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| (...) In the process of adding support for quad-speed download to nqc I noticed a bug in the firmware download code that caused problems with short downloads. This may (or may not) account for your problem. Either way, the bug will be fixed next (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: converting Mac to PC and the Lego remote
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| Yes I am just converting programs and no the language is not the same regardless of the enviornment. On a PC wait = until on a Mac, void does not compile, and several others. I recently received The Unofficial Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robots By (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| In article (...) IMHO, there are some cases where extra features are actually cost justified, but in many cases they are added because the short term cost is deceptively low. Even something as simple as an extra command line switch carries with it a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| Hi there, i just found an evil little bug in lnp ( or maybe it's actually a bug in gcc ). The problem is the definition of tx_state as char, and compare operations like if (tx_state < TX_ACTIVE) . The compiler generates wrong code for this (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Exploration Mars missing?
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| (...) Absolutely. Together with the long delays on delivery dates, and the mysterious 'disappearance' that has now taken place, this makes a product that is exactly in this spirit... (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: How did you made nqc?
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| (...) I started to compose a reply, but it wandered a bit off-topic and was getting quite long. I posted the resulting text here: (URL) this the sort of thing you were looking for, or perhaps more in-depth explanation of some of the algorithms used, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| Vlad, The Finite State Machine is a good subject for people to consider in robotics, especially in coding the typical 'looping forever' Rcx applications. Lots of regular 'C' FSM's are implemented with a State variable and "switch" statements, or (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (...) Well I can't say I have the RCX plugged in when I'm running a vehicle, I *ALWAYS* have it plugged in when it's not in use. I've actually only had to replace the batteries in it once in the past year. Removing the jack was a mistake, IMO... As (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Speed of RCX interpreting bytecodes: slow
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| Its been a long time since I looked at the firmware in detail, but is it possible that the bytecode interpreter is driven from one of the timer chains? If this was the case, it wouldn't matter if the CPU could execute the bytecode in 200 cycles...it (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: LNP goes Internet
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| Just read my mail, and because there was a question where to find the stuff i looked at arthurdent, and -- Phantastic, Luis has managed to put everything in place. You will find it at: (URL) thanks, Luis ! I´ll now walk down into my dark and dirty (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Illogical yes, but not without its reasons. The exclusion of linux and source from beta isn't really a result of any policy, but just to make things more convenient for me. Here's why... I don't have 24/7 access to a linux box, so making a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| oops.. a slight cock-up on my part means that this message is delivered in installments, read this one as a continuation of the one it is in reply to:-) About the source release being "tied to the linux release": Considering the fact that the linux (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: HELP - LegOS for Windows
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| "Rossz Vámos-Wentworth" <rossw@jps.net> wrote in message news:38989DC8.62ED27...jps.net... (...) of (...) (COMMAND.COM & (...) The problems that you are mentioning generally only occur after running 16-bit programs (and thus ending up with a 16-bit (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: pbFORTH needs better uploading, docs
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| Well, I can rather agree on the uploading, but I don't find it quite as bad as you do. Not as good as NQC, but then NQC still has all the LEGO firmware limitations. As for the rest of your comments, I can only say that I managed to get the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| Here's a short program to display the battery voltage. The get_battery_mv() interface might be useful in the kernel itself. Would it be appropriate for the kernel to turn on the low battery indicator as well? The A/D converter that the RCX uses to (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PRGM button - am I missing something?
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| (...) From getopt(3) on BSD and other systems: When all options have been processed (i.e., up to the first non-option argument), getopt() returns -1. However, from the Linux manpage: By default, getopt() permutes the contents of argv as it scans, so (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: TpForth Project ?
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| (...) The basic problem, Mark, is time. I just don't have the time to properly support a compiler for three platforms. I can barely keep up with the demands pbForth makes of my spare time. I write strict ANSI-C all day long, and pbForth is a bit of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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