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| You just pass an array and give the length, to send it. In theory you can send packets with a size up to 255 bytes (look in this group, the info is in here somewhere), but sending 1 byte has a packet loss of aprox. 1% and 4 bytes aprox. 10%, over (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
| | | | | Re: RCX AC adapter
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| Except when, as has been said before, you get a really good short. (That is the "You could" part - it's still the load that's key, as you say.) Dennis (...) -- Dennis Williamson - Certified Y2K Complacent Bad News: The next millenium starts on a (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | Re: RCX AC adapter
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| If you're talking about a _Lego_ 9V train, it's the same adaptor. Dennis (...) -- Dennis Williamson - Certified Y2K Complacent Bad News: The next millenium starts on a Monday. Good News: You get the day off. (remove .NO and SPAM. to reply) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | Re: RCX AC adapter
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| (...) The current is determined by the load, not by the source. You could hook the RCX to a 9v 60A supply and it would be fine. (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | RE: New pbForth GUI
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| (...) Yup, it's your COM port. Rather than put it in a dialog, which is THAT much more code to write and DEBUG, I've put it in rcxoption.tcl - which you would know if you read the installation notes on the web page...:-) (...) Thanks for more (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | RE: New pbForth GUI
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| I poked about a bit also and found: (URL) 3.html This is one source of both givio.sys, and the instdrv.exe which will register the giveio.sys as a system device driver. Instdrv is a console app which has been adapted from the Microsoft DDK version. (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: local variables
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| (...) I think you're confusing the issue a little bit. LegOS only initializes GLOBAL variables when the program is loaded. So, for example, a global variable declared like: int foo = 4; Will only be initialized to 4 when the program is loaded. If (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
| | | | | Re: RCX AC adapter
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| I've used my AC adapter from my 9V trains and I've had no problems. I think you can you any old adapter just make sure that you don't put too much current into the RCX or bye,bye.... E-mail lego about it, I did once to find out how much current the (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | RCX AC adapter
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| Maybe a stupid question, Is there any reason why I can't use any old 9v AC adapter for my RCX? Thanks, Bob (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | RE: New pbForth GUI
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| Jeff Hazen wote: (...) Me too. I got tired of dinking around with HyperTerminal... I'm not sure at all about an NT installation, so I'm hoping some others will step in here... (...) No, If you unzip the distribution, there should be a .lnk file (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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