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To my dismay, I discovered this morning that the batteries of the RCX were empty. And it's sunday :-( It is possible that I forgot to turn it off, yesterday evening. But aside from this, I use the sequence LCD_CLEAR LCD_REFRESH POWER_OFF to turn the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I've been playing around with a crashy program as of late, and I was curious. If I have a series of cputs(), each of which is immediately followed by an lcd_refresh(), is it possible that the program crashes after a pair of those, yet the string in (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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$OS in DJGPP running on a Windows 95 system returns nothing. :( Paolo Masetti <paolom@pragmanet.it> wrote in message news:Fr97MG.2CE@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Paolo Masetti <paolom@pragmanet.it> wrote in message news:Fr97ML.2FJ@lugnet.com... (...) Yes, don't spend hours on it completely ignoring your wife. It's not health. :) The primary problem I ran up against was when it built the libraries. It would (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: CVS and SourceForge
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That's why I told you to recheck whether or not you were using the pserver. Oh well- back to the beach for me... -Luis(enjoying spring break in Miami) (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't wait for the official Mindstorms ATAT ???
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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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| | 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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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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| | Re: CVS and SourceForge
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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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