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| Hi, This is a great idea. I was just wondering if you meant to make a replacment firmware to accomplish this or just write a program? I would be extremely interested in this project. Thanks Nicolas Gauthier (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) [Revisiting and older thread] it's interesting to note what Apple has done recently... If you bought an original G3, then you can use it with a G4 CPU. But: If you've downloaded and installed the recent ROM update from Apple, you can no longer (...) (25 years ago, 5-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What´s the memory for the RCX?
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| (...) The RCX doesn't actually have a hard-drive or flash memory or even EEPROM. It stores its core information in a 16K ROM, which is loaded into a 32K RAM, which is cleared out when you remove the batteries. When you download a new program or new (...) (25 years ago, 12-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| If all you want to know is the output then the RCX will display that - using the View button to show the sensor input you're interested in. If you want to play pretty noises the only alternative I can think of (and this is ugly) is along the lines (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| The recent discussion about the Scout got me to thinking of a type of robot programming that would be really cool, really simple and intuitive, and really easy to implement. I'm not sure what to call it, but I'm sure someone's probably thought of it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Lego challenge !
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| (...) light (...) in (...) able to do anything out of them. (...) Unfortunately, the default RCX firmware doesn't support arrays, either. Also, the assertion that you can simply follow a wall in order to traverse an entire labyrinth actually depends (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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| Looks real nice on the PC side, Markus, but- where is the source for fast.srec? Was that a deliberate omission? Or just a mistake? I'd really like to look at what is in there, especially considering the small size of the .srec. Let us know... -Luis (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Not at all ;-) fast.srec works like this: - load new image, storing it immediately behind fast.srec - fix stack pointer, you'll start new firmware anyways - relocate a small routine immediately below SP - call that routine - relocate the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Robot lab users, Does the icon based system of robot lab compare well to the firmware system? Would you think it work as well with young children as firmware seems to? Does anyone know what the new advantages of the new 1.5 are? I know the group had (...) (25 years ago, 25-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Dave, Thanks for all the comments in the thread. As I have not looked at the API supplied by the firmware I did not realise that the NQC api was such a close match. Adding the functions as you have suggested is a very neat solution. It is nice to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) The URL is: (URL) in the nick of time? The original firmdl.c was dated 10/3/98. It is currently 10/3/99 (PDT at least). This was not planned! Like firmdl.c, firmdl3.c is a single file joined from smaller ones for simplicity. I will link a .tgz (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) If there's interest in a stand-alone firmware downloader running on the Mac, please let me know. I can certainly add the approriate quad-speed stuff into NQC, and can also make a stand-alone version if Mac users are using pbFORTH or something (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) Ah, so the infamous d2 opcode is finally fully explained. What the d2 opcode did was discovered a while back when the firmware was disassembled, but people could only guess as to why Lego put such an opcode into the RCX. It was never connected (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) Erm, hrm, well... the reason I didn't ship it yet is that it won't compile with any released version of legOS. In order to gain full configurability, I had to set up a seperate directory structure, with its own include tree and stripped down (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| So it seems that the spirit.ocx can't utilize the full potential of the firmware. Have any idea why LEGO didn't that way? What is the main functionality that the firmware provides but the spirit.ocx won't support? -- et Dave Baum (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I am curious to clarify something. The NQC documentation states that an NQC program can have up to 5 tasks (I think that's the right number). In addition, the brick itself has the 5 program slots. Are they related or is it a coincidence of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) [mlnoga@mauve mlnoga]$ make firmdl3 cc firmdl3.c -o firmdl3 firmdl3.c:146: rcx_comm.h: No such file or directory firmdl3.c:569: srec.h: No such file or directory make: *** [firmdl3] Error 1 Seems to me we're both getting a little hasty here (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Scout Revisited
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| Hi all: I just got a Scout today in the Robotics Discovery set. Cool beans....about the second thing I did was take it apart....two touch sensors, two motor outputs, IR port looks like it indeed wraps around, and in fact I confirmed this with rcxCC. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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