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(...) Yes, it should. It works on my system a debian testing. cheers, Pieter (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) More specifically, it's based on Debian/GNU Linux. Which in turn, means that the prepackaged brickOS for Debian works. You can download the four packages by chasing links found at: (URL) (Debian maintainer for brickOS) -- Stephen M. Moraco (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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since it is based on linux, BrickOS should work on it, right? Timothy (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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One thing I can tell you is that you need to add c:\cygwin\bin to your path (autoexec.bat) Also, when you try to download a program, instead of just using util/dll try ./util/dll I'm sure John will have other suggestions. You really need to get (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks for the help! Sorry, but I have been out of town for Turkey Day and haven't had a chance to give it a try. Now I'm back, and the hair (which I've pulled out trying to get this thing to work) is starting to grow back and I would really like to (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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David Chen <nospam-dcchen@pacbe...et-nospam> wrote in message news:nospam-dcchen-F...net.com... (...) David, What steps or instructions are you following to build the cross compiler on OS X? And from what source are you getting the cross compiler (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000) and Memory Space 0xFDB0-0xFD7F
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This note is of interest to people who build their own RCX firmware. It provides some additiional insight to the recent post concerning dual use of upper memory range and the motor control register. There's a trade-off between real time performance (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Linker crashing
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(...) Known problem. Search this newsgroup. Last known working version: binutils-2.12. I've been fiddling with this recently, and believe it to be caused by something writing outside a malloced block, and trashing malloc's control information. (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I recently built binutils 2.13 for h8300-hitachi-hms target (default configuration otherwise) under Mandrake-Linux 9.0. When I use ld to generate an S-record file, it crashes ("Segmentation fault"), but still produces valid output. However, this (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | NQC 2.5 a3 released
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Anoter beta release of NQC at: (URL) one is really just an accumulation of minor features that I have added upon request for people (-R, goto, short branches, etc). Dave (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Mario, Lejos supports communication using the original firmware opcodes via the Serial class, but, apart from program download, this is designed for executing opcodes, not downloading data. F7Handler and F7DeliveryHandler are part of and (...) (22 years ago, 1-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Suggestion: Provide precompiled Cygwin h8300 gcc+binutils, downloadable via Cygwin setup.
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Compiling your own compiler is undoubtably the hardest barrier of entry to brickos. I suggest that the h8300 binutils and gcc be distributed as Cygwin packages from the brickos website. This would simplify the install to merely running Cygwin setup, (...) (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.6 installation problems - a better way?
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(...) Thanks Max, I have now got the latest version of BrickOS and will try to reinstall cygwin. Thanks for your help. John. (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.6 installation problems - a better way?
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(...) Weird. Sounds like your install of Cygwin is corrupt. Max. (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.6 installation problems - a better way?
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(...) Thanks Max, in running the instructions mentioned above, I entered the following in a bash shell, with the following responses. Sorry about the volume of this but it is all there. Any answers would be appreciated. $ cd /legos-0.2.6 $ make (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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The lugnet registration takes forever :) After reading this post a light went on in my head. A few weeks ago I wrote a multi-threaded program for the RCX (about 7 threads, each running an endless loop). When I added one more thread, the robot (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.6 installation problems - a better way?
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(...) Yes, the install of LegOS/BrickOS is quite difficult for those of us who have never used Unix/Linix. Once you've downloaded the cygwin tools, I believe you can change versions of LegOS/BrickOS without much problem. You don't need to DL more (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.6 installation problems - a better way?
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(...) Specifics would be helpful. Max. (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS 0.2.6 installation problems - a better way?
