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I have Windows NT, but I'm running the CygWin stuff for legOS. Jonathan (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Its not pbFORTH, its the RCX tower. Thats how I can tell if pbFORTH crashed, the HyperTerminal screen looks NORMAL!!!! It is a bit annoying though. I started work on a Tcl uploader when I decided a better tutorial was more important. More (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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What operating system are you running on? (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi Ralph, (...) I wanted to see if I could stop pbFORTH from echoing characters back to the PC. I figured it wouldn't be hard to do, and it would make my HyperTerminal sessions look a lot cleaner. So what do you use? I couldn't get (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Jonathan, you use the GNU toolchain to assemble the files, but why bother? The pbforth.srec file is available for download and it is complete by itself. Just use "nqc -firmware pbforth.srec " to get it into the RCX. I have a newer release with (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hello, I was wondering what tool I need to compile the pbFORTH asm files. I have the tools that are used for legOS--is there something there that can assemble the asm files? Thanks, Jonathan (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Depending on what the value in the array needs to be you could use a bitmap (e.g. if you want to store true/false to denote the presence of something)... you could then represent the decimal value of the "array" of ones and zeros ... so, for (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hari Wiguna <hari@mindvision.com> wrote in message news:FBx2nH.B42@lugnet.com... (...) Nope, it doesn't. This is due to a limitation in the RCX environment. If it did support arrays you could have a max of 32 elements (assuming you didn't have any (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I'm building a BrickCode Reader. Basically it reads a stack of 2x2 bricks of various colors like a barcode. I've managed to hack together a prototype BrickCode Reader. I can feed it a stack of bricks and it beeps different tones based on which color (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi, I'm not sure exactly why this is, but for some reason I can't get a binary download to work from .. (URL) .. Whenever I try and download any of the files from this server ( using both a PPP line at home, and the connection at Uni.) I get (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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What are the exact differences between Mindstorm pack 9719 and 9747 ? -- ***...*** Stefan Prescher prescher@hermes.fho-emden.de (25 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) [snip] (...) DOH! Yup. I've gotten quite fond of the RCXCC/NQC combination. It handles just about anything that I have thought up so far! DLC (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I believe the units are tens of firmware bytes downloaded already. Oh, to point out the obvious, this is a ROM thing, not a firmdl thing. -Kekoa (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) The current LegOS model really hammers the sensors, almost to the point of oversampling them. It only takes a short while (less than 0.1 ms, I think) to sample all four sensors; I think LegOS samples the next sensor immediately after finishing (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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When using firmdl to download a program to the RCX, what exactly do the numbers on the LCD indicate? Are there units I should be attaching to them, or are they just there to indicate progress without specific units? Just curious- Luis ###...### God (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Perhaps I should not have stripped all the comments for speed :) \ The rationale for the delay above and the delay after the IR flash is \ that the message is 77 bits of 417 microseconds each, a total \ transmission time of 32 milliseconds, the (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) It was this line that trashed the task chain when the power button was pressed, I thought I'd checked it a few times but perhaps it was something else. (...) Yes. What I really want is an equivalent of SendMessage in NQC (which maps to opcode (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi Kekoa, (...) I am fixing this right now. (...) The current legOS sensor read cycle is this (i=illuminate, c=A/D conversion) S1: iii iii iii ccc S2: ccc iii iii iii S3: iii ccc iii iii S4: iii iii ccc iii If you find your sensor 2 readings to be (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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John, I've been looking at your ping routine and note the following... Even if FF EMIT did not block, the wait makes things irrelevant. At 2400 baud, the FF is out the port within 4 msec. In fact, if EMIT did not block, you could probably wait jsut (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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No, it's not documentation for pbFORTH - yet. I have found a decent book on line, it is Tim Hendtlass's Real-Time FORTH book. It is really geared for FPC, a dialect that is available for the PC, but the sections on numbers, stack manipulation, (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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