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(...) So, if they had sued him 2.5 years ago, you would have supported them? Just wondering. It's because of thinking like this that most companies would have sued him long ago... Troy PS: I thought it was just common sense, atleast around here, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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The way I read the article it didn't seem that they were so much upset that he had come up with the new OS, but rather that he had named it legOS. No matter how you look at it, or what excuse he can come up for choosing that name, it is pushing the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I agree with you, Jürgen. It seems that we have to contend with taht viewpoint though. Hopefully if any of tyhe new product line doesn't do as well as expected, we will not see some genius in the company decide to go after people who add value (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) I think this is speculation by the author of the article. Apart from the issue about names and trademarks, for me this article shows an extremely irritating attitude towards customers, sue people as soon as they use something in a different (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) As for lejos, we are waiting to get our hands on a USB tower. Jürgen (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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This is copyied from "Mindstorms Not Just a Kid's Toy" by Paul Wallich in IEEE Spectrum September 2001: "With version 2.0 of the RCX firmware due this fall, the original hardware may have gone as far as its designers can take it, and what directions (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: EmuLegOs lives again
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Hi Luis Is it possible to make legOS homepage better? I think that's too simple and dull, don't you think so? then can you modify something in your HOWTOs when you do this updating? for example, in (URL) this code seems isn't compiled in legOS (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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This /rocks/. Hopefully I'll update the Lego and legOS HOWTOs to point to this soon. Luis (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) see (...) I think it's similar enough to LEGO that they'd have had a reasonable case if they'd fought it earlier. But now it's debatable whether they'd have any case at all. ROSCO (IANAL) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'd be interested in tackling Linux, but we can't get the new towers in Australia yet 8?( ROSCO (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yeah, I saw your post on slashdot after I'd posted the link here. As you say, if they don't defend their trademark within a reasonable time, they lose the right to do so. I guess the best course of action in this case is "no action"!! ROSCO (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You ain't just whistlin' Dixie here Ka-On... Off-topic time: Typical "Time Magazine type" twist on the story here...I hate reading Time because every story seems to be written with an antagonistic bent, trying to stir up trouble, instead of (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) from that tiny yellow box? So it got a generic CPU that can read voltage from 3 ports and can adjust 3 power outputs. Really cutting-edge stuff there... That article is just full of you-know-what. (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hmmm, does this mean they're acknowledging that people call them "legos" ? ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sigh. Doesn't look like there is any chance that this would work for *nix, except maybe with severe Wine hackery. Has anyone else (with any of the other alternative OSs) tackled the problem of the new towers? I suppose I can try plying one of my (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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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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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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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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| | Why compiler can't find header file program.h?
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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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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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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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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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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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| | Re: tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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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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Thanks Martin, I tried this too but it doesn't work : progress.c:27: macro `dlcd_show' used with too many (2) args progress.c:27: macro `BIT_OF' used with just one arg progress.c:27: macro `BYTE_OF' used with just one arg The hint seems to fit two (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Who can write a send_msg() and get_msg() in legOS for us?
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I found there were three commands as below and a demo program tm-and-ir.c for standard IR communication before legOS 0.1.7, but now they exist no longer in legOS 0.2.4, I think these commands are very useful, can you reuse them, Luis? size_t (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Who can write a send_msg() and get_msg() in legOS for us?
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Can you write a pair of function to support standard firmware IR communiation between RCX and RCX or Remote control? They are send_msg() and get_msg(), it is easy to communicate between NQC and legOS, so we can use NQC if the program is very simple (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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Hi, I haven't used LegOs (yet), but looking at the dlcd_show function, it expects 2 parameters. The defines are also for 2 parameters, so you would need to define and use it like this: int progressPattern[PATT...S_NB][2]={ {LCD_4_BOTL} , (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | tweaking around dlcd_show( )
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Hi all legOS users, need help about dlcd_* utilities I'd like to display on the lcd a sequence of digits: something like : dlcd_show (LCD_4_BOTL); lcd_refresh(); msleep(250); lcd_clear(); dlcd_show (LCD_4_TOPL); lcd_refresh(); msleep(250); (...) (23 years ago, 25-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Love the new Music capability with the new firmware!
