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The main LegOS site has some MAJOR dead links! Does anyone have a mirror I could use? I need the Windows version of the cross compiler, etc. A LOT of links were dead...probly because it was a university server, and they all go down for the summer. (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | [Java] TinyVM for Windows available
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Hello everyone, There's now an edition of TinyVM that runs on Windows, and pressumably other platforms (its tools are pure Java). It was developed by a team led by Dr. Donald Doherty. What they have done is really cool. You can get TinyVM CPE from: (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Questions about robolab
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Hello, My name is Mieke Nuus, I am working for the production Department of University ICESI in Colombia and I am interested in using Robolab for the students of Industrial Engineering. During the course Operations Management we are trying to make (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Help with Terminal Emulator
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(...) At first look, I thought this looked like a baud rate problem. But with Ralph's program (at least on my machine), you can't really screw up....the baud rate is set in rcxutil.tcl, and overrides whatever you do in the control panel "ports" (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | IR communication PC <-> brick with NQC
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Hi there ! For an educational project here at university we want to control a brick (1.0) based robot with ir based communiaction over serial connection. We want to use the Win Hyperterminal to control the robot. Has anybody here some information or (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Help with Terminal Emulator
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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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| | RE: How do I delete firmware from firmware?
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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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| | More info on pbForth GUI
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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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| | How do I delete firmware from firmware?
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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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| | Re: local variables
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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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| | Help with Terminal Emulator
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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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| | RCX2 What are people doing?
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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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| | Re: New pbForth GUI
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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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| | RE: New pbForth GUI
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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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| | RF vs IR link
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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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| | Re: lnp communication question
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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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| | Re: New pbForth GUI
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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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| | RE: New pbForth GUI
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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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| | Re: lnp communication question
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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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| | RE: New pbForth GUI
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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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