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Hi, I was having some problems in a program I'm writing in PbForth and it seems that it could be related to the way I communicate thru IR. I use the Lego remote control. I joined the following code to demonstrate. I use the word 'getHeader' from (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
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(...) It depends: I would not consider it "illegal" :-) :-) :-) I'm a developer myself and love to work in this kind of environment - when one has control over things and understands exactly what is happening. (as opposed to, say, the Windows (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) How well informed is this guy at Toys R Us? If Toys R Us doesn't want to sell the high dollar Mindstorms 2.0 set, they can simply stop buying it--which means that Toys R Us is discontinuing the purchase. Depending on the competence of the Toys (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | ...2 years later... :-) (was: newbie again part 2)
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Hello All, In lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, Dave Baum wrote (almost two years ago, Thu, 17 Jan 2002 00:34:56 GMT -- your words are cherished, Dave! :-): (...) [...] (...) Well, I am not (yet) a Java programmer, but try to become one, and would like to (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC for sale?
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(...) Personally, I am a tiny bit annoyed by this $99 CD-ROM tutorial. Caveat: I haven't seen the actual CD or any accompanying documentation. My slight annoyance is based solely on having looked at the preview on the web. I don't recall ever having (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) I think the problem there is that LEGO can't or doesn't want to get involved in the level of support that it often takes to sell into the educational channel effectively. James (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC for sale?
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(...) In all their sample code they post this little blurb, "Click here for code you can copy into a BricxCC file." James (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Implementation of Installable Timers
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Iain McInnes wrote: [snip] (...) Great idea! (...) In your implementation, would it be possible for the client task to be killed (in the case of a run-away task)... causing the struct to be deallocated... while the struct is still in the linked (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Points to: 'Implementation of Installable Timers'
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Hi, ppl. I posted this one in the wrong place :0 (URL) Enjoy ! Iain. (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Points to 'Design by Contract'
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Hi, Folks, I posted some stuff on an assert() macro - in the wrong place - (D'oH). The thread is here: (URL) Enjoy ! Iain. (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Design by Contract (long post)
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(...) I agree it seems to be the wrong way round. That's the standard implementation. NDEBUG seems to stand for "No debug". One advantage of making it negative, is that you get the assert()s if you don't do anything (ie dont define NDEBUG). BTW, (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: Design by Contract (long post)
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(...) D'oH! Thanks, Tim. I was very careful composing the original post, but added the example in as an after thought - Well spotted. Iain. (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | RE: NQC's future
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(...) Ha Ha, very funny :-) Seriously, Philippe, why not give pbForth a try? I know that NQC works great on both the Spybots and the RCX, and even Cybermaster. But if you're looking for speed, higher precision, lots of variables and generally more (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: NQC's future
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(...) Something I'd like to see implemented in NQC is a mixed-mode multiply/divide, similar to the */ operator in Forth, with an intermediary 32bits product. That would greatly ease precision calculations without requiring major structural (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | RE: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
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<SNIP> (...) It should be illegal to use "Linux" and "straight forward" in the same sentence. Notice, everything after that line uses words like "scattered", "most helpful", "other flavors", "to be added to the kernel [in upcoming release]", and (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: nop in NQC?
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(...) Doh! Now I really feel sheepish. Please forgive my public display of idiocy. John Hansen (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Design by Contract (long post)
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(...) <delurk> The first definition of assert is the correct, standard definition. However there is a slight boo boo in the original post in the line: assert (myptr = malloc (sizeof (mystruct)); Which will delete the malloc when NDEBUG is defined. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | USB Tower range
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Hi, I recently bought the RCX2.0 and I am a little disappointed at the range for the USB tower. Though configured to be at long range I doubt I can implement a range greater then 5 or 6 feet. Is this normal.? Am I missing something.? Paul Reedman (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
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(...) Thanks a lot for the tips. I'm will definitely use the CVS version myself. Thanks again, Jean (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) line is alive and they have plans for it, and at that moment I felt satisfied. The day after my brother Giulio met Brad again along the corridors of the LEGOWORLD and asked him a few more questions. Shortly, Brad confirmed that Mindstorms has (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Design by Contract (long post)
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(...) Hi Iain! (...) Cool! (...) I have a question about this: If NDEBUG is defined, shouldn't it still execute x? That is, shouldn't the code in assert.h (or wherever) be: #ifdef NDEBUG #define assert(x) (x) #else #define assert(x) if (x) else (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Design by Contract (long post)
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Hi, people. The reason for the flood of posts is that I've been trying to get authenticated on LUGNET for the last week :( But as you can see, I'm authenticated now :) On to the topic of this post (sorry for such a long post): I have created an (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | How man Space?
