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Then it would be interesting to implement a 4800 baud download WITH complement to be able to download std firmware faster and reliably ?!? Philo www.philohome.com (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: remote control and rcx -- Download Failures
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Several people report download failures at about 75% of way through downloading the 2.0 firmware. This problem could be related to using one of the "quad" speed downloading routines available in many of the alternative development systems. The (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Slow response in RoboLab?
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It seems that RCX programs created with RoboLab sometimes have slow response times, like there are extra delays ocurring between the program steps. I especially noticed this in a recent program using indirection via "Container's Container". It gets (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: usb & lnpd
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(...) hi! (...) nothing to do with his patches... (...) hm, that did work for me. (...) i will send you my patches. have fun! flo. (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: sending a message from the RCX to the PC
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(...) ? If you are writing your own RCX OS, you should know that you can't use original firmware opcodes without the original firmware. What you need to do is directly interface with the IR port, which is beyond me. (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Dr. Vegetable's Virtual Remote
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(...) Such as... (...) This cannot be expected to work under Wine, as it requires a large measure of integration and a workable browser. (I doubt any real browsers run under Wine.) Perhaps eventually Wine can start up Netscape (or whatever) in (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: sending a message from the RCX to the PC
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(...) ..... Normally there no reponse or other message wait by the RCX. Try to read the doc of mindstorms SDK mindstorms.lego.com/sdk (try sdk 2.0) nanobapt (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | sending a message from the RCX to the PC
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hi, I want to end a message and/or acknowledgement from the RCX to the PC. I am not using BrickOS or the standard firmware. I am using a different software on the RCX. It doesnt have a function for the sending from the RCX, so I am trying to do (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: usb & lnpd
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Mason, As fas as I know the usb support under linux it's not finished, some part (such as receiving works, but it's not transparent, as if you had the serial tower). You can check the current satus at: (URL) way would be to run cygwin under windows (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: remote control and rcx
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Brian B. Alano's utterance expressed in news:HEMMAJ.1n01@lugnet.com: (...) I have tried fiddling with the wires, but it's the same thing. At about 75% through the firmware download, it stops :( (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: remote control and rcx
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(...) I had a similar experience. In fact, it happens to me fairly regularly. I believe I've traced it to bad connections in the tower's serial cable. After I fiddle with it the problem usually goes away. (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: remote control and rcx
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(...) Interesting. I do own a couple Spybotics, although I'm not sure I've ever even put batteries into them, and I think (80% sure) they were in another room at the time. That would explain why the problem went away all by itself, though. And now I (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Dr. Vegetable's Virtual Remote
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(...) For a variety of reasons, I am not prepared to release my program under GPL at this time. (...) Oh, well. Maybe some other time... (...) I would like to think that is true, but even though I fixed every bug I could find before I released this (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Dr. Vegetable's Virtual Remote
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(...) Why you don't distribute it on GPL license ??? It's free and really cool other programmer can help you ... (...) It work fine with wine ... Nut Ido not integrate it if you don't distribute it with GPL license :) (...) I've test it and it work (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | usb & lnpd
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Hi. I 've got a ris 2.0 with usb tower and about two weeks ago for the first time dll and firmdl work with legos 2.5 with instructions found at: (URL) tried with the patch legos-0.2.6-linux-us...stdl-sched with legos.0.2.6 but it don't work at all. (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Chris Phillips's utterance expressed in news:HEL5rn.1DrD@lugnet.com: (...) okay - bought the rc after I had upgraded the old rcx. (...) hmm seems a little embarassing for TLC. I've had ir-devices for many years and this is the least functional thing (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: remote control and rcx
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(...) Chris, Do you own any Spybots? If you leave the remote in "ping" mode (as kids tend to), you will have a horrible time downloading anything. This has happened to me many times. I still do a little head scratching each time, until I think (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Dr. Vegetable's Virtual Remote
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(...) Not GPL, really. More of a "come-n-get it" license. My programs are free to any taker for personal use, but are not automatically licensed for redistribution in shareware collections or warez sites without explicit permission. That being said, (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Dr. Vegetable's Virtual Remote
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(...) Is your program under GPL (and then think about free mean :)) And do you want that I integret it to legnoppix ? nanobapt (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: remote control and rcx
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(...) The RCX will not respond to the remote until you succeed in downloading the firmware. The built-in romware does not listen to the remote. The remote can be used with many RCXes at once, since it is a one-way protocol with no response messages. (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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