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Attention everyone trying or have gotten the USB IR tower to work under windows running legOS. I have some patches from at certain Jin Sato that are supposed to allow one to upload programs and the legOS kernel via the USB IR tower. First off I am (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) If I remember correctly, the tty devices will block in open() until they see some handshake (perhaps DCD) from the other side, while cu devices open right away and ignore handshake. I'd suggest taking a look at the code that initializes the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) 8?) Only suggestion I have here is the Darwin developer mailing list(s). Or even the doco with their version may explain how to build a cross-compiler. They may have removed support, though unlikely if configure accepted the h8 target. They (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) Dave, first thank you for NQC and its Mac support. If only its collegues weren't such a headache! I am using a serial tower with a Keyspan adapter and the setup works great for NQC following your readme file. I had been wondering though, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) I was able to get NQC working with the USB tower under Mac OS X pretty easily. IMHO, support for an application to directly access USB devices is pretty good. If anyone is trying this, feel free to grab the OSX/USB code I wrote for NQC (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) You mean USB on Mac OS X, or the USB tower specifically on any platform? You are really screwed if you need a serial driver on OS X. Since no serial hardware exists on post-98 Apple machines, OS X omits the legacy serial driver APIs. USB is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) Looks like you're probably the first to try this, so good luck! But if the Darwin version of cc can be built to support the h8, you're still gonna have to (most likely) make changes to firmdl & dll programs to get them working with the Mac. Do (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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I haven't tried this, but, you should probably get the gcc source from the Apple CVS server? (URL) heard that they were folding their Darwin modifications back into the real gcc source, that's why gnu.org isn't shipping it yet. For now the Apple CVS (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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ROSCO, I realise that would indeed be helpful! Didn't want a long and boring first post however... I've basically having a problem bulding gcc as a cross compiler. I started with the legOS HOWTO pages at (URL) . There it suggests using (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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(...) Seb, It would help if you posted info about what you've tried, and what the results were. I don't use OS X, but I know a lot about FreeBSD, which by most accounts is fairly close to Darwin. I suspect a few others here know even more 8?) (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: where to buy individual parts?
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(...) Beware! A normal serial cable, with the attachment screws on each side of the D-shell, doesn't fit down the recess on the back of the tower (or at least, mine doesn't). regards, Ian SMith (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: where to buy individual parts?
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(...) right. (...) Look here: (URL) lucky, three of them and they even got email (compare that to France where the only Dacta dealer hides behind a fax). (...) Generally yes, though with rotation sensor you might be out of luck. (...) There's (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: where to buy individual parts?
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One more thing, this is why I am going to move to USA from Japan because I can buy LEGO in cheapest price and fast way, then I can have a big place to test my RCX Controlled LEGO Train Projects, some of them need over 5m x 5m, I have no way to debug (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: where to buy individual parts?
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If you want to buy something out of USA in (URL) to find a friend in USA and ask she/he repack and send items to you, I did like this. Most of sellers in (URL) can send items to any countries, I did many times. For (URL) discussion with seller, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: where to buy individual parts?
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Zhengrong Zang writes: There are some problems though... (...) Tends to only offer a very limited range of products (in the UK at least) - trying to get hold of some parts from there, like rotation sensors, seems to be (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: where to buy individual parts?
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Hi, Try (URL) / (URL) luck! Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can I use LegOS with CyberMaster?
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(...) That is not possible, the Cybermaster has the firmware in ROM and very little (a few hundred bytes) RAM. (...) It doesn't. (...) The only one is NQC. Jürgen (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Can I use LegOS with CyberMaster?
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I have CyberMaster and want to program my unit in C++. I use Linux platform. How does the command for Mindstorm work on CyberMaster? Is it other program that I can use? rik (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS on Mac OS X
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Has anyone successfully installed legOS on Mac OS X? The OS has a FreeBSD UNIX-based layer, called Darwin, so I've heard that it shouldn't be too hard. Only, I'm finding that it is... My UNIX experience isn't vast, so I feel like I've tried (...) (23 years ago, 28-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Compiling or linking problem
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I am having a problem compiling any program. I'll use helloworld.c that comes with legos as an example. This is the output of my terminal: $ make helloworld.lx /usr/bin/h830-hitachi-hms-ld -T ../boot/legOS.lds -relax -L/usr/lib/legOS/lib (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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