to some extent - How to model (at a high level) what we call coherent thought, knowing that AI is deterministic and that its learning processes and especially its 'reasoning' processes are based on imitation (what I will call the 'chameleon paradox') but mostly Reasoning is not a mathematical signat...

I've not tested this, but according to https://freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20875, you can remove the warning by replacing the fbidefix.dll with an earlier version from version 0.4.6r2 on http://fbide.freebasic.net/download. Woohoo! That worked for me. Thanks for the tip. I find the ...

In case this helps, I just used Filemon to hunt down this persistent little bug, it is indeed searching in the .BAS file folder when using drag drop: C:\<directory .BAS file is in>\IDE\lang\.fbl PATH NOT FOUND I possibly should move on, but I still find FBIDE the best simple way to bring up little s...

That's cool, I didn't realise ScriptBasic could be compiled, via C. At the risk(!?) of completely hijacking this thread, another thing I have been thinking about for a while, and looked at a few days ago (possibly what re-awakened all this) is Lua. It is extremely close to BASIC, to the point where ...

For ARM, theres also... The ARM® Cortex™ Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS) is a vendor-independent hardware abstraction layer for the Cortex-M processor series. The CMSIS enables consistent and simple software interfaces to the processor for interface peripherals, real-time operati...

Thanks for the tip about WinAVR. I usually avoid C but I'm going to have to use it some time. I did check out GreatCowBasic a bit over a year ago, but then it only supported 8 bit PIC and looked rather unfinished. Also I remember seeing all the #defines and thought it was a C-based dialect (rather t...

Just found another post on this subject by searching for "winavr". Winavr is a good place to start because the project is mature and seems to have inspired other manufacturers to jump onto the GCC bandwagon.

Dredging this up because I have been interested in a similar thing since FB first came out - using it to compile for embedded microcontroller targets, either directly (I got a fair way through the source before I decided it was too much), or via C which is what most micros are programmed in these da...

Thanks - that has helped me narrow it down to one particular camera after all. It turns out the Philips SPC900NC that I used only returns images at 320*240 to ESCAPI when set to 640*480. The camera works at the full resolution in everything else. What led to the confusion was that another much newer...

Hi people - just "revitalising" this thread. Well not really, I found the ESCAPI lib a few months ago and it instantly ended a lot of frustration. Should have known to try FB first. One thing though - I never got it working in 640*480. I can get it scaled to that size, but the data always ...

Phew. For one horrible moment I thought there had been a major "unnecessary nonstandard syntax change". This change makes sense.