Cycle - CYbot Control LanguagE / News: Recent posts

There exists a simple program which can download CD3 program files to Cybot without having to load any of the Ultimate Real Robots software. This was developed by a group of German users. It included a basic byte-code generator as the CD3 .03p files were text-only.

Sadly this program cannot handle the .03p files from CDs 4 to 6, so anyone who has the appropriate skills and some spare time is encouraged to join the project and start writing a stand-alone downloader. The byte-code generation will be take care of by the Cycle compiler, so all (!) that is required is a means to download selected files directly to the handset/robot.... read more

A new version of the compiler is being developed which can output .03p files targetted at any of the CDs 3 to 6. The later CDs use a binary format which includes the byte-code representation of your program in addition to its graphical form.

The compiler can currently produce a simple program containing a while loop and some sonar blocks, which can be loaded directly into the simulator or downloaded to the robot without having to load it into the graphical editor and re-save it (a common problem with CDs 4 to 6).... read more

The later Ultimate Real Robots CDs use a binary file format for .03p and .03s files. These files contain more than just a description of the graphical blocks you see on the screen - tacked onto the end of each file is a chunk byte-code which represents your program.

This byte-code is interpretted by both the simulator and the robots themselves. The new Disassembler provides a means to examine this byte-code to see how your programs are implemented.... read more

This new release is being made available early so that it may be properly tested on a variety of systems at varying stages of Cybot's development.
There are quite a number of significant changes in this release, not least being the support of subroutines. The compiler can now target different CDs and install the files in the Robot Programs folder automatically.

After living on the Taurus Software and Consulting website for over a year, Cycle has finally made it onto SourceForge. It is hoped that this will speed its development and make it easier to translate the project into other (human) languages.