Subject: I gave up on BASCOM
From: rotaryeng
Date: 9/2/2012, 1:10 PM
To: AAAA Put this in the To box


 Apparently there is no support. I sent email to MCS Electronics in Holland
  with no
 response.

 It is not worth the $100 savings over MikroElectronika 8051 BASIC
 which is a very professionally run company. Also the IDE is much better
 allowing one
 to select the proper chip and set up the UART communications.  That is
 very important
 to me as I need to send a lot of data very quickly.

 Mikro do what they say they are going to do.

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 This Mikro IDE is VERY comprehensive. It is going to take me a year to
 learn if fully
 :) The Stop Watch feature tells me exactly how long it takes to execute an
 instruction. In the case of zeroing an output port it is 2.4 micro
 seconds. I can now
 retire my O-scope :) The BASIC command is "p0 = 0x00" Ironically about the
 same as a
 1 Mhz 6502 written in asm.

 This is going to be a real fun toy. Another thing it does is give you an
 asm listing
 for every BASIC instruction or command. So much for BASIC compiler being
 slower than
 asm. You can look at the code and decide if you can do it better in asm.

 Another nice feature is the real time terminal program in a window on the
 IDE. When I
 send out data I can see exactly what it is going to look like in a
 terminal program
 running on a tablet.

 BTW Mouser is now carrying Mikro products. The top of line 103 pin ARM cpu
 with clock
 is only $23. The drawback from my perspective is it requires a large pc
 board for an
 EFI system.

 Exactly the same BASIC and IDE is available for the ARM. I can port my
 code at any
 time to the ARM.

 Paul Lamar


I also just bought an easy mx pro v7 from mikroe.com for the stellaris ARM.
I want to experiment with the ARM to read thermocouples. They should work
for EGT readings and I have other applications.

Did you guys notice that racing beat now has P-port rotor housings on their
website?

I can now buy all the components for a P-port all aluminum two or even
three rotor engine.

Buy the way did you get my check? I see that it's not been cashed yet.

Zoltan

Old school hand epoxy bonded in. They have had them for years. They also go in at the
wrong angle.  The air has to go up ... not down. Any time you force air to make a
right angle turn  you have a loss of flow. To top it off the price is way too high.
Check with Jeff for a better deal at the end of the first page on our web site. They
are tig welded to the steel liner and O-ring sealed for ease of repair. Buy new stock
RX8 or 3rd gen rotor housings and send them to Jeff for conversion. You'll save a
bunch of money and they will work with our Teflon slide throttle. The racing beat
p-port rotor housing will not work with our slide throtle.

http://www.racingbeat.com/RX7-1986-1992/Rotor-Intermediate-Housings/11021.html

I got the check and cashed it yesterday. Do you want it back?
It will be awhile before we do an EFI for the ARM. I am going to get some experience
with the 8051 version first.

Paul Lamar


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