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Having registered legOS.sourceforge.net (on Markus's word that TLG had given him permission to use the name), having run the last release of legOS, and having not heard anything from TLG myself, I can say that there are no plans in this corner of (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: New patch for remote and message
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Zhengrong: If you can get a login on sourceforge, and you can send me a patch to review quickly for style and content, I can give you write access to legOS CVS to add your code to the main CVS tree. Thanks for all the effort you've made; sorry I've (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS - Which site?
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(...) legOS.sourceforge.net is the canonical site for legOS and has been for more than a year. I've asked Markus to take down his site (since he does not keep up with the newer documentation or file releases) but he has not responded to my emails on (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS forced to use another name?
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They can't possibly do that. According to many published accounts, TLC explicitly says that their product is not to be referred to as "legos" but rather as "LEGO brand building bricks". Therefore, TLC has given up rights to the use of the word (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: LegOS forced to use another name?
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Ross crawford points to: (...) I can see their point too. As long as it's only about the name then I can't see anyone getting too upset. It's just a name, after all. But if it's about the replacement firmware, then I have more to worry about. So do (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: RCX 3.0 and legOS 1.2.4
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(...) Hmmmm. Sounds intrigueing. Call me a pessimist, but I'd be surprised if they released a 3.0 so soon after 2.0. And the comment about LegOS is stranger, given the article I just posted, and the fact that most of the developers are right here, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS forced to use another name?
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Article here: (URL) TLC may be talking to Marcus Noga about his use of "LegOS" for the open-source operating system for the Mindstorms RCX (see last page). I can see their point. Personally, I think "NogOS" has a bit of a ring to it 8?) What does (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | RCX 3.0 and legOS 1.2.4
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LEGO company will release RCX 3.0 at the end of next year, it will have 6 input port and 6 output port, 20x200 dots LCD, CPU is H8/3294 with 32K ROM and 64K RAM, it has a power socket as RCX 1.0, and with a built-in speaker, you can play wav or mid (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | New patch for remote and message
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I made a new patch for remote control and standard firmware message communication, I defined three config constants in config.h: 1. CONF_REMOTE_CTRL: Remote control services, comment it if you don't use remote control. 2. CONF_MESSAGE: Standard (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS - Which site?
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(...) Version 2.5 from Sourceforge is the latest. (...) Installed it the other day using these instructions without any problems: (URL) only thing that varies from memory, was setting the environment variables. (...) Not sure, but I don't think so. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS - Which site?
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Hi, I'm still new to legOS, and the RIS come to that, and while looking for info on legOS came across both of these : (URL) seem to have different versions. Noga.de seems to have more up-to-date newsposts despite having an older version of legOS. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Why compiler can't find header file program.h?
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I found the reason, there are two config.h, one is for kernel in boot directory, one is for dll in dll-src, they have different definition. Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I add lines as below into lnp.c #ifdef CONF_PROGRAM #include <sys/program.h> #endif But I got error message when compile it. lnp.c:36: sys/program.h: No such file or directory In some lnp.c file, there are #ifdef CONF_VIS #include <dlcd.h> #include (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Instructions for LegOS USB support
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A friend of mine recently bought the 2.0 RCX and sent me the following information regarding getting USB and LegOS to play nice. He did this on a Win2K system. I have the old 1.0 RCX so please don't ask me how to make this work. Here is his e-mail (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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(...) Due to an error of my news-reader I missed some answers to your original post. Probably mine is a little late. bye Bernardo e-mail: dibbe@freestation.it (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thank you Bernardo. As I explained during the discussion with Martin, I decided to use rather arrays of functions. So now I've got my own functions like void Lcd4BotL(){ dlcd_show(LCD_4_BOTL); } and the use of the array with an index is now fully (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) The macros LCD_?_* expand to two integers, separated by a comma; dlc_show() is a macro that expects one argument but uses it as an argument to macros expecting two arguments. I don't know exactly how this works, but it's to do with the order (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | My seggiestion about remote control patach
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I think remote control can be divided two parts: 1. defatk mode, if you user doesn't provide remote handler, the default hanlder will be called, key M1-M3 send standard message 1-3, A1-C1/A2-C2 increase/decrease 1 outport port a-c, P1-P5 run program (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legos application downlod protocol
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legOS has two download programs, firmdl3.exe for kernel, and dll.exe for user program, you can check source files /legOS/util/firmdl/rcx_comm.c and /legOS/util/dll-src/loader.c. You can find LNP in file /legOS/kernel/lnp.c and lnp-logical.c. Br (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legos application downlod protocol
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Hi, I'm a developer for leJOS (a Java VM on the RCX) and I am interested in how legos applications are transfered from the PC to the RCX (basically because the leJOS mechanism seems to be fairly flakey and I'd rather not try to implement an entire (...) (23 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | dll: error deleting program
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I've got legos version 0.2.5 and I get an error when I try to use the dll program. I've just installed the kernel and that seemed to go ok. Here's the output from dll: # ./dll --tty=/dev/ttyS1 -v -e ../code/helloworld.lx opening tty... KeepAlive (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Remote control patch
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I think you should modify that patch as (URL) it can't work correctly! Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NQC SendMessage to legOS successful!
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Congratulations! (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, legOS send message to NQC is also successful! lnp_message_write(msg); is used in legOS. Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | NQC SendMessage to legOS successful!
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I hacked legOS and make NQC sending standard firmware message to legOS, you an see the test legOS and NQC program as below, NQC program send a random message and display it, legOS program receives that message and display it. But I can't implement (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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(...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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I also combined the README, remote.c and remote.h in this patch, now a demo remote.lx can be downloaded to RCX, you can press any buttons of remote control, the "M1 on" will be displayed when pressed Message 1 on remote control, the "M1 off" will be (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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Thank you very much! I also found this problem at the moment, and I tested, it is ok! Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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(...) Are you using windows? Then try the attached patch. It is completely untested, as I have no windows to try on. Jochen --- legOS/util/dll-src/rcxtty.c Tue Aug 28 10:41:09 2001 +++ legOS/util/dll-src/rcxtty.c Tue Aug 28 10:42:13 2001 @@ -123,7 (...) (23 years ago, 28-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LEGO remote and LNP (legOS 0.2.4)
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Hi I found after used the remote control patch in legOS.sourceforge.net, the dll doesn't work, could you send me your patch? ZHengrong (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Redhat 7 and legOS
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I get the same error with 'makelx' as you describe. I'm running redhat 7.1 with the RPM's liked in the HOWTO. I would welcome any information leading to the resolution of this problem. Just to satisfy my curiosity, I may try to build the tools from (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Remote control patch
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Hi, Ross I tried the remote control patch in legOS 0.2.5, the compiling is ok and download kernel is also ok, but when I download demo program, never be successful, after tried to delete 4 times, dll stoped, it is no any problems before use remote (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | remote patch in legOS.sourceforge.net only for 0.2.5
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I found that remote patch is only for 0.2.5, not for 0.2.4, this is why I got error messages as below when compile demos. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Compile error when make demos
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After I ptached remote contrl patch, the kernel and utilities are compiled without problem, but when I tried to make demos, I got message as below, what happened? h8300-hms-ld: address 0xb03e of helloworld.ds1 section .text is not within region ram (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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(...) LCD_4_BOTL (...) I agree it's a bit bodgy. The one advantage is you only need to pass a single #define when calling it directly (OK not a huge advantage, but if you look at the values in the #defines, you'll see why it was done that way). But (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Since writing this, I have set up a LegOs build environment, so had a play with it. It doesn't seem very useful the way it is written. See my bit about it below. (...) I had a bit of a go doing this as well, and since I didn't know what the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Nope - bit_set(0xef46,0x4) will work, but not dlcd_show(0xef46,0x4), as it needs only 1 parameter. (...) Choosing the types of the struct elements is the problem - these are passed to the h8's bset instruction. First, I tried void* & char, but (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | EmuLegOS support for windows
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The subject pretty much says it all. You'll need cygwin, and then it works. There is now LNP support for EmuLegOS on windows now due to the differences in the WinLNP API and the RCX LNP API. mark (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Ooops! I obviously wasn't looking at it properly last night (only browsing through the zip file). As 'dlcd_show' is defined as a macro that takes one parameter, but uses it twice to each of BIT_OF and BYTE_OF, which in turn both take 2 (...) (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RIS2.0/legOS/linux and win98
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(...) There are some japanese guys that did USB support for NQC under windows, it's rather simple (essentially open a device with a particular name). Under Linux it is just not clear how easy it is until somebody tries. (...) Here (France & Germany) (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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