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(...) ld in the binutils) does not build correctly in LinuxPPC. ld gets all sorts of errors about 'relocation truncated to fit.' I've had the same results with egcs and gcc-2.95, which is making me suspect binutils & ld. Another list member had the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Les, I've been advocating gdb for quite some time now, great to hear about your efforts. Les Smithson schrieb: (...) My manual says opcodes 0x57nn are unallocated on H8/300. Could this be a Super-H opcode? H8 gdb seems to be tinted in favour of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Mindstorms uses an ActiveX control called SPIRIT.OCX to communicate with the IR tower. As far as I know, it only opens the COM port when some application is actually using the .OCX, so the port should be available for use if you're not running (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) From what I've heard, the gcc port to the mac is extremely old and ugly, and nobody's putting in the effort to make a better one. I see little point in making one now with MacOS X virtually right around the corner. Although now that I think (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi All. I've been thinking about how gdb can be used to debug legOS programs. I've hashed most of it out, but one thing has me stumped -- how can I do a software trap on a H8300? I'd like to hear any suggestions as to how I can get round this. The (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Martin Cornelius schrieb: (...) You'd need make, too. The configure scripts for those gcc, binutils and make will probably also require a shell of some variety. If there is a binary distribution of native gcc, make and bash for the Mac, building the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Michael, have you rebuilt lnpd with the transceiver.c i sent you ? The collision problem should completely go away then. I could also send you a statically linked version of my latest version of lnpd, just to check it isn't a compiler problem. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) well, actually legOS wasn't ported, because legOS is an OS for the RCX. What was ported to windows, but AFAIK mostly not by the legOS developers, was the compiler used to build legOS, speak: gcc for the Hitachi 8300 processor. Additionally (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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If you have a palm pilot, you can get the info you want using BrickRemote. Mike Kory Dave Baum <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote in message news:dbaum-532A81.01...net.com... (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Actually, NCQ on the mac just works fine. LegOS works fine under FreeBSD which works and install's fine under the VirtualPC (Just from a walnut creek cdrom). Linux works fine under the VirtualPC as well, but none of the install disk's I tried (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I got my Mindstorms this summer, and I've been subscribed to the list since around the same time. Since then I've been playing around extensively with NQC. I haven't attempted to make the jump to legOS so far for two reasons. First, I have a Mac. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks for you help Martin. I tried the uart stuff with no change except for this: From further testing I realised that the data that the IR Tower is sending is been recieved by the RCX (woohoo) even though a collision is reported for every sent (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Lego has just revealed the two new expansion sets at (URL) Exploration Mars : over 150 LEGO pieces No camera, but challenges available if you own one - Ultimate Accessory Set: 45 LEGO ® PIECES, INCLUDING: 1 REMOTE CONTROL 1 TOUCH SENSOR 1 ROTATION (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Well! A kind soul pointed me to: (URL) has a neat Winamp plugin that allows the program to be controlled by the serial port. Now I just need to convince the IR tower to play nice with others. The plugin tries to open Com 2 (where my tower's plugged (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Both firmdl3 and dll should honor the environment variable RCXTTY. On Unix, you should probably set it in your .bashrc or .profile, like this: export RCXTTY="/dev/ttyS1" On Windows, you'll want to put this in your autoexec.bat: set RCXTTY=com2 Hope (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! How does one configure 'dll' to work with the tower connected on COM2? firmdl has a command line option, but I cannot find one for dll.... thanks for any help Vlad (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Good idea - also works well for MacNQC. I'll add it for the upcoming 2.1 release. Dave (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Why was egcs chosen over gcc? It is my understanding that the egcs extensions have been incorporated back into gcc as of version 2.9.5. Also, egcs development has been discontinued. I'm curious because I am working on a DJGPP (32-bit DOS) port of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Dave, How about doing the total and including it in the code listing? That way those of us that use RcxCC will be able to see it for more than a flash on the screen. (The download is only visable for a short time and then the window closes.) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: (fwd) Re: patch for lnpd ( Collision problem in far-mode )
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(...) Great! (...) No problem! :-) Of course it's better to keep everything in one place. Did you get some PHP-pages running for the documentation? I started with it, but could not finish due to lack of time... But I wil be happy to contribute. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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