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Hi Zac, Dave Baum's NQC is excellent ... not quite the capabilities of pbForth, but *much* easier to learn. Mark Overmars' RCX-CC makes NQC even easier to use ... and best of all, both Dave and Mark have made their efforts available for use free of (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I'd recommend NQC; if you use visual basic, you'll need to go through a lot of communicating-with-the-brick and user-interface crap every time you want to make a program. With NQC, you concentrate on writing your code for the robot, and don't (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) After seeing all the cool stuff at Mindfest this weekend, I'll say this: 1. Learn about basic bot building using the graphical tools from LEGO 2. When you need more control, go to NQC 3. When you run out of variables or timers, etc go to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Zac, I may not understand your objectives, but I'd say that using NQC with the Rcx Command Center RcxCC is the current best choice for work that is primarily concerned with programming the Rcx and Robots. You'll find it very easy to use, and there's (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) [snip] Heh. I've spent 2 days on this, so I know how you feel :). main() must be the first function in your source file, otherwise really weird stuff happens. -- Regards, Modemch (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all. I've been lurking in the shadows reading posts for a couple of weeks and now have a question of my own. I'd like to move beyond the programming capabilities of the RIS software and am trying to decide which way to go. I have VERY little (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Double echo
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(...) This is a good idea Sergey. Obvoiusly you have got a set of tools up to build the pbForth from the distribution. Does the makefile work OK for you? I might suggest that I add a word that turns the echos off or on? How does ECHO_OFF ( -- ) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: H8 tools problems on Linux
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(...) Hi! I got the precompiled tools from the LegOS page, tried with both the 'old' and the 'new' set... by the way, the Windows version works fine. Not 0.2.0, but that's not the tools' fault... thanks for all the help Vlad (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks for the plug, Jacob. I in fact have received a set of instructions for gcc 2.9.5, and began the work of integrating them into the HOWTO last night. However, I was interrupted and will not have time to finish the task tonight, so do expect gcc (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I've compiled LegOS under RedHat 5.2 without problems. I recently upgraded to 6.0 and I still have no problems. Have you downloaded some odd version of gcc or binutils? I've experienced problems when compiling gcc 2.95, but they can (easily) (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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(...) Here is a simple example where 32 bits isn't enough precision. Task: Given a robot with at least one motor, rotational velocity sensors [1] on each motor and a light sensor, implement a program to compile statistics on motor speed and light (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I have been attempting to us the thread API for a LegOS project. I have been following the examples I found on the LegOS How-To page with out much success. If I run some simple code inside the main function it works fine but if I try the same code (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: H8 tools problems on Linux
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(...) Vlad- First off, I'd suggest building your own tools, instead of downloading the pre-built tools (which, like anything pre-built, tends to work only on systems very similar to the original builder's.) There are pretty clear directions (I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'll let someone else address the rest of your question, but: there is no "Linux 5.2". The latest stable version of Linux is 2.2.13, and the latest devel release is 2.3.22. Perhaps you mean Red Hat 5.2? In that case, I'd suggest upgrading -- (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all! The H8 tools on Linux won't work for me - it's Linux 5.2 and the C compiler complains about "null char when parsing input" for anything else than a comment... I tried with both the old and new tools form the legOS site.... any ideas? thanks (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Spirit.ocx Download
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(...) Actually, NQC works without spirit.ocx (or any ocxes at all, for that matter). (25 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello, I am still waiting for my RIS 1.5 to arrive. I would like to try out some programs like NQC, but none of them work without spirit.ocx installed. Is there anywhere I can download Spirit.ocx (Legally) so that I can get started?. Regards, Garry (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi Ralph, I just tried out to remove all EMITs from ACCEPT word, in order to eliminate back echo from RCX. It works good: less Frame Errors and Break Interrupts from comm port during the session. And you can use "normal" terminal program, like (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Serializing tasks
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Hi, I'm writing a Visual C++ program to control simultaneously 2 RCX (using Spirit.ocx). I'd need to know when a task is ended to start the download of a new task (I'd need a kind of TaskDone event). Is there a way to do this? Does anybody have (...) (25 years ago, 21-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: Palm Pilot Control
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(...) Cool! This is what I origianlly designed pbFORTH fro, so you could upload source prom your PalmPilot via the Serial interface to the IR tower... There's even an ANSI forth for the PalmPilot for testing code!!! I for one would LOVE to see this (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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