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There may be two limitations combining to produce the result you are seeing. Firstly, because the number of characters in a string is contained in a Byte, the maximum string size is 255 characters. There is no way to get around this limit. See sections 2.11 and 3.28 of the ZBasic Language Reference ...

I looked at the xMega datasheet and the ZBasic code and discovered that the PutPin() prior to setting up PWM are not required for the xMega devices. The ZBasic code for PWM configures the corresponding to be an output so that s why it works without the PutPin() call. This is a deficiency in the docu...

Offhand, I suspect that there may be a register usage issue but it is dangerous to speculate from a distance. I'd be happy to take a look at the code if you would want to send it to me. I'm open to executing an NDA if necessary. Otherwise, it would be best to whittle the code down to the minimum tha...

No definitive word yet. It looks like the hardware may support ZBasic with some changes. I haven't yet discovered if a new version of avr-gcc has been release that supports the new families. If it can be supported, a release of ZBasic for it probably would quite a way off - probably at least a year.

That's an interesting observation. Thanks.

No. I'll take a look at it to see if it might be possible.

I was able to find a "Digests" extension and it is now installed and working. If you want to receive digests, log in and then launch the User Control Panel (click you forum name near the top on the right side and choose it from the menu). Once in the User Control Panel, select the Digests ...

After fighting with the older phpBB v2.x code for a few years now each time the web hosting company upgrades the PHP version they're using, I finally relented and just installed the latest phpBB v3.x. Since the code is PHP 7 compatible, that should simplify coping with future host server upgrades. A...

The Generic Target License doesn't address that issue because the source code and build files are distributed with the ZBasic Compiler. Conceivably, one could build the ZBasic bootloader without having a Generic Target License. However, the ZBasic bootloader isn't of much use without the Generic Tar...

I haven't tried it but based on a quick scan of the Wemos Mini website page, I would guess that it would work. You would need to use Option DeviceParameter FlashSize to specify the actual Flash size.

Even OutputCapture on a ZX24x/u can't handle this fast transitions ..? That's true. It might be possible to bit-bang the protocol but the RTC interrupts (and others) may interfere with the timing. Certainly you'd have to have interrupts disabled for the duration of a transmission sequence. I haven'...

How would I start on [counting using an external clock] For starters, you'll need to get the xmega A manual and read up on the timers, the event system and interrupt handlers. http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/doc8077.pdf The high level overview would be something like this: - configu...

There are two "timer speed" registers: Register.TimerSpeed1 and Register.TimerSpeed2. The 1 and 2 have nothing to do with the timer that may be being used. Rather, Register.TimerSpeed1 is used with some I/O routines and Register.TimerSpeed2 is used for other I/O routines. For InputCapture(...

Even though you said that this won't work for you I thought that I'd answer it anyway for the record. If you look at the datasheet where it depicts the protection diodes, you'll see that there is a clamping diode with its anode connected to the pin and its cathode connected to Vcc. Because of this, ...

Can't variable names point to where the variables sit? Yes. That's what Based variables are for. However, Based sub-byte types aren't supported because in addition to the base address you'd also have to specify the intra-byte offset and there is no provision to do that. Also, I want to remind you t...