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Where can I find an example of using PC-RCX IR comunication? I prefer using windows in the PC. (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | new german "LEGO® Cybermaster + Mindstorms ROBOTICS-Forum"
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Hi, good news for all german-language legoists: there opened a new cybermaster and mindstorm forum at parsimony. adress is (URL) volker (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Setting a different com port w/ frmdl3 and dll
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It appears that you can specify a com port other than the default COM1 for the firmdl3.exe and dll.exe programs for the Windows LegOS distribution package. Does anyone know what the syntax might be? I use COM4 for my IR Tower. Thanks, Dave (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WinNT & legOS
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Hurray!!! I've also just successfully compiled, uploaded, and ran my first legOS app!!! Thanks Rossz and all! lfn003 fixed it! It did NOT work when I used the lfnsrv.dll in Checked.dll (the larger one). It DID work when I used the lfnsrv.dll in (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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Ian Meikle <ian_meikle@nospam.a...lobal.net> wrote in message news:3895DF1C.5D99B3...bal.net... (...) DJECHO simply echos the line to the file. It's special in that the Make program can transfer very long command lines to it via a buffer. This gets (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WinNT & legOS
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Ralph Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:000301bf6cf9$3c...@pro150... (...) I'm running DJGPP GNU Make, the one I put in the legOS for Windows package. Rossz (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WinNT & legOS
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Ian Meikle <ian_meikle@nospam.a...lobal.net> wrote in message news:38974DF8.8B4A42...bal.net... (...) Excellent! I wonder why Makelx wouldn't run properly on the NT system at work? I spent some time porting the makelx code to compile under MS VC++ (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Curious problem with download
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(...) Offhand, I'd suspect that the problem is either interference from lighting in the room, or perhaps your IR tower is 'marginal'. From your tests so far it doesn't sound like the problem follows either a specific computer or an RCX. Minimize the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: [PDF] step-by-step Grabber Arm instructions from legomindstorms.com
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Thanks, Jim, for this fix. I didn't paid attention to this while writting to fast.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim West <Jim@jameswest.com> To: chv <chv@crazyrobots.com>; <lugnet.robotics.rcx...ugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: [PDF] step-by-step Grabber Arm instructions from legomindstorms.com
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Thanks, Jim, for this fix ! (...) directly (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: WinNT & legOS
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(...) Which make are you running? I've had trouble with mks make and long filenames. Now I use Cygwin's make and things are much better... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- The train stops at the train station, The bus stops at the bus station, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WinNT & legOS
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Hello again Rossz, I have downloaded lfn003 and installed it and ALL WORKED OK :o) It build the demo programs (including running makelx). So although the WinNT saga is probably not over, it mow seems to work for me (and maybe some others). Many (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: [PDF] step-by-step Grabber Arm instructions from legomindstorms.com
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FYI... Get rid of the ending slash on the last URL to get there. It should just be: (...) Jim West NIC Team Lead NIC Oracle Developer and DBA in Training NIC Chief Cook and Bottle Washer MCI Worldcom (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) : how to use ?
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(...) Well, i got the definitive answer from Markus 8-). It was in german, so i'll try to translate it: the effect of __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) depends on the calling context: - in leaf functions (that do not call other functions), it makes (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | [PDF] step-by-step Grabber Arm instructions from legomindstorms.com
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Hello, Lego just released ((URL) step-by-step instructions for building a Grabber Arm, for its march contest subject. Unfortunately, they have again provided them as online instructions, in html format. So, I've created a pdf file including these (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | WinNT & legOS
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I was mistaken in thinking the Long File Name utility ((URL) was breaking makelx. The program, makelx.exe, runs perfectly if typed from the command line. When executed out of the make program, however, it thinks the command line is invalid, whether (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) : how to use ?
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(...) Right. The calling conventions of the H8 say that r0-r3 are scratch registers (aka caller saves). However, interrupt handlers must preserve ALL of the registers. So the rcx_interrupt attribute makes that happen. (...) The compiler will only (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) : how to use ?
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hi there, i´m still not really sure when and why to use __attribute__ ((rcx_interrrupt)) my current assumptions: 1 - it should be used for functions that are called AS interrupt handlers, to make sure registers are pushed onto the stack, and (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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legOS under WinNT - the saga continues. I've done further investigation. Long filenames (LFNs) are not fully supported in a DOS shell in Windows NT. I found a utility that enables LFNs here: (URL) it runs fine up to MAKELX. So it looks like the fix (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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I have also tried the make that came with Ming32. This seems to work better, however I get the following: (line numbers added for clarity) 1>>C:\legOS\Demo>make 2>>Makefile:44: .depend: No such file or directory 3>>djecho -o response " -M -O2 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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