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| Bad things happen when I try to use the firmware download tool from the NQC environment to download an SREC file produced by either Web cross compilor. After a long wait, during which the bar graph that tracks loading progress lengthens, I get (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.2 dsound_play ?
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| One of my first goals for the RCX was to try and get it to speak. I talked to Markus about this a long time ago. At the time, he had written the speaker driver but was unable to get much more than noise to come out of it. Perhaps the digital (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS 0.2.2 dsound_play ?
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| hello again, has anybody got anything else than noise from legOS 0.2.2 dsound_play ? i'm able to compile and dll this little application: #include <dsound.h> #include "sample.h" int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { dsound_play(sample,s...(sample)); (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 to 1.5 software upgrade
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| I received my free (+$3.95 P&H) upgrade kit today and was pleasantly surprised ( or should that be AMAZED, Y-A-H-O-O-O-O!!!! and THANK YOU LEGO) to see that was NOT just a software upgrade, as I had thought, but the full #3803 "RIS 1.5 UPGRADE KIT" (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Hapless WinNT user
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| I'm afraid these are the same errors that were reported with 0.2.1. It would appear that it is looking at a very long and convoluted path which happens to include the standard gcc, not just the cross-compiler. But that is just a guess based on a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Hapless WinNT user
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| That's me, trying to use legOS 0.2.2 on WinNT with CygWin. I'm using the same tools that worked for me for legOS 0.1.7. Make complains when it tries to build dll, specifically when it tries to compile loader.c. I get a bunch of redefined symbols and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader
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| (...) I tried to do a DJGPP build of binutils and it didn't work for me. I really didn't want to spend more time futzing with the tools, and I was already using Cygwin, so I used one of the precompiled toolsets. I think you are just a lazy typer, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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| (...) I agree with your reasoning. The compiler I have decided to use (Watcom C/C++ v.11 from Powersoft) will compile from the platform I am developing on (NT 4) to the desired executing platform (DOS) and will use long file names just fine. Other (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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| (...) Sorry, but I'm going to be stubborn on this one. I abhor short (often cryptic) filenames. In the NQC source tree, almost every class is in its own file, which is of course named after the class. So in a sense, truncating the filenames is more (...) (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | legOS limitation
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| Hey, this is a small but frustrating one. This is in legOS 1.7 but I beleive it will still be in 2.0 as it's caused by the 1 priority to a task requirement. If you write code like the following: while(1){ wait(for something); kill(t1); t1 = (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Double echo
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| Sergey wrote: <Discussion of ECHO_ON ECHO_OFF snipped> (...) Personally, this is a BIG advantage. Users who do not have access to Tcl now have to deal with double respose characters. A simple ECHO_OFF at the beginning of their script and they now (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Interests in non-GNU C compiler for RIS?
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| (...) native H8 machine code, and that doesn't require a huge investment in time and disk space to install and configure. As I see it, there are already many development systems out there for free that are this simple to install and use, as long as (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Download problem
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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: Download problem
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| I've looked at a couple of traces and it looks like the serial driver just stops receiving data after a certain point. One theory is that something happens (framing error or overflow), which then keeps the driver from relaying more information. I've (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC 2.0 and some math questions
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| On semaphores... There was a lot of discussion a long time ago on whether NQC should use semaphores to protect temp variables between tasks. There isn't an atomic test-and-set bytecode, so the only way I know of implementing sempaphore would be to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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