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Hy How many free space has the RCX? I mean, how great can a NQC-Scipt be? I've read in the help-File, that a script mustn't be greater than 16Kb. Is that true? (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Max. Space of RCX?
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Hy@all I've wrote a Programm for Roboter who has to play "Ship sink". The problem is, that the programm doesn't work and i can't find the failure. It's very long, so i shouldn't post it here. I ask if i can send the skript to somebody who has time (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Implementation of Installable Timers
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Hello everybody. I have an implementation of installable timer handlers, and I’d like to solicit some feedback. This is definitely a facility that I’d like to see in BrickOS. The implementation doesn’t have to be my one. But I thought that I’d just (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Hello World !
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Hello everybody. I’ve been fooling around with BrickOS in the last few weeks, becoming familiar with it. BrickOS is very cool. Thank you, those who have made it what it is, and thank you, those who help out those with the common problems (yes, I had (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) You know, it would be nice if people would actually _communicate_ with people. I'd be royally ticked off if the reason the store stopped allocating space for mindstorms products was because someone at the store thought the line was being (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) Well I can't speak for NA, but here in Australia there are 2 suppliers, and up until about 18 months ago neither would sell to the general public, only to schools etc. but now they both have websites and you can order online, and both will (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) I'm certainly not an educator - but they sold to me (here in Texas) with not so much as a blink. I guess you must be right about not competing against other LEGO educational suppliers - that may well be in their contract with LEGO. Anyway - (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
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(...) It’s fairly straightforward to get your development environment setup on Linux. The homepage for the brickos project has documentation but only for debian systems. I use debian but I prefer to use the cvs version rather than the somewhat out (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) Dave, I also have ordered from Spectrum. Nice folks, as I recall. Just way over-priced. Oh well, that's what happens when you stick in a middleman. We have LEGO Direct for direct sales to consumers..... Why not a 'LEGO Smart' division to (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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In lugnet.robotics, David Koudys wrote: . (...) Dave, this summer, Spectrum moved from Aurora to Newmarket Ontario. I used to buy all kinds of part from them. In their 'Early Years' catalog, pgs 22-31, they have all sorts of LEGO but no Mindstorms (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC for sale?
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(...) wonder whether they actually ever mention "BricxCC" directly or whether they simply use it in all their screenshots. John Hansen (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: nop in NQC?
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"John Hansen" <JohnBinder@aol.com> wrote in message news:Hr4HAJ.LIy@lugnet.com... (...) A different measurement scheme gives better accuracy on the 'nop' timing. Just about every opcode takes the same amount of time. Priimarily because there's so (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) I'm sorry, but the person you talked to at Toys R Us was mistaken - MindStorms is continuing. This is not the first post I have seen expressing concern on the subject, and I think it is time to put an end to the myth. There are more MindStorms (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: The end of an all-too-brief era
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Try www.pldstore.com... I'd be very surprised if you can't place an order. As far as calling that company again, what is the worst they can do? Say "No"? Worth a try... Worst comes to worst... form an FLL team, teach some kids how to program robots (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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In lugnet.robotics, Mark Tarrabain wrote: <snip> (...) I hear your pain, Mark. That said, I have purchased numerous LEGO items from Spectrum, from the Technic turntables to additional sensors for my RCX. I mentioned to them that I wasn't part of any (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) Steve is absolutely correct! In fact, I got my 2004 Pitsco catalog and THERE IS NO SIGN THAT MINDSTORM IS GOING BYE-BYE. It is just the opposite; pages 4 thru 21 are loaded with mindstorms products! On page 26, five of the six books shown have (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: The end of an all-too-brief era
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(...) I cannot purchase from Pitsco. That is a certainty. Pitsco does not sell to areas which have regional educational suppliers, and I am located in Western Canada, where the supplier for the educational division of LEGO is Spectrum Education. The (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Are you under the impression that you must be connected to education to purchase from Pitsco? If you are under that impression, it is not true. Anyone with a valid credit card can purchase from Pitsco. If you don't have one, then you are out (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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