped himself with one of his concoctions.
I thought he was very entertaining.
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I think Sparkey might of had a flash back and posted some naughty comments and no, I dont think he zapped himself, but I could be wrong.

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Posted: 09:38am 05 Dec 2011

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I'm going to get some tshirts made.

Fre Sprky
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Let me know if anybody wants one.

Cheers

Rohan

Btw I would like to see him back at some point.Edited by rhamer 2011-12-06

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Hi Rohan, yes I would like 2. I miss sparky as well. You can find him at http://www.kenseglerdesigns.com/cms/forums/

Kevin

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Posted: 04:20am 07 Dec 2011

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Fre Sprky
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hehe i've been searching for a witty signature!
thanks rohan

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