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I checked in a patch to config.h last night that had too many whitespaces and it broke the build. Sorry. I've fixed it now. Luis ---...--- "Going to California with an aching in my heart. Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello Colin, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Colin Ryan" <colin.ryan@cs.tcd.ie> ha scritto nel messaggio news:394758BE.3DEA88....tcd.ie... (...) I'm working to a porting of lnpd for Win32, but it's not finished yet... Bye, Paolo. --- Indecision is the key to flexibility. (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi All, Apologies if this should be obvious., but I'm curious as to how I can build a windows based LNP application, can it be done? I see that most LNP discussions to date are Linux and LNPd oriented, which would lead me to believe that my only (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Have you already tried with a new 9V battery in the IR tower? Antonio (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Ah...progress. I have finally started tracing the function calls. Did I mention my head hurts? :-p Seriously, what I found was in the 0.2.2 on Windows Instructions, number 8 says "Change the CINC variable definition in legOS\Makefile.common to (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Colin, what version of legOS did you install? -- Gary (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have tried both Andi Scharfstein´s and Reinis Kanders´ recommendations and everything seems ok but there was no improvement... The comm port works fine with my PalmPilot craddle but not with my IR tower...Does anyone else have another (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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From NASA Tech Briefs: (URL) parts of code can be categorized and quantified in selectable ways. Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama Forth Source Code Analysis Tool Set (FSCATS) is a computer program that provides a wide range of capabilities for (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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How do you upgrade the RCX firmware? Did you installe the RIS 2.0 alpha SDK? (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Check your BIOS settings to see if those ports are enabled, maybe instead of auto set them manually in BIOS. Maybe soft reset is not enough to reset the port, but I doubt it, just to check it, unplug your box for couple of seconds. "Federico (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi ! I've added the compiled version of winlnp to (URL) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have changed my computer and it is imposible to get my IR tower up and running again. I have used my I tower with my old Pentium 233mmx/win95 with no problems at all (I have used the original lego software / NQC /WinlegOS). After changing my (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Getting things like Timer[0] = 100; to work while still allowing if (Timer(0) < 100) { } is a lot harder than I had anticipated, so I'm punting on array-style setting of the various RCX source (such as Timer(), UpperLimit(), etc). There are (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hello! I just bough RIS1.5 and updated firmware to 0301.0326, so I guess it is essentially RIS2.0. I played around with the pscript and it seems to be pretty nice, but I also noticed that NQC beta release claims to support RIS2.0. So I was wandering (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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K&R has a very simple itoa implementation that you can copy if LegOS's libc doesn't already have itoa. alex "Michael Marklew" <mike@idl.net.au> wrote in message news:Fw13p2.5yq@lugnet.com... (...) other (...) string in (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) My pleasure. You should really thank Professor Michael Littman, who gave me the time to do it in the first place :) (...) This is what occurred in the 0.1.x series of legOS. (...) In the 0.2.x series, you are expected to load the legOS.srec (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi All, I've just built and successfully compiled legOS on NT 4.0, it is thanks Luis Villa and his online instructions, that this was possible - much appreciated Luis. Hence, when I type" make --unix", the compilation process completes with a few (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I am having an anoying problem. I want to format a string made up of other strings and integers. Normally I would do something like this sprintf(txt,"Num=%d String=%s",number,text) At the very least does any one know how to do covert an integer to a (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) In Unix-ish systems, that style of error message means that it is being generated by the program yada/yada/ld. So, what is happening is that ld.exe is unable to find crt0.o, whatever that is. (...) This is rather odd. /legOS/include/config.h (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help with make in Windows
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Luis, Thanks for the info. I do have Win 95 and tried installing there ... same errors. Then, I tried the Windows install using cygwin. I've gotten to the end part where you type "make --unix" While it did compile, there were errors along the way. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Infrared range of RCX
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Hi all. I've been experimenting with the range of the Infrared communication between RCX's. I noticed that RCX #1 could send a message to RCX #2 at a distance of about 80 feet. However, RCX #2 could only send a message to RCX #1 at about a distance (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: how detect other RCX robots with light sensors?
