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I spent a week googling about trying to see if RIS 2.0 worked under Windows 2000 or not, to no avail. I specifically asked Lego and they said it was unsupported (as expected). However, I went out and bought RIS 2.0 anyway and it's worked just fine (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | [ANN] pbForth Assembler for the RCX
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With the release of pbForth 2.1.2 last week, I've finally got things stable enough to warrant adding some really neat tutorials. This week, thanks to Darin Johnson, I am happy to announce that you can write new words in assembler right on the RCX! (...) (23 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Interactive communication with the RCX
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I don't think collision detection will be possible since the hardware/firmware does a checksum (at least in lego firmware), and no message is provided to the VM software (LASM), this prevents ACK/NAK protocols working. The Message() function does (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Two RCX with one IR-Tower
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The 'usual' way to get status data is to poll the the RCX memory for status information, but you can't do that because of the number of RCX bricks; so how about getting each RCX to send a response message (or series of messages) to the PC encoding (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Interactive communication with the RCX
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I have recently discussed with Kekoa an interesting issue that apparently received scarce attention in the past. I'm trying to have interactive communication between the computer and the RCX through IR connected to an USB port: sendind commands from (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | [ANN] pbForth Version 2.1.2 Release with Example Scripts
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The new 2.1.2 Version of pbForth has support for background processing and saving your work as an SREC file that you can load agin like regular firmware. This means you no longer have to load the base pbForth firmware and then load all the text (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Browse the Web with an RCX Brick
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Lawrie Griffiths, one of the developers of the leJOS project, has created some cool packages that allow web browsing among other things. Check out the details and photographs of this in action: (URL) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics.rcx) !!
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| | Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #4 Results
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Earlier today was the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge #4. There were dozens of competitors, and even more robots. This was the best turnout yet for the number of competitors and robots at this event! Below is a summary of the results. For the full (and (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Code-only Line-tracking event results
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It's time for the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge again. The main event will take place tomorrow, from 1pm to about 4pm. It should be webcast. Check out (URL) and (URL) for details tomorrow morning. This year the Code-Only Line-Tracking event was held the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Turning the RCX off and on again (was: New pbForth 2.1.0 (and firmware speed))
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For the Workshop3D Event I use the following construct, the button handling is from the book "Extreme Mindstorms": : main ( -- ) \ Main Task init \ do main initialize ( ... ) BEGIN ( ... ) BUTTON_SCAN BUTTON_RUN? IF ( ... ) \ Calibrating BEGIN ( ... (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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