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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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(...) 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-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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[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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:04:26PM +0000, Ralph Hempel wrote: [...On a TCL program to communicate with the RCX...] (...) Uploading srec files has been without problem for me; it's uploading text that's painful. Does your program uses some protocol (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Can't wait for the official Mindstorms ATAT ???
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So, look at (URL) has made an ATAT with the Microscout ! Sad that there is no picture for the mechanic inside :-( Can someone translate the page in English ? Gonna to try to do the same, and after with the RCX... Christophe (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Actually, you could replace $(shell uname) with $(OSTYPE). Markus. (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Did that solve your problem? I also used mixed case when I registered (Rossz). If your 'commit' problems have gone away, then I will re-register as well. Rossz (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I did some testing today of the new cross-compiler tools I have built on a Windows 2000 system. The bad news is things did not go very well. MAKE would simply stop in the middle without completing the build process. A little newsgroup research (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"David Cawley" <dave.cawley@tesco.net> wrote in message news:Fr69tB.MIK@lugnet.com... (...) You can try Legos-0.2.3 direction at this url (need some url refinish for files link but you should have already almost all files): (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You can try Legos-0.2.3 direction at this url (need some url refinish for files link): ftp://legos.sourcefo...-0.2.3.htm Bye, Paolo. --- Witten's Law: Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later. (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Okay. I have determined the majority of my problems so far are related to command line length... when make variables are expanded in the djecho and/or make they exceed 80 chars(?)... and that is what djecho is for... i have had to create multiple (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I might be able to help somewhat. I use my PC running FreeBSD to talk to my RCX (RIS 1.5). After much heartache I found that if I used "ecu" as my terminal, it worked. I tried everything just to try them, and ecu worked the best. Ecu is old, but it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) Depends on which side of the fence you are on... (...) Hmmm. This is not good. I have ghad very good success with CRT, but I'm going to try a more general solution with Tcl. (...) I stopped supporting it late last year because it only worked (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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