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Some of our students did something similar to this with LEGO lamps on the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Gary- Unfortunately, I believe that Rossz's tools are known not to work with NT/w2k. The problem is with the DJGPP toolset itself, not with Rossz's work. If installing on win95/98 is not an option, you may want to take a look at (URL) are (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) can (...) Oh yes, I'm using GNU tools for windows. Now (for a couple of days I was busy in a HW upgrade for my system), I'm working to make lnpd works on Win32 (client lib part already quite OK, server part need to be tuned-up). Code already (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Help with make in Windows
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I have LegOS 0.2.3 installed and, thanks to instructions by Rossz Vamos-Wentworth I've gotten quite far down the path of getting the software to work. The firmware works fine and I can upload a demo .lx and have it work fine. However, I can't get (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thank you very much! It will be thoroughly tested this tuesday. It was exactly what was needed to get our project running smoothly again. Up until now, I was worried that we'd have to switch platforms in midproject. Torkel Yannis Jeannotat (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yannis, if space is a problem for pre-compiled tools, my task for Monday is the re-organization of the legOS archives at legOS.sourceforge.net. You are certainly welcome to get space and access there if you want. (...) Paolo, if that is in (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Yannis- That's great! To be honest, I've never written a single line of code for Windows, so I can't be certain, but it looks very nicely organized and pretty straightforward in its interface. I'm sure someone will find a use for it, even if the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) that (...) Great job! But, please, give us a pre-compiled version of .dll too... VC++ is not a free compiler... ;-) I was working to a lnpd porting to Win32 (quite finished indeed), but I can stop if your version is already finished and (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, I spent some time working on an ActiveX for LNP communication and I think that may be of interest for some of the users of this group. You can find the sources at (URL) send me all your comments. Thanks, Yannis (24 years ago, 11-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Not really a stack problem, just a control flow issue. On suggestion for the event handling was something like this: begin_events(EVENT_MASK, event_handler); // put code that executes during event monitoring here end_events event_handler: // (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: using the <remote> commmand in NQC
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(...) Those are documented in the "LASM Byte Codes.pdf" file from the RCX 2 SDK (available at www.legomindstorms.com). I think the LASM command is actually 'remote', but I'm not sure. Dave Baum p.s. In general, if you want to dig into the details of (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: SDL and legOS (was: memory left)
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Luis Villa <liv@duke.edu> wrote in message news:960488287.393fe...uke.edu... (...) productive, (...) Well, it depends of course on what you intend to do with it. If you for example design and implement a protocol of some sort, it's a great (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | two questions
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Hey, everybody. I have two questions, most of which probably can't be understood by most of the readers on this list :( 1) Is there any way that the stack size might be miscalculated by the new, improved makelx? I've experienced a problem where a (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lcd_refresh()- get rid of it?
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Then I'll put a note in to that effect- can't believe I hadn't noticed that earlier. There are a couple of bugs in config.h, too (in the CONF_X depends on CONF_Y) sections, so I'll just check something in later. Nothing big, just irritating :) -Luis (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lcd_refresh()- get rid of it?
