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Also: When it seems to get to the very end before the error appears, I sometimes get a long (3-4 seconds) low tone from the RCX. Matt (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi All, I have pulled my RCX out of summer storage and I am trying to bring it to life. I have tried to download the 2.0 Firmware (firm0328.lgo) dozens of times with no success. It starts to download, then somewhere in the middle, or very close to (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Installation Help!
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(...) You need to install the Cygwin gcc package. You need the normal Cygwin gcc to build the Cygwin->H8300 cross-compiler gcc. Max. (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: installation of cygwin and legos/brickos
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John, It looks as if you don't have the cross compiler or it is is not in a known directory. Try searching your entire hard drive for h8300. That might bring something up. You should have either tired to build the cross compiler or downloaded it (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks for the info! I checked and I do have grep installed. But I did not install anything other than was listed. I initially tried to install everything but the download died after a couple of hours on my T1 connection. Would some kind person with (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hi Max, I got: $ gcc -v BASH: gcc: command not found but the command I am running to get all this output is the buildgcc.sh command to build gcc. Andy (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Ultimate Builders Set for Mac?
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All the instructions on the UBS CD are jpegs and quicktime movs. This means that you can read them on a mac without using virtual PC, and if you have Quicktime Pro, you can join them all together as a slide show. Look on the CD in shared/build. I (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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James, Thanks for the helpful info! If a PC is really needed only for reading the build instructions, do you think I could read them using Virtual PC running on my Mac? Dean (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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The LEGO pieces you get with the Ultimate Builders Set are a nice addition to any collection. However, the software with all the instructions for all the models only runs on the PC. All the behaviors are completely possible with Robolab but without (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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We use Robolab software and the RCX on our Power Macintosh G3. Will the Ultimate Buiders Set work for us in that environment? Dean (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: installation of cygwin and legos/brickos
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(...) Saw this problem before. You might check older mails in this newsgroup discussing that. Running brickOS under Linux I don't know much about the cygwin problems. But your makefile assumes that the c compiler can be run with the command "cc" (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: installation of cygwin and legos/brickos
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John, What version of legOS are you using? Looking at the code below it seems to indicate that you are using legOS ver 0.2.6 (unless in the newer versions of brickOS we forgot to change a directory name). I am also going to gues that you are using (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I have previously reported problems in installing cygwin and legos, and have tried again to get this up and running. I believe that cygwin is not properly installed and have included information here on all modules included and error messages when I (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: New Threading Model in legOS 0.2.5
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(...) One can view an English translation using Babel here, (URL) goto (URL) and enter the url (URL) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi In our diploma work we implemented a completely new threading model. We implemented a subset of the pthreads API as it is available in Linux. Now eventhandling has also been improved. One negative point: we did not yet adabt dynamic program (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Installation Help!
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(...) ... (...) I have built the h8300 cross compilers many times now. It was hard at first, but now I've nailed down the correct set of options, I have no problems. Here are the commands I use: First: export PATH=/h8x/bin:$PATH Binutils: (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Are you *sure* you installed gcc ? Try 'gcc -v' from a Cygwin prompt, and post the output. Max. (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello I am certainly not an expert, and have not yet been successful in installing BrickOS myself. But I have some experience in one of the messages that you are getting: (...) I believe that if you are using the instructions as listed at (URL) that (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I'm sorry if this has already been posted a million times before. I tried using te search for some of the errors I am seeing but I couldn't find any matches. It is failing when I try to build the gcc compiler. I'm following the installation (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LEGO MindStorms 2.0: Alternative transmission techniques 2
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Hi, I know that the original post (read below) is kind of old, but the hole project seems quite interesting. I also read the reply that Mario posted. I agree with him in all the points. I'll assume that you want to develop a vehicle, not a robot (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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