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I have been trying Set up LegOS for some time now. My first attempt using winlegOS was installed but I then found out then that it could not communicate via my usb tower. I then decided to go for the full installation of Cygwin and legos0.2.6 and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Polling sensor values with wait_event
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Thomas, I had a thought about this situation. You could write a function that sets a flag when the event is triggered, do nothing otherwise. You could call this function from within each of the tasks you write (at a somewhat high frequency ... say (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem building gcc for brickOS-02.6.09 installation under windows xp
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Marko, <snip> (...) You can simply decompress the files from the archive at: (URL) are already built and nearly ready to use. Once they are decompressed, I believe you just run the BrickOS configure script; then you should be ready to go. // Joe (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Robolab - lejOS communication
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Hi all, we are working on our final thesis using lego mindstorms. Our goal is to implement a neural network using the backpropagation algorithm. This neural network will then be used with a webcam for pattern recognition and classification. The (...) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: problem building gcc for brickOS-02.6.09 installation under windows xp
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Hello John, thanks for your help. I have found the link and I will reinstall cygwin. Since I am a 'beginner' here, are there any guidelines for me how to work with the prebuild binaries? As I say, I have no unix experiences and would need to know (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem building gcc for brickOS-02.6.09 installation under windows xp
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(...) Your cygwin installation is not working correctly. You shouldn't be experiencing any instabality as a result of running cygwin & unix commands. I would uninstall cygwin and try reinstalling it. And then I would not try to build the gcc cross (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Cygwin under Virtual PC on OS X
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Having no luck getting BrickOS and the cross compiler package to build under Mac OS X 10.2.2, I thought I'd try moving my previously working djgpp directories and LegOS 0.2.4 directories to a Virtual PC DOS session...only to remember that djgpp (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problem building gcc for brickOS-02.6.09 installation under windows xp
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(...) Don't try to build it yourself in Windows - you'll go insane. Download the prebuilt binaries. (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | problem building gcc for brickOS-02.6.09 installation under windows xp
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I am trying to install brickOS-02.6.09 under Windows XP using the latest instructions (version 1.2, 19.09.02). When building the gcc compiler I get the attached errors. Afterwards I notice that I constantly get 'permission denied' when I type any (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Polling sensor values with wait_event
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Hi Joe, Thanks for your reply, I guess that is the solution to use in this case. I'll still just get values every 20ms. By changing the timeslice I could have this go a bit faster though. Thomas (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Polling sensor values with wait_event
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Thomas, You are mostly correct. However, keep in mind that tasks with the same priority get checked in turn. The first task in the priority chain does not get undo precedence over the others in the same priority level. Example: Tasks A, B and C all (...) (22 years ago, 27-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Polling sensor values with wait_event
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Hello all, Is it true that the wakeup function is only checked once every timeslice and only for the process that has the highest priority and is at the front of the priority chain? For example, a process k is waiting on the wakeup function y wich (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Page down
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(...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.6.6
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BricxCC version 3.3.6.6 is now available. This release enhances the support for brickOS introduced in the previous release. 1. brickOS programs comprised of multiple files residing in the same directory can now be compiled. See View/Project Manager (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS 0.2.6.09
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(...) Now, I remember what I did. I spend the weekend fighting with the install for BrickOS, and I got both these errors (makedepend & font...) because at some point in my messing, I skipped the makedepend and went on. I just need to do this (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS 0.2.6.09
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(...) I've never needed to do a make depend to get brickOS to function properly on my machine. I still don't have makedepend installed and everything is working fine. John Hansen (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Installing BrickOS 0.2.6.09.newConf2
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(...) Unfortunately, that won't fix the bug because later on it says: CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall which will ignore the existing value of CFLAGS. The best fix for cygwin and newConf2 is to change the line in the ifdef BUILDING_HOST_UTILS section to be (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: C Compiler for Windows 98
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(...) It is much simpler to download the pre-built Hitachi H8 tools than it is to try and build the cross-compiler under cygwin. (URL) them under your cygwin directory. Extract the brickOS release under cygwin. Run ./configure from the BASH shell (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS 0.2.6.09
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Can someone tell me what part of the XFree86 stuff has the makedepend? I decided to upgrade to the latest version of BrickOS, and I'm having the same problem. Thanks Steve ----- Original Message ----- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:15:00 GMT To: (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Page down
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anything under www.enteract.com/~dbaum gives me a 403 Forbidden. Is the page temporarily down, or has it moved? If it's down for a long time, where can I get the latest NQC version? -----BEGIN PGP (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: C Compiler for Windows 98
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(...) Your compiler isn't the problem. The .o file is being generated by the compiler. Either the makefile is bad or makelx is barfing. Sorry if I can't help more, since I use Linux. Use cygwin - I think it's www.cygwin.com. (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: C Compiler for Windows 98
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I don't know if this will help you at all, but, I found that C progams need all the variables declared at the beggining of the program, and this became quite annoying because of my experence with C++. So I asked someone who might know... In BrickOS (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | C Compiler for Windows 98
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I have been using NQC for some time now and would like to move up to C++ programing with LegOS or BrickOS. I have spent many hours following the instructions on (URL) success in getting a working system. I have decided to try WinLegOS as suggested (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Installing BrickOS 0.2.6.09.newConf2
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(...) Its a bug, fixed in the cvs version of brickOS, I believe. For now, adding: CFLAGS+=-D_WIN32 to the top of Makefile.common might work. I can't test it, because I don't have the h8300 compiler set up at the moment. -- Max. (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Installing BrickOS 0.2.6.09.newConf2
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Hi, I tried to install brickos 0.2.6.09.newConf2 using the (URL) tutorial, everything goes kind of smoothly untill i have to type make strip in /brickos-0.2.6.09.newConf2/util cygwin responds with: $ make strip strip fontdesign.exe strip: (...) (22 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP-problem...