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"Luis Villa" <liv@duke.edu> wrote in message news:FvuEJE.F7I@lugnet.com... (...) Well, it depends on the line: #define CONF_LCD_REFRESH in file boot/config.h. If you comment it out, you still need lcd_refresh()... :-) Bye, Paolo. --- "The pessimist (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Does anyone know where I can find a listing of the 4 digit codes for the <remote> command? Thx, Brandon (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Quoting Torkel Niklasson <torkel.niklasson@te...ogic.com>: (...) That's what I gathered from the docs. Interesting- sounds much more productive, too, if perhaps a little limiting. (...) Great. What exactly do you mean by "adapt", by the way? Just (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hey, everyone (but I suppose Markus in particular, if he's still even out there anymore)- I've been playing with the LCD functions in the CVS legOS and, as far as I can tell, not a single one of the functions requires lcd_refresh() anyome. So far, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, SDL is a very good programming language indeed. Its main attraction to me is that it draws your attention away from stupid little programming errors, such as memory allocation, pointers not pointing where they're supposed to point and (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: memory left
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(...) This little program scans the memory list and prints the amount of free memory: Eddie C. Dost ecd@skynet.be -- #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/tm.h> #include <sys/mm.h> #include <sys/irq.h> #include <conio.h> extern (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: memory left
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I'm pretty much always interested in anything that anyone does with legOS.... makes me feel less lonely here ;) I've never heard of SDL before, but after looking through some of the docs, I'll admit it looks quite interesting. Please keep up us to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: memory left
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Thank you. The reason I'm asking is that we are doing our master's work/thesis on adapting the Telelogic (Swedish company) SDL tool to the legos platform. I guess the measurement of memory is not a critical part of this, unless there is none left, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: memory left
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Not to the best of my knowledge, but I'll take a look later this afternoon. If you need to create more memory, take a look at kernel/config.h, and start undefining features that you don't need. None of those will make a huge difference, but they are (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | memory left
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Is there a way to check how much memory is still available on the RCX? Torkel (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: where do I download lnpd+liblnp?
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(...) ---...--- "Going to California with an aching in my heart. Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair." -Led Zeppelin, "Going to California" ---...--- (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | where do I download lnpd+liblnp?
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I can't seem to find anywhere to download the lnpd+liblnp tar ball. Does anyone know where it might be? Torkel (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: is include included in pbforth?
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(...) And I would ike to say thanks! (...) The INCLUDE words are for the hFORTH scripts that this package is based on. I'm a terrible pack-rat, so I tend to put all the scripts in to give folks example code. It looks like I'm confusing things more (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: NQC 2.x event processing
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(...) #3, which was the approach you took. (...) I think what I liked about the approach in pBrick script was that it was fairly like coding a microcontroller in assembler: set up an interrupt vector and then include a label and code for the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Major breakthrough serial wise.
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(...) I'm confusing everybody by asking questions that imply that I am changing existing code. I do not touch existing code. The question about where to enable the interrupt is a final cleanup one. It is not what I am doing now. I have not touched (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: TinyVM Cygwin Port
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(...) Andy didn't mention that the only version that will probably work under CygWin is 0.1.4. A couple of things were fixed in the tools. Also, by 0.1.5 (hopefully next weekend) I'll try to incorporate Andy's feedback in the scripts, so they will (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Power supply
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(...) The 1.0 can accept a pretty standard DC convereter plug (look in the back). The 1.5 kits don't have this, the 2.0 kits will (supposedly.) I don't use this (which is dumb;) but many others have with good results. -Luis ---...--- "Going to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: communication brick <-> PC
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(...) Cool. We'll wait patiently. :) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: communication brick <-> PC
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(...) My current thoughts are to add "listen" support to rcxlib/RCX_Link, but not add anything else to the nqc tool itself. This would facilitate writing a small wrapper program around rcxlib/RCX_Link that could send/receive messages without (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: communication brick <-> PC
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(...) It can be used, but the problem is that the tower shuts off fairly quickly if it doesn't hear anything from the computer. So the listening program would need to be sending keep-alive messages periodically. I think that Dave will put something (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | communication brick <-> PC
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Hi there ! I've got a question concerning ir communication with the brick ... After having done some low-level debugging to make a self-written programm communicate with my brick using the IR tower, I'd like to make my programm control the brick. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: Major breakthrough serial wise.
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Soirry for the late reply, I've been on a sudden business trip and was unable to get to my email... (...) Great! I would leave the basic serial stuff alone and enable interrupt driven serial IO in a separate set of words, like RCX_INIT and (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: NQC 2.x event processing
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(...) I don't have any changes in mind for the monitor/catch construct, although I'll listen to suggestions if people have any. There was a brief discussion about this a while back: (URL) that point I was already pushing a procedural approach - (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | NQC 2.x event processing
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Dave, I'm curious if the system of events and event-trapping in NQC 2.x will remain about the same as it is now. I played around with it this last week, and had little success (it worked once or twice, I *think*), but what struck me was how much I (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Power supply
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I'm sorry if this is off topic. I intend to have my legos program running for some considerable time on my rcx(1.0), and of course am worried about power consumption. Are there any upgrade kits I can get that allow for a dc power supply or perhaps (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | is include included in pbforth?
