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Previously, I wrote (...) If anyone else out there is tempted to try the pbFORTH tasker, I will email the srec to you. I have not posted it on my website because it is very early beta software. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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John, You might want to try this little script to try out the tasker. It's based on Koh's demo. If you type TASK0 AWAKE and then .TASKS, you will see the chain is ok and that TASK0 is running. Now press the RUN button on the RCX and try .TASKS (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Could do, but I'm using the display to debug the DEFCON code at the moment. (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) You could just format the number to the LCD, maybe when you press a certain combination of buttons on the RCX? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- The train stops at the train station, The bus stops at the bus station, So why am I sitting (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Time to start a new thread I think. I eventually got my battery monitor working, constants from Kekoa: : .V BASE @ DECIMAL RCX_POWER [ HEX ] 4001 POWER_GET RCX_POWER @ [ DECIMAL ] 10997 390 */ 0 <# [CHAR] V HOLD # # # [CHAR] . HOLD #S #> TYPE CR (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Say, when will NQCCC 1.3 be released? I'm completely hooked on the simple environment. DLC (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I have created a web page for the RCX JVM port. It contains a brief description of the project, who is working on it, the task decomposition, and the status of those tasks. If anyone is interested in working on the project, please send me email. The (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Saturday, April 17, 1999 9:27 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: Ir transmission (...) Right you are John. I've got that code too. My only question is do we want it as (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 8:57 PM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: SENSOR_READ doesn't return 0 (...) AhA! Another victim within my clutches!!!!! Glad to hear you are (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 9:20 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: pbFORTH (...) Not yet. I've GOT to get MARKET going and then implement my changes for compacting the (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 1:29 PM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH DUH. I called it pball103c.txt instead of .zip! You should be able to find the file under (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Saturday, April 17, 1999 7:08 PM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: multitasker John, I have got the tasker to work, there's a bug in the pbFORTH kernel right now that'll keep (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 8:37 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH (...) Yes, the MARKER and the tasker are incompatible, since the task chain is independent of (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 7:37 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH (...) That is correct if you look at Kekoas description on his internals page, although he (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 9:19 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH (...) I really don't know, John. I'll have to experiment a bit too :-) I've gotten really (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 12:10 PM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH (...) True enough, but MARKER should make it easy for him once the software is in the RCX, (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 10:18 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH (...) I'll have a llok at this shortly. How do you feel about pbFORTH after the discussion so (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 10:01 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH (...) Yikes! The NQC portion of the upload should work every time. Are you RCX tower batteries (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 9:47 AM To: robots@jpsc.co.uk Subject: RE: New pbFORTH John, (...) My FORTH is rusty too. I looked at the source for 15 minutes and did some fiddling (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 11:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) How could I have forgotten... I've looked at that 'till I'm blue in the face. (...) Of (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 5:06 PM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) What operating system? - I only have NT here. (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of John Cooper Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 6:07 AM To: lugnet.robotics.rcx....lugnet.com Subject: Re: Ir transmission (...) I can't get EMIT to work, (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 11:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) OK, will do. (...) Yes, on the surface. People always want to improve on things in their own (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 6:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) I'm not really interested in Java, if I were going to go that sort of route with a (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 5:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH and indeed PAUSE does work, even if SystemTask is the only one in the chain. There may be something (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 5:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) SENSOR_READ has changed, I think the sense of the result is different 4000 POWER_GET returns (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: New pbFORTH
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 8:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) Am I doing something wrong here (my FORTH is a bit rusty)? : .VOLTAGE RCX_POWER [ HEX ] 4001 (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 7:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) Actually, I thought that anything running interactively (or I suppose more accurately not (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 10:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) Well, I'm not in a position that I really need MARKER with the multitasking testing, just a (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: New pbFORTH
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 10:13 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) Definately 2 (...) I couldn't see it earlier, but I see now that the voltage in millivolts (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 6:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: IR mode (...) I wonder if these will work? ;---...--- ; IRMODE_HI ( -- ) M_CODE(9,``"IRMODE_H...HI,_SLINK) MOV.W (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: New pbFORTH
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 5:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH MARKER seems to work, but I haven't tested it much as my debug runs more often end up in a lockup, (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: pbFORTH and MARKER
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 7:16 PM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: pbFORTH and MARKER (...) Great news. I don't actually need it yet (or enough). I am stillexperimenting with (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 5:08 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH I have it now, thank you. I've figured out how POWER_GET works, but not the return values. From (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 12:07 PM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: New pbFORTH (...) Unfortunately my mailer could not decode the MIME attachment. Could you send it UUENCODEd? (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: pbFORTH
