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| For those of you overwhelmed by the work involved to get a viable legOS developement system on the Windows OS, legOS for Windows is now available. If you only wish to write dynamic downloadable programs for the RCX, this package is all you need. If (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: QC
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| I am using QC and have noticed that some of the demo programs do not detect the buttons, thus pressing the stop or run button do not work. The programs that use do { ...... }while(!keypress) will stop when one of the four buttons are pressed. I (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: more user questions
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| A general note, there is a README.WRI file. This includes information beyond what Markus originally wrote in README. Perhaps I should have deleted his README (I include it in README.WRI, anyway). Open your copy of MAKEFILE. You'll find this line: (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | FW: installation problem!
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| -----Original Message----- From: George Lampke [mailto:glampke@verinet.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:50 PM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: installation problem! You are right Ralph. Using the command line version of NCQ works to load (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Light sensors
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| (...) I looked closer at the readings, and the readings are okay for light backgrounds. For a dark one, however, the value is only half of the time the right one - for the other half 0x1F0 gets added to it... Anyone ideas why this is happening? (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How much memory finally?
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| (...) I believe it has a 16K ROM and 32K SRAM. Within the 32K, 16K is occupied by the 'firmware' downloaded to the RCX. About 6K is reserved for bytecode program space and the datalog. Presumably the rest is working memory for the firmware (stack, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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| I wanted to follow-up on my first message with more information in the hopes someone can help. I have been having problems with downloading to my RCX. I started trying NQC on a mac and this did not work. I then ported NQC to Solaris and had some (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | How much memory finally?
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| I'm trying to figure out how much memory the RCX has. Many sources claims that it has - 16k rom - 16k ram for the firmware - 6k reserved for our own programs Does this mean the RCX has 22k of RAM memory? What an odd number... Also, when I perform (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NQC and RIS2.0 Firmware
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| I've tried using the Download firmware option of NQC for downloading the new firmware. Unfortunately it downloads to about 2489 and then errors out. Will Dave Baum be supporting this 'first release' of the firmware or will he be waiting for the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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| (...) Offhand, I'd suspect that the problem is either interference from lighting in the room, or perhaps your IR tower is 'marginal'. From your tests so far it doesn't sound like the problem follows either a specific computer or an RCX. Minimize the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | How much memory finally?
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| I'm trying to figure out how much memory the RCX has. Many sources claims that it has - 16k rom - 16k ram for the firmware - 6k reserved for our own programs Does this mean the RCX has 22k of RAM memory? What an odd number... Also, when I perform (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: How much memory finally?
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| Thank for the answer, Dave, this is the kind of info I'm looking for. BUT! I don't think it is correct: 0x8000 is 32k: the firmware would start at the end of memory!?! 0xbfff is 48k: unless the 16k of the rom are counted of course... Then this mean (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Too many sensors
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| (...) You could do it but you'd lose rotations as long as the button was pressed. You'd probably need alternate firmware to even get that working well. So on one port you can have (1 touch + 1 light/temp), (1 rotation) or (4 touch). The last with (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Too many sensors
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| Ben Jackson wrote: > You could do it but you'd lose rotations as long as the button was pressed. > You'd probably need alternate firmware to even get that working well. I can live with losing rotation when the button is pressed. I may have to reset (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How much memory finally?
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| (...) If I remember correctly the RCX has a 16kROM for the basic routines. It has 32k RAM for firmware and programs. The scout has 32K ROM and only 1K RAM (400bytes for your program) Dean (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: using the remote control with legOS
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| it would be nice to be able to use both LNP and remote control (advance tactical robots) I wrote last night a small win prog to figure out how the remote is talking and this is it: +++ // LEGO REMOTE CONTROL (#9738 = ~20 USD) FOR RCX MESSAGE (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How much memory finally? ADDENDUM
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| Well, I checked with Kekoa's memory map, and indeed, thinks are not as simple. And Dave was right (Why did I doubt is sacred words?) Memory is divided into three main area of 16k. The first is ROM, containing the base programs. The two other (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: How much memory finally?
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| Here's the latest update. Hope we will get a clear picture of this #@$@ memory after all. The point is that the RCX processor can address 64k of memory, so let's divide this range into 4 equal area of 16k. (note:16k or 16384, in hex is 0x4000). (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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