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Fist I would like to say that this pbforth is great. it realy enhance this toy. Now that i got this out of my chest... I notice that some of the examples included in the pbforth package use the word INCLUDE so I tried to use it but apparently (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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(...) I'm pretty sure it won't come out to around Christmas. Check www.legomindstorms.com to see, I'm too lazy to. Alan (URL) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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(...) this (...) Aha. Thanks. The adapter plug is what I'm after, so I might just wait until 2.0. Many thanks, Nils (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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(...) transfer back (...) Can you purchase 2.0 yet? Nils (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Syntax for reserving variables in NQC?
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(...) I went with simple... #pragma reserve start [end] where [end] is assumed to be start if not specified. If you want to reserve multiple vars (or multiple ranges) you need to use multiple #pragmas. (...) Yes, its all a bit academic. The only (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: compiler question (second try)
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In article (...) Building under LinuxPPC, I was able to get everything working with egcs 1.1.2. However, gcc 2.95 didn't work. I could get legOS.srec to build and download, it would work OK for turning the RCX on/off, but the first time I tried (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Syntax for reserving variables in NQC?
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(...) How about: #pragma reserve 1 3 5-8 9 with range explicitly specified by "-". Then those that want to specify a range can do so and those who want to specify a list can do so. Of course this assumes that you don't allow arithmetic in the pragma (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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(...) 2.0 will work on all 1.0's and 1.5's. No worries. The 2.0 also has the power adapter port back. YA! The software will be legos' new pictorial AND text based that you can transfer back and forth. Very cool stuff. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5 (v. 2.0?)
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For the most part, the differences are in documentation and additional/different pieces, not the RCX hardware itself or the software. The one hardware difference is the lack of an external adapter plug in 1.5 (so, lots more batteries) and I believe (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RIS 1.0 vs. RIS 1.5
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Hello, Can anyone tell me the difference between version 1.0 and 1.5 of the RIS? Can I still use legOS (or pbForth for that matter) on the RCX? Thanks, Nils (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | compiler question (second try)
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What is the newest version of gcc/egcs that anyone has used to create correct code? I'm looking into creating .rpm and .deb files for linux, and I'd like to build with the most up-to-date compiler that I know generates correct code. I have not (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Major breakthrough serial wise.
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in article 39365A56.86986217@nexen.com, Steve morris at smorris@nexen.com wrote on 6/1/00 5:43 AM: (...) Try posting this on a more general list if the following suggestions don't help: 1) put the RCX and tower underneath a box to block out all (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Rapidly moving plastic and rubber...
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That is the coolest thing I have seen in months. Was it painful? Great invention. -- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Reid" <kpreid@ibm.net> wrote in message news:1ebjoeu.1h4xnb8...ibm.net... (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Rapidly moving plastic and rubber...
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What moves at 12 ft/sec _on_the_ground_ and is built entirely out of LEGO parts? This: (URL) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Major breakthrough serial wise.
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I have been fiddling with serial interrupts with little success. Today I finally figured out that interrupts are masked in the CCR until you run the word RCX_INIT. I was blindly assuming that interrupts were generally enabled and I only had to deal (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I'm really busy recently; it'll probably be a few more days before I have the Linux builds done. (Since it's an alpha release, it doesn't make my top priority list. I'll drop everything for the final release. *grin*) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Well, the purpose would be that it would save me the trouble of recompiling the kernel every time I have to download to a new RCX. I might end up with as much as 8 of them. Other than that, I was just curios. Torkel Luis Villa <liv@duke.edu> wrote (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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As far as I know, there is no way to access it. Why? If you intend to use it for unique identification for networking purposes, you can go into the config files in legOS and change the network address there... Luis (...) ---...--- "Going to (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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There is a serial number printed on the RCX. Is it possible to access that serial number through the hardware, or is it only printed on the outside? Torkel (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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After much delay and deliberation, there is now a very, very rough cut of the 0.2.x legOS HOWTO at legOS's sourceforge site. There is still a lot to be done- for example, it doesn't mention winlegOS yet, nor does it cover the new rotation sensor (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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Alpha release of MacNQC 2.2 is at (URL) the most part this release just incorporates the latest NQC compiler into the MacNQC GUI. Dave Baum (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Can't find the email address right now, but there were some questions here a week or so ago about interfacing Java and the RCX. I lied and said that nothing had been published on the web about the Sun Jini demonstration. In fact, there is a link (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Syntax for reserving variables in NQC?
