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(...) Rosco is correct. The standard NXT firmware uses a completely different execution model than the old RCX firmware uses. The NXT firmware does not provide any mechanism at all for starting and stopping threads. The only mechanism is to define (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The problem is that the standard firmware doesn't support starting and stopping of threads AFAIK. But you can start multiple threads by putting precedes thread1, thread2 in your main thread, when it exits both threads will start getting time (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Besides Precedes and Follows, are there other ways to start additional threads? Specifically, I'd like to start additional threads and then continue the execution of the current thread. I might be misinterpreting this, but it seems that (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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Ok, well, replying to my own message in the best of internet style... I got impatient and starting prodding. After a few hard resets, I came up with the following: Yes, the Get/SetDisplayNormal() permits you to write directly to screen memory. This (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) YES jeff, you need to do your own firmare.. AND it needs to be a form of BASIC!!!!! :) Chris 10 ? clr 20 goto 10 (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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I've been poking around with my NXT, and as usual I've decided to bite off more than I can chew. In trying to discover a way to *unset* pixels on the display without wiping the whole thing, I've been sifting through some of the less-discussed macros (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics)
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I have released a new beta (b21) of NBC with built-in support for the Not eXactly C (NXC) programming language. The sourcecode and the Win32 binary are already up on the NBC website. The Mac OSX binary and Linux binary will be up later this evening. (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The presence of both opcodes comes from the early days of NBC when I was trying to understand the executable file format (before the days of documentation) and I knew that in the NXT-G compiler a clump had both upstream and downstream (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks John - quite clear now. Though I still don't understand why there are 2 different opcodes that can be used for more or less the same thing??? Philo (18 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) linxt - (URL) - (URL) are others that I have heard about but can't find links for (or recall the names of) at the moment. My nexttool utility runs on Mac OSX and on Linux and it can do all kinds of cool things but it is built on top of libusb (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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