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After follow Dave's suggestion, I am successful to use RcxCC for Scout programming, here is the method. Edit two batch files named rcx.bat and scout.bat in rcxcc directory, the content of files are as follows: set NQC_OPTIONS=-TRCX rcxcc set (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Connecting to RCX
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(...) Communication with the RCX looks fine, but the RCX is refusing to change the program. This is exactly what would happen if no firmware was loaded. Are you sure you have firmware installed? With firmware, the display will look like this "00.00 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: GCC - Cross-compiler
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(...) Yes, there are some warnings during the compile. I'm at work, so I can't interrogate my make log, but the only big one is the one about libc, which is documented in the HOWTO. Regards, ROSCO (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: GCC - Cross-compiler
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(...) Awesome. (...) Right. Though it would be good to write them down (like in the HOWTO) so that people don't freak out when they get them :) (...) Dangit. Sorry, still... Luis (...) ---...--- "Summertime... and the living is easy... fish are (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: GCC - Cross-compiler
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(...) CygnWin 1.1 (latest). :-) (...) Not really important if it works, just curiosity... ;-) (...) :-) Cool... ;-))) (...) First, I would like my name corrected in /HOWTO... ;-))) Massetti --> Masetti... ;-))) Bye, Paolo. --- Press to test. Release (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: GCC - Cross-compiler
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Sorry I've been out of the loop for so long, guys... I'm moving tomorrow, so I've been packing and such. (...) cool. Which Cygwin, though? It'd be really nice if we could "move up" to Cygwin 1.0, which is a lot easier to install than the beta (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Connecting to RCX
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(...) Ooh, good point. I was assuming that the programs he was running were programs for the robot with which he was testing, and that he could tell that they were the right ones. Not a very good assumption, actually. (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | GCC - Cross-compiler
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(...) Some (good!) news: 1) I've compiled gcc-2.95.2 for h8300-hitachi-hms using cygnwin and it works. :-) 2) I'm working to a script to automate the process 3) I'm still gettind some warnings (but it works well, does some warnings appear on Linux (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Connecting to RCX
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(...) The RCX has, by ROM Firmware, 5 factory entered programs. In all 5 slots. The easy way to tell if there is firmware installed is when you turn it on you see 00.00| |= little man. Without firm ware all you see is | Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC stdin & stdout
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(...) That's my current plan. I tried the normal way and it lost the file name, the current dir, everything. It has become VERY frustrating... But I should have it soon. I'll be offering it free on our site. I'll post when it's done. Dean -- (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Connecting to RCX
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(...) Ordinary electric lightbulb. Nothing too bright or too dark. I might try moving the tower and brick under a chair when I get in from work tonight and see if that makes a difference. I brought the packet trace in today in case it looks familiar (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Connecting to RCX
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(...) Yeah it suggests that to me too. What's the lighting condition like in the room? (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Connecting to RCX
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(...) It should! It certainly did last time I used it but I wasn't sure whether being without batteries would cause the firmware to need reloading. It certainly powers on and runs programs in all slots which suggested to me that the firmware was (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC stdin & stdout
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(...) Could you copy the entire contents to the clipboard, then have your program write the clipboard data to a temp file? (you'd still avoing having to create pipes, etc) Dave Baum (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Yes, that would be the easiest way but also the most annoying as it forces me to change the file name on the users editor. I'm looking in to a DDE command way to avoid this, but so far without success. Thanks for your help btw. Dean -- (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Idle Powerdown
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Also, Paolo gets credit for the code that resets the idle counter inside IR activity. It will not reset on invalid packets or packets sent to a different RCX unit, so a unit will quietly go to sleep after 15 minutes in the midst of LNP (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Connecting to RCX
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(...) Does the RCX have the firmware installed? (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Connecting to RCX
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Any pointers on how to get NQC to actually talk to the RCX would be gratefully received! I've searched around and tried everything that I can come up with but still can't make NQC send data correctly to the RCX. I've doublechecked that the serial (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Idle Powerdown
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Paolo was kind enough to check into Sourceforge my changes to implement idle powerdown. The default is 15 minutes of idle time (no programs running, no buttons pressed, no LNP activity) before automatically turning itself off. BTW, in my previous (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Multiple RCXs
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(...) You can control RCXs via LNP using different addresses. The problem is that no example and no working code is available in legOS distribution, but you can find something searching this newsgroup. A good possibility is using WinLNP (URL) LNP (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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