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(...) Hi Steve, why are pbLua BT-states for NXT->NXT and NXT->PC marked as "NOT YET" ? Thanks for your work Bye Christian (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: The standard NXT firmware & the case of the missing opcodes
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(...) Could you, please, confirm, that the latest version of NBC then translates the following two commands with three arguments listed in the NBC manual: shr shl to the correct new opcodes of the enhanced firmware (depending on the type of the (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: Update: Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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I just updated a bunch of things on the NXT Software page. (URL) to everyone who has posted updated stats. Steve (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: pbLua Beta 13c Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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(...) I've clocked some of the blocks in 1.1 to compare against similar measurements I did in 1.0, and find a speed increase of rouhgly 30-40% or so. Some blocks do even better than this, but some don't speed up as much. There's almost certainly a (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: pbLua Beta 13c Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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(...) These numbers are quite good. pbLUA is fast. Walt: thanks for doing the analysis. Now that NXT-G 1.1 is out, I wonder how fast it runs. Faster execution performance was one of the features in this release. Perhaps someone can do this (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | pbLua Beta 13c Team Hassenplug NXT Software Comparison Results
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The Team Hassenplug web site has an NXT Software Comparison at (URL) to help people compare features of different programming languages. The pbLua Beta 13c distribution includes steveTest.txt which was written by Ralph Hempel so pbLua could be (...) (17 years ago, 30-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: already stumped by NXC :(
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Maybe you just need an NXT browser (universal binary; bluetooth only): (URL) (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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OK, I've already found part of the answer (shortly after posting, of course...). It appears that the "nbc" executable is both the NBC and the NXC compiler. I still can't find any documentation for how to use it, but if you invoke it with a "-help" (...) (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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OK, NXC sounds great, but I can't for the life of me figure out where to obtain it, or how I would use it once I had it. Note that I'm on Mac OS X, so (for example) the tutorial by Daniele Benedettelli doesn't do me any good, since it only describes (...) (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Newbie Q's about development environments
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Thanks, everyone, this is very helpful. (Thanks to Steve especially for that very handy comparison table.) I should have mentioned up front that I'm using a Mac, so that rules out a couple of otherwise interesting options. But NXC looks like a good (...) (17 years ago, 29-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NYC Mindstorms NXT Meet-up
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I have the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT ROBOTICS SET and since I'm so "into it", my father and I were thinking we could start up a Lego MindStorms NXT Meet up group/club in New York City where we could meet once a month (or every other month), build, (...) (17 years ago, 27-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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(...) And even beyond this, John has added some enhancements to the FW, so that it will target the standard FW or the modified FW that John has built things into. Correct, John? (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Newbie Q's about development environments
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(...) NXC provides all the features available to you in NXT-G, including all the items you mention, plus many that you cannot access in that programming language. It is freely available and it targets the standard NXT firmware. John Hansen (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Newbie Q's about development environments
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If you go to Steve Hassenplug's site ((URL) you'll find a comparison of the various text based programming environments including NXC, ROBOTC, LUA, and JAVA. These solutions are all virtual machine based. ROBOTC has the fastest execution speed of (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Joe, This may not answer your question, but hopefully, it will help narrow the field... (URL) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi all, I recently got an NXT and have been having a blast. The iconic programming environment is driving me up a tree, however. So I'm looking for something else, but I'd like to avoid evaluating them all -- thus I turn to you for advice. I'm also (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: mindstorms sdk
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John, I regret to admit that, between work and this, 16 hrs a day and 7 days a week, I got so frustrated that files were deleted... I won't have time to reproduce it until next weekend. To put it shortly.... nxc_guide.pdf .. 3.13.3.... (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: The standard NXT firmware & the case of the missing opcodes
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(...) If you download the test_release.zip that I uploaded late last night you will be able to use these new opcodes (after installing the enhanced firmware in lms_arm_jch.zip) in both NBC and NXC programs. Here is some sample NXC code: task goofy() (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: mindstorms sdk
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(...) Unfortunately, I have verified beyond any possible doubt that the comm module offsets in NBCCommon.h (as well as the offsets for all the other modules) are correct. I had really hoped that there was a bug here. What I did to verify the values (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: The standard NXT firmware & the case of the missing opcodes
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(...) I don't think I ever got around to mentioning this here, but a long time ago I implemented all of the above opcodes in my NBC/NXC enhanced standard NXT firmware. I implemented all of the shift opcodes so that they take 3 parameters rather than (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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