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For anyone up here in Canada, Future Shop has the MindStorms 1.5 set for $250 CDN. This beats the usual MSRP of $300 everywhere else I've seen. Enjoy.... -Roy (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Still JAVA and LNP....
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(...) There is no way to passively listen to the world. This is good for batteries but bad in all other ways. So, your listening code should send a keep-alive on a regular basis to keep the tower from dying. No way around it :| Luis ---...--- "It's (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Still JAVA and LNP....
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Umm in response to my own message, would someone be so kind as to explain the following <g> : // return (short)(a + (b << 8)); return (short)(a % 256); If I use the bottom line, discounting variable b, then my checksum is correct...otherwise it (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Still JAVA and LNP....
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hey all :) Sorry to bother again, but after limited uccess with getting JAVA to cope with LNP, I've run into some (hopefully) simple problems, I'm having major problems with the checksum routine, this routine give me huge integer nnumbers rather (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: ttyS1 corrupted after using legos
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(...) Frank, I'm also using Linux (Red Hat), and had a similar problem. After using the IR tower, my modem wouldn't work on the same serial port. I solved the problem by not sharing the serial port 8?) which also allows me to connect while using the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: ttyS1 corrupted after using legos
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(...) Is the only program you are using to download things firmdl3? (...) Try also stty -a < /dev/ttyS0 and/or stty -a < /dev/ttyS1. (...) As far as I know, firmdl3 does not download .lx files. I think there is a separate program for that. dll (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | ttyS1 corrupted after using legos
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Hi there, I donwloaded, compiled and used legOS 2.4 which worked all very fine. But since then, I cannot use the serial port anymore that I connected the IR-tower to. Maybe anyone has encountered the same problem and knows a solution:) I am no (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP and the LEGO remote
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Luis previously wrote: > I'd actually really like to include Chris's patch in the official tree, > but I'm informed by folks with more clue about the networking stuff than > me that switching the parity bit would probably break some LNP stuff. I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: text location for apps and q?
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Hello, (...) No they don't have a separate address space. I think the limit is 19456 bytes for the kernel, and this is caused by a limitation of the ROM, which is used to download the firmware (kernel). It loads it to the address range 8000-cc00. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | new legOS documentation
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Thanks to the efforts of a number of people, there is a raft of new documents up at the legOS site. Because of the growing amount of documentation, I've organized a new page to keep track of all the available docs: (URL) things up there now: *LegOS (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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