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The following learning resources apply to Lego Dacta's RoboLab "Mindstorms for Schools" programming software, version 2.5 where indicated, otherwise, earlier versions: 1. Dacta RoboLab Teacher's Guides Printed paper books. Detailed instructions for (...) (23 years ago, 8-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.vll)
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| | USB, Windows, legOS
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Attention everyone trying or have gotten the USB IR tower to work under windows running legOS. I have some patches from at certain Jin Sato that are supposed to allow one to upload programs and the legOS kernel via the USB IR tower. First off I am (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.2.13
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Yesterday, I uploaded release 3.3.2.13 of BricxCC to my website: (URL) version fixes the access violation on calling the UpgradeRegistry method at startup (not all users encountered this problem). I am beginning to implement the "save desktop" (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) If I remember correctly, the tty devices will block in open() until they see some handshake (perhaps DCD) from the other side, while cu devices open right away and ignore handshake. I'd suggest taking a look at the code that initializes the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) 8?) Only suggestion I have here is the Darwin developer mailing list(s). Or even the doco with their version may explain how to build a cross-compiler. They may have removed support, though unlikely if configure accepted the h8 target. They (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Use RCX-ROM-image in a H8/3294?
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Hi all, I downloaded and decompiled the ROM-image of my RCX. It uses a H8/3292 which is only available as a Mask-ROM-type. When I look at the code (and at (URL) of course) and compare the addresses with the adress space map in the datasheet of the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) Dave, first thank you for NQC and its Mac support. If only its collegues weren't such a headache! I am using a serial tower with a Keyspan adapter and the setup works great for NQC following your readme file. I had been wondering though, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) I was able to get NQC working with the USB tower under Mac OS X pretty easily. IMHO, support for an application to directly access USB devices is pretty good. If anyone is trying this, feel free to grab the OSX/USB code I wrote for NQC (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) You mean USB on Mac OS X, or the USB tower specifically on any platform? You are really screwed if you need a serial driver on OS X. Since no serial hardware exists on post-98 Apple machines, OS X omits the legacy serial driver APIs. USB is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) Looks like you're probably the first to try this, so good luck! But if the Darwin version of cc can be built to support the h8, you're still gonna have to (most likely) make changes to firmdl & dll programs to get them working with the Mac. Do (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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I haven't tried this, but, you should probably get the gcc source from the Apple CVS server? (URL) heard that they were folding their Darwin modifications back into the real gcc source, that's why gnu.org isn't shipping it yet. For now the Apple CVS (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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ROSCO, I realise that would indeed be helpful! Didn't want a long and boring first post however... I've basically having a problem bulding gcc as a cross compiler. I started with the legOS HOWTO pages at (URL) . There it suggests using (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problems with BricxCC release 3.3.2.12
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(...) I'd be happy to leave the MDI world behind and switch to a tabbed page control for handling multiple files. But I would need to get a feel from the user community to see whether that would be a problem. There are some known problems with (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Problems with BricxCC release 3.3.2.12
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(...) I've discovered a really stupid bug in my code that was causing the access violations in version 3.3.2.12. This bug has been there since I introduced the registry upgrade feature (3.3.2.2) as far as I can determine. It has been fixed but I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: COLOR light sensor
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I’ve send an e-mail to Michael Gasperi. This is his answer: (...) So he can’t give the schematics because he has sold the copy rights to the magazine. the only way to get them is to buy this magazine. (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Problems with BricxCC release 3.3.2.12
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(...) Will, it doesn't crash on my system, too. But I have to complain about the way maxed windows are handled. Try the following: - open new window - max it (now you can re-min it, too) - you see the little waving guy in the menu - open a new 2nd (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Problems with BricxCC release 3.3.2.12
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(...) Thanks for testing BricxCC, John. I appreciate it greatly. I'm glad it is working for at least some users. :-) John Hansen (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Problems with BricxCC release 3.3.2.12
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(...) Hi John: As you requested I just tried out your latest ver. 3.3.2.12. I have a P2 450, 256 megs of ram. A Radeon 7200, driver ver. 6.13.3276. My desktop is set at 1024 by 768. I just wrote a quick little program, downloaded to my RCX and ran (...) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Problems with BricxCC release 3.3.2.12
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I've had reports of access violations and run time error 217 when trying to execute BricxCC version 3.3.2.12 (i.e., the most recently released version). It runs fine on my development machine but it exhibits this behavior on another PC in my house. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Output to Display
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You can also set the display in RL2.5 Programmer as: Functions > Rcx Communications > Set Display Another cool way to find quickly the function is by selecting the function by name. On any of the function displays, click on the search button (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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