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As the page is in Japanese, did you saw there is a movie : (URL) ? It is 'just' the ATAT walking by itself... Anyone started to build one with your lego parts ? Something difficult actually, no ? There is some ways I think to build new generation 4 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Windows 2000
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(...) 2000 (...) permits. I can't figure why you are spending your effort with DJGPP... Why do not concentrate on mingw? I think it can be the right choice both for Win9x than for NT/2000... It seems a little harder to port compared to cygnwin, but (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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(...) I already modified my utils Makefiles for using $(OS) that for Windows NT gives "Windows_NT" (and, now, I'm ready to commit :-) ... ), but I don't know how $(OS) evaluate for Win9x. $(shell uname) does not give "MSDOS" under cygnwin: it gives (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: CVS and SourceForge
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(...) re-register (...) No, that wasn't the problem... :-) But... Ta-da.... Now I can commit!!!! :-) My problem was that I checked-out using :pserver:*... As anybody knows (I don't) CVS marks the first login-method/root in a file ("CVS/Root"), so (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Expand your RCX,Scout? ports!
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[Follow up to lugnet.robotics] Finally! I have finished the web site for explaining how to create the (MS)2 Expander! (Mindstorm Motor/Sensor Expander) A text byte from my site... "I'm very happy to announce that my latest project the '(MS)2 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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(...) That doesn't work with the DJGPP Make program, unfortunately. Rossz (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) Yup. Remember that the Forth interpreter can't deal with text in special packets. It may be an improvement by limiting the time between characters. I think that ascii-xfr may dump chars without enough time between them... (...) If you use the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) huh? Do you mean it just writes text to the RCX without any synchronization or checksums? Then how is it going to be an improvement over a plain ascii upload using e.g. ascii-xfr? (...) But then you can't use those constants (i.e the words, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Replacement for IR Tower
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Actually, there is a whole newsgroup devoted to using a PlamPilot as the controller. lugnet.robotics.palm I have an Apple Newton 110 that I would love to get more use out of (I use it to track projects and my time involved in them now). -_eric (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) That's because the SREC upload uses the native upload code in the RCX ROM. It works really well but has to send each byte as a pair with the bits inverted. Also the header and trailer have to be added. The result is that it would be impossible (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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