 | | Re: Unable to unzip (or bunzip2) legOS-990330.tar.bz2
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I didn't even try, since the other things on the site didn't work. I got it from the site of Luis's howto.I wonder if the site will ever be fixed Frederick N. Brier wrote in message <37C3B4DC.B27D3028@m...ck.com>... (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I've been wondering why there hasn't been put out a newer release than 990330, especially since the rotation sensors doesn't work in it. But the error was identified way back in April by Mario Ferrari ((URL) STATE_0_VALUE (ds_unscale(1023U)) ... (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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my rcx works fine with a universal ac to dc wall outlet. it has a switch to change the voltage. i've got it set at 9v and it operates at 800mA max. i figured 6 batteries x 1.5v =9v. i think it was originally for a keyboard (musical instrument, not (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I just got back from vacation 2-3 hrs ago, and have just found out that the school cleared our one-year name leases while I was gone. As a result, the HOWTO at arthurdent.dorm.duke.edu has been unavailable for several days (not quite sure how long (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi All, My old cellular "bag-phone" died a while back and I replaced it with a nice teeny tiny PCS phone. I had bought the 12V 2.3Ah sealed lead battery as an option with the original phone. It is WAY smaller than the 4Ah monsters I'm using for (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Has anyone else had a problem downloading and unzipping the current snapshot (legOS-990330.tar.bz2)? This was from the URL: (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hmmm - I just got emailed that I won the "Best Lightweight Use" of the TclTk programming language in a contest sponsored by Scriptics (URL) Here's the URL from Scriptics and if you follow the link to me on that page it'll take you right to my (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Hi, Where's Luis Villa's HOWTO document? This is the URL I have for it: (URL) that server seems to have disappeared. Anyone know of a new home for this document? Thanks, Jonathan (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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MacNQC is a GUI based version of NQC for the Macintosh. You can read more about it here: (URL) course, you can also find it from the main NQC site: (URL) Baum (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Dear All, I am happy to announce that on the RcxCC web site there now is a beta release of RCX Command Center version 3.0 available. (URL) version uses NQC 2.0 (beta). Note that NQC 2.0 is not compatible with previous versions. RcxCC 3.0 includes a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Sorry, the standard RCX firmware doesn't support anything other than signed 16 bit integer math, so NQC doesn't do floating point. Depending upon the problem, you may still be able to convert the operation into appropriate integer math. If you (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I don't think the rcx supports floating point, but you could scale by a certain amount to do the math. Jim Knepley wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I have a need to do floating point math in the RCX, but NQC only seems to natively support integers. Is there a floating point library for NQC? Jim (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Well, that beats my Centris 610 (1993, with a 68040 upgrade) as the oldest Mac I've heard running NQC. -Tim (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Ben wrote... (...) I did the same thing, and noticed that the 24T gears that came with my Mindstorms DON'T look like that, they are missing the little hands. Fortunately I have a lot of the older ones... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Has anyone ported NQC tools to WindowsCE? -gyug (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Translating NQC 1.x to NQC 2.0
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(...) Thanks Mark! Your RCXCC is a great environment - now if I can get it to stop munging the screen after some scrolls... I, as an RCX fan, salute your work and commend your efforts (gets out big gold star to stick on your lapel.) NQC is great, (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) extern long int random (void); Looks like -2^31 to 2^31-1 to me, unless you cast to unsigned int. Or does liberty use 16-bit ints internally? Why not write a short test program to check this out? And why doesn't LegOS use a wrapper around the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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What is the range of values returned from random()? Thanks, Jonathan (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Translating NQC 1.x to NQC 2.0
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The next version of RCX Command Center (expect a beta at the beginning of the comming week) will contain a command to translate from NQC 1.x to NQC 2.0. It is not completely fool-proof but seems to work in almost all cases. Mark Overmars (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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