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(...) I would suggest leaving it simple. For example: #pragma 1 Would reserve var. one. #pragma 1 5 9 10 31 Would reserve var.'s 1, 5, 9, 10 & 31 It's the easiest to see at a glance and would be easy to adjust as you changed your code. Dean -- (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Rossz- I'm home for the summer (which means Windows only for now) so my deepest thanks for everything :) While I'm sitting and waiting for the download to finish, I have a question. You mention that Active Perl is needed for a kernel rebuild. (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Second alpha release of NQC 2.2 is at (2 URLs) for the list of changes. Dave Baum (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Although I would much prefer to see NQC reserveing the variables for itself, I prefer the syntax with a start and end on it. #pragma reserve 1 3 James P (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | winlegos needed
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I am in desperate need of the winlegos installation file. I have lost my own, my installation is corrupt, and without a correct installation I can't work. Pretty please, someone. /Torkel (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I found the problem. gcc hosted on LinuxPPC uses unsigned chars by default, and one of the h8300 support files for gas assumes signed chars. The bug fix was easy, but rather than take a chance on other lurking signed/unsigned errors, I just forced (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm trying to get started with legOS but I'm having some trouble getting things to link because I keep getting 'relocation truncated' errors. In order to determine if its ld or gcc that's at fault, could someone with a functional (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Dave Baum schreef: (...) This looks a bit confusing, the alternative looks more logical to me. (...) Now this I can understand :-) Looks awesome. (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Handling a range should't be too tough - perhaps like this #pragma start [count] where count is assumed to be 1 if not present // reserve location 1 #pragma 1 // reserve locations 5,6 and 7 #pragma 5 3 --- The alternative would be #pragma (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Dave Baum schreef: (...) It looks perfectly logical to me. Will it be possible to reserve a range or do we need to reserve each location separately? No need for an extra keyword indeed. (It's hard enough already. Well I guess part of that comes from (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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The fact that in RCX2 the counters are overlapped with global variables has brought about an interesting problem. How should a programmer indicate to the NQC compiler that a certain RCX variable location is to be left untouched (not assigned to any (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Differences between RCX 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0?
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(...) From what I've gathered: 1.0 to 1.5 Removed the power adapter board. Less components on the board. 1.0 to 2.0 from what I gathered a slightly newer board with a 32k ROM instead of the 16K in the 1.0. (The 1.0 is designed to hold a 32k ROM. As (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Tell your robot what to do!
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I don't know if you could use this with Mindstorms or not (I would assume you could) but it sure sounds cool! It's a voice recognition module.... I wonder how hard it would be to assemble and use. It's $50 too.... I don't want to be the guinea (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I made robot using NQC that did this....pretty reliably too. The idea is you constantly send out messages, and when you get close to an object, there's a bit of feedback. This feedback is picked up by one of the light sensors, which is particularly (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Differences between RCX 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0?
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I've been away from the Mindstorms scene for almost a year....got a bit behind! *grin* Matt (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: winlegos and sort
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Oh never mind. I guess that's what you get for not paying attention to your path. It executed the wrong sort. Torkel Torkel Niklasson <torkel.niklasson@te...logic.com> wrote in message news:Fv4DJ7.Fx6@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | winlegos and sort
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I'm having a problem recompiling legos firmware on windows NT. When I try, sort fails, for some reason, and that apparently corrupts the entire legos.srec, and the files that are needed to compile user programs. This is what it says... (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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