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Don't feel unwelcome.... Mac/Mindstorms users are a minority. The Wintel crowd will take an occasional pot-shot, but what does it matter? In fact, I interpreted Michael's comment to be a joking comment rather than an "attack". More along the lines (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | using nqc for first time
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Hi all- Need some help troubleshooting this: I'm trying nqc on the Mac, and so the first thing I did was try the test program that came with it, but I'm getting weird errors. I should preface this by saying that my current setup of cables, IR tower (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Very strange. I've heard of some problems with *long* programs failing to load, but never with something as short as test.nqc. Try the following command and e-mail me the results (dbaum@enteract.com) nqc -d -l -v test.nqc (this will print a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Cool. Thanks for checking this out. I did get one failure, and then one success, and here are the outputs: nqc -d -l -v test.nqc *** Task 0 = main 000 InType 0, Switch 32 00 01 003 InMode 0, Boolean 42 00 20 006 OutDir A, Fwd e1 81 008 OutMode (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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The traces confirm a couple of things: 1) Normally the IR tower will "echo" all data that it sends (just a side effect of the LED blasting out the light and the phototransistor picking it up). In your case there are a significant amount of bit (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Voila! Everything seems to work fine on the modem port! I just assumed it would make no difference. Not only does nqc work, but my RoboLab software now works also. I wonder why? I always thought that these two ports were basically the same - I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) My first guess would be that its a software issue and not hardware. The ports should be nearly identical hardware-wise (unless you have a geoport enabled modem port). It could be that something else (AppleTalk?) is munging with the port. I can (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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