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You have to include the code as part of the main message (paste in the text). Lugnet doesn't allow _any_ attachments. Dennis (...) -- Dennis Williamson - Certified Y2K Complacent Bad News: The next millenium starts on a Monday. Good News: You get (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi, thank you Dave for the new version 2.2 a1 of NQC. I 've done some tests because I want to display some messages. Have a look to the attached test1.nqc. It seems that there was something wrong with my last mail. I try it once more. Now there (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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The following word has unexpected behavior: : off ." off" CR CR POWER_OFF ." on" CR ; I see the output when it turns off. when I turn it on I see nothing on the serial port. It finally appears when I type anything at the terminal. The character I (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) There were three changes with respect to firmware downloading: 1) I now only checksum through address 0xcc00 to match behavior in the ROM. This was interfering with downloading large firmware files (such as the 2.0 firmware). 2) A bug in fast (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Won't work -- LugNET doesn't accept attachments. (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi, thank you Dave for the new version 2.2 a1 of NQC. I 've done some test because I want to display some messages. Have a look to the attached test1.nqc. Ralf (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Ok. New nqc-alpha RPMs on (URL). If you downloaded the older release, I suggest re-installing the stable version and then adding the new alpha package. PS -- I'd appreciate reports of systems on which these RPMs work. I just tried it on Mandrake (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Matthew Miller schreef: (...) Great :-) BTW was something changed in the NQC 2.2a1 release that downloading firmware all of the sudden DOES work correct? In 2.1r2 when using -fastfirm it hung after a few blocks. Using -firmware worked OK, the (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Cool. As of rpm 3.0.3, the obsoletes tag accepts versions. (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) There is an "obsoletes" tag I could set on the final release. (So nqc final obsoletes nqc-alpha and nqc-beta.) But I need to check that it works with versions -- I wouldn't want nqc final 2.2 to obsolete nqc-alpha 2.3. (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Matthew Miller schreef: (...) Excellent work! With this release the firmware download finally works for me without errors :-) (...) It might be nice indeed, but with installing NQC 2.2 final it would have be able to delete both 2.1r2 and 2.2a (not (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Linux build / RPMs available from (URL). I haven't updated the man page yet but will work on that soon. Q: would it be worthwhile to construct the alpha (and even beta?) RPMs such that they can coexist on the same machine with the stable (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Preliminary NQC support for RCX 2.0 is now available in NQC version 2.2a1. Its in the beta test area of the NQC site: (URL) have been a lot of changes internal to the compiler itself, and RCX 2.0 support is only partially complete at the moment, but (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc) !
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(...) Pfff. As if that could possibly be important. If it isn't an object-oriented client-server architecture in Java++, it can't be serious :-) (...) If I read the source correctly, memory is allocated sequentially, and in my image I've got SOURCE (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Nope, the memory is allocated linearly from the end of the image. The current image size is 12 or 13K. New dictionary entries and ALLOTed memory are interspersed as they occur. NOTE WELL that there is a subtle bug in the RCX ROM routines when (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I believe that. 32k of RAM is a luxury for forth. That's another thing people don't generally understand about forth, they way it effectively compresses runtime software. I've heard of ram reductions of a factor of 5-10 for forth when compared (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Of course, but also currently not very available. But i still would like to fix this problem, or at least find the reason. Sporadically, i'm working or better say thinking about an enhanced version of lnpd, but i think this doesn't make much (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Umm, I mean cover the tower and the RCX with a box.... :-) (...) No, Ernst's idea has a preamble byte for the transfer, and then the RCX grabs all of the chars and sums them. If the sum is wrong, then it NAKs the packet and the host sends it (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I missed that. What do you mean by simply covered. (...) No surprise there. I implemented XMODEM a long time ago on a spectrometer. I don't remember the details but obviously it stayed with me. Besides all protocols tend to look the same at (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I have beta quality Tcl code that sends an SRECORD firmware imge up to the RCX (fast or slow) and has basic terminal capabilities. It also strips comments and whitespace out of files as they are uploaded to reduce the time. I'd like to put a (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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