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(...) Dave, First of all thank you very much, using #pragma reserve 10 works great for me. I would let you know though that although in your programming guide you tell how to reserve a storage location you do not tell how to access the reserved (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) It seems that Make can't find `Makefile.common'. This file should exist in the root legOS directory, it's included in the archive. Have you checked if such file exists? (...) Everyone seems a jerk before becoming a master :-). bye Bernardo (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, I upgraded my kernel. Now I get a new error message: "***No rule to make target '../Makefile.common'. Stop" Any idea about this one? Nick (PS: Sorry if I'm acting like a jerk; I'm new at this sort of thing.) (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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From the Pitsco-Dacta online catalog, the current version of ROBOLAB ver 2.0 is W90051 and is called 'ROBOLAB Investigator'. It includes the Programmer software (which I hope is the full version). It costs US$59.00. But the catalog material is sort (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I've written a document summarizing all the options available for Linux that is available here: (URL) ignores Spirit.OCX and RoboLab, since they are windows only, but to the best of my knowledge covers every other programming interface that is (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics)
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I can only speak from experience about programming languages that use the standard firmware, since that's all I've used. *Spirit.OCX (I've used VB and J++): The worst way to program in the standard firmware. non-intuitive syntax (even if you (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Ok, big surprise: it turns out I'm a moron. It was cleared all along, for some strange reason I was expecting the "00:00" to come up in boot mode - I forgot that was part of the Lego firmware, not the boot code. I guess thats what happens when I (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:35:16 GMT, "Paolo Masetti" <paolom@pragmanet.it> wrote: <SNIP> When you're interested in a "dummy" user i'll go for it. Harald (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ooooh! Let the holy wars begin :>) Jeffrey Hazen North Mill Technology jeffrey.hazen@northmill.net -----Original Message----- From: Tobias Moller [SMTP:tobias.moller@telia.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 1:41 PM To: (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Just out of pure curiosity: How many different programming languages for the RCX exists? Which is the easiest/most advanced/best? (I know this is a matter of taste) And is there any language that does *not* use the LEGO firmware? --Tobias (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi I'm working on a telerobotics project where I use various input devices an a PC to control a Mindstorms robot, equipped with a wireless video camera. I was reading somewhere , either in the spririt.ocx or NQC documentation, that there's some (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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"Dave Baum" <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote> (...) Yes, RcxCC needs spirit.ocx and must be registered to your system. Locate or copy the spirit.ocx file to you hard disk and use the Run command in the windows Start menu to execute the following: (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) In general, you don't have control over where the variables get placed. If necessary you can take advantage of the fact that globals are allocated consecutively starting at location 0, so in the above example, A refers to location 0. However, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I think RcxCC needs spirit.ocx in order to function. Spirit.ocx gets installed along with the regular mindstorms software, but there's probably a way to install it directly as well. Dave (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hold the on/off button while pressing run. Rick Byers <RickB@BigScaryChildren.net> wrote in message news:G8q7D1.3yA@lugnet.com... (...) (while (...) to (...) doesn't (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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It is my understanding that the RCX has 32 "spaces" for variables, I am trying to set variable A or 10 to the value of 100 and then evaluate it in an IF statement. However I am not sure how to read that variable "space" correctly. Here is what I am (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I have used RcxCC on several Win95 and WIN98 and WIN Me machines. Great. But now I need to run it on 6 machines in a library for a class. I have installed the same latest version on 3 of these machines, and they all seem to install OK, but executing (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Rick, I believe that you take a battery out and turn the thing on, which will reset it to firmwareless mode. Then you just download the lego firmware to it as if you had just gotten a new rcx. Nick (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I've just installed LegOS 0.2.5 and its working great! However, I'd like to temporarily put the original lego firmware back on. How do I erase the legOS firmware so that the ROM bootstrap code will permit the Mindstorms software to download its (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) it may be (...) Where can I (...) I'll attach them in next message I will send to you. :-) (...) problem, (...) Let's try... Bye, Paolo. --- First Postulate of Isomurphism: Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other. (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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