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- Changes made to bring CRobots from 2.2 to 2.3:
- ==============================================
-
- Improved the encoding routines. Now compiled robots can be as much as 50%
- smaller than in previous versions.
-
- Added checks for files being write/read/delete protected.
-
- Improved the IF-THEN generating section of the compiler. It no longer
- generates unneeded instructions when there is no ELSE part.
-
- Postfix increment and decrement are now implemented (a++ and a--). Be aware
- that these operations use 5 instructions, while prefix operations only use
- three.
-
- Added a table for the time needed to complete common actions in terms of
- CPU cycles. More to be added later.
-
- Some changes in the docs to conform to the above new features.
-
- Compiler and debug mode now use a 0 based addressing. This means you should
- now get the same numbers every time you compile a robot. Note that there are
- several different pools for these numbers: The instruction pool, the
- stack, and the external function stack.
-
- The compiler will now list the name of the variable, rather than just
- it's offset in the {local|external} pool. Note that once a robot is
- fully compiled, this symbolic info is trashed, so you have to use the
- offsets in debug mode.
-
- Improved function closing. If a function returns a value of it's own, the
- compiler will not generate a "CONST 1, RETSUB" for the function. This did
- not cause the robot to go slower, but did take up 2 instructions in the
- code area whether it was needed or not.
-
- When compiling you will not get the occasional "ILLEGAL xxx" instructions
- at the end of a valid function definition. Also fixed a problem in which it
- sometimes displayed the code for another function instead of stopping after
- decompiling the previous function.
-
- New flag "NOWAIT" to turn off the "press any key to continue" messages. This
- allows complete operation from within a script.
-
-
- Changes made to bring CRobots from 2.1 to 2.2:
- ==============================================
-
- Fixed a bug with the NOSHOW option preventing compiled output from being
- saved.
-
- Because nothing ever stated that a BOB needs the BorderLine field in the
- VS filled in, I was not creating it. This was stomping on location 0, and
- has been fixed.
-
- Fixed it so that it doesn't open the icon library everytime the mysetup()
- function is called.
-
- Modified the mysetup() function to close the previous window (if any)
- before it tries to open the new one. This should let it run on a 512k
- machine.
-
- Cleaned up the encode string routines.
-
- Seperated the intuition executable code from the general data/include
- files so that it may be debugged/traced under the optimizer
-
- Corrected a problem in the DEBUG mode which improperly initialized the robot
- position, by multiplying the location by 100 instead of CLICK, which
- is 10.
-
- Prettied up the compiler output somewhat.
-
- Cleaned up the output in debug mode. Now displays the characters used
- for binary operations.
-
- Corrected a problem with the Other robots being displayed in the top left
- corner when the first robot was displayed for the first time.
-
- Fixed a problem with the Y axis by inversed for graphics
-
- Changed the motion update values so that the robot CPU's get the same number
- of cycles before a position change as they did in the text-only/IBM version.
-
- To do:
- ======
-
- Sound
-
- Voice
-
- Graphics for debug mode
-
- A run mode as well as a step mode while using DEBUG
-
-