MacBS2

Humanoido

Is there a trick to using MacBS2 and loading/downloading code with Penguin's BS2px? The closest target module in the MacBS2 program is a BS2pe.

Zoot

I don't believe that MacBS2 supports the BS2px.

Mike Green

MacBS2 uses the Parallax Stamp Tokenizer to process the source code and the Tokenizer doesn't support the BS2px. This means that the Stamp Editor is the only way to compile and download programs for the BS2px. Alas, that means that you can only use the Stamp Editor to program for the Penguin.

Zoot

If that's the case, this is probably a question best answered by Parallax staff. Putting aside the very particular case of needing to program a BS2px natively from a Mac, I am wondering if there are plans to release a more current version of the tokenizer -- I would think that software package would need to be current for upcoming products like WiFi programming of Stamps/Props, etc. ???? There are other third-party products that take advantage of the tokenizer as well.

Humanoido

Thank you sincerely for the replies. There's a mac OSX program for intel processors that allows a pc program to load and run on a Mac, without loading and running from a Windows OS install. My thought now is will the Stamp Editor work? I can't try it because the MacBook has OSX 10.4 and the code and its support requirements run on 10.5 and above.

http://www.winehq.org/

Mike Green

There is an open-source program as you mentioned, called Wine, that allows you to run a lot of Windows programs on an Intel-based Mac (or Intel Linux installation). Unfortunately, the Stamp Editor doesn't work too well under Wine, particularly the serial I/O stuff. There's a company by the name of Code Weavers that has a commercial distribution of Wine with a lot of their own changes and improvements that's called CrossOver (they're a major supporter of Wine development as well). I've tried the Stamp Editor (and the Propeller Tool) under CrossOver and it doesn't work reliably.