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(...) Kekoa, feel free to jump in here... Personally, I think just jumping to the reset vector 0x0000 should do a total cold start, right? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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It would be handy if there was a word that deleted firmware. It is often inconvenient to get at the batteries. At Kekoa I see the opcode but no rom entry point. Trashing the header in memory and jumping to the reset vector might do it. I wonder if (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: More linux feedback. firmware upload doesn't work for me.
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(...) This is wierd. I had it working on my Caldera Linux 2.2 which has TclTk 8.0.4 I'll try again. One of the problems is that I can't seem to get a nice NFS system running here, and I have to FTP the files around... :-( I'll try and make a better (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Firmware download is not working. I'm sorry but I never tried this with the first release. A second problem is that it gives no error message if the firmware download fails. I got suspicious because the download was too fast and the LCD was not (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) o - When will 1.2.0 sources be available? I'd rather be working from current stuff. Does the gui depend on this version of pbforth? o - rcxtk.tcl should have executable permission in the tarball. This can be done with the -p flag to tar (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I'd like to announce the availability of an early trial version of a GUI for pbForth. It's written in TclTk, a free scripting language, but that's transparent to the user. (URL) The GUI runs under Windows and Linux, and as soon as I can find a (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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You are receiving this email because you are on the pbForth mailing list. If you wish to be removed, click on the following link: <mailto:rhempel@bmts...subscribe> I'd like to announce the availability of an early trial version of a GUI for pbForth. (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I'm not suggesting that it isn't hard. Compared to native debugging with printf and gdb in an emacs window it is quite hard. It's just that you build up a bag of tricks after a while or take up application development instead. :-) One of the (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(URL) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) It's amazing, but I get all kinds of comments on how it's impossible to debug systems like the RCX brick. I guess if you're used to deeply embedded systems, figuring out how to let it tell you what's going on is a big part of the magic... (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hello Tobias, (...) Why do you think there's only 1 byte that can be sent? If your data buffer is longer, bytes are sent one-by-one serially in a packet... (...) look into lnp.c and you will see that both lnp_integrity_xxx and lnp_addressing_xxx are (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Actually that's what I was intending but I couldn't remember the words at my keyboard. To make debugging easier I will use parallel words that can be merged in later. I was going to use the following debugging strategy: Put the isr init in a (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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The HOWTO and other legOS archives will be available (until I get it to sourceforge) at (URL) for the people who wrote and volunteered to serve it- the archives now total something like ~100 meg (several different copies of compilers are in there) (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! When using lnp_integrity_write(&data, length), what is the length argument used for? The data can only be one byte long if I understand it correctly. Can I use the length argument to send an additional byte of information? Is there anyway I can (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Sounds good Steve, see notes below for some pointers... (...) Absolutely. All we have to do is enable the interrupts on the receiver throw the chars into a buffer. I'd keep the standard FORTH words that already exist so less system source (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Ralph, I'm getting tired of losing characters going to the RCX on the serial port because forth is busy. It is making my work more complex than it needs to be. If you are not going to do serial port interrupts I will take a shot at it if you give me (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: It's time to release some patches for LegOS 0.2.4
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"Harald Mährer" <hmaehrer@debis.com> wrote in message news:391bcf0d.129529...net.com... (...) (URL) - on my NT i have more than one (logical) drive to keep system, (...) I have cygnwin in my NT partion and legOS in another one. No problem at all. I (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Factor upload script for user extensions
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(...) Ummm, great idea. How about an item that turns into a pulldown list of 1-liners? I've got the X close or AltF4 shell closing capture thing, and I've also got XMODEM working. If I can get enough time, a public beta is in order... Cheers, Ralph (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Ralph, I suggest that you factor a proceedure out of the tcl uploadScript that sends a string to the RCX. This could then be used for additional menu or tcl commands that send Forth code to the RCX. Here is a potential implementation used to power (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: HOWTO going down
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One other thing- this will of course mean that the various other files accessible at arthurdent.dorm.duke.edu will be unavailable. I will try to move as many of these as possible to legOS.sourceforge.net before I lose my ethernet connection, but I'm (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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