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(...) You need an excuse??????? 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to communication between RCXs without PC?
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I searched LugNET news for "legos send message" and came up with at least these two promising threads: (...) (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Love the new Music capability with the new firmware!
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(...) The 2.0 Firmware has been out for ages. It's fully useable on the 1.0, 1.5's. Dean -- Dean Husby LUGNET Member #320 TFM's LEGO Workshop - www.akasa.bc.ca/tfm The Vancouver LEGO Club - www.akasa.bc.ca/vlc/ (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Love the new Music capability with the new firmware!
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(...) That IS cool. Now the problem is to figure out if this new feature was implemented using the exisiting ROM or if the entry points have changed. Has anybody tried to run legOS or pbForth on the new RCX 2.0? (Maybe I can use this as an excuse to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to communication between RCXs without PC?
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You know I had finished my control program in NQC, it is not so simple, but I need to control LEGO Train in smooth speed, NQC is limitation, so I want to use legOS for one of RCX, could you give me some hints for sending/receiving NQC style message (...) (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to communication between RCXs without PC?
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(...) As far as I know, it is not possible to communicate between legOS and NQC using LNP. I think it would be possible to directly drive the IR port from your own code to send and recieve NQC-style communications, but the ability isn't built into (...) (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to communication between RCXs without PC?
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Thanks a lot, Michael. Is it possible to commucate between two RCXs and one uses legOS and another one uses NQC? I will read them, but could you give me a simplest sample here? (...) (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How to communication between RCXs without PC?
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(...) Yes. Read the HOWTO section on LNP, which stands for legOS Networking Protocol. If you have any questions the HOWTO doesn't answer, feel free to ask here. (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | How to communication between RCXs without PC?
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I am thinking to convert NQC program to legOS, but I am not sure how to communicate between RCXs without PC (similar as SendMessage() and Message() in NQC), does anyone have experience? Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | where to look for in the legos source? gcc2.95.2 and win200?
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I found in the linux pcmcia forum, that the serial pcmcia card from Socket Communications, which I want to use to download programs to rcx, sets the speed internally four times faster then expected. Is there a possibility in the firmdl3 and (...) (23 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problems with legos on notebook
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Hallo Ross! I found in the linux pcmcia forum, that the socket pcmcia card, which I am using, sets the speed internally four times faster then expected. Is there a possibility in the firmdl3 and dll-source to divide the speed for the serial port by (...) (23 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Can legOS send/receive message?
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I checked all commands of legOS, but I can't find any commands for message, may I use message in legOS? Zhengrong (23 years ago, 23-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | EmuLegOs lives again
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EmuLegOs now supports LegOS 0.2.4 API Those who have been on the list for awhile may remember the LegOS emulator EmuLegOs, which lets you run and debug your LegOS programs on your PC. It had not been actively maintained since LegOS 0.1.x. I've (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Convert NQC to legOS
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(...) If it could take an NQC program and convert it, ready to go, into LegOS. That would be very cool. Many of us just don't understand C very well and to be able to just tweak our progs for the better power and speed would be very welcome. But (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Convert NQC to legOS
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I have been thinking about how to convert NQC program to legOS program when I found standard firmware only supports 8 levels output, but legOS can support 255 levels. I wanted to write the converting software by myself, but I don't have enough time (...) (23 years ago, 21-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RIS2.0/legOS/linux and win98
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Hey, I have the same question! I've been driving myself crazy for the last few days trying to find some information on the subject. I sent an e-mail to Markus Noga, the author of LegOS and he said it doesn't support USB, only serial. I cant even (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RIS2.0/legOS/linux and win98
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Hello folks. Just got my RIS2.0 from Target and installed the Lego GUI based thing. I've also installed legOS in Win98 and linux and I'm getting ready to start hacking but I have a few questions. (1) Does anybody have experience with the USB tower (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Installing legos
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(...) Jürgen (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Installing legos
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(...) The path to the gcc-lib directory where cc1 resides is hardcoded in the gcc binary. You can overwrite it with the option "-B" though, e.g. changing the COPT in Makefile.common: COPT =-B/usr/local/crossg...b/gcc-lib/ -O2 -fno-builtin (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Installing legos
