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Thank you all for the help. Now I can see things much better! Now that the Windows version finally works, I will be able to experiment a little... A thought: IMHO, one of the things that should be very high on the "to do" list is documenting legOS. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes, I tested it and it worked on my Win98! Great work!! Thanks! (...) Do you mean that the kernel can be rebuild on Windows? Which parts/utilities cannot be rebuilt? best regards, Vlad (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) There isn't any practical limit - symbol storage is allocated dynamically and the lexer grows its buffer as needed, so identifiers may be as long as you want (until you run out of memory) and every character is significant. This isn't the most (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Linux builds of NQC are now available in tar.gz and RPM format at: <URL://www.mattdm.or...orms/nqc/> including the new 2.1.b3, as well as the stable 2.0.2 release and some docs packaged nicely. To the best of my knowledge, these binaries work (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) They will ALL work. The difference is the size of the motor and it's speed/torque. There are a few good sites that explain the motors. Dean (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I see there are several lego motors (9V, micro, and mini). Which work with the RIS RCX 1.0? What is the difference between the three? thanks in advance, jeff -- jeff canar m.a. - project coordinator dept of psychology - illinois institute of (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: NQC 2.1 b3 released
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(...) Works great with RcxCC now! Uwe (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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For those of you overwhelmed by the work involved to get a viable legOS developement system on the Windows OS, legOS for Windows is now available. If you only wish to write dynamic downloadable programs for the RCX, this package is all you need. If (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Usually there is some compiler rule that states: identifiers must be unique within the first _____ characters. That is, long variable and other identifier names may be allowed to be quite long, but they must be unique somewhere in the first X number (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: legOS for Windows Finished!
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(URL) I haven't tested it myself, but WinlegOS 0.2.3 is now online. Many thanks are clearly due to Rossz for making this happen. If someone wants to volunteer to write up a quick description of it's use, let me know, and I'll post that along with (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Trying to understand dynamic loading
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(...) You can't run multiple downloaded programs at once, but you can have several programs installed and pick which one to run. Each program can have many threads. (...) Yes, the compiled files depend on the reloc information for the kernel. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) i'm surely not the definitive person to answer this questions, so don't take the follwowing 100%'ly: Yes there is a loader. It's activated whenever a certain kind of packet arrives on LNP addressing port 0. The loading of the program requires (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes (...) Yes (...) I have not tried it and the downloader task seams to be disabled while a program is running. I'll hope, i can find time to read the source :) (...) Aehhhhh yes, maybe, i think so. .) (...) Yes Greetings Carsten ps: (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! I have given QC a try and noticed that after shutting the RCX off and restarting it, one does not go back to the QC application, but the ROM routines are in control. I suppose some vectors have to be adjusted in order to not let that happen? (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi! Could anyone please explain a little how the dynamic loading facility works in legOS? I don't seem to get at full grip on it... and I can't test it either, right now... Is there a loader on the RCX? Can apps be downloaded to the RCX whithout (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NQC 2.1 b3 released
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Will try to have linux builds/rpms up at <URL://www.mattdm.or...torms/nqc> (I'm considering setting up nqc.mattdm.org as a more easy-to-remember URL...) within the next few days. Would be right away, but I'm on vacation and away from good net (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: legOS for Windows Finished!
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(...) Tomorrow is a bad day, but expect it to be up and announced by midnight (EST) at the latest. -Luis ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | NQC 2.1 b3 released
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No new features - just a few fixes and tweaks: * output files now default to current directory rather than next to source * fixed the __SCOUT bug * fixed the RcxCC problem - two part solution: 1) trailing directory delimiters are now optional on -I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: legOS for Windows Finished!
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mike mcfarlane <mcfarlane_mike@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fot34E.JA4@lugnet.com... (...) I'll send it off to arthurdent on Monday morning. When Luis has the time, he'll make it available and (hopefully) let everyone here know of its (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: New to RCX -- A couple of questions
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(...) As a specific website, not to my knowledge (although some of us are trying to create a bit of one over at the WikiWeb), but that doesn't mean there aren't people or sites that can answer questions. Try clicking around; start with the sites (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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