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Re: The Datalog
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:15:02 GMT
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John Barnes <BARNES@SENSORS.nospamCOM>
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I have noticed a number of comments about the RCX byte code
system, including this thread, which would like to see some sort of
datalog read function.

My question is;

Does Lego have a copyright on the byte code interpretation?

If not, then wouldn't it be possible to use the LegOS development
environment to build a replacement to firm0328 which would include
some extra byte codes for such functions?

I would have no problems using such a combination of NQC version 3
with someone's firm0331 :)

Who knows, perhaps a more direct implimentation of a special array
variable could be included along the lines of reserving 30 and 31. 30
would be the index, and 31 would access the indexed location in a
variable space outside 0 - 31. I could use this tomorrow if it existed!
Heck, I'd go home and start right now!

JB



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  RE: The Datalog
 
(...) I'm not sure about that, but they certainly have disclaimers on the firmware itself, which prevents us from reverse engineering it. Now, the original intent was probably to prevent a competitor from designing a system which was compatible with (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: The Datalog
 
(...) If we could duplicate the firmware's functions for "the standard" and create a "super set" on top of it for other functions we could really make the RCX a powerful beast. Picture this... Firmware with options when installing it. Do you want (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: The Datalog
 
(...) It is difficult to see how they could even think they did. Byte code interpretation was a well used implementation technique for Pascal systems back as far as the 70s. UCSD Pascal being one of the best known examples. I think Visual Basic (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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