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 2:31 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: pbFORTH (...) Thanks for that, I can't try it until tomorrow because the machine wth the IR tower on is in (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 6:07 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: Ir transmission (...) To answer the question, I would say do it as core (quicker download). I think we agree (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 2:31 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: multitasker (...) Excellent news. (...) You can have our SpeedBot as a demo program (as soon as I get it to (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:robots@jpsc.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 2:31 AM To: Ralph Hempel Subject: Re: Ir transmission (...) Well, I don't do realtime stuff (until now), in fact what I do (simulation) is almost (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | FW: pbFORTH and MARKER
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-----Original Message----- From: Ralph Hempel [mailto:rhempel@bmts.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 12:55 PM To: John Cooper Subject: pbFORTH and MARKER John, I have discovered yet another bug in the CREATE DOES> of pbFORTH and fixed it. Now (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Forward of pbFORTH debug sessions
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John Cooper and I have exchanged numerous emails on the progression of pbFORTH and he has agreed to share them with the group. I guess we should have always discussed on the group, but once I just hit Reply instead of ReplyToAll and that was the end (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Some goals, ideas, etc. for a new bytecode interpreter (long)
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(...) Single-stepping through instructions would be a mode offered by the interpreter, and wouldn't require any breakpoints to be set. I suppose what the debugging information could contain is, instead of a list of valid breakpoints, a list of (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Some goals, ideas, etc. for a new bytecode interpreter (long)
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(...) You have 4 7-segment characters which could display a 4 character text string (albeit with some of the characters being different case and some confusion between characters). (...) Adding limited functions to check the memory usage without (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Some goals, ideas, etc. for a new bytecode interpreter (long)
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(...) Sure, but that's what zero padding is for. Since the opcode is IR-only, you don't care too much about length. The only length restriction comes from the second digit of the opcode, assuming you're using the ROM to receive incoming IR data. (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Some goals, ideas, etc. for a new bytecode interpreter (long)
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(...) I was not intending to limit its functionality to that performed by the RCX with the standard firmware loaded. I did say "when no new features are being exploited". The idea of flashing an identifier associated with the current program may not (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Some goals, ideas, etc. for a new bytecode interpreter (long)
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(...) While I agree that it should be similar, I think it may need some minor modifications to make it truly useful. For example, I would like to be able to control the motors without having to load a program or use a host computer. It would be nice (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I can't get EMIT to work, in NQC I do this: SendMessage(255); // Flash Sleep(3); ThisRaw = RAW_LIGHT; and the raw light sensor reading has big spikes for IR reflections. but: [ HEX ] FF EMIT 30 msWait RawLight LIGHT? does not, I think that (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Some goals, ideas, etc. for a new bytecode interpreter (long)
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(...) In light of some of your points raised earlier and consideration since I first brought it up, I can see that bytecode level compatibility is not strictly required. By Look & Feel, I refer only to the observable behaviour of the RCX, not the (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Some goals, ideas, etc. for a new bytecode interpreter (long)
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(...) What do you mean by end-user? Does keeping the end-user look and feel mean keeping the existing opcodes intact? You seemed to have mentioned this as a goal before but maintaining just the "look and feel" might no longer mean that. Also, you (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I was not suggesting creating a potential for an L&F lawsuit from Lego by duplicating their Mindstorms product for Windows or some other PC platform, I was suggesting imitating the look & feel of their firmware on the RCX itself. (Not that I (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Some goals, ideas, etc. for a new bytecode interpreter (long)
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Forgive me while I think out load here. I'd like some feedback on some goals and ideas I've thought of for a new bytecode interpreter. Any critiques, comments, opinions, recommendations, or additions are welcome: I would hope that the new system (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) In environments which provide general purpose pointer types which can be assigned to addresses of explicitly allocated memory (like C and C++), garbage collection becomes an NP-hard problem. In environments which have no end-user accessible (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | New firmware volunteer
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I'm following with great interest the discussion about a new firmware for the RCX. When the discussion started, I expressed some opinions about staying as much compatible as possible with the official firmware. Now, after a second thought, I realize (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | ------( Terms of use for lugnet.com )------
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | ------( Welcome to lugnet.robotics.rcx )------
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Welcome to lugnet.robotics.rcx, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.robotics.rcx (group): Alternative firmware for RCX programmable brick from LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ RIS: in-depth technical discussions, collaboration, planning, (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: two task and while true
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(...) Hmm: - I believe that, after main starts, unless you press IN_3 *very* quickly, that IN_3 will not be 1, hence stop wb will be chosen. Perhaps you want something like this? : task main { while (true) { wait(IN_3 == 1); // start motor wait(IN_3 (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Lego Network Protocol questions
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(...) I believe transmission and reception are independent, i.e. the emitter circuit is decoupled from the receiver circuit. The hardware on the H8 is full duplex. Once you finish sending a byte, I think you get two interrupts: one saying a byte has (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Floating point emulation
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I succeeded in using (emulated) floats in a legOS program. Here are some instructions in case some of you want/need to try 32 bit FP emulation. First of all I must point out that I have no merit at all in having got this result, a part from having (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego Network Protocol questions
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(...) Just to state my interests: I'm mainly interested in the protocol, eg what level of service it would provide etc. In particular, I'm interested in layering a higher level gauranteed delivery protocol atop whatever simple one is provided. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: I'm being stupid. But how?
