Re: FIDE Include files

Hi James,

I¹ll double check in the morning as I¹ve just shut it down for the night
now, but I THINK that the text I listed is literally the extent of the
message. About the only downside I have with running it in the virtual
machine is I can¹t cut and paste the code. Well, I guess I can use my
webmail :o)

You¹re right there¹s plenty to go on there though so I¹ll have a little look
under the hood at the temp dirs and also check out the sample code.

I¹ll let you know!

Oh, I¹m not actually running with the 9010 on the iMac ­ it¹s just more
convenient to work on scripts from the comfort of the living room and then
take them out to the workbench when they¹re more or less ready to be put to
work. Mind you, I am running the 9010 via a USB to serial adapter so I
imagine I could use an iMac, but the expense of having a second iMac on the
workbench would be extravagance beyond belief!!

Cheers
Martin.

On 17/8/06 02:16, "James Bright" <james@quarterarcade.com> wrote:

> Works on my machine :-) (Actually I use it a lot because I have a lot of
> libraries for specific chip tests.)
>
>
>
> Couple of things....
>
>
>
> FIDE uses the *original* compiler. It does this by (behind the scenes) taking
> the input text file (script) and passing that to the compiler by dynamically
> creating a batch file. Look in the folder called "Internal" and you'll see a
> lot of these working files. At least that is where I think I put them. It's
> been a good two years since I cracked open that code. At any rate, what it
> does is literally insert the contents of the file where that include statement
> is and then calls the compiler. Do the samples work for you? I think the
> centipede sample has an include statement in it. Also, what exactly does it
> say in the Messages window? You can look in that Internal directory to see if
> there is a temporary file to give you a clue as well.
>
>
>
> Since it was never tested on iMac so that's a try at your own risk ;-)
>
>
>
> I was going to attach the code that handles this... but there is a lot and it
> probably wouldn't mean a whole lot unless you saw it all in context. I seem to
> recall having to do dumb things with long file names because the original
> compiler couldn't handle it. But I got it to work on the standard winxp
> platform just fine...
>
>
>
> Hope that gives you something to at least look at.
>
>
>
> JB
>
>
>
> --James Bright
> www.QuarterArcade.com
> Restored Arcade Games for your Home
>
>
>
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>> From: techtoolslist-bounces@flippers.com
>> [mailto:techtoolslist-bounces@flippers.com] On Behalf Of Martin White
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:12 PM
>> To: Technical Tools Mail List <techtoolslist@flippers.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] FIDE Include files
>>
>>
>>
>> Oops, sorry, that should read: include ³mwz80.9lc² not ³plc²!
>>
>>
>> On 17/8/06 01:09, "Martin White" <martin@guddler.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Not sure if James is reading this list but I guess this is as good a place
>>> as any to ask!
>>>
>>> Has anyone had any problems using include files with FIDE? Specifically
>>> v4.1.9
>>>
>>> The following simply doesn¹t want to work, I just get the compile error
>>> ³Cannot open file mwz80.9lc²
>>>
>>> Setup
>>> exercise errors YES
>>> include ³z80.pod²
>>> include ³mwz80.plc²
>>>
>>> I¹ve also tried ³~/mwz80.plc² and also the entire path.
>>>
>>> The file ³mwz80.plc² DOES exist and it exists in the same path as the main
>>> script that I¹m calling it from.
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Not trying to do anything fancy, just including stuff like ³trap
>>> bad power supply NO² that I do virtually all the time on all scripts. Etc.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin.
>>> PS: I¹m using FIDE on Windows XP Pro in a Parallels Desktop virtual machine
>>> on an intel iMac but I fail to see why that should really make much
>>> difference :)
>>

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