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Hi everybody I hope that i'm not the 24th to ask the question ! A french guy ask me if its possible to use standard Lego Mindstorms with NT4. (i use win98, and it works fine). Can someone help me to answer his question ? Thanks Damien PS : he found (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Remote control patch
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Hi, Ross I tried the remote control patch in legOS 0.2.5, the compiling is ok and download kernel is also ok, but when I download demo program, never be successful, after tried to delete 4 times, dll stoped, it is no any problems before use remote (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | remote patch in legOS.sourceforge.net only for 0.2.5
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I found that remote patch is only for 0.2.5, not for 0.2.4, this is why I got error messages as below when compile demos. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Compile error when make demos
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After I ptached remote contrl patch, the kernel and utilities are compiled without problem, but when I tried to make demos, I got message as below, what happened? h8300-hms-ld: address 0xb03e of helloworld.ds1 section .text is not within region ram (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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(...) LCD_4_BOTL (...) I agree it's a bit bodgy. The one advantage is you only need to pass a single #define when calling it directly (OK not a huge advantage, but if you look at the values in the #defines, you'll see why it was done that way). But (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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(...) Since writing this, I have set up a LegOs build environment, so had a play with it. It doesn't seem very useful the way it is written. See my bit about it below. (...) I had a bit of a go doing this as well, and since I didn't know what the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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(...) Nope - bit_set(0xef46,0x4) will work, but not dlcd_show(0xef46,0x4), as it needs only 1 parameter. (...) Choosing the types of the struct elements is the problem - these are passed to the h8's bset instruction. First, I tried void* & char, but (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Love the new Music capability with the new firmware!
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(...) Use NQC for that. Wonderful 2.0 support. Dean -- Dean Husby LUGNET Member #320 TFM's LEGO Workshop - www.akasa.bc.ca/tfm The Vancouver LEGO Club - www.akasa.bc.ca/vlc/ (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | EmuLegOS support for windows
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The subject pretty much says it all. You'll need cygwin, and then it works. There is now LNP support for EmuLegOS on windows now due to the differences in the WinLNP API and the RCX LNP API. mark (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX 2.0 Arrays
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(...) Fixing that has been on the to-do list for a long time. But it just isn't a high priority since there are easy workarounds. Right now adding USB support is top priority. Dave Baum (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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(...) Ooops! I obviously wasn't looking at it properly last night (only browsing through the zip file). As 'dlcd_show' is defined as a macro that takes one parameter, but uses it twice to each of BIT_OF and BYTE_OF, which in turn both take 2 (...) (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RCX 2.0 Arrays
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(...) Manual? Manual! We don't need no stinking manual. Thanks, ("I guess I should read it", he says sheepishly) (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RCX 2.0 Arrays
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The NQC manual says... "Neither arrays nor their elements can be used with the increment (++) or decrement (--) operators." I guess it's not quite C :-) "Frank Caggiano" <caggiano@crystal-objects.com> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | One other thing arrays and RCX 2.0
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NQC complains with he same error message if i do an arrray[x]++; That is I use a variable for the index rather than a constant. (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RCX 2.0 Arrays
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I wanted to increment the value contained in an array. I did array[0]++; NQC complained: ERROR expression is not a legal target for assignment. The carrot under array[0]++ pointed to the index value, that is the 0. It seems NQC thought I was trying (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Communicatin between NQC and legOS
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Hi Zhengrong, sorry, but no, I don't know a solution for this problem, and discarded this approach. If someone get it working, i would be intereted as well. Rainer (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS2.0/legOS/linux and win98
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(...) There are some japanese guys that did USB support for NQC under windows, it's rather simple (essentially open a device with a particular name). Under Linux it is just not clear how easy it is until somebody tries. (...) Here (France & Germany) (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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Thanks Martin, I tried this too but it doesn't work : progress.c:27: macro `dlcd_show' used with too many (2) args progress.c:27: macro `BIT_OF' used with just one arg progress.c:27: macro `BYTE_OF' used with just one arg The hint seems to fit two (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Who can write a send_msg() and get_msg() in legOS for us?
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I found there were three commands as below and a demo program tm-and-ir.c for standard IR communication before legOS 0.1.7, but now they exist no longer in legOS 0.2.4, I think these commands are very useful, can you reuse them, Luis? size_t (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Who can write a send_msg() and get_msg() in legOS for us?
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Can you write a pair of function to support standard firmware IR communiation between RCX and RCX or Remote control? They are send_msg() and get_msg(), it is easy to communicate between NQC and legOS, so we can use NQC if the program is very simple (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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