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| (...) Looking at forth code it looks like "HEX 3ae EXECUTE" might end up doing what we are talking about. I tried this with out getting what I expected. I will fiddle more but does the approach seems right? M_CODE(7,``"EXECUTE"...TE,_FLINK) MOV.W (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Announcement: Java in RCX [!]
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| Very good news, everyone: I have managed to write a Virtual Machine that can run Java inside the RCX. I call it TinyVM. Currently you'll probably need Linux to try it out, but it should be easy to port. I'm hoping that many of you will contribute to (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC and RIS2.0 Firmware
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| (...) I found the problem... When verifying the checksum, the ROM scans [8000, cc00). Since it zeros out this area initially, this would indeed reflect the checksum of the firmware, provided it is less than 4400 bytes long (in hex). NQC sums the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: "Floating" a motor
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| (...) to (...) I (...) Robolab 2.0 will allow you to float the motors using a graphical language with the native lego firmware. Once you install Robolab 2.0, go to the Project Install Extras to use the full menus. One advantage of Robolab is it has (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC and RIS2.0 Firmware
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| (...) I've been looking at that for most of today. The 2489 is basically the last packet to go to the RCX, and the error is a "checksum error" coming back from the RCX. As far as I can tell, nqc breaks with any firmware file bigger than 20K (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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| (...) Yup. Remember that the Forth interpreter can't deal with text in special packets. It may be an improvement by limiting the time between characters. I think that ascii-xfr may dump chars without enough time between them... (...) If you use the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: reading sensor values?
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| (...) You can do this by making a very small program. It can be made in any language (RCXCode, NQC) that uses the original firmware. (I'm not sure about the other sets of firmware). The program only needs to set one of the three sensor inputs to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New TinyVM version & bot that learns to rotate
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| I have released a new version of TinyVM (the VM that runs Java in the RCX). Christophe Vanhecke was kind enough to provide a home for TinyVM at: (URL) API documentation is available in the site, in case you just want to take a look at the kinds of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX auto shut-off ?
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| (...) It is possible in RIS and Robolab to change the powerdown set-up option without downloading this value to the RCX. If this is the case, the RCX will continue to obey the last downloaded powerdown value despite what you see in the set-up (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX auto shut-off ?
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| I'm pretty sure that i have used the feature in the software w/o a problem to set the autoshut to another time interval, including never shutting off. I know this doesn't exactly answer the question, but maybe its a bug somewhere that will resolve (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Making Robolab more open
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| That's an interesting idea. I don't have a copy of RoboLab (yet), but I do use LabView 5.1 Some questions: Does RoboLab use the standard firmware? Can you open the RoboLab VI's to get into the sub VI's? Can you install the RoboLab VI's into a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: NQC Ignores based on your pbrink
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| Have you considered adding the firmware build version to that symbol or to a new one? __RCX = 2 __FIRMWARE=3.21 This would facilitate creation of portable, work-around code that would accomodate an end-user who hasn't updated their firmware (or has (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | TinyVM 0.1.2 Released
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| A new version of TinyVM (a JVM for the RCX) is now available from: (URL) usual location is (URL) we were experiencing technical difficulties; it should be up by the time you read this). 0.1.2 has several improvements over 0.1.1, including some (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 PreAlpha SDK
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| (...) Thanks. I've noticed the Firmware File size is HUGE Almost 25K! Ouch... I've sent the following points already to the LEGO feedback. If any of you agree I strongly suggest you do the same. Power in numbers... "This is a comment on the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Battery life question
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| (...) I measured the RCX consumes about 33mA in ROM or Lego Firmware, around 26.5mA under LegOS (due to the sleep instruction in the idle task), and it will use 0.034mA when turned off. No matter how long you sleep in your task, the RCX will consume (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Locks when downloading
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| When I download any .LX file my RCX locks up with the left motor (output A) running and requires that I pull the batteries to recover. I'm not sure what is causing this, though the obvious reason is the use of the new tools I recently built (DJGPP (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NQC Ignores based on your pbrink
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| (...) This first define (__RCX = 2) will happen automatically in NQC when you select RCX 2.0 as the target for compilation. Selecting an RCX 1.0 target will cause the symbol to be defined as 1. (...) I hope I don't have to add a __FIRMWARE symbol... (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RCX not in range or not switched on?
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| Good morning. I've encountered a strange problem, and I'd like to see if you can help me figure out the possible causes. For about a week now the RIS 1.5 software I have installed on my Win95 machine hasn't been working. Every time I download the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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