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Here's the fair play policy: (URL) right. The Lego Group is exceedingly protective of their trademarks and intellectual property. If they haven't pursued action against legOS, it's very likely a deliberate policy rather than an oversight. Jonathan (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego Network Protocol questions
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Ralph Hempel writes: [ ... ] (...) This is actually the book from which the thoughts I posted about arose. It is, indeed, a great book ;-) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: communication Linux - NQC - Cybermaster
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(...) Yep, NQC assigns from 0 up. The listing (use -L) will print out the variable cross reference for an NQC program. Dave (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: I'm being stupid. But how?
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(...) Considering the past history of TLG, I'd say the fact that they haven't said anything about the name LegOS says a lot. TLG is paranoid about their trademark. Use Lego like a noun (as in, "I liked Legos a lot when I was a kid," or "I play with (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: I'm being stupid. But how?
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(...) Lego's always been a bit of a hobbyist's thing[1] so probably even TLG thinks there isn't much point in siccing lawyers on us, even if they disapproved. Big companies[2] lawyering hobbyists is really bad PR :) [1] not in any way derogatory, (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HOWTO v 0.1
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(...) Not ATM. (If I get gdb actually *working* with the LegOS I'll do a little HOWTO for that and stick it on the web, though... has anyone got it working right yet? I'm not stuck or anything, I just haven't finished getting it running.) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | tm-and-ir.c
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Is anyone else having problems with this? The receive and display part works fine but it won't send "Hello World" when I press the View button. The srec from the LegOS home page works fine but if I build it myself it doesn't. I've tried both the web (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: communication Linux - NQC - Cybermaster
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(...) Thanks for your suggestions. Say, just what is variable 0? The first variable assigned? I should probably try to read some more about the internals of the RCX/Cybermaster, I suppose. Fredrik (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: I'm being stupid. But how?
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(...) Hahaha, regarding that LegOS is more of a library than an OS, my opinion too. But you have to admit the name has some appeal, even if it is something of a misnomer... :) Clearly it says something about TLG's attitude toward LegOS that they (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HOWTO v 0.1
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(...) Thanks (I think...) (...) Because I've found that it is significantly faster, and nearly canonical (as, technically speaking, it is part of the same domain, despite being hosted elsewhere(Stanford, IIRC.)) The only reason I found it in the (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've written a test program using the 19990330 LegOS snapshot[1], and it's misbehaving oddly. The program looks like this: (the headers are the result of my frobbing the LegOS headers to refer to <mindstorms/{legOS header}>...) #include (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Not half bad IMHO. But why point egcs searchers at ftp://go.cygnus.com/...gcs-1.1.2/ ? The canonical site is ftp://egcs.cygnus.co...cs-1.1.2/. egcs-1.2 will be out fairly soon. There have been changes to the h8300 support, but the changes are (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Nevermind. Dangit. Forgot break statements like a moron. -Luis (...) ###...### God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him. -bumper sticker ###...### (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Doh! You haven't put any breaks between the cases. BTW, if LegOS can change the semantics of C its cleverer than I thought ... :-) Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm trying to program some very rudimentary debugging stuff- just outputting variables to the screen. Basically, I want to use a switch/case statement to read an integer variable (in this case ID_number) which is then linked (by the case statement) (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Oops, I must've just caught the tail end of the conversation. I assumed the standard [lame] lego protocol was being discussed, not a custom protocol. Sorry. Dave (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: communication Linux - NQC - Cybermaster
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(...) You can probably do anything you want with the [minimally documented] -raw option for nqc. You can use it to send arbitrary packets to the RCX or Cybermaster. For example, to query variable 0, you could do this: nqc -c -raw 120000 Of course, (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I'm running NQC on a Linux system. Is there any way to communicate between the computer and the Cybermaster mobile unit using this software? Or are there any other types of software I might consider to do this? Fredrik (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Question: Why do you want to use JAVA with the CyberMaster? JAVA is similar to C++, which is was developed from C and which is the base language of NQC. What are you expecting to do with JAVA that can not be made with NQC? And if you are in a (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I saw some Java stuff for the RCX. Is there soemthing for the Cybermaster? Stefan -- ***...