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(...) Hi, I'm Pieter and working with Tom on a project. I 've tried you're code but it doesn't work. To me the problem seems to be with lnpd. Here is it's log of the session. 0:Info > created lock file /var/lock/LCK..ttyS0 233:Info > running in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | PANIC !!!!!
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Hallo I´ve just heart that the Mindstorm Series will be stoped for the sake of the spybot? Is this true, if yes we just have to start a fight for the survival of our RCX Sascha (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Why...
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (...) The OS should not impose conditions on the programmer. Just put in the docs "numbers less than 5ms (the default) are not recommended" or something to that effect. (...) My code isn't a task. It's (...) (22 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP-problem...
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That looks ok to me. But I'm no expert on LNP. Here's a clip I use. It looks a lot like what you're using. It seems there may be a problem with your receive code. I'm REAL shaky on that. What does fputs do? ---- char *s; s = "101"; if (strlen(s)>0) (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP-problem...
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(...) ok this is the (relevant) code running on the rcx: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *p; init(); execi(&PacketWatcher, 0, NULL, PRIO_NORMAL, DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE); execi(&Messenger, 0, NULL, PRIO_LOWEST, DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE); return 0; } (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | iPAQ <-> RCX serial communication
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Hello People I am working on a project where we are trying to use a compaq handheld with linux and a wireless card as the "brain" of robots. "Underneath" we have an RCX acting as a "spine", which is supposed to receive macro commands from the PC and (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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(...) It's the one I meant, thanks. Jürgen (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Why...
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Nick, Setting the timeslice to a low number (5ms is fairly low), negetively effects overall system performance. Time used by the operating system for task switching is taken away from applications. If a switch takes .5ms (for example) and you switch (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Why...
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ... is the minimum timeslice interval 5ms? I'm writing a program that needs a routine to be run every 1ms for a period of time. I did this by setting it as the timeslice handler, but then I needed to (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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(...) Yeah, I missed that, I'll add that to the notes. (...) Too bad they didn't document the hole well enough to make it obvious to the people at Lego, who apparently had no idea. They use "mov.w rx,@0xf000:16" all over the place instead of the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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(...) Thanks for the suggestion... I think the change I made a few days ago included a note here also, but we might be talking about different spots. Let me know if not... kekoa@stanford.edu. -Kekoa (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS/BrickOS on Mac OS X?
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I was wondering if anyone had successfully ported the H8 compiler over to OS X? With an USB IR Tower, and the underlying Unix/BSD resources on the Mac, it would be an ideal development platform. I've tried compiling the H8 Cross compiler without (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP-problem...
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Why don't you post the code you're using. Then we can tell you if it's a problem with the program. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Wouters <aqua@no__spam.ulyssis.org> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:21:47 GMT To: (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP-problem...
