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Does anyone know anything about the RCX being used to solve maze problems? I am doing this for a school project, and I wanted to know if there is any information out there about it. Thanks, Eric (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Can someone send me a trace of the verbose output for the failure case on an NT machine? nqc -v -d program.nqc >output Perhaps I can figure out what's going wrong with the serial port. As an aside, does anyone have a snippet of boiler-plate (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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"Mario Ferrari" <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message news:FJ0Jpv.Mvp@lugnet.com... (...) Mario, I can try to download your long program with my Windows 2000 RC2 machine. Send me a copy if you want.... Ciao Carlo (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader
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(...) This is what I like so much about the "Extreme Team"...usually more than one way to skin a cat. I must have missed those posts, Kekoa. I try to use as much as possible of the ROM code in the brick too. The next step for pbFORTH is to link (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I received an e-mail from "Mike Kory" <kory@advancenet.net> that says: ---...--- Howdy, I downloaded Mario's big program successfully 3 times in a row on my Win98 machine using the command line interface. So it seems like a problem with NT or (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Just for the record, I implemented a dual-speed downloader a few months ago and mailed John Tamplin with information about it with regards to the JVM port that seems to have died. I used a different strategy to hack the dual speed downloads. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Great! I found a Win95 machine and just performed some downloads. All of them completed with no problems. I compiled with NQC 2.0 and 1.x compatibility option. I'm not sure I understand the problems under NT, but at least now I can go on with (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | egcs-1.1.1 patch, legOS projects structure
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Hi, this night is proving productive. I went ahead and tweaked egcs to produce RCX-specific interrupt handler prologues and epilogues. Apply this patch against egcs-1.1.1/gcc/confi...0/h8300.c, and you will be able to create interrupt handlers the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Mario, I just loaded it 6 times in a row without a single error... How? I'm scared but I have to say it... I tried to load the program in Windows 95. There must be something in NT that is preventing to load big programs. I tried to check the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Mario, I just loaded it 6 times in a row without a single error... How? I'm scared but I have to say it... I tried to load the program in Windows 95. There must be something in NT that is preventing to load big programs. I tried to check the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader - and compilers
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(...) Not at all ;-) fast.srec works like this: - load new image, storing it immediately behind fast.srec - fix stack pointer, you'll start new firmware anyways - relocate a small routine immediately below SP - call that routine - relocate the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader - and compilers
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I'll have to try fastdl at some point. My pbFORTH image is assembled to live at 0x8000 and be loaded just like "real" firmware. If I use fastdl, how do I have to change my firmware assembly output to accomodate it? On the subject of configurable (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Erm, hrm, well... the reason I didn't ship it yet is that it won't compile with any released version of legOS. In order to gain full configurability, I had to set up a seperate directory structure, with its own include tree and stripped down (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thanks for your help. Hope you're wrong, otherwise I have to dramatically downsize my program and make it a lot more stupid :-) Some more info on the problem: - The memory has been cleared before any attempt. - I tried both NQC 1.3 and NQC 2.0 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Looks real nice on the PC side, Markus, but- where is the source for fast.srec? Was that a deliberate omission? Or just a mistake? I'd really like to look at what is in there, especially considering the small size of the .srec. Let us know... -Luis (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I'm currently implementing LNP. As a first demo application, I just finished a quad-speed firmware downloader. If you're using replacement firmware, maybe this will be of use to you. (URL) you at MindFest, Markus. -- Markus L. Noga (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi, I'm currently implementing LNP. As a first demo application, I just finished a quad-speed firmware downloader. If you're using replacement firmware, maybe this will be of use to you. (URL) you at MindFest, Markus. (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) programs with the Spirit.OCX. I coded a huge program, with lots of tasks and subroutines, and long stretches of code. When I try to download it, I get the dots and then AsyncronBrickError returns Error 2048 (not 100% certain about the number) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC 2.0 and some math questions
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(...) You're right - I forgot the delay (that's what I get for typing code from memory). Yeah, 'test and set' is the best solution, but unfortunately the RCX doesn't have one. The bitflag stuff is a little ugly for my tastes, which is why NQC does (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC 2.0 and some math questions
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(...) Yes, |= is atomic. At the bytecode level you always OR from some source into a destination variable. Dave (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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