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(...) A little more information please. Describe the sequence. Start by taking a battery out for at least 10 second so you know the RCX is in a known state. Then verify that the config file is pointed to the right serial port. Then try to download (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I think if you do a direct jump to 0x03ae, it will init memory and essentially start the brick from scratch. At least that's what I read from the internals doc... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Thanks to Jeffrey Hazen, Steve Morris, Paul Addison, Mario Ferrari, and others, I can happily confirm that the new GUI works on Windows NT and Windows 2K. There are still some issues under Linux... I've added more info to the default GUI home page (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics)
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I asked this question under a confusing subject that people may have missed so I am asking again. How does one delete firmware from firmware. I am looking for a solution for pbforth but the question could have be asked for LegOS or Quite C as well. (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) This is completely true and is basically a feature of the C language. Globals aren't technically "initialized" at all. They are just loaded as part of the image. You could consider that they are initialized at compile time. On a workstation OS (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm just getting started using pbForth, and I'm having trouble with the terminal emulator echoing garbage on the screen with almost every key stroke. I've tried all of the suggested terminal emulators with the same results, including hyperterminal, (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I'm a bit bored and this list has been very quiet. So what are you doing with NQC2 everybody? James P (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) need (...) the (...) Maybe...I'll keep you informed :-) In the meanwhile I tested your GUI on a Win2000 machine (version 5.0, build 2195). Same procedure, same positive result. Mario (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Great! Maybe I can get another convert over to the dark side... The script uploads should work well too. And definitely try the SAVE-SYSTEM download. You need to load bigsys.srec firmware. Just type SAVE-SYSTEM after you've added whatever (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Just a naive question: How much difficult would be to use the RF Cybermaster link with the RCX? (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Remember the medium... cheap IR basically stinks for transmission. You get transients from the lights in your room, the outdoors, yadda, yadda. Luis (wishing for RF like the Europeans get ;) (...) ---...--- "Going to California with an aching in my (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Just to confirm that, I successfully installed the GUI in my NT system (NT4.0 Build 1381, SP 5) following Jeff's procedure. It works great, no need of the giveio driver, no problems with the COM port though not having the Admin rights. Thanks (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Jeff wrote... (...) Thanks Jeff, I was worried it might be taken the wrong way after I posted it... (...) I've snipped the rest of the description, but the result is that it works without the giveio driver, if I understand correctly. This is VERY (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) This suprises me. I have never heard of such high packet losses. How does dll do this? With some kind of ack and retry mechanism? dll seems reliable. Of course dll is going in the other direction. (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ok, Ok, I'm an idiot....this is such a polite group that no one ever says RTFM ;>) Well, you did Ralph, but very, very nicely.... This GUI works great in NT (NT4.0 SP3), with very little work (once you start to think). Download and unzip TclTk ( I (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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| | 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)
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