*** Stefan Prescher prescher@hermes.fho-emden.de (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi I made a small programm task main if IN_3 ==1 start wb else stop wb task sb while (true) if () fwd(Out_a,7); I found out that the prgramms goes into the while loop but it never started the motor if I copied it into the main part it runs fine Is (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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With all of the talk about networking and IP embedding and such, and since I'm working on a proprietary '485 master/slave protocol for a client, I had to dust off a GREAT university text on networks. It devotes an entire chapter to ALOHA and slotted (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Dave, did you catch the crosspost from lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos? I think there were details discussed there that may or may not have amounted to a fairly specific proposal for a protocol for LegOS. Anybody care to summarize whatever was (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Transmit whenever you feel like it and hope you didn't obliterate data coming from the other direction. Rudimentary, but still quite effective given the typical use pattern with is host driven command/response. With RCX to RCX communication (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all. I came to the discussions on the LNP a bit late and was wondering if the following questions had been discussed (I flipped through an old Communications course book and noted some thoughts): - Can we do Carrier Sense *whilst* we are (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I agree, free() is not ISR safe. One thread can get preempted after the check but before the store, and a second thread can adjust mm_first_free, making the first thread's check invalid. -Kekoa (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Of course, I did not mean to imply she is off course. (...) > > (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi all I think that free() operation in mm.c is not ISR safe in multitasking mode. This operation is not keep coherence about value of mm_first_free,is it? ---...--- in mm.c ---...--- // for task safe operations, free needs to be // atomic and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Compiling NQC
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Well what do you know...I install gcc 2.8.0 and still no luck. But a clue lurks in the docs....and since I had none (clues that is) I read on. To compile c++ you must install libstdc 2.8.0. I find it and compile into gcc. Just for luck I grab the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | NQC 1.3 has been released
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I just posted NQC 1.3 to the main web site: (URL) an excerpt from the readme... version 1.3 ---...--- Calls to inline function may now be made before their definition. abs() and sign() operators added. SetWatch() added to rcx.nqh. Toggle() added to (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Compiling NQC
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I will pull gcc down tonight and try a fresh install...the gcc installation that came with openlinux is what I installed, and I am seeing make problems elsewhere now. Rich Thompson rich_thompson@cmcsmart.com (URL) -----Original Message----- (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Rich Thompson <richone@midsouth.rr.com> wrote in message news:FAvu5G.4Hw@lugnet.com... (...) This sounds like gcc isn't installed properly. cc1plus is the first stage of the compiler. Can you compile anything properly? alex (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I am delving into the world of Linux (I have abandoned BSD and Windows but keeping my Mac) and I am having trouble compiling NQC in Caldera's OpenLinux 2.2 for i386. A basic output of the errors I am seeing: gcc -c -O6 -pipe -m486 -Iplatform (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) NQC 1.3 is pretty minor... inline functions can be used before they are defined. I added abs() and sign() support. Technically they are not functions, but are operators with a function syntax (like sizeof in C). A couple new functions (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Can you give us a "press release" about what's new in 1.3? (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Thanks - I had already noticed that and fixed it in the upcoming 1.3 release, which has been "ready to go" for about 3 weeks now. I just have to take the time to do all of the platform builds, update the web site, etc. Dave (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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In browsing the rcx.nqh file, I found that the SMODE_CELSIUS input mode constant is misspelled with a 'c' instead of an 's'. Jonathan (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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William: Do you have the official Mindstorms software loaded that came with the RCX? Most of the 3rd party programs need the main program loaded inorder for their program to run properly. Hope this helps... Best Regards, Patrick McLean William Ng (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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OH! i forgot i need to install the mindstorm software before i use RcxCC!! now it works, sorry guys. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RcxCC Help!
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i downloaded the RcxCC version 2.2 and extracted it with winzip. when i try to run the RcxCC.EXE, my system say "Exception EOleSysError in module RcxCC.EXE at 00053AF9. Class not registered" does anyone know what it is and what can i do?? thanks in (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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In writing some sensor code yesterday/today (it's 6 am), I passed over the ROM sensor code at 14c0. The documentation has been put in the usual place. The rotation code is pretty simple: the expected state machine, with split points between the four (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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