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hi there we seem to have a not so tiny problem with lnp, we can send messages from the tower to the rcx, but until now we have failed to get the rcx to send a message tot the computer, we have tried various versions of the legos kernel, none of them (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS & Cygwin
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(...) You bet. I've fixed this in CVS so it will be in our next test release. Thanks for reporting it. (This is why we do test releases ;-) Regards, Stephen -- Stephen M. Moraco stephen@debian.org (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS & Cygwin
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I've downloaded and installed test release 09. Once again things worked very well. But there is one definite problem with this release (as well as 08) when running under Cygwin. In Makefile.Common the lines ifdef BUILDING_HOST_UTILS # ---...--- # (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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(...) As it is, it seems[1] that two of the three NAND gates in the 74HC10 are being used as a driver for speaker output (it's odd that it's two, not one though). So, this leaves one three input NAND gate to do the decoding. Now that I think about (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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<snip> (...) Ok, thank you for the explaination! I am thinking that the Memory Manager would need some rework to support this, since the start of memory is currently established at compile time. I will have to take a look at this (time allowing). (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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(...) I have implemented what Mark Riley has suggested. I submitted a patch to the patches section at the sourceforge project page. The changes are quite small but require some tricky tweaks to the build process. I have only minimally tested it and (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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(...) While you are at it you could also make a remark near the explanation of the f000 motor control register, and make it clear that this is a hardware function. When I started to use this extra memory in leJOS I missed the remark at the very end (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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(...) In that case, why didn't the RCX designers use an 8 input NAND to decode their addresses, to leave more of the RAM usable? Maybe there werent aware of this possibility? Jürgen (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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It also turns out that there are 8 bytes of external RAM that peek through at addresses 0xff80-0xff87. Writes to these locations also affect the motor control register. I suppose there's a small advantage in using these registers to control the (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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(...) This is interesting. It makes sense that the memory backing these locations still works, but I never would have thought to try to use it. I will make a note of this on my pages. -Kekoa (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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(...) Interesting, I never looked at that version. I think the one disassembled by Kekoa is 0309. Current versions of leJOS also use this upper memory to store part of its firmware (almost 3K). Jürgen (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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Joe, [some reordering of comments for clarity] (...) The idea is to pick a certain number of functions that will fit in the upper RAM space (~2900 bytes) and put these functions in a seperate linker section (other than the default ".text" section). (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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Mark, This is very interesting. I have experienced strange motor behavior with programs on BrickOS before; I now wonder if this may have been the situation. I do not currently know enough about GCC to make the changes that you mentioned, but I am (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Motor Control Register (0xf000)
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Seeing as how there's been little traffic here recently, I thought I'd post about something I found that's cleared up a little mystery (for me at least). It concerns the RCX register that is used to control the motors. This register lives at 0xf000. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: download speed
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(...) Daniel, Much more than the 600 byte class gets downloaded. If you do lejos myclass -o myclass.bin, and look at the size of myclass.bin, you will see the true size of the download. If you have a serial rather than usb tower, then you can use (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | download speed
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hi first, i would like to congratulate the Lejos team. When i bought Mindstorms, didn't imagine i was going to use it with my favorite programming language! I noticed that Lejos (2.0.0) is very slow to download programs or firmware to the rcx, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | 'Cyber Sorter' a live (was B.Sc in LEGO)
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Hi everybody, A few monthes ago I announced that I'm making my final project for my B.Sc in electronics from LEGO mindstorms bricks. First of all I'd to say thanks for those who offered help and a name for my robot. The chosen name was 'Cyber (...) (22 years ago, 9-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 -> 1.5 -> 2.0 upgrade questions
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all it supplies is the new software, no USB tower....otherwise I would have gotten one long ago..... Timothy (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 -> 1.5 -> 2.0 upgrade questions
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(...) Does the upgrade kit come with the USB tower, or just a CD-ROM? (...) Will the new RIS software support the IR tower or only a USB one? (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | how to calculate program size?
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this has been asked before, but i cant seem to find the answer in my inbox. anyways, i was wondering how i could calculate the program size of the program on my rcx. im using legOS 0.2.4. any help appriciated kenneth johansen kennethj@stud.cs.uit.no (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate brickos-0.2.6.08 avail for testing
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After making this change everything worked perfectly, as far as I can tell. I had a lot of trouble trying to build the gcc cross compiler. With this build and the pre-build cross compiler from hitachi's website everything was very easy. Thanks! (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 -> 1.5 -> 2.0 upgrade questions
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(...) To be precise, there is one additional part, it's an additional long clear thick optical fiber. I think it's intended to connect some VLL bricks to the USB tower. The Spybotics contain similar but shorter optical fibers. I also read that the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 -> 1.5 -> 2.0 upgrade questions
