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Sorry this message is so late, I had to get registered for posting from my work address. (...) I, too, consider power saving to be a valuable (indispensible) feature. That is precisely the sort of thing that I feared I might be overlooking. Up 'till (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Idle process
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(...) I, too, consider power saving to be a valuable (indispensible) feature. That is precisely the sort of thing that I feared I might be overlooking. Up 'till now, I had not worked on an embedded project which would benefit from using (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RcxCC version 2.2 available
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I am happy to announce the public release of version 2.2 of RCX Command Center. RCX Command Center is a Windows (95, 98, NT) program that assist you in programming the Lego MindStorms or CyberMaster Robots. It provides a higher level interface to (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RcxCC for NQC 1.1?
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I have not done extensive testing but it worked for me. Replaced nqcc.exe and nqc.h with the new versions 1.2. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | New pbFORTH version
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I've just updated the website for pbFORTH with the newest version of both the source and the srec file. (URL) Thanks to Charles Anderson for pointing out the LCD_SHOW/HIDE problem. I've added SOUND_PLAY and SOUND_GET for system sounds, the arbitrary (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics)
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| | NQC 1.2 has been released
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NQC Version 1.2 adds support for simple inline functions and basic expression evaluation. More details can be found at: (URL) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics)
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Can you simply replace the nqcc executable in the RcxCC directory with the new version? (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Idle process
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Hi Lou, the sleep instruction effectively shuts down the CPU until the next interrupt occurs. Thus, the idle process conserves battery power if no task wishes to run. I consider this a worthwile feature. If you can do this without a dedicated idle (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I just downloaded RcxCC and noticed that it is still using NQC 1.0b4 Was the RcxCC project abandoned? Why it still uses an outdated version of NQC? Are there any other good alternatives to RcxCC for the new NQC? Thanks Laurentino Martins (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I am reworking parts of the task scheduler in tm.c, tm.h, et al. I notice, reading the code, that there is an idle process which runs all of the time. There is a note in tm.c; "execi needs pd_idle". It appears to use it to locate the head of the (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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