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| Ralph, What about the new QC. Since it does not use the Lego Firmware and allows you to use pure C. Could your asm code be used under it. I am interested in using Servos but like John I too do not want to learn another language. I am a Sr Software (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sfida Legofest IV e Cybermaster
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| (...) un (...) No. Può essere programmato tranquillamente via spirit.ocx ad anche con NQC (e RcxCC). La differenze principali con l'RCX: - firmware in ROM, quindi non sostituibile; - meno memoria per i programmi utente; - interfaccia radio anziché (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Windows NT Success Story!
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| Thanks a lot for this really helpful and detailed post! Especially thanks for making the result of your success story available for download. This allowed me to simply download the whole thing and start experimenting with legOS applications rather (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS in cybermaster
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| (...) Sorry Jose, it is NOT possible. The cybermaster firmware is in ROM and may not be overwritten in any way. Ciao Mario Web page: (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | NQC 2.1 released
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| NQC 2.1 has been released - (URL) features (from 2.0) include the switch statement, fast firmware download, and preliminary Scout support. For more information, refer to the README - (URL) Baum (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Scout Can use 6 touch sensors?
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| Forgive me if I've missed this here before, I've recently acquired a Scout system and have been reading the SDK PDF and found the following: "The Scout has two external input ports to which touch sensors can be attached. The special colour-coded ID (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.scout)
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| | Re: How do I delete firmware from firmware?
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| (...) This sounds correct. In C, this is how I do it: /* Delete the firmware */ *(char *)0xffcc = 1; (*(void (**)(void))0)(); Indeed, *(void (**)(void))0) is the reset vector, whose value is 0x03ae. 0xffcc is timer 0. I forget what effect setting it (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | NQC RCXLib bug & wish
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| Hi! (especially Dave) While trying to get a working communication channel between the PC and the RCX with the original firmware, I discovered a bug in RCXLib: in RCX_Link, BuildTxData, the 3rd bit in the command code is toggled when sending the same (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Off topic: secure channel to the RCX
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| (...) :-))) Two ideas: 1) software protection: use legOS or pbForth or QC instead of standard firmware. 2) hardware protection: build a barrier of solid bricks around the IR receiver of your RCX to insulate it from intereferences. To be applied (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0
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| (...) From the picture, it does look like the 'bump' on the back of the RCX is gone. It's now smooth from the motor ports to the back of the unit. Maybe it's better at power usage now. I just hope they didn't do anything stupid like make a small (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | SV: RIS 2.0
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| LEGOs will never be obsolete and judging from the previous upgrade from 1.0 to 1.5, where the only things that changed were the software and the power-plug... (I think), and the pic of the ned RCX 2.0, I don't belive the hardware will change from (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Off topic: secure channel to the RCX
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| What follows in this message will probably appear quite strange to many of the readers on this list, and I apologize in andvance, and encourage you to delete/skip this message if it seems too whacky. It occured to me that one of my favorite toys, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Front Mission 3
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| (...) Some news: ~ Not all PSX games will work on the PSX2. Those that don't use specific hardware in the original system. Sony will be releasing a list of most of the incompatible games (I don't think it will be a very long list). I'm not sure if (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Rotation Sensors - slightly dissapointed...
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| (...) If you check the legOS group you can see my posts with some extensive analysis of the sensor values for the rotation sensor. There is a patch to make legOS less sensitive to voltage fluctuations and one to debounce the input (which is what (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Odd behavior
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| (...) Or worse, MacOS. I use and love my Macs, but lord they sure don't have much crash protection right now. I just wish there was a way to avoid having to reload the firmware every time it breaks, but I suppose that without an MMU, that's a bit (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Motor output signals.
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| Each RCX motor output is very straight forward. Each motor channel has a two output circuits, one for each side of the motor. These outputs can be set to be either 0 volts, 8 volts or floating, ie; not connected, under firmware control. When the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: sending output to LCD possible?
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| (...) Not possible with the existing RCX firmware. However the RCX 2.0 firmware (currently in early-alpha) does support displaying a variable (and almost anything else) on the LCD. These operations will be available in NQC...but only when targetting (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RXCcc crash
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| As near as I can tell, I must have had the RCX examine tool polling the brick as I tried to download a program. Perhaps one too many windows at a time. Anyway, things got very strange. The brick would not respond to anything and merrily churned (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | "Floating" a motor
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| Is there any way using the Lego Firmware/software to get a output to float? I have a aplication in which a 'braked' motor will not work...it has to be able to pass over various gears, and I only just clued in to that little fact, as to why it did (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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