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(...) There are also instructions for 6 interesting models on CD-rom (though these instructions are a bit sketchy, and I prefer paper!!!) Philo www.philohome.com (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 -> 1.5 -> 2.0 upgrade questions
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(...) The parts change isn't that significant. The big difference is the USB tower. (...) The software is the most major improvment if the set is inteded for kids. While I find the scrolling annoyingly slow, It still has a lot of improvments over (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RIS 1.0 -> 1.5 -> 2.0 upgrade questions
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I have a Mindstorms 1.0 set. When the 1.5 upgrade came out, I purchased it. I see that the 2.0 upgrade is out. A couple of quick questions: (1) Is the upgrade just a CD-ROM, or are there any pieces, users' guide, or Constructopedia like there was in (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: controlling rcx with remote control
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(...) No luck... It's for the lego remote... (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP packet handler
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(...) Hi :-) I had problem the same. After brushing code source per some days, I finished discovering that the problem was with the versions. I installed logOS 0.2.5 and everything functioned well. (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate brickos-0.2.6.08 avail for testing
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(...) I spoke too soon. There is a problem with cygwin and Makefile.Common in the new release. The host utilities are not built with -D_WIN32 which (of course) causes them to not work at all. In Makefile.Common there is a place where CFLAGS is set (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | I solved a small problem in lnp :-)
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Hi :-) The problem is: When compiling programs made in language 'C++' using: # g++ myprogram.c -llnp The g++ would not compile and the follow messages appeared: /tmp/ccXFr7VZ.o: In function `main': /tmp/ccXFr7VZ.o(.text+0x95): undefined reference to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Interruptions in BrickOS
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Good questions! See responses below... "Martin De Wulf" <madewulf@ulb.ac.be> wrote in message news:H51ItF.Ax1@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) You may want to check out the latest (now called BrickOS) at (URL) For us, real-time properties of the platform (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate brickos-0.2.6.08 avail for testing
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(...) I had essentially no problems with brickos-2.6.08 - aside from noticing at least a couple new headers I have to port to Pascal. configure worked like a charm. The only issue I encountered was regarding TOOLPREFIX. The way that I have my cygwin (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO MindStorms 2.0: Alternative transmission techniques
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Hi Andreas Your project requires you face some very tough problems. I'd say that you cannot reach your goal, unless you add a lot of non-Lego hardware stuff to your robot and your building. IR communication is not appropriate, as it requires the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi, i am a student at the technical university of Athens and i am currently working on a project utilizing legOS 0.2.6 and LNP under Linux 7.3. My first aim is to establish communication between the RCX and the PC. I installed all the software (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Interruptions in BrickOS
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Hi, I'am a researcher of the Free University Of Brussels. We're currently working on embedded systems. We would like to generate code for embedded systems from a specification language which could be used for formal verification. We chose Legos for (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: controlling rcx with remote control
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(...) I've been trying to find the same thing. I believe the latest version of BrickOS has the ability to read a remote control, but I haven't spent the time to figure it out, yet. Check this out: (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | controlling rcx with remote control
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Hello, I'm new to this newsgroup but I need help with an issue... I'd like to control my rcx (with legos) with a tv remote control or likewise. I'm not a happy owner of the standard lego remote control and therefore I can not use the patch from (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Wall wart for RCX 1.0
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I use Radio Shack part number 273-1631. This has a selector switch which you should set to 9v for the RCX. The output from this particular transformer seems to be modestly stable, only rising to 10.5 volts or so off-load. This stays well within the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: TOWERAPI.DLL: Where is TOWERAPI.LIB file in SDK 2.0?
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I struggled with this same problem you've encountered (even trying the method mentioned in the post you referred to). I decided it was easier for me to just load the DLL at run-time instead of using an import library. Here's what I ended up doing: (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Wall wart for RCX 1.0
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Or if you want the exact one from lego: (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Wall wart for RCX 1.0
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Any 12V supply will do. It should be capable of at least 600mA. The Lego train transformers work well if you have one. Otherwise, any 12V transformer of any polarity will do (or even AC as the Lego train transformer supplies). Matthias Jetleb (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: template resizing
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(...) I didn't see those entrys when I was trying to fix the problem. (...) Pressing F9 is what gave me the template in a window the size of my cursor. Anyway, I "fixed" the problem by thaking a shot in the dark. I went into the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | error deleting program
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Hi, Could anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? This is my problem: When I try to download the helloworld demo with: $./util/dll -v demo/helloworld.lx ,I get the following error message(s): opening tty... KeepAlive Init... KeepAliveSend: (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Wall wart for RCX 1.0
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I have a RCX 1.0. And while it has a power plug, I don't have a wall wart. Is there a specific part I need from Lego, or will a "generic" wall wart do? And if so, what are the parameters (voltage, current) I need to look for? Thanks! (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | TOWERAPI.DLL: Where is TOWERAPI.LIB file in SDK 2.0?
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I'm trying to use "TOWERAPI.DLL" to directly setup the USB tower drivers in a Windows C++ program using Microsoft's Visual Studio. Lego's documentation refers to linking with "TOWERAPI.LIB" but this file is not in the SDK 2.0 release. In an earlier (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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