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| (...) Seems like it behaves like a file, no special magic needed once you have the device driver installed (under Windows). AFAIR from what I saw in the Lejos code the differences to the old tower are slight, that there's no more need to wake it up (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware
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| (...) Here's where I'm at for NQC... Windows - The Lego driver does a pretty good job of making the tower look like a comm port but with a different name (\\.\LEGOTOWER1), although I believe calls to set the baud rate/parity/etc fail. MacOS 9 - no (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| I've been meaning to make a web page about a recent experiement of mine. I never get around to it so I figure I ought to just post it now. I was wondering if one could use VBScript to program an RCX via spirit.ocx. So I tried it. And it works great. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: WSH & Spirit.ocx (used to be firmware update)
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| I'm resending this with the file renamed. It seems like a lot of e-mail gateways block attachments that end in .VBS -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Nesbit Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 6:53 PM To: 'Andreas Stabno'; lego-robotics@crynwr.com (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: free vb edition (was: firmware update)
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| "Mathias Uhr" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:200201011456.JA...net.com... hi andreas (...) (german, isbn 3-8272-9081-3) comes a cd with a free vb6 version ("working model edition"). it is fully functional, the only limitation is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: free vb edition (was: firmware update)
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| "Peter Newman" <peternewmancl@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GpC2Dr.A68@lugnet.com... (...) Andy's second line was "It is not supposed to be able to create execuatbles". I can confirm that it doesn't - I used it when it first came out, just (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: free vb edition (was: firmware update)
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| Ben vb 5.0 control creation edition: (URL) pretty well hidden in the VB page. Mike (...) download page with no success. (...) version I downloaded, the option was there to create an exe in the (...) It seemed to create them just fine. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
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| (...) As pointed by Albert Huang, you cannot call kill() with an "invalid" pid. Actually, the comment above kill() in tm.c says: //! kill a process /*! \param pid must be valid process ID, or undefined behaviour will result! The function updates (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
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| Hi Mike, your problem is not because of an error in legOS. But what you do is that you start your subroutines and then you leave main()! Leaving main means that all your allocated memory is freed. The following will do the job: ---...--- cut here (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| ;-) That worked a treat, thanks Michael. (thanks for the other little corrections in the code too). mike (...) Mike, (...) your subroutines and then you leave main()! Leaving main means (...) memory is freed. The following will do the job: (...) (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Rechargeable batteries and the RCX -- Firmware error
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| One or more of the battery contacts could have lost its springiness. Try bending all the contacts in towards the other side of the compartment (not too far!). Also, the contacts that supply the power from the batteries to the circuit board may be (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Wendy, Dick, I'm fighting the same issue on a RIS 1.5. I haven't resolved the problem yet but let me share what I've found. Character echo means only that you've connected to the IR tower. Using hyperterminal, I get perfect echoes, but I get them (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: QuiteC IR interfacing to lego firmware IR
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| (...) Not knowing EXACTLY what is going on with QuiteC, I can only offer some suggestions.... The 0x55 to 0x5D might just be IR warmup goofiness. As far as I know, the RCX really only looks for the FF 00 Not sure what happened to the F7 and 08, but (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Standard LEGO RCX firmware
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| (...) I've forwarded this request on. With the holidays coming up quickly, it may take a bit to get a response. Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO Community Development (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) With the standard firmware, not that I know of. You *can* block all incoming signals by continuously broadcasting. Having a task repeatedly transmit a simple message endlessly means that the RCX can't recieve normal messages, possibly (...) (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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