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| | New Windows HOWTO
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| This is a little premature since I have not yet made the compiler tools available, but I thought I would post this information now. Luis, would you like these instructions converted to HTML with all the proper links? ---...--- legOS on Windows HOWTO (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| After two months of struggling, I have finally been able to build a complete set of h8/300 cross compiler tools that work natively in a Window's DOS box. So what does this mean? If you don't run Windows 9x/NT/2k, absolutely nothing. What this means (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) were (...) Cory Smith sent the following email in response to the above posting: I saw your posting on the rcx newsgroup. What are DCP sensors? Where can I find out about the ones Lego offers? Thanks. Cory Smith I think this question is best (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| (...) Markus> Hi Les, I've been advocating gdb for quite some time now, Markus> great to hear about your efforts. Hi Markus. Thanks for responding. Your input is much valued. Markus> You could also use an endless relative loop instruction Markus> (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Example please
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| (...) Well, it's mentioned in the README ;-), but obviously not detailed enough. The problem is: the dynamic loader doesn't find the library you linked against. The dynamic loader is a program that is started whenever you execute a dynamically (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Too many sensors
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| (...) You could do it but you'd lose rotations as long as the button was pressed. You'd probably need alternate firmware to even get that working well. So on one port you can have (1 touch + 1 light/temp), (1 rotation) or (4 touch). The last with (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Ben Jackson wrote: > You could do it but you'd lose rotations as long as the button was pressed. > You'd probably need alternate firmware to even get that working well. I can live with losing rotation when the button is pressed. I may have to reset (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | How much memory finally?
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| I'm trying to figure out how much memory the RCX has. Many sources claims that it has - 16k rom - 16k ram for the firmware - 6k reserved for our own programs Does this mean the RCX has 22k of RAM memory? What an odd number... Also, when I perform (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: using the remote control with legOS
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| it would be nice to be able to use both LNP and remote control (advance tactical robots) I wrote last night a small win prog to figure out how the remote is talking and this is it: +++ // LEGO REMOTE CONTROL (#9738 = ~20 USD) FOR RCX MESSAGE (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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