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| (...) how it worked...then going on to write entirely new software based on that understanding...instead he modified one of Sony's existing programs and posted the result on his web site. Clearly that's not fair - and a clear breach of Sony's (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: rcx 2.0 without power plug !?
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| (...) Actually, it was removed in 1.5 - although *some* 1.0 RCX's were shipped in RIS 1.5 sets. That's how I got my RCX 1.0 so I know that's true. (...) No - not unless it's a *VERY* early 1.5. (...) Yes - you definitely can. So far, all versions of (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Electrical Data Link between 2 RCXs
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| Hi Bernd, When you need it really fast, you sholud use legOS instead of NQC. A program written with NQC uses the LEGO firmware, which is a ByteCode Interpreter. This pogram is interpreted Byte after Byte from firmaware. The firmware executes the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Mmmmmm RCX 1.0
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| (...) Hmmmm....yes. Exactly. Performance wise, all are similar....and capable of handling the RIS 2.0 firmware, and using the USB technology (through the USB tower)..... but 1.0 saves on batteries...yes...through its AC connector. this is really (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: another comparison
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| (...) Now the new LabVIEW NXT tookit 2.0 that includes firmware 1.26 drastically beets the RCX performance ( (URL) ). We repeated the experiment and now the NXT runs the DFT much faster than the RCX with more features: power-spectrum (needs floating (...) (15 years ago, 20-Aug-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RL 2.5 and 2.0 incompatibility
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| A cautionary note for situations where RL 2.5 and 2.0 co-exist as in schools which are in transition to upgrading their software. Be aware that if an RCX has RL 2.5 firmware, programs downloaded from RL 2.0 will only go to slot #3. So additional (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | LegOS does not work on 1.5 RCX
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| Hi I installed the win version of legOS and downloaded the firmware legOS.srec to both my RCX's. The older RCX from a 1.0 set seems to accept .lx files OK the first time after the firmware is downloaded. The new version will not accept any .lx (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Varying the output voltage?
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| This is what I noticed, comparing the two systems with BrickOS One thing that I noticed was at the lower voltages the needle on my multimeter wavered around a little and it tended to steady at the higher power levels All of the readings were taken (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: list/group merge (was RE: Newbie Question.. FAQ?
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| (...) My only concern is that there is not enough traffic to warrant a split. Reverse engineering will die down after a few more months - the firmware is 95% finished as far as I'm concerned, with only the ROM and new firmware really remaining - (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: "No reply from RCX" with nqc...
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| (...) Try this: nqc -v -raw 10 and then also this (substituting the right filename) nqc -v -firmware <filename> and post the results. The "-v" option turns on some logging that may help us figure out what is wrong. (...) The firmware file is (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: LEGO Purism
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| (...) One way to do this, without adding any hardware is to check the internal battery voltage. I'm not sure if it's possible with the standard firmware v2.0 (it wasn't possible with 1.0/1.5) but you can do it with replacemet firmware, like BrickOS (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robotics in Aussie
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| (...) Yes, this appears to be so. There might be some secret sommand to gain more access to the CM, but I doubt that you can change the entire firmware in it, especially since the CM lacks a RAM chip on the circuit board, as the RCX does. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NQC - ASM command
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| What functionality does the ASM statement give? Does it allow you to directly specify firmware opcodes or is it lower level than that? There are two things that I would like to do. One is to have direct access to the speaker, and the other is to be (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | What to use? brickOS? leJOS? pbForth?
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| Im a programmer so language isn't an issue. What's the status of these firmware replacements? I've looked around them some and I like BrickOs but I don't see any functions in there for the IO IR Port on the RCX! Is it just a better bet to stay with (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | BrickOS on Mac OS X (restarted ?)
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| 11 months ago, there was a thread in this newsgroup dealing with the implementation of BrickOS on Mac OS X. I was just wondering whether the situation had changed since then. I've downloaded M. Zapp's port of the GCC cross-compiler and tools, have (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | I know Kung Fu!
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| err, I mean: "I know NQC"... NQC for RCX2 firmware that is. I opened my first RIS set on sunday night, built the rover and played with some simple touch sensor stuff. I did all the challenges for the rover on monday, at this point I basically knew (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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