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Are you using gcc-2.95 or the earlier egcs? What's your host machine? I'm running an Intel Pentium (pre-MMX) and Linux and had to specify the additional parameter: --host=i586-pc-linux Not sure whether BeOS is supported where linux is specified (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm afraid that mysterious hangs may be a permanent part of the life of a legOS user- in almost any serious program that I have written, perfectly legitimate code- simple code!- has occasionally caused weird hangs and needed hard reboots. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm not so sure about my problem either. In fact, I'm getting some mysterious hangs much like you describe now that things are working. Maybe I'll try putting in some cputs or similar. -- "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I don't think this was my problem, since other, shorter programs would download fine, just not my 5k monster. -- "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare Mike Ash - (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Bill, this page is captioned "Using and Porting GNU CC". It should give you an overview of the process. (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I saw the same behavior some time ago when I worked on a pretty fat program (about 6KB compiled code). Sometimes it worked OK, then I removed my debug code (some cputs defined by macros) and it hanged miserably... I thought it was some kind of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I think you may have had the same problem that I did, but if you did, you have answered the question yourself. (...) I had a bright light over the tower, and the batteries in the tower were running low. Redirect the light and install a new battery (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Does anyone have directions on how to compile GCC/LegOS. I am looking to get LegOS working on the BeOS but can not get the GCC cofigure command to work. The script ends explaining that my platform is not supported. I am not convinced that the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: ANNOUNCE: Lego::RCX.pm 0.8 (old RCX.pm)
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Todd, Good Idea. I will get this in for 0.9, which should be almost complete except for the the upload/download of software stuff. John C. Quillan (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: ANNOUNCE: Lego::RCX.pm 0.8 (old RCX.pm)
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(...) Awesome!!! Haven't tried it out yet, but *highly* recommend changing the module root name from 'Lego' to 'LEGO' (all caps). --Todd (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | ANNOUNCE: Lego::RCX.pm 0.8 (old RCX.pm)
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All I would like to announce the release of version 0.8 of Lego::RCX.pm. This perl module allows you to communicate with your RCX. It has been developed and tested under Linux, though it most likely will run under other UNIX's. To find out more (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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Well, it looks like I beat everybody to a solution. Except that I didn't. Oh, don't get me wrong, it works now and everything. The thing is, I don't know why. I spent some time today figuring out how to recompile the OS, and doing so. That didn't (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I always feel a bit stupid replying to myself, but I realized I didn't give exactly what happened when the program download failed. When I run dll, it successfully deletes the old program off of the RCX, and then sits there occasionally popping out (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm having a bit of trouble with dll and I was hoping someone kind on this list might be able to help me out. Basically, I have a program that's grown to become fairly large and complex, and I can no longer download it to the RCX. There's one (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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More importantly (to me at least :-) how do we get info about the 2000 FLL season? Is there any information anywhere yet? -Peter "Richard Hamilton" <rhamilton@wis.twc.com> wrote in message news:FqGL36.CH9@lugnet.com... (...) with the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) were (...) Cory Smith sent the following email in response to the above posting: I saw your posting on the rcx newsgroup. What are DCP sensors? Where can I find out about the ones Lego offers? Thanks. Cory Smith I think this question is best (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Our team used Robolab for the 1999 FLL competition and the programming was very easy for the 11 year olds. We noticed several teams who struggled with the limitations of RIS. How can we get the word out that Robolab is a viable alternative to (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Does anyone know of a second source for the new sensors the RCX now supports? These would be the DCP microsense sensors. If you thought the Lego sensors were expensive at $10-$28 USD, the Lego prices for DCP sensors start at $50. They want $95 USD (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) students (...) on (...) I have not found any Robolab solution to printing large programs. Robolab 2.0 has not changed this annoying limitation. I use screen print programs to print Robolab programs, which is not very convenient. (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Robolab 2.0
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Robolab 2.0 is out, and the software is much improved. Robolab 2.0 now supports more programming structures, more sensors (sound, ph, etc.), and the RCX datalogging feature. In my opinion 2.0 now compares very favorably to nqc. Robolab 2.0 is the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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