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I followed the installation instructions on (URL) have already installed the cross-compiler and legOS.As soon as I type make in the legOS directory it works untill the following error message: h8300-hitachi-hms-gc...stallation problem cannot exec (...) (23 years ago, 19-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problems with legos on notebook
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Hi Michael, Try the --slow option on firmdl3. This forces it to use the slow download speed, and may help. Also, use --debug to display more debugging info. This may help someone here to work out what the problem is. I'm not sure what the equivalent (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problems with legos on notebook
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Hallo Ross! This is just the problem, I can not download programs or the legos.srec. Both, firmdl3 and dll give the message "bad ir link". I have an other linux computer on which (with a built in com port) dll and firmdl3 work correctly. I compared (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problems with legos on notebook
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Michael, I may not be much help as I only use my laptop for downloading programs, not development, and my serial port is built-in. Is there any message when it fails to connect, or not? Does it fail immediately, or timeout after a wait? Do firmdl3 & (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | problems with legos on notebook
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Hallo! Has anybody experiences with legos on notebooks? I want to use legos under linux on a notebook computer. I use a serial pcmcia card from socket communications. The serial port is configured as ttyS0 (irq 4 and io-adr. 0x03f8 are configured (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: ir communication
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(...) Chris (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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yes I did ... :-( manuel (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | not strictly legOS
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hi all, im doing a research project over here and in the process i have set up lnpd and now have continous communication between my robot and the PC. Now then here is the deal, there is a teoretical posibility that i will get more inputs from my (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WINLNP QUESTIONS
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I did some more digging. When I look into the reg I do not find the reg keys as mentioned on the (URL) page. I dig in the code and set the com port by hand (directly to com1) and now I have the green ligth on the IR tower. However still no messages (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: ir communication
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Yes there is. It is LNP it is availiable for windows or linux. I am just fiddling with the windows version see: (URL) I did not get it working just fine see also my post just before you (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | ir communication
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Hi, i am just doing my first steps with legOS and i want to send some data back to the PC. Is there any kind of software for the PC to read that data and save or display it? TIA Chris (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | WINLNP QUESTIONS
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Dear all, I have some troubles setting up WinLNP. I am new to RCX (2 months) and legOS (1 month) and have not much experience with VC6. I want to set up a line of communication between PC and RCX. I downloaded everything from (URL) and I managed to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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(...) One other thing, did you erase the firmware from the RCX before trying to load legOS? regards Frank Caggiano "The best education for the best caggiano@crystal-objects.com is the best education for all." (URL) Robert M. Hutchins Logo Users (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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(...) Did you try slow? (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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(...) Did you try using the slow mode option ("-s" for firmdl3) as was suggested? (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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Hi, thanks for the tips, but nothing helps. I tried 0.2.5, I tried the far and near mode, I changed the lighting conditions -> nothing helped. But I don't think that I fired up my Brick/Tower because the original Lego Software under Windows works, (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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I use 0.2.5 in windows (djgpp), and can't get by without using the slow download option (-s). If you have lighting problems, perhaps flipping the little switch on the IR tower will help. When I download stuff at school, it helps to have it set to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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(...) I am using 0.2.4 under windoz and have had similar problems. I found that I must use the slow download option (-s) for the firmware to load properly. regards (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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(...) Hi, i use 0.2.5 under Cygwin and sometimes i experience the same problem. I dont think its a problem with the legOS 0.2.4 distribution. The problem often occurs if its too dark or too bright in your room. It also happens if sender and receiver (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | transfer data failed
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Hi there, I use legOS 0.2.4 under Linux and tried (after a few weeks) to download the firmware and get always the follwing error: firmdl3/firmdl: transfer data failed Batteries are brand new, tower was set to short and long dist. nothing helped ... (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Is this an error in legOS 0.2.5?
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(...) a (...) Maybe, if you wanted to be really flash, when you get the (non-ultra) low battery warning, your robot could start seeking out the tower, and get ready to send the data. Maybe have a light near the